6 pub day.
6 pub day.
Seeing as there's been no posts for a while thought I'd share today's trip.
Pub 1: Actually stopped off for a mineral water. Surprised to see they'd had a Paragon installed. Won around £15. Gave up paying at £13 and I had to leave with the "IOU £2" note stuck on the display.
Pub 2: This was the main pub I was aiming for. Won about £9 and it gave me £3 then stuck up "IOU £6".
Pub 3. Machine there but switched off.
Pub 4: No machine anymore.
Pub 5: No machine anymore.
Pub 6: Machine there but switched off.
Great days indeed!!
Pub 1: Actually stopped off for a mineral water. Surprised to see they'd had a Paragon installed. Won around £15. Gave up paying at £13 and I had to leave with the "IOU £2" note stuck on the display.
Pub 2: This was the main pub I was aiming for. Won about £9 and it gave me £3 then stuck up "IOU £6".
Pub 3. Machine there but switched off.
Pub 4: No machine anymore.
Pub 5: No machine anymore.
Pub 6: Machine there but switched off.
Great days indeed!!
Yeah, think they died a couple of years ago when the designers went spoiler-crazy. Put off casual players for life. Pointless almost brought them back from what I've seen, but they messed that one up too!BFK wrote:Hence why nobody really gives a shit about them anymore!! Especially pub landlords!! One board on a 4 reel reflex=Quiz machine takings for a month probably. It's a no brainer.
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That's very interesting. When I've been out on the road and found a machine has disappeared (sometimes from a pub which has had one for a couple of decades), I've always tried to be philosophical i.e. if a cabinet disappears from one place, they don't just take it out and shoot it, it moves somewhere else, and I've just got to find out where. Sadly, if they're just gathering dust in a warehouse, that isn't true, after all...dog section wrote:i can safely say the storage area is 70% quiz machines.
That might have been true in the past but it can't possibly be the case now. I've had a quick look at my records and I reckon that since about the start of 2012 I have lost around 70 machines in my immediate area (within about 30 minutes driving distance), and that is in an area with relatively few pubs actually closing. There may be one or two hidden away that I have still never found but there's no way that a new home could have been found for that many removals. This pattern will have been repeated, to a greater or lesser extent, in most if not all locations.
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There aren't any general areas where pros won't play, I can assure you of that. There may however be venues that are harder to access, like your example of a students' union, if they have reasonable security in place, or certain members' only clubs, and you do also get a few pubs in some areas that insist on you having student ID on certain nights. You may also get a pub in a rural area that is so removed from other locations that it isn't really worthwhile visiting it due to the time involved - rural areas are generally harder to cover in terms of identifying locations, and anyway rural pubs have never really had the same density of machines as urban locations in most cases.warburton wrote:Has it occurred to anyone that the machines are moved away from areas where pros play them all the time to geographical areas where they dont go to? I went to a provincial university student union last week and there were 5 machines there.
Five machines in one place is something of a marvel however - that was rare even when multi-machine venues were more common.
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