Quitting while you're ahead

[rogerthymes]

right - honest answers now. Who is good at this? i am bloody useless. Today I won two fivers off seperate machines on CQ and both times spent the moeny on other games until there was none left! Even worse, on one of them I even ploughed an extra couple a quid in after. My large knowledge of trivia sadly excludes a common sense section!
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[Northern Monkey]

Agree RR. More often than not it is a case of having a pint to finish coupled with a misplaced sense of bravado that you will clear every game out having started with a couple of £4-£8 wins on the first couple of games you try on any given terminal.

This is one of the many things that separate sus casual players from the pros. Personally I do not have the time or inclination to travel around playing only a handful of specialist games.

My own nemesis is Pints mean Prizes where I always have a quick cred to see how the land lies and get suckered in so having ground out a series of modest wins will put a serious dent in any margin.

Did the same thing as you yesterday started with £4 first go PMP (ironically); £2 C&R, £3.50 DOND 2nd go and then p*ssed it all into DOND no questions which I don't even like.

[grecian]

I'm generally fairly good at not throwing hard-won money away on games that either aren't or never will be paying. Particularly if I've gone out specifically to play SWPs I try to keep to a time limit of about an hour a machine (hour and a bit on ItBox 54s) which gives me time to play those games that are worth playing and not time to play those that aren't. That said, I do have my moments where a game catches me out - you think you know them like old family friends sometimes, but they still have ways of making you think they're paying when they're not. DOND can be particularly annoying in that regard, but that's part of it's appeal as well. I have no problems avoiding DOND No Point Whatsoever though. ;-)

One exception to all this is at lunch - most of the machines around here have little cash in them because they are too well-played (by me and a number of others), so I'm generally not too unhappy to lose e.g. £3 or £4 over the course of a forty minute lunch. I consider playing in the tough confines of the city to be good question-learning practice for when I get a rare opportunity to go further afield (either within or outside London) where the machines are paying.

[Northern Monkey]

Grecian i agree with your sentiments re DOND nopoint whatsoever but having been really bored one day and spent a bit of time on it, I realised its potential and the last say 7 or 8 terminals I had played it on got say between £3-7 within first couple of goes (often first go) so deifinitely one to see if there is a quick steal on as if you can add that to the free Wordsoup money then you are off to a flier.