
pub bannings update!
pub bannings update!
possibly the quickest banning ever in under 10mins from entering pub.SYMONDS WELL CENTRAL EPSOM SURREY. machine paragon. look out for pot bellied landlord and snidey barmaid. He thought it was highly amusing as I was given my marching orders and trudged out of the pub.Less amused when I turned around and left with a 1 fingered salute.
Incidentally made substantially under20 pounds.

on a positive note.two weeks ago I was in Bournemouth. a customer saw me playing and engaged in conversation with me about quiz machines for a good 20 minutes. At the end of it he said I know who you are (the person featured in the MA) and prior to this pub you were at my pub. He told me from the conversation we had I was obviously totally honest not knowing who he was and was welcome back to his pub anytime. Shook hands with him , his friend & even the barman! So the caveat is as always only a tiny minority of publicans are scumbags.
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As someone who has occasionally posted on here about my lack of bannings and generally made out that you won't get banned if you behave properly, it is with regret that I must declare a banning that happened to me tonight. Went into a bar in central London, played the machine and had made about thirty quid after half an hour when a man who I presume was the owner told me to make the current game my last. I'd bought a drink and generally conducted myself properly, so to say the least I was miffed - particularly given that the machine looked as if it probably had at least another thirty quid in it, and probably more. The only thing I can think of is that the bar was a gay bar, so maybe the proprietor sensed that I wasn't gay and objected that I'd come in solely to play the SWP.
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Some landlords WILL ban you no matter how well (or badly
) you conduct yourself. The simple fact that you're a) not a regular and b) you're winning is enough to trigger some people's attitude problems. Tbh, being banned doesn't seem that big an issue to me nowadays (unless there are exceptional circurmstances) - there are 1000s of other machines out there.

Yes, quite: I protested the decision very mildly but it was obvious his mind was made up so off I went. I've provided a couple of SWPing friends with the pub's details so hopefully one of them can go along and take a further slug out of the machine. But plenty more fish in the sea, as you say.cp999 wrote:Some landlords WILL ban you no matter how well (or badly) you conduct yourself. The simple fact that you're a) not a regular and b) you're winning is enough to trigger some people's attitude problems. Tbh, being banned doesn't seem that big an issue to me nowadays (unless there are exceptional circurmstances) - there are 1000s of other machines out there.
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Bannings bothered me much more in the days of standalone machines where you knew there were only a relatively small number of that specific machine kicking around. In such cases, I would tell the publican "I'll send my mate in to do it next week" if I wanted the machine changed, so that I would have a chance of locating it elsewhere
Of course, "my mate" was fictitious. If I was sending him in to do it, I wouldn't have given the publican advance warning.
Amazing how many publicans fell for it, however.


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I was 'sent' to Manchester and its environs many years ago by a local pro from there who had been banned from all manner of pubs. He gave me all the locations and I gave him half the cash, in return for emptying every machine in every pub he'd been banned from.
Obviously I was banned from them all as well by the end of the weekend.
This sort of thing doesn't happen anymore, but was quite commonplace back in the day.
Obviously I was banned from them all as well by the end of the weekend.
This sort of thing doesn't happen anymore, but was quite commonplace back in the day.
Stupid punters. Telly all the week, screw the wife Saturday
just got back from Newquay. The site of one of my £1000millionaire triumphs still has one at £534.I dont play them anymore as I dont get any practice in. Spoke to the manager of the arcade (CAROUSEL AMUSEMENTS)who's told me I would be banned if I won again as I would be committing fraud. I said hows that then and he said it was fraud as you had taken the time to learn the answers and that was wrong!!!!! Head to the above arcade and do their machine PLEASE!!!!!!
never had a problem in a gay pub (unless memorys gone). Always thought that persecuted minorities are less likely to discriminate against others as they understand what it feels like to be picked on for no reason. Obviously you cannot equate being banned from a pub with being subjected to the drip drip drip effect of racial intolerance or being gay but for the moments after you have been banned from a pub for doing nothing wrong I can get a sense of what its like. Ive been banned from at least 50 pubs over the years(fortunately most in the late 80's) and yet my girlfriend has not to my knowledge been discriminated against (she is oriental).
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Funnily, Friday just gone I watched a strange event occur in a local pub, where two lads were playing the ItBox. The landlord was the other side of the pub, messing about setting up some music equipment, and he noticed the two lads. He started muttering to himself: "All they do is come in here to clean me out, mutter, mutter, grumble, barred, barred, barred, barred, BARRED!" He then turned to the barmaid and said "How many times do I have to tell you lot that they're barred, BARRED!" He starting hitting the bar with his fist and walking around agitated. The lads both had a pint, took about £8 (so it sounded) from the machine, drank up and left.
The thing that got me though, is obviously the landlord was so spineless that he couldn't go over and bar the characters personally. The barmaid also didn't really say anything apart from look a bit sheepish! I expect to see them back there next week, as they generally are there most Fridays when I pop in for a swift one.
The thing that got me though, is obviously the landlord was so spineless that he couldn't go over and bar the characters personally. The barmaid also didn't really say anything apart from look a bit sheepish! I expect to see them back there next week, as they generally are there most Fridays when I pop in for a swift one.

"And do you ever contradict yourself, Minister?" "Well, yes and no..."
Some interesting comments chaps - thanks.
Cool, I agree that one might hope for more tolerance from a gay bar but not in this case - I suspect that was outweighed by the fact that this was (I presume) a small independent outlet rather than something part of a bigger chain. But I've been in there on two or three previous occasions, with no problems (although I don't think I won as much as quickly then).
On £1k WWTBAM, I never played it - how did it work? How winnable would that £534 be for a novice like me?!
Finally, interesting story from Matt Vinyl - wonder who these chaps were and what it is they were playing? Perhaps it is Hexpert and his football-mad chum!?
Cool, I agree that one might hope for more tolerance from a gay bar but not in this case - I suspect that was outweighed by the fact that this was (I presume) a small independent outlet rather than something part of a bigger chain. But I've been in there on two or three previous occasions, with no problems (although I don't think I won as much as quickly then).
On £1k WWTBAM, I never played it - how did it work? How winnable would that £534 be for a novice like me?!
Finally, interesting story from Matt Vinyl - wonder who these chaps were and what it is they were playing? Perhaps it is Hexpert and his football-mad chum!?