Anyway, after printing the receipt and cashing it ("don't spend it all at once, lad"), I now had enough for one go, and, knowing the trail was already on 8, and there were no numbers on the reels from the previous spin, a Trail Held would mean profit of some sort...
So I put my now 30p in and the trail held - sure enough, I got zero-two-one to take me to £1.60 - gambled to £2, then exchanged.
Only bloody flashed, didn't it! £25 for a theoretical 20p - didn't get the repeat (oh surprise), only ever seen skill repeat on that machine once, big up to Sonny & Greg & the rest of da Coral Massif...
However, I have seen better - a couple of months later, a mate of mine (who will remain anonymous, so for arguments' sake we'll call him 'Richard'...) and I were watching another geezer lose his shirt into a Jumpin' Jokers in Ladbrokes.
He gave up after 40 quid's worth of miserable failure leaving 20p's worth of unused credit, and before I could get my quid in for 4 plays, Richard had stuck his last 10p in for one credit, which got him on the board and that bloody flashed as well!
Well, all our jaws hit the carpet! Including Richard's! Then a chorus of "I don't f*****g believe that!", by everyone, including the poor sod who died a horrible death on the bastard just minutes ago...
I mean - TEN f*****g PENCE against FORTY-ODD QUID!!! Where's the justice?...



Still, Richard was good enough to give me and another mate a fiver each from his jammy-as-f*****g-hell £25 win, so there was more than just one winner that day...



How about you guys - any such luck with the club or casino variety?...