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[partytime2]

is there anyone on this site go for a punt in great yarmouth or lowestoft

[DaemonX]

I'd take that as a no lol

might be worth going up there tho if nobody gambles that way :evil:

[robbo007]

I do occasionally in the summer months. went once last october half term, machines were bone dry so i wouldn't bother going at all away from july/august. Why do you ask?

[bennie22]

I used to when i went to college at Yarmouth, needless to say i failed my A-levels :-(

They paid out ok from what i remember, but the arcades in Norwich were always better!

[Bencrest]

Apparently [from other posts on the subject of Gt Yarmouth], the arcades are really bad for those that don't appreciate being spotted by gangs of 13 year old chavs, and also get hit so often that most are dead anyway

That might only apply during the Summer season though

[pedboi]

i used to live there,the machines are rubbish and totally dry and the people that hang around there are scum.biggest waste of time ever.my uncle used to work in the silver slipper in yarmouth but ended up leaving as he got hospitalised by some chav scummer.horrible threatening places in yarmouth/gorleston/lowestoft/hopton.the norwich ones are fine though

[askanthea]

Yep - can tell yuo where to 'punt' in Lowestoft.

South Pier, Clairemont, Booly, Showboat or Bridge Amusements.
and then there were some classic arcades like Alfies in Kessingland.

Now that had an 'open-the-box' machine pre-video. that waas a classic which was slightly boken so when you won the £1.40 jacktop it would repeat and you'd endup with about £5.00 ;-) and then there was the Deans holiday camp which had a siver shuffle which you could spin in and old 10p inplace of a 50p and get 5 goes and 40p change! Micheal used to get very annoyed when the yarmouth boys used to tdo that.

unfortunalty lowestoft and yarmoth have their own group of strimmers - I could go on and on and on about this! ;-)

so what do youm want to know about the sunrise coast?

[Lewis777]

Yup, Yarmouth is pretty terrible, exactly as people have described. nothing worth playing. Been a couple of years mind.

Lowestoft not so bad though. Not so many smart arses that think they know more than you.

[Logopolis]

In Yarmouth, there seems to be at least one person in every single arcade, sitting there ready to shark you. I reckon even a few of the attendants are in with some of the sharks.

The machines are definitely on low percentage payouts. On some of the machines, when the money is dropping into the cashbox, it doesn't mean its properly full or ready to pay out. This is because the arcades purposefully shorten the hoppers. Meaning that instead of the hopper holding £125, it actually holds £50 or so. So when the machine is full, it is still more than £50 off from being full, if you see what I mean. Therefore the player is tricked into thinking the machine is ready to pay, but in reality it could easily cost £50 or more to pay out!

I also heard that they can somehow put £25 jackpot machines onto £5 playing mode. Resulting in wins or feature boards being a lot less frequent.

[Bencrest]

In Yarmouth, there seems to be at least one person in every single arcade, sitting there ready to shark you. I reckon even a few of the attendants are in with some of the sharks.

The machines are definitely on low percentage payouts. On some of the machines, when the money is dropping into the cashbox, it doesn't mean its properly full or ready to pay out. This is because the arcades purposefully shorten the hoppers. Meaning that instead of the hopper holding £125, it actually holds £50 or so. So when the machine is full, it is still more than £50 off from being full, if you see what I mean. Therefore the player is tricked into thinking the machine is ready to pay, but in reality it could easily cost £50 or more to pay out!

I also heard that they can somehow put £25 jackpot machines onto £5 playing mode. Resulting in wins or feature boards being a lot less frequent.

Lots of stuff in there that seems to have come from a sore-loser type gambler - hope you don't mind me saying that!

1) Theres no '£5 Play Mode', anyone that says that hasn't got a clue about machines I'm afraid. Older machines used to have a Pub/Arcade switch, where pub was 'more frequent small wins', and arcade was 'more frequent JP', but I think they have been phased out.

2) Shortening the hopper has no effect but to increase workload for the arcade [a £50 float would need refilling pretty frequently on £25JP]. I've said it before and I'll say it again, Hopper Balance in itself is no guarentee of playability, that falls to the percentage payout current Vs target percentage payout. You can quite feasibly float a hopper to £10, tell it that the hopper is 'topped up', so the machine 'thinks' it has £125 when it only has £10, and it can drop huge wins as per usual.

I do totally agree with attendants sharking. After all, we get people on here who admit to working in pubs e.t.c. and playing the machine(s) during and after hours. Totally unacceptable behaviour IMHO and I'm sure that if it isn't illegal or at least against the BACTA code of conduct it should be and will be if I get my way

[Logopolis]

With all due respect to you Bencrest, I am not a sore loser and also I am not a person who knows nothing about machines. I see you come from Spalding - a place where I have had decent wins in the past.

You say that they can quite feasibly shorten the hopper then tell it the hopper is topped up. Correct so far. But you then go on to say that the machine thinks its got £125 in the hopper and can drop in huge wins. This I have to disagree with. The machine will not think it has £125 in the hopper and pay out big wins. The whole idea of them shortening the hopper is so the PLAYER thinks the machine has £125 in the hopper and therefore he puts a lot of money down the back into the cashbox chasing a machine which he thinks is going to pay out.

You said it yourself, the hopper balance has no guarantee of playability or affects percentage payout, but you then contradict yourself by saying the machine thinks it has £125 in the hopper and so it will pay huge.