Race track promotions

[The Indomitable DrugS]

It took me over a year until I even noticed that their slots don't have handles attatched or take quarters. I don't go near those things. Slot machines are for old ladies and/or people who are enchanted by shiny lights and odd noices.

The cigarette smoke also makes the rooms unbearably disgusting. I get headaches from smoke - it's one of many reasons I'm pretty reclusive.

[GPK]

I won $10 on a scratcher while waiting on my $2.39 chicken biscuit at a Sheetz gas station this morning. My RIO is through the roof.

[miraja2]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

I'm having this romantic vision of homeless men leaving with slabs of prime rib in their pockets and shoving cookies in their socks.

Yeah, but we all know that is probably just one of the many "romantic visions" you have that involve socks.

[Sightseek]

PA isn't non-smoking yet?

[zippyneedsawin]

Good stuff DrugS! Love it.

[chucklestheclown]

Originally Posted by miraja2

Yeah, but we all know that is probably just one of the many "romantic visions" you have that involve socks.

Beat me to it. But i was going to go for a more positive spin. Homeless guys with cookies spilling out of their socks.
Touching.

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Sightseek

PA isn't non-smoking yet?

Casino's are an exception they have smoking sections (no Cigars). Dive bars that don't sell a ceartain percentage of food are the only other exceptions.

[philcski]

Originally Posted by The Indomitable DrugS

One of the greatest in history just wrapped up at Presque Isle. It went on for two months.

They would give you a ticket for two spins of a prize wheel everytime you hit either a trifecta or superfecta.

The prize wheel had 30 plackards - half of which were for "slot play" between $5 and $50 - the other 15 had mostly food prizes such as a $25 gift certificate to the dining room upstairs or a bunch of different free buffets or conncession stand food.

The beauty about the free slot play is that they have a video roulette machine .. and you just go over and bet an equal amount of almost half your combined money on red and almost half on black - and cover the 0's. That way you were sure to turn 95% of your slot play into cash - and be done with it after a single roll.

At first, they counted dime supers ... you could just crush them in those 5 horse fields at Golden Gate and mismatches that result from races being taken off the turf.

It became a thing where if you went to the track on a Wed-through-Sun and didn't make at least $300 a day and a whole bunch of free food - you felt like a monumental idiot. Losing any single day was almost impossible.

It wasn't long before they decided to exclude dime supers - and only $1 tri's or supers counted.

I'm pretty sure I'm now in the guinness book of world records for most $1 tri's cashed in 3 weeks. It even got to the point where I was betting $25 trifectas in extremely chalky harness races with small fields .. though obviously $1 one's 25 times.

Last Saturday I bet $1 trifectas all day - ended up like $24 ahead for the day on them. Came in Sunday morning to spin the wheel - and made 2k on the spins, plus more free food than I'll ever be able to use.

I'm like that Morgan Spurlock guy from Supersize Me - I've put on 15 pounds in no time.

But anyway, the amusing part is that they give you a voucher after each wheel spin. The voucher is for a $7,500 giveaway drawing they had yesterday night. These vouchers are very thin and slick and tend to stick together.

So .. I get there a few hours early and have like thousands of these vouchers scattered all across a table upstairs - I, one-by-one, grab them and massage and crinkle each of them to make them much easier to grab. People are coming over telling me how sick I am and how they broke the mold with me.

So anyway, drawing starts, the guy dips his hand in ... first name drawn? Mine! I do the old lady celebration like Penny Tweety after the Belmont as I walk to the desk to identify myself.

By the way ... in order for slots players to get a single spin .. I think they needed to hit a jackpot of $1,200! Glorious win for the horse bettors.

You are a sick bastard. Thanks for the heads up that this was running... I would have rented one of those $99/week hotel rooms and holed up in Erie for a couple months and crushed this promotion.

The best part about this thing is there is virtually no tax implications because I'm sure they didn't have you fill something out for a $25 slot freeroll.

[joeydb]

Awesome. I loved reading this. Good one drugs.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by joeydb

Awesome. I loved reading this. Good one drugs.

I know, I read the thread again today just cause its so awesome.

I now idolize DrugS.