So...a guy walks into a Casino in Rhode Island...

We won't name the casino..

He tells the cashier and security officer that he is going to play what he brought, then he wants to have himself barred (it's what is referred to as a Voluntary Exclusion)  from the place. He then proceeds to play....

He played, as he said he would, right up to the time he hit a Jackpot. He hit for $160,000.00, then had himself barred. 

I myself, love Casinos, I am...a Slot Slut. There is nothing like playing along and having that machine "bang in" a Jackpot, believe me, they make noise when they hit, Hell they make noise when they hit nothing, but that "Bong" of a Jackpot emblem slamming in on the first wheel, then the second "Bong" of the second wheel, then when that Third one hits with a "Bong" there is often a lot of music playing. I remember hitting a small jackpot ($1100.00) at Foxwoods one night after being up for about 26 hours. I had a lack of sleep headache that was pounding and the machine was playing "We're in the Money" real loud, and kept playing it until the slot attendant showed up. A little note here, back then, downstairs in smokeless, slot attendants were few and far between. This was the night I found out that by pressing the "change" button the music turned off. Of course back then, the machines had a change button, because you could actually put change in them. Nowadays you put in bills or a receipt from another machine. 

Anyway....a Jackpot slamming in is a great feeling, sort of an elation...

I have had quite a few jackpots over the years, none of them life changing, I have hit them on Penny, 2 cent, nickle, quarter, dollar, and $25 machines. Never on a $5 or $10 machine, never on a 50 cent machine. I have hit a single bar row on a hundred dollar machine for 10 credits, that is $1000.00 and by the way it's not a jackpot.

I have never had a check photo taken...

Of course I have never hit anything near $403,000 or the four Million Two hundred thousand either.

Most of the time the machines look more like this when I play 

In case you do not know, those are not wins, and that's how my trip to Rhode Island Saturday night, Sunday morning.  The most I was up was $700.00, unfortunately I was already down when that hit.

So when I had myself barred on early Sunday morning I had already left a sizable donation to the State of Rhode Island