It was in the early 80’s when Bob Stupak ran an offer too good for my friend Jim and I to refuse. The offers varied from time to time getting better and better. My memories of those times are long gone with the money they began with. Jim found this offer in a paper such as this one https://swiped.co/file/vegasworld-offer/. We discussed about splitting the offer and went to Vegas to indulge in a gambling drunken fest; it was typical in our pastimes. Prior, we traveled to horse racing at Hollywood Park and Santa Anita went to Las Vegas for Craps and Blackjack almost monthly it seemed.
So we get there meeting another couple (Jims friends) who also bought in on the same offer. We all got our free stuff including NCV chips and Slot Tokens. I’m thinking our NCV free play was $300.00 and $200.00 slot tokens. Roulette was our game for how to convert our NCV chips to cash. Half of the NCV chips on Red – Half of the NCV chips on Black, $15 each on 0 - 00. We hit a color and received our $150.00 to split $75.00 each. It didn’t take long for that $75.00 to go back to Stupak. Jim wanted visit with his friend for a while and gave me the free slot play and agreed to split the winnings with him later on.
These special slots took $5.00 tokens (I’m thinking we started with $200.00) 1 coin per pull and when a winning line would hit you were paid 1 or 2 $1.00 tokens. Yes there were better payouts, but never hit the larger ones. Like I said, Jim wasn’t interested in this waste of time and went with his other company. I would put a coin in and pull, in and pull, in and pull. It went fast in and pull, in and then the handle would not pull … pull … pull, it would not pull. WTF hit the coin return, coin came out, tried again coin in no pull, again, hit coin return, put coin in no pull. Hit coin return coin back … hmmm just pull with NO COIN IN, it pulled and the reels spinning. Coin in no pull, hit return coin back, it pulls with no coin. Wow OMG it’s working with no coin in. You get the idea free pulls, wow this is fun. Pretend to put coin in and pull. This goes on for a while, free spins and an occasional token or two would come out. Cocktail waitress brought beer, I toke with tokens. Fun Stuff
Jim shows up later and askes what’s happening? I thought you would be done. I explained what happen and gave him $40.00 in tokens to cash in before we were caught. We then continued, every $20.00 or so we, one of us would go to cash in the tokens. We spent a couple hours at that machine before I/we kind of felt guilty of doing this. Not because it was slow and boring, but because Jim’s friends missing out on the action. So we let them in on it, we let them play on the machine.
Well that did not go well with a lady who was waiting patiently waiting for us to give it up. She had been watching for some time. When we let Jim’s friends started to play, she did not take it well and ran to security. Not to say they turned off the machine immediately. Jim’s friend got a couple tokens worth, we collected $100.00 -$120.00 before the good streak came to an end. We were drunk, had a good story and a few extra bucks that went straight back to Stupak’s Vegas World.