When I won in my home state I always took cash. Cash don't bounce, and everybody acceipt it.
philip j.
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
From: carlboy101@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 16:20:31 -0800
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] when do YOU request a check?
I happened to hit a 12k royal flush at the Harrah's the Phoenix Ak-Chin several years ago on the $2.00 DDB progressive machine. My wife and I opted for a check. We went to our bank the following day (which is located in the Phoenix area) and deposited it in to our checking account.
We noticed the deposit never showed on our account. We called the bank and they stated the individual who signed the check at Harrah's was not on record in the bank's data base as an authorized agent of Harrah's to issue checks. Apparently the supervisor who signed the check was a newbie and Harrah's had not sent the paperwork to the banks indicating she was authorized to issue Harrah's checks. We called Harrah's Phoenix Ak-Chin and they stated they may not have sent the appropriate paperwork to all of the banks indicating the new supervisor was an authorized agent of Harrah's to issue checks.
After this experience, we always opt for cash. IF and I mean a VERY BIG IF, we ever win a Megajackpot we would go the electronic deposit route directly from the casino to our bank. We will never opt for a check.
Imagine if you are an out of state visitor to a casino and decide to take your winnings via check. You wait until you return to your home bank and deposit it and lo and behold the check is not honored at your bank.
We frequent Las Vegas and Laughlin on a regular basis, besides a couple of AZ Indian casinos and always get our winnings in cash.
Sorry, but one bad, or should I say one inconvenient experience was all it took for my wife and I.
P.S. I pack protection in my car, just in case we our accosted by highwaymen on our return home.
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From: ukstages <takeme2london@nyc.rr.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 7:57:02 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] when do YOU request a check?
while playing $1 VP, i frequently request a check when i hit any jackpot over 2K (4K and over while playing $5 coin.) sometimes i'll ask for a split payment, perhaps 3K in a check and 1K cash. it helps to protect my initial bankroll and prevents me from doing anything foolish if things head south (as they so often do).
what fascinates me are the check numbers.... i will often hit early in the evening and ask for a check. then, six, twelve, twenty-four or even thirty-six hours later, i'll hit another big taxable event and request a check. invariably, the check numbers are sequential.... or sometimes there will be a gap of just one or two numbers. in other words, it appears as if nobody (or sometimes just one or two people) has requested a check since my last hit.
this happens to me in "big" casinos in major gambling towns and in small casinos, too. most recently, at a midwest casino, i hit a 4K jackpot and then i hit again *almost two weeks later* and the check number was the very next in the sequence. i find this simply astonishing.
that particular casino regularly publishes a list of the top forty jackpots paid the previous week. three quarters of these are typically more than four thousand dollars, with at least 25% of them more than ten thousand dollars. most of the big jackpots were apparently hit while playing penny and five cent slots.
so, here's my question... am i really the only one asking for a check?
or do casinos routinely have more than one jackpot account they use for payouts?
and are the people that are playing penny slots really walking around with ten thousand dollars in cash?
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