[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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