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Tight doesn't even begin to describe the horrific greed of the Seminoles as they enjoy their completely unregulated monopoly on their slots. They are under construction in Tampa to add more buildings and machines, and they are obviously not spending a dime of their own money to do it. It's really disheartening to see them rolling their huge refrigerator-sized boxes of money off of the casino floor at night as you're praying to just win a fraction of your money back. And don't get in the way of them doing that because their security guards are incredibly rude to the patrons. I have spun the high-limit $5 and $10 slots thousands of times (over $250,000 easily played) and have never once won a jackpot of over $1,200. I've only hit twice for $1,000 after all that spinning. The other day, I stopped playing one $5 machine after 40 spins of zero payout. Usually, 40 spins will get me a couple of cherries and one or two mixed bars. Last trip, I lost $10,000 and the best hit in high limits was for only $125. On one $5 machine, I "won" a bunch of "free spins" that paid a whopping $9. Yes, I definitely have a problem in that I love to play slots and this is the only game in town since the state is allowing the Seminoles to have a monopoly on land-based casinos (politicians are in their pocket!). A few years back, I took a 1-year self-exclusion to give my wallet a break. Upon being allowed back in, they setup my Players Card to let me easily win for about the first week. I mean $20 put into a machine would win $2000 or $3000 jackpot right away. Since then, they only would allow my card to have the "juice" on my birthday. In high limits, there are winners on the $100 machines that make for a great display. But when you're spinning $200-300 a pop, you should have to stop for a hand pay now and then. Since my players card is obviously programmed to not allow me to win in high limits, I've been playing the 1 and 2-cent progressives a lot. But a couple of months ago, they said they were shutting down the machines to reprogram them. Even before they did that, all of those machines would just keep going up and up. One one bank of machines I've been drawn into, none of the progressives starting at $300 or $1000 has gone off in the past 6 months. They are all running up to 7 or 8 times of what they should really be going off at. Since that reprogramming, they just simply won't pay a dime at all. Yes, you can win some money if you find a $1 Blazing 7s machine that someone just pumped thousands of dollars into. They appear to be programmed to not let those that pump in the cash to win. Only those that follow the big pumpers manage to get some of their dough after they've been wiped out. Lastly, if you go there and get a hand pay, be careful to recover your drivers license that they insist on taking to the back room. Twice now, they purposely did not return my license to make me have to later return to the casino. Last time, I was still in the casino for a while (with my card in a machine) and they could have easily found me to return it. Instead, when I later found the attendant to request it back, they insisted that they did not keep it, only to eventually give in and return it to me after I got really upset with them.
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