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    Tomato
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    Stations Casinos rounding bet amounts

    $10 bets paying off $9.05 instead of $9.09

    Weak
    Last edited by Tomato; 11-23-11 at 05:27 PM.

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    I'm sure NGC will be outraged they stole 3 cents from you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Albert Pujols View Post
    I'm sure NGC will be outraged they stole 3 cents from you.

    Interesting, though. Could add up to a great deal over the course of a year, at about 7 or more properties.

    I read once about a bank worker who set up their system so that any pennies on someone's account got transferred into a dummy account he set up.

    He accumulated a huge sum before he was caught.

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    Don't most Las Vegas books round down? It would be a huge waste of time to have clerks constantly dealing with pennies.

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    Tomatoe what are you doing here???

    Are you nuts????

    Do you realize if someone sees this in Nevada you can be in hot water??

    Have you ever heard of the Las Vegas Gaming Control Board?>?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scooter View Post
    I read once about a bank worker who set up their system so that any pennies on someone's account got transferred into a dummy account he set up.

    He accumulated a huge sum before he was caught.
    I heard about something similar as well.


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    pennys will cas more mistakes , i would do the math befor hand /11

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    Come on man

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    This actually is a bigger issue than you would think. Sure a few cents here and there seem like nothing but to do this 100s to 1000s of times each day adds the **** up. If online books started doing this sbr would be going donkey kong on their ass.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chilidog View Post
    I heard about something similar as well.

    superman scheme

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    Tomatoe what are you doing here??? Are you nuts???? Do you realize if someone sees this in Nevada you can be in hot water?? Have you ever heard of the Las Vegas Gaming Control Board?>?
    fuk vegas, jj do you think as an American we should be scared of anything?


    we have books offshore doing the exact same thing. This is why you should just play with your local, period

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    Quote Originally Posted by hels View Post
    This actually is a bigger issue than you would think. Sure a few cents here and there seem like nothing but to do this 100s to 1000s of times each day adds the **** up. If online books started doing this sbr would be going donkey kong on their ass.
    lulz

    Many books both past and present have rounded to the DOLLAR and no one gives a damn. I have some locals that round down to $5. Vote with your feet if you don't like the practice but there's nothing inherently wrong with it.

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    Tomato, please come back and visit more often. You are missed.

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    rounding to nickels is an accepted practice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RickySteve View Post
    lulz

    Many books both past and present have rounded to the DOLLAR and no one gives a damn. I have some locals that round down to $5. Vote with your feet if you don't like the practice but there's nothing inherently wrong with it.
    Yeah, I always bet amounts that won't involve change, but I remember once asking for $550 on something and the ticket writer misheard me and thought I said $50, and the ticket showed $50 to win $45 rather than $45.45.

    Pretty ridiculous to expect ticket writers to hand out pennies. It's bad enough getting stuck behind a guy in line who's putting in 30 five dollar parlays, I'd hate getting stuck behind a bunch of guys who need their change counted out.

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