Slot machine players are you a round-offaholic?

Hello everyone, my name is Steve, I like to play the slot machines ... and I am a "round-off-aholic". My story goes out to Mojo. .. who ... and I quote: "couldn't find any love at the cashout button" ... or something close to that effect.

My story began almost as soon as did my fondness for the slot machines. I'd win a nice amount and I could have hit that cash-out button right then but I just couldn't bring myself to quit on that odd number. All that loose change and such. What a bother! No, the smart thing to do is to play this machine to a nice even number and I'll quit right there. Which was a fine idea that wouldn't hurt anybody. In fact it was the right thing to do. Give the casino a chance to win back some of that dough.

And thus the rationalizing began. It worsened as the disease progressed. At first it was just thoughts like "well I'd be silly to quit at three thousand and two when I can play it down to three thousand or perhaps turn it into more. Later I found myself unable to quit at a number like three thousand and ten. It had to be an even number of three thousand or perhaps three thousand and one hundred. Yes that would be a fine round number to stop.

I was out of control. Of course I couldn't stop at a number like three thousand and one hundred. It had to be either three thousand or perhaps thirty-five hundred. Yes! There's a number I was sure I could be happy to quit on. But the disease had other plans. I climbed to my goal of thirty-five hundred but decided that was after all ... an uneven, even number. That just would never do!

Forging boldly ahead I continued my quest to find the perfect rounded-off number to hit the cash-out button. Three thousand, six hundred and fifty five, three thousand, seven hundred and eighty four, the machine flashed at me. Bells rang, whistles screamed, and the numbers rolled to four thousand and six. Finally! Just play off those six and hit that cash out button for a slick four thousand.

If only those two jackpot symbols hadn't come up on that even number. Who could quit on an even number when there were two jackpot symbols on the payline? It surely meant the third was just waiting to join the other two. I boldly hit the spin button once again. And again. And again. The jackpot symbols never lined up.

I cashed out at an even number of two thousand.

I can only hope my story can help someone else out there.

*please note the above names, places, story and truth have been changed to protect ... well the truth is ... it was all made up. :)