Have you ever played MG max bet by mistake?

[Rusty]

Having tore through another bankroll in a few spins playing max bet by mistake thus destroying my low rolling fun I decided it was time for a poll.

We have discussed before whether the max bet button has any use other than ripping people off but if it does would it really be so hard to have a pop up asking for confirmation you want to max bet the first time we use it in a session on a slot?

MG of course always ignore any advice that comes their way which is why their market share is shrinking and competitors are eating into their profits - it must also be the reason why the max bet button is still as close to the start button as possible without any safety net to protect punters making bets they do not wish to with one click of the mouse.

This is not a trivial matter either as a typical situation will have me playing a 25 line slot at 9 lines and 1 coin = 45c but if I hit bet max I might play 25 lines at 20 coins = $25.00
It gets better(worse) because I do not need to hit the bet max again to compound my error as if I have not noticed my my mistake for that 1 spin and now correctly use the start button I am still unwittingly playing over 50X as much as I wish every spin!
This is easily done when you play long sessions but let's find out how easy with a poll.

[Jasminebed]

I don't do it often, but it happened just last night. And I am not dead certain I hit it by mistake. I'd left a game I was playing to make a cashout. Came back to the game, thought I was betting 9cents a spin...saw a $2.00 win, wondered what I had hit and realized that bet was at 20 coins, or $1.80. It was just a couple of spins into a very low balance, greatly diminished by bets 20x my intention. But I may have hit it accidently, or touched my spacebar.

It is not just MG. Relative to the number of spins I've made, it's small. Intercasino does not retain your last bet size if you leave a game. I've done it at 3Dice a few times, and only once got most of my bet back.

I've done it more than once at B&Ms. Some games are worse than others to hit it by mistake. And some mistakes cost much more than others.

Only once did I get lucky on such a spin... $1000 on a $11.25 bet at a quarter machine.

The B&Ms here do not yet have autospin, so mistakes are not compounded by autoplay. That one really hurts.

[4 of a kind]

Wonder how this thread would read if you were able to post a screen shot of a huge hit with max bet by accident?

Sorry I'm a fan of player's responsible. If fatigued maybe should of pulled the plug earlier.

[felicie]

I did it last night at an MG on purpose and this morning made a pretty damn good cash out. Actually 2 cash outs turned into 1

[rockydyke]

I'm so used to the space bar to spin at rtg's I forget when I'm playing in MG casino's. I play's the max and I'd be watching the win and would wonder to myself how on earth am I winning so much. But the real shocker was when I looked at how my money was depleted.

[Mavin1]

I have played max purely by accident, thank goodness I caught it right away. One of my cats stepped on my space bar and it bumped me to max bet. Before that I hadn't realized the space bar would change the bet.
Hmm, funny, even a cat can teach a people something new .

[De Beuker]

Wonder how this thread would read if you were able to post a screen shot of a huge hit with max bet by accident?

Sorry I'm a fan of player's responsible. If fatigued maybe should of pulled the plug earlier.

Thats easy for you to say.
With all respect, but you're a highroller who only plays videopoker at max. bet, so its not really a problem for you.
For a lowroller like me its not really fun to see my balance decreased by 50% because my mouse didn't respond properly.
They could have placed that button a little less close to the START button.
And then there's another thing.
Lets say I'm playing with a 25 deposit with a 25 matchbonus.
Balance going down fast, only 20 bucks left, then I press 'bet max' accidently, 12,50 a spin.
3 scatters!! FREE SPINS!!
Big fat payout, 100x bet is $1250.- WOOHOO!! Me very HAPPY!!
Just to see my winnings confiscated because HEY, I was betting more than 35% of my bonus on a single spin!
Ooh, me not at all happy...

Bet max s.u.x.!

[same_old]

G'day Rusty, hope your keeping well mate


Yep the Very first time Ive ever played online was a MG casino, Del Rio to be exact- it was both my mother and I- we deposited $100 and got the 1005 bonus, we went stright to slots and had two spins, yes thats right, two spins on some slot which I forget now and that was it, we tried to spin again and thought what the hell is ging on here.

Contacted customer support and was told that we bet $90 per spin, I tried to explain we only had $200 and who in there right mind would do this for two spins, long story short they didnt care and my mother has never gambled online since.
The funny thing is she LOVEs slots and had Del Rio on her computer for a good year playing for fun prior to us playing for real money, they are idiots becuase they lost her as a customer and she would have deposited so much more if we managed to get some playtime, so there loss in the end.

What does shit me though is when you do play and you set it to the bet you want, you play some then leave for a few days, you come back and it's set high again, tha there tells you it IS deliberate.

If you go to a B&M and deposit money in and then just push go does it ask you for the amount you are wishinig to bet prior to it starting?.

Sorry im hungover on moonshine so probably everything I just said doesnt make any sense.

[slotplayer]

I've accidently clicked the max button and I've even accidently clicked on the games button when I wanted to click on spin.

Of course I hit the max button when I was low on $$ and clicked the games button when the damn thing was paying or in a free spins bonus round,
only to restart the game and watch it go ice cold.

[SlotMonster]

In most times I lust been clicking on "SPIN" button without seeing the actual coin size