Comments on: Sigma Derby: Vintage Horse Racing Ambrosia

By: Austin

Austin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:28:05 +0000

Wow, what a well written article about the Sigma Derby! I’ve read it a few times already. I enjoyed the game just last May while in Vegas. We made a special trip to visit the MGM because of this machine. It’s so easy to spend a lot of time in the casino playing it. Unfortunately, a couple player slots were out at the time but magically came back into service after a couple hours. May this game continue to entertain others as much as it has entertained us.

By: alex

alex — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:59:34 +0000

yall need to come up to south lake tahoe, the horizon casino in stateline has sigma derby, last night 200:1 odds hit too. f’ng best game evar!!!

By: Big Gay Vegas « The Gay Travel Guy

Big Gay Vegas « The Gay Travel Guy — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:01:52 +0000

[...] also spent some time on the floor at the MGM Grand. MGM Grand is home to the only surviving Sigma Derby machine in Vegas. This old school machine is one of the few on the strip that still takes quarters [...]

By: scott

scott — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:14:40 +0000

Wow, I have great memories of sigma in A/C years ago. I sometimes would hit those machines for $500 plus!! My play was covering one horse with all each race. eg: 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5 for multiple quarters. A great machine if you are looking to make some profit. I am going to Harrahs in vegas mid October 2008. Does the MGM still have one? I will make a special trip to the MGM in October if so. Great blog!!

Thanks,

Scott

By: Mac

Mac — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:31:12 +0000

Thank you for letting me share in your experience. My friend Rocky and I absolutely love Sigma Derby and make it a point to stop by every time on our trips to Vegas. We’re married with kids now so the spontaneous trip just isn’t in the cards, but dammit, the spirit of the Sigma will never die!

By: web diversions

web diversions — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:29:51 +0000

there’s one on the jersey shore in point pleasant…

By: Twinspires

Twinspires — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:32:39 +0000

Great article for all Sigma Derby lovers. I was in Vegas last week and I woke up early every morning while the family was still sleeping so I can sneak away and play the Sigma Derby. One morning I turned 10 dollars into 80 dollars. It was so early they had to call someone to cash in my quarters because the change booths weren’t opened yet. The woman who cashed in my quarters couldn’t believe I won it all on the Sigma Derby. It’s so much fun to play that I don’t even care if I win. They have these games in some of the arcades on the New Jersey shore boardwalks. You win tokens for prizes, not cash but it’s still just as fun. I think these machines were from Atlantic City casinos. The AC casinos haven’t had these games in quite some time. I hope the MGM still has this when I visit Vegas again. I had to go in the morning because it was always too crowded at night. The newer versions of these machines are more detailed. You can find video on Youtube under Japanese Horse Racing Game. You can also find a table top home version of one of these games at a British Company website called “I want one of those”. Search the website under games and you will find it. They will not ship it to the United States though.

By: Ryanskoff

Ryanskoff — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:27:48 +0000

Great artical. After my recent vacation to vegas it wasnt till our last night there when we found the durby. We played for 6 + hours, got waisted and acctually won a little money. The other people at the table were so fun to sit with. I fell out of my chair, spilled a couple of captin and cokes on the machine, and broke a beer bottle. Great game, are there any sigma durbys besides at the Mgm, other parts of the country?

By: exquizite

exquizite — Fri, 02 May 2008 21:19:40 +0000

Stratton,

You beat me to it! I love this article and am a new lover of Sigma Derby. I just played it on Sunday and when an employee went to cash my quarters (an older gentleman named Frank I believe), he did tell me that they plan to replace it with a more technologically advanced version. I was NOT under the impression it would involve any fancy gaming, just a more technologically advanced MECHANICAL version.

Sigma Derby is awesome!

Exquizite

By: stratton

stratton — Fri, 02 May 2008 13:39:30 +0000

Thanks for this wonderful story. Sigma Derby lovers will be pleased to know that one of our TripAdvisor members recently learned that MGM plans to keep Sigma Derby for the foreseeable future. Their plan apparently is to keep the current machine until it finally breaks down, at which point they will replace it with a newer model.

I would suggest that the focus of Sigma Derby activism should now turn to lobbying other properties to bring this game back. I think a struggling property like Sahara could really attract some business with a Sigma Derby table, people who might otherwise never have visited their property.