Be circumspect when you post was New Progressive Video Poker....

[tedchee]

<<<In a message dated 9/11/2010 7:52:11 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
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Re:%20Be%20circumspect%20when%20you%20post%20was%20New%20Progressive%20Video%20Poker…) _frankkneeland _
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Fri Sep 10, 2010 11:48 am (PDT)
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We locked-up progressives, because if we hadn't, someone else would
have–and we would never had gotten a seat.>>>

It's this kind of thinking that put us where we are today.

<<< If no one locks-up progressives, no one has to.

Think about that for a long second.>>>

You're right but you're preaching to the choir. How do you convince the
ones who've never set foot in church?

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[Frank1]

I wrote: We locked-up progressives, because if we hadn't, someone else would have--and we would never had gotten a seat.

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In reply --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, TedChee@... wrote:
It's this kind of thinking that put us where we are today.
You're right but you're preaching to the choir. How do you convince the ones who've never set foot in church?

Well you don't. When I was manager of the team, there were 5 other teams that all had the policy of locking up entire banks of machines. When I say, "If we didn't do it someone else would have," I really mean it.

For the record I am against locking up progressives to the last seat.

Please keep in mind, I was manager, not owner. I had to follow orders, just like a bank teller has to ask you for three forms of ID when cashing an out of state check. To do otherwise would be termination.

Now that I'm independent I don't take more than one seat, and I share it with my single partner. Don't think that's going to upset anyone too much.

The problem is if you get enough 2 person teams on a bank, it still looks like a large team is locking it up to an outsider. The reality is that there is no way to play a high progressive, that's not going to offend the people that get shut out. But there are only so many seats, and so many high progressives, and the early bird gets the worm.

If you get shut out of a progressive once, just get on it sooner the next time, and shut someone else out. It's just par for the course, when you play progressives...you're always on one end of the stick, or the other.

~Frank Kneeland, former manager of the largest Vegas slot team and Author of The Secret World of Video Poker Progressives--A History and How-To of Video Poker Slot Teams in Las Vegas. www.progressivevp.com