Some folks seem to think I still manage or operate a progressive team. I've caught a couple of comments like, "glad your team doesn't play where I do". Well that would be true, if I still had one.
Let me clear this up: I have been out of the teams for nearly ten years and since the death of my mother, without even a partner.
After being told I had cancer, three years ago, I stopped playing VP altogether and only just started playing a little recently after finding out I don't have cancer anymore.
After 30 years in Vegas, and the new knowledge that I'm going to live, rather than die soon, my biggest goal is to leave town and move to the beach/mountains to surf/ski. I would like to do both in the same place, but haven't found any tropical ski resorts yet.
Think of me as "the old guard" stepping down to make room for the next generation of upstarts. I have played quite enough VP for an entire lifetime and it's time for something new.
Thinking you're about to die, and then finding out you are not, really changes a person.
My second biggest goal now, is not to let all the experience and knowledge I have accumulated go to waste in the head of a beach/ski bum. The best way I can do that is to help others and teach.
~Our lives are not something we own, they are but loans from the great river of which we are but drops in its flow.
~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