On their big sign out front, the one serviced several times a week by hard
working crews from YESCO, Young Electric Sign Company, they had the latest
Jumbo Jackpot winners name, I forgot, and how much she won, that I didn't forget,
$131.1k. The interesting thing was they also told the number of players who
got $50 each, 3100. Oh, I just remembered something that happened years ago,
I think 1991. At about 5 am I was driving up Industrial about a half mile
south of Tropicana when I came upon a caravan escorting a huge sign for YESCO.
There were retired cops on motorcycles trucks with flashing lights to make a
safe passage for one of the new signs going up at the almost completed
Excalibur Hotel. You know the ones, the guy on the horse with a sword? The sign
itself was on a low boy trailer and it extended all across the road. I was about
4th in line following when a bob-tail flat bed truck came hurtling around
the then very sharp jag in the road. BTW, I mentioned "bob", this has nothing
to do with Bob Rob or Dan. The guy in the truck, traveling about 40 mph didn't
notice much as the sign was completely dark and his truck hit it sending him
caroming off to the road to his right. A telephone pole sheared off the
mirror on his truck as he came to a sudden stop. I saw the whole thing from about
60 feet away. The guy wasn't hurt but boy was he scared and in shock. Ok,
back to the number of $50 winners at the time the Jumbo was hit. I don't recall
Stations ever publishing exactly how many won the $50 sub prize. You would
think it gives a leg up to the competition on how much business Stations does.
I did some rough calculations, tweaked the numbers and came up with 8
Stations casinos having an average of 4000 players playing 24 hrs a day and losing
at a rate of about 5%, times an average coin in of $2000 per hr. The grand
total according to my figures is 3 gazzilion, 4 billion, 28 million and 74
thousand bucks a year. More than enough to pay off the national debt. I welcome
my learned college [did I say that right], Harry Porter to come up with exact
numbers.
JT
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]