In a message dated 12/12/2006 7:21:05 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
DonBoats@aol.com writes:
Did I miss something? I saw a post some days ago speculating on Orleans
downgrades because a number of machines were "out of service". Now I
read that nearly all are sub 99%. Crap.
In years past Coast Resorts [now Coast Boydsnots] have sent one team to down
or upgrade machines one casino at a time [no offense meant for any analogy
to the twelve step group slogan,"one day at a time"] Sherman's march to
Flamingo Blvd is underway.
I predict in a year all Nevada VP machines will be sub 99% and AP's will be
playing only for food comps. What do we do? Take heart. Electronic poker
tables are coming soon to all USA card rooms. That means an influx of bad players
and an opportunity for AP's to get on a new gravy train. PokerPro makes the
machines and are now on cruise ships with some in Florida card rooms.
I predict also, all the noted VP book writers will be coming out with
disclaimer books for the general public to inform them of exactly how much they
lose playing, for example a 96.8% Deuces game. They'll teach simple calculations
of how to figure it while in the bathroom on their phone calculators.
I predict the casinos will react to the above paragraph by installing, on
the top of each VP machine, a little Wheel Of Fortune thingie to determine just
exactly how much that quad is going to be worth thus making Video Poker now
only bad but unpredictably bad.
Now look at the paragraph above this one. [Hey. You're all good at jumping
around the page You'd make good music sight readers.] What does that mean for
us? We'll go full circle from playing over 100% Video Poker machines while
being annoyed by the nearby Wheel Of Fortune machines to playing Video Poker
Wheel Of Fortune machines which will annoy nearby slot players. "Whrrrrrrrr
Dooop Deeep Dooop Deeep..... Ahhhhhhhh"
JT
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