--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "paladingamingllc"
<paladingamingllc@...> wrote:
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> I came in at $82,000 and change, kid, for the year 2007. Minus
> expenxes. I send my poor old mother $400 or $500 a month
depending on
> how I feel.
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> She dam sure doesn't want to see any of her kids in a losing
streak.
> Especially, me.
Not only that, you escaped from Ely, too. Now, that's impressive.
Ah, yes. Ely, Nevada!! Where the women are men, and the men are
animals. While I sent you a post one time explaining what I was
doing there, I don't think I ever explained to vpFREE'rs what the
attraction was. The play has been snuffed out for quite some time
now but I'll go ahead and tell what I was doing there. Hopefully, my
rusty memory won't fail me.
When I first arrived at the Hotel Nevada there there were 10 spin
pokers with 5 cent and 10 cent FPJW. But this eventually went to 14
machines with 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent, and 25 cent FPJW. The spin
pokers were the most popular machines at Hotel Nevada.
The slot club was not a conventional slot club. You got a card with
your name and a number on it. To be elegible for most of the
promotions you had to have one of these cards. But they didn't have
card readers on the machines so there was no way for them to track an
individual player. I took this opportunity to spread my play out
over all the machines to sandwich my win between the bad players.
I would usually lock up two machines and bounce back and forth.
Thre were several promotions:
1. You got a dollar for every natural quad up to $5 max. In other
words, if you make a single line quad you get a dollar, double line
gets $2, three-way gets $3, five way gets $5, but a flopped quad only
gets $5. When you hit a 4K you would have to stop, turn your light
on and wait a minute or two for the pay. That's why I locked up two
machines. This promotion was worth about $10 per hour to me. I
played about 40 hours per week so this was worth $400 a week to me.
2. They also had 4-of-a-kind cards. You filled them in by hitting
quads. Once you filled one in you got another one. You could work
two at once, but no more. You got a free Megabucks spin for every
one you filled in. Then you got a spin on a house wheel that had
money on it for every card you filled in. I put the equity at about
$8 per card.
3. You got a drawing ticket for every natural quad that went into a
drum. It was a very small counter drum. On Wednesday and Sunday
nights for one hour they pulled names. There were ten winners of $75
each. When you hit for the $75 you are disqualified from winning
again that night. I played well over a hundred of these nights and
hit the $75 all but twice. This was worth $150 a week to me.
4. On drawing nights the last two winners were for $150 and $200.
Everyone was elegible for one of these even if you had hit for the
$75. I batted about 25% on this one so it was worth about $90 a week
to me.
5. During the drawings, if you had a piece of clothing that had the
Hotel Nevada logo on it you were elegible for a bonus on certain
machine pays. It was called a "shirt bonus." I payed $8 for a tee
shirt to qualify. If you hit a $50 pay or higher at 5 cents or 10
cents you got a $50 bonus. If you hit a $200 pay or higher on 20
cents or 25 cents you got a $75 bonus. For me the optimum play was
at 10 cents. You would hit a $50 pay or higher about every 200
deals. Several times I hit 5 during an hours play, once I hit 6, but
my average was three. You had to stop playing and they had to verify
and do paperwork so this slowed things down considerably. This
promotion was worth $300 a week to me.
6. For two hours after every drawing royals paid double. But on the
spin pokers, if you hit a multi-way royal you only got the bonus for
one extra royal. Still, this was quite a significant add-on.
7. At the quarterly draw there were eight $500 winners and one lucky
person won a car. It was a used car maybe 4 or 5 years old. I
batted about 50% on the $500. I never won the car.
8. Comps. I usually got 2 or three $6 meal comps a week. Huge.
Absolutely huge. Hey, who's complaining? I bought my own meals.
Hotel comps? Are you kidding? No way, Jose. I paid my own rent. I
stayed at the Motel White Pine a few blocks away. Hey, comps ain't
everything!!
I mainly played the ten cent level. So, in short, they were paying
me about $1000 a week to play a game in which I had $1000 a week in
expectation.
And that was my big attraction to Ely. Now it's just another one-
horse town that I don't want to live in.
So, where am I now? I'm in Corn Junction. Hey, a play is a play!
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mickeycrimm" <mickeycrimm@> wrote: