Now for the Titanic Thompson type of play....tripling a $1000 bankroll in 5 days. How can I do it every time? Well, I can only do it everytime if someone like Frank and Bob made a very big bet that I couldn't do it. There would have to be a very big reward for me. Because there would be at least a $5000 "behind the scene" investment.
I would personally only play three or four machines and triple the $1000 in just a few hours. There's a type of advantage slot out there that gets very little action these days. It's found on multi-game machines. The game has pretty much run it's course and the suckers just don't play it anymore. But at one time the game was a money maker for a good machine pro that knew how to read the bonus feature.
The bonus feature has a 3000 game cycle, with variance. 5 events have to occur to get the bonus. The frequency of each event is 600 games, with variance. The events get banked and when you get the fifth event you get a progressive meter that starts at $100. The meter runs at 4%. There's a qualifier on the bet. There is a mininum amount you have to bet to get the meter. But you can bet up to 4 times that amount. Of course, the best bet for the machine pro is the minimum amount it takes to get the meter.
So Bob and Frank make this big bet with me that I can't triple the $1000 in such a short period of time. I send agents in to play the game described above. They play at max bet until they bank four of the events. Then they decrease the bet to just below the minimum bet it takes to get the meter. The purpose of this is to keep driving the meter up. The meter maxes at $750. Once they get the meter maxed they swith to another game and sit there betting a nickel at a time.
An agent see's Bob and Frank and me approaching the door of the casino and calls the agent on the machine. The agent on the machine hits the cashout button as Bob and Frank and me walk down the row. He gets up and I grab the seat.
The game plays on turbo at 1500 GPH. So I'll snap the $750 meter off in about a half hour at an expected cost of $60. Now here's the thing. Bob and Frank are gonna know they been had in a New York Minute. It won't take those two sharp cats very long to analyze what I'm doing. So at that point we can all bust out laughing....or I'll do all the laughing while they're crying.
The agent who was outside when we came in is now on a machine behind me watching everything. When he see's me snap the meter off he calls the agent on the next row, telling him I'll be approaching his machine in a minute or two, so get ready to cash out.
And when I snap that meter off...well you know the rest.
