Thank you for your response. I do love your show and I doubt I will ever miss an episode.
I am certainly not asking that you reveal any "error" locations.
As someone who has been playing VP profitably for 25 years and is very much up to date on "The Grapevine" in both LV and Reno, I think I can comfortably say that the kind of edges on progressives that you look for (over 3%) simply no longer exist in any major casino in Reno or LV.
By "major" I will include
1. The Strip
2. Downtown
3. The "major" off strip places like Sam's Town, M, Cannery, Stations, SP, Silverton, Palms, etc.
4. Reno-Atlantis/Peppermill, Downtown, Ascagua's, Grand Sierra, South Lake Tahoe.
Therefore, my conclusion is that any such machines must be at:
1. Way out of the way locations like Mesquite, Winnemucca, Wendover, Jackpot, etc.
2. Bars
3. 7/11's and the like.
4. Out of state.
As for myself, I play the FPDW progressive at the Palms and a bunch of scattered 10/7 progressives. But the meters are anemically low and I don't think such machines will ever hit 103%-at least at any casino I define as "major" above.
Look forward to next weeks show. One question I would love to have asked is "How many times do you physically go into VP machines in Las Vegas every year and make sure they're not gaffed".
Yes, I am paranoid and yes I remember the LATE Larry Volk.
My daddy always taught me "where there is money there is cheating".
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mike" <melbedewy1226@> wrote:
> I'm assuming most teams are operating outside LV and Reno as those edges are true and fully extinct?
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> Out of the way states (not asking you to be specific) where the casino's are less savvy?
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> FK reply: I can't speak for "teams" operating outside Las Vegas today. I have incomplete knowledge of the current environment outside my backyard.
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> The BIG teams became extinct due to IRS pressure more than a decade ago.
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> The edges are not dead, though the scouting requirement keeps going up, and the play volume keeps going down. Kinda sort of? The number of playable progressives I scout tripled last month.
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> Yes, out of the way seems to be a good place to look.
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> I was on a good one as recently as this morning.
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> Dead...not hardly. Dying, perhaps???
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> My crystal ball is in the closet, cloudy, dust covered. Oh, and it never worked to begin with. No one can tell the future, least of all me.
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> Let me close with this. I know many on vpFREE think us book authors are dangling red Herrings to get people to buy our books. I'm glad people pointed this out, because otherwise I would not have known that was what I was doing. Seriously, people buying my book to do what I did was never on my radar. I'm reasonably sure those statements are coming from people that haven't read it.
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> In the introduction I emphatically state that its not just a how-to book, its a would-I-want-to book.
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> Which is why I filled it with all the school of hard knocks lessons my pro gambling career has taught me. Good info for anyone, VP player or non-gambler alike.
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> You can no more read my book and do exactly what I did, than you could read Bringing Down the House and start-up a MIT Blackjack team.
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> Are there still good progressives out there? Yes. Is that a reason to buy my book? No. I recommend it for the Pepper Chicken Recipe.
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> Cheers all,
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> ~FK www.progressivevp.com
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