--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson wrote:
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>I love your stories, Mickey, but sometimes their accuracy sucks.
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Well, excuuuuuuuuusssssse, meeeeeeeee!!! I DID get the name of the town right! Take it easy on a poor old casino hustler, Tom. You know, they say the first thing to go is, well, never mind that one.
"Mickey's memory is goin' boys, and it ain't comin' back"
SUNG TO THE TUNE OF "MY HOMETOWN" by BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
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>That play, unless it got up again when you said it did, which is >extremely unlikely because I played it a lot after the time it got >way up, was in the summer and fall of 2000. I played it heavily, >including on election night. It (or, more accurately, "they," since >there were 2 meters, which, after going months without either of >them hitting, both got hit on the same day, the first for $83,000 >and change by the person you described early in the morning, and the >second, the backup meter, for $69,000 and change, in the afternoon) >got hit within a few weeks after that.
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You've actually been a big help here, Tom. Events and times can run together in my mind. My memory had put it at about the time of the Laughlin Biker Shootout. I was interacting quite a bit with Ray (real name not Ray but does start with an R) at that time. But it appears, with your added information, that it occurred a couple years before that. I remember Ray telling me that his buddy had hit the hand. As for the number it hit for, well, my memory was way off on that one. And the conversation must have taken place before the backup meter got hit, which I know suspect was hit by Ray.
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>There are some interesting, and expensive, strategy changes at those >numbers, such as keeping 2 aces in sequence over a full house. The >cycle with that strategy is around 260,000 hands. I was surprised >at the lack of professional play, also. With the royal also >progressive, it was frequently a 4% advantage and more. I later hit >it for around $22,000, possibly around the time you described.
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I remember Ray telling me of the pain of throwing away the lower pair when the two Aces were in position. I appreciate the time and ability it takes to calculate the strategy changes in a game like this. It just goes to show the lengths real pros go to.
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>Tom wrote:
>It was great to hear you on Frank's show last Thursday. I was >expecting you to sound like a raving lunatic, so I was surprised at >how normal you sounded!
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I probably had a lot of vpFREEer's fooled here. Or, maybe, sometimes there accuracy in judgement sucks! Take care.
