Al didn't get walked on the play. They just squashed the game. About two years ago he found a quarter 9/6/90 Jacks triple-play on one machine. The card was worth .5% cashback and .5% freeplay. The freeplay was capped at $100 a day so he ran $20,000 a day in action.
He was also getting .666% comp. He used about $30 a day on himself and bought NASCAR stuff with the rest and sold it at a discount.
There were also drawings. He averaged getting pulled twice a day to spin a wheel with cash and prizes on it. He says he averaged $80 a day, plus, on the wheel. One of the stops was a Carnival Lines cruise. He would go in on graveyard and practice spinning the wheel. He won 7 cruises which he sold for $500 apiece. On a humorous note he said a few weeks after he sold the cruises there was a swine flu epidemic on Carnival Lines and the people he sold the cruises too got to cash them for $1000.
Although he doesn't know the details, because he wasn't there, he says there was definitely an end play at the Sahara. About a month before the closure information was obtained as to how they were going to unload the progressive money. Tickets were based on past play, but one pro he knows generated lots of extra tickets and his named was called 8 times out of the 63.
