Hartman was right about that mail box. I went around to all the slot clubs in Laughlin and had my address changed to the Riverside. I paid $14 a year for it. And it was conveniently located at the Riverside. In the long run of things it paid off bigtime. But that first year I mostly played linked bank Flush Attack, Full Pay Deuces at the Golden Nugget and Gold River (later became River Palms), the Piggy Bankin' slots at the Riverside, Edgewater, Colorado Belle, Ramada Express, Pioneer, Golden Nugget, and Harrah's.
And early in that year of '97 Silicon Gaming's Oddyssey multi-game machines came out. The first two exploitable games were Fort Knox and Buccaneer's Gold. And not long after the Oddyssey's arrived here came the IGT Vision Series, you know, Cherry Pie, Diamond Mine, , Fishin' for Cash, Slot Bingo, etc. Twenty years of thumb bummin' and ridin' trains....and I finally hitchiked into the right town. Praise the Lord and pass the loot, brother. No more sleeping in the weeds....what the hell? A shower every day....what the hell? Steak and eggs for free....what the hell is goin on here? Am I dreaming? Forty-three years old and I finally struck it rich....at least I felt rich for the first time in my life.
One of my first moves was mosey'n on over to the Horizon Outlet and buying some presentable threads. I threw the tramp cloths away. Not the sleeping bag, though. I didn't trust anything. I knew it had to come crashing down sooner or later. It was 1998 before I trusted the situation enough to throw the sleeping bag away.
The Flush Attack bank in the smoking section of the Riverside was hustler's headquarters in Laughlin. There were Flush Attack banks at the Flamingo, Pioneer, Ramada, and Gold River. But the Riverside bank was king kong because there were twice as many machines as the other places, and the bank got a lot of action from tourists. It was an 18 machine long bank that sat at the base of the escalator up to the Bingo Hall. They had a Bingo session every other hour that lasted an hour. When them bingo players came down the escalator, what's the first bank of video pokers they see? The Flush Attacks.
That bank was the most profitable bank of video pokers Don Laughlin had. It was the most profitable bank for the hustlers too. The payscale was 8/5 Double Bonus with every fourth flush paying 125 coins. The theoretical is 101.8%
So how could it be the most profitable bank in the Riverside, especially with all the hustlers working it? It has something to do with strategy. A strategy based on a 25 or 30 coin flush will yield a flush about every 90 games. A strategy based on a 50 coin flush will yield a flush about every 55 games. A strategy based on a 125 coin flush will yield a flush about every 43 games. The tourist/ploppies played the game very badly. There money paid for everything. They paid Don Laughlin....and us too.
more later....
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