I sure remember those Flush Attack banks. The Riverside was my favorite place to play this game, but I had a problem. My wife hated that smoking area. She would give me 30 minutes at a time to play those. I remember the regulars playing slow...or one coin at a time until it got ripe, and then bang- everyone went into hyper mode. I very quickly learned the ropes on this game and did pretty well. I actually ended up spending a lot of time at the Flamingo banks, as my wife had some playable games for her close by. I probably played these games with you Mickey, as in those years I made a lot of trips to Laughlin.
I also remember checking out the piggy banks up and down the river for some advantage plays. That was a fun time.
My last trip to the Pioneer found one piggy bank still in operation, and I cleared it out a few times.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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%
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> 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.
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