Mike, I haven't taken a W2-G since I left Nevada almost 8 years ago. Montana is a different situation than Nevada and other gambling jurisdictions. These little gambling businesses make their money off the people living in the town or community so there is nothing like room comp. They will comp your drinks while you are playing. And there are slot clubs where you get freeplay for your action. But I refuse to join them because they track your play. I don't want to be tracked and I don't want them to know my name.
Back in the eighties there was a crackdown on drunk driving in Montana. It caused about a 20% drop in bar business revenue. The Montana Tavern Owner's Association was all up in arms about it. So the legislature threw the bar owners a bone. They legalized video poker and video keno. Multi-game machines were legalized in 1999. And video line games came in in January 2012. Leading up to the video line games coming in I was highly concerned. I thought it might effect the games I was exploiting. But it turned out that it was actually a positive for me. There are now line games here that I exploit.
And yes, video keno is a grind. All the thinking in keno is done before you sit down. I play on turbo speed. where I'm cranking out 40 to 50 games per minute depending on the machine. A typical five-spot progressive, with a frequency of 1550.57 is about 35 minutes average seat time. There is nothing to think about while you are playing. On some of these machines I don't even have to move my finger. I just lay it on the screen sensor and the game keeps playing.
I keep plenty of reading material in kindle on my windows phone.And there is no heat here by casino employee's. They don't know anything. Even the owners don't know anything about their machines. They just know that they make them money.
While playing keno I'm currently reading Bound For Glory by Woodie Guthrie. Him and I have a lot in common. We're both old freight train riders.
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Posted by: mickeycrimm@yahoo.com
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