Reply #8: Does that include a Horned Frog? [View All]

[Awsi Dooger]

That's TCU, hereby designated the $5000 Frogs.

And no happy dances here this week, mrbill, just Comdex and empty casinos. The casino employees annually loathe the computer convention, which used to number 250,000 visitors but post 9/11 and the dotcom boom is now down to an estimated 75,000 or less. And the techno tourists seem to vaporize at night. They return to their hotel rooms and laptops, with virtually no activity in the hotels at all.

The town doesn't start dancing again until the rowdy rodeo crowd arrives in early December, with cocktail waitresses nicely filling out western jeans and seemingly more cowboy hats than losing gamblers.

Still, I agree with your moment-in-time assessment. Many of my friends think the dormant machines will always produce the same sequence of spins regardless of time lapse, but slot mechanics have told me otherwise. Plus, my friend played a very ambitious setup on the cherry pie machine that I likely would have declined, even at 50/50. I forgot to mention he was $400 into the play, and banging it 3 coins at a time out of frustration when the miracle spin occured.