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When I got back to Laughlin I was happily surprised that a lot of the Laughlin Pigs had survived the IGT court order. But the hotspot got stripped out. They were all gone out of the Edgewater, Belle, Ramada, Golden Nugget. In 1997 Williams and IGT came to some sort of agreement. And they actually started putting more Pigs in Laughlin. The Ramada put in an 8 machine quarter bank. Gold River put in a 6 machine bank. Harrah's added 10 more machines, bringing their total to 16 quarters and 6 dollars.
So I had the cash cow with the Pigs for most of the week, but I played the Gold River Deuces on Thursdays, sometime Fridays. And I had to get my lazy but into action and write a strategy for the Jackpot Cards. It would be the first video poker strategy I ever wrote. I had been developing a skill for the past few years that was about to come in real handy in video poker. When I was tramping around the mountain states working day labor, playing poker, hitting libraries and reading gambling books, some of those pokers books gave odds or percentages for completing draws. Now it's nice to take someone else's word for it but I wanted to know for myself. So I set about to learn how to make those calculations. But I hit a massive brick wall. I made it through the tenth grade but I didn't take Algrebra. I'm grabbing these algebra and probability books off the shelfs in the libraries and I can't make head or tails of what is going on. I didn't understand the code language. All those fancy equations. They were all gibberish to me. It was a huge brick wall I couldn't get through. And I must confess, I'm still ignorant that way today.
Sometime in 1993 I grabbed a book off of a library shelf called 'Scarne's Guide to Modern Poker' by John Scarne. Chapter 10 was called 'The Mathematics of Poker. ' Scarne did the math for 5-card combinations in a 52 card deck. But he didn't use all that fancy equation gibberish. He wrote it like this:
52X51X50X49X48/5X4X3X2X1 = 2, 598, 960.
When I seen that equation the party was over. I knew exactly what it meant. I knew the implications of it. Then Scarne proceeded to break down the deck. He showed how many combinations made a royal flush, straight flush, four of a kind, etc. all the way down to the no pair hands. And he wrote the equations out just like the one above. Damn right I ran that chapter to the copying machine. I bought a pocket calculator and started practicing those equations....and coming up with my own. Like, what's my chances of picking up pocket aces in Texas Holdem? What's my chances of picking up three wheel cards or a Pair of Aces with a low kicker in Stud Hi-Lo? If I have a four flush on fourth street what's my chances of completing the flush in 7 card stud. I learned to calculate the odds and percentages on every situation in poker so I wasn't dependent on someone else having to tell me. And that skill came in handy when I switched to video poker. The Dan Paymar equation for video poker was 'probability times payoff.' Okay. So let's start from there. I wrote the strategy for 6/5 DDJB with a calculator and scratch paper. Then I wrote the strategy for 8/5 Flush Attack with a 125 coin flush.
So then I had the Pigs working, The Gold River Deuces, playing off Jackpot Cards when I found a strong play, and working the Riverside 18 machine linked bank of Flush Attack. Life was good on the River. I was starting to get a comped meal here and there. But I was still paying the rent. I met a hustler on the Riverside Flush Attack Bank named Bill Hartman. I can say his name because I think he's dead now. No one has seen him in years. We became friends. He was a pretty nice guy for someone who had done 13 years in San Quentin for manslaughter.
The casino hosts in the Riverside were allowed to take tips. It became a racket. One day Hartman says:
'How much you paying for rent?' We were sitting in the North Tower Bar.
'At least $160 a week, sometimes more.'
'I can get you a room here in the Riverside for $10 a day. And they got cable television here too.'
'I'm all up for that, Bill.'
'Okay, how many days you want?'
'How about seven?'
'Okay, take $70, fold it up, put it in the palm of your hand. I'm gonna go call my casino host.'
When he got back he told me that when the host got there, shake hands with her and palm off the $70. When she got there Bill says:
'Cindy, this is Mickey, he needs a room for seven days.' I shook hands with her palming off the money. She took down my information.
'Give me about 15 minutes, Mickey' she said. 'Then you can check in at the hotel desk any time you want.' She handed me her card and walked away. Hartman chimed back in. The Riverside had a Post Office.
'Now, when you're done checking in go downstairs to the Post Office and rent a mailbox.'
'What for?'
'You'll see. You're missin' out on all the mail, son.'
'What mail?'
'The mail from all these casinos on the River. Just go get the box. It only costs $14.'
So I went and rented a mailbox. Then I went by all the slot clubs. The address I had given them was from an old dilapidated trailer court I used to live in in Colorado Springs. I had my address changed to the Riverside. Hartman was right. The mail came flooding in. I met my casino host every week in the North Tower Bar with a $70 handshake.
more later....I started collecting stats on the Pigs. I would record the number of coins in the bank when I started the play, count and record the numbers of spins I made, record the number in the bank when it broke, and how many coins it cost me to break the bank. Recording the number of coins in the bank at the start and at the end told me how many times the machine caught blanks--which is what put coins in the bank. A few other hustlers were doing the same and we compared notes. We all had similar results.
We put the chance of breaking the bank at 1 in 90 spins.
We put the cost to spin the play off at 18 coins.
We put the frequency of the machine catching blanks at 11.
The ten coins in the bank at preset represented 11.1% of the payback. The machine dropping a coin in the bank every 11 spins was equivalent to a 9% progressive meter. Forty coins in the bank was a typical play. On quarters it was worth $5.50. On dollars it was worth $22. You could make 90 spins in 4 or five minutes. The rest of it was a volume thing. How many plays can you get in a day?
The next big event in 1997 was when Silicon Gaming's Odyssey machines arrived in Laughlin. It was a multi game machine. In that first generation of games there were two that were exploitable. A banking game called Fort Knox, and another banking game called Buccaneer Gold.

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Fort Knox was a 3-coin quarter three reel video game. The line pays were the main game. There was a bank vault with a ten digit combination. While you were playing, every so often one of the digits would fill in. When you got 10 digits filled in you got a bonus of either 55 coins, 110 coins, or 165 coins. Tourists would play this game and often walk away leaving 5 or more digits filled in. I would come in behind them and complete the play betting just one coin at a time.
Buccaneer Gold was a pirate themed 3 reel video game. There was a dagger on the third reel. When it landed on the line a pirate would jump up and stick a dagger in a log. When you got five daggers you got a big bonus. Tourists would play this game and sometimes walk away leaving 3 or more daggers in the log. It was advantage if you found 3 daggers in the log, and super strong if you found 4 daggers in the log.
Silicon Gaming came behind and changed the configuration on Fort Knox to where you had to bet 3 coins to fill in the digits. They probably did it because of the vulture activity. But the new configuration turned out to be even stronger for the advantage player. In any event, I added two more games to my arsenal.
And then, lo and behold. Here came the IGT Vision Series. Cherrie Pie's, Diamond Mines, Slot Bingo's, etc. All of them highly exploitable.
Except for a two week summer trip to Colorado, and a 3 week gig in Mesquite, I spent all of 1997 livng in the Riverside. That is, until November of 1997. That's when the sh$t hit the fan.
more later....The Flush Attack Bank at the Riverside.
This was an 18 machine linked bank sitting at the bottom of the escalator to the bingo hall. The game was 8/5 Double Bonus with every fourth flush paying 125 coins. The linked banks worked like this: Fifteen points worth of flush triggered Flush Attack mode. A person betting five coins puts in 5 points when me makes a flush. A person betting two coins puts in two points when she makes a flush, etc. Once 15 points was collected the top of the screen on every machine flashed 'FLUSH ATTACK!!! next flush pays bonus.' Then it was a race to see who could make the flush first. When someone made the flush the tops of the screens of the machines went blank. You are no longer in flush attack mode.
The optimum way to play the game is only play when in flush attack mode. Your money's at 135%. But you couldn't do that in the Riverside. That bank of machines had more players thrown off of it than any other set of machines in the world. The heat came mainly from security and slot operations, but there were other ways to lose the bank. Don't piss off a little old lady pushing a change cart. Don't tip a cocktail waitress and see what happens. You had to disguise your play, and give up a little of the earn by looking like a player. So the strategy became, bet one coin out of mode, bet 5 coins in mode.

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And there were times when you just didn't want to play the game. You walk up to the bank, ten machines are taken. Three little slow playin' old ladies are playing. They're the marks. They're the ones that are gonna turn the light on. They are surrounded by seven hustlers, all licking their chops, all waiting for the light. The little old ladies don't know it be they are up against the fastest flush attackers in the world. I just went the other way when it was like that. I like it the other way around, 7 lives ones, and only 3 hustlers.
All the casino hosts were on the take. The rumor was that one of them, I'll call him Karl, had over 50 people in the hotel at $10 a pop per night. That's over $500 a day. Every night when he got off work you seen Carl playing dollar sucker video poker in the Riverside. There was another host, Jerry, (his real name, he's dead) that was running a lot of people too. My host didn't have that many. Jerry was from the same place in Minnesota as Don Laughlin. They were thicker than thieves. When Jerry died Don renamed the high roller room 'Jerry's Place.'
There was a hustler living in the hotel that frequently played flush attack. No one liked him. He had a nasty disposition. The heat was getting heavier and heavier on the flush attack bank. All of a sudden, one day two more security cameras showed up on the ceiling at each end of the bank. Players were getting pitched. I knew my turn was coming. The flush attack and the casino host situation were all coming to a boil in November, 1997. The hustler no one liked did us all in.
He got into a dispute with some woman over some Jewelry. Security went up to his room to question him. The dude was dying his hair at the time and got dye all in the carpet. Security pitched him out of the hotel. Dude didn't just call the cops, he called Gaming too. He told Gaming what was going on with the rooms at the Riverside. Gaming came in and busted the whole thing out. About 100 people hit the bricks that day. That's how many rooms were being sold under the table everyday.
I met my host in the North Tower Bar.
'The sh$t has hit the fan' she said.
'Are you in any trouble?'
'No. All my people ran points. That idiot, Karl, had people in rooms that didn't even have slot cards. You have a 700 point a day average ($3500 wager). They won't say anything to you. But it's best that we don't be in contact for awhile. I'm trying to move to the Golden Nugget anyway. You qualify for a lot of room comp. You don't have to call me, just call Slot Club Reservations. They will take care of you.'
Okay. So no more $10 rooms. The situation wasn't hopeless. I was getting mailers from every casino every month. Many of them had room offers. I set about to see just how much room comp I could get from the casiinos on the River. It developed into what I call Laughlin RFB 362. The Thursday, Friday, Saturday night of the last weekend in April, Biker Weekend, were the only three days in the year I couldn't get comped in Laughlin. Those rooms are sold out a year in advance for top dollar. And I did it all playing advantage games.
more later....oh! one other thing that changed at the Riverside in November 1997. Karl was no longer playing sucker video poker every night.

mickey, if i go down to laughlin is there still anything i can play, and get cheap enough rooms including weekends? specifically, can i survive and grow a $1000 roll to $3000 within 6 months without a lot of risk of going broke? be aware im banned at the colorado belle and edgewater and harrahs, id probably hang out riverside, palms, pioneer, avi or nugget. feel free to send a PM if u dont want to discuss too much publicly

I haven't been to Laughlin in 11 years so I don't have a clue as to what can be done there now.

mickey, if i go down to laughlin is there still anything i can play, and get cheap enough rooms including weekends? specifically, can i survive and grow a $1000 roll to $3000 within 6 months without a lot of risk of going broke? be aware im banned at the colorado belle and edgewater and harrahs, id probably hang out riverside, palms, pioneer, avi or nugget. feel free to send a PM if u dont want to discuss too much publicly

Not sure what you are banned for, but odds are the others are already aware of you and will have an eye on you.

Definitely continue, but I feel obligated to inform you that I would pay money to be reading this stuff, just sayin'!

I was thinking the exact same thing, Mission. Mickey: in this age of electronic book publishing, you should take these threads, (the other couple where you tell stories as well) put them together into a .pdf, and sell them to Barnes and Noble and Amazon as an ebook. They are fresh, engrossing, and extremely well told, not just for gambling specialists. At 1.99-2.99 for ebook only, you'd have a killing on a short read (30-50 pages), under 10 you'd have a bestseller memoir for a novel-length. Truly. Do it. I'm not an editor, but I'm dying to edit this stuff into a book.

I was thinking the exact same thing, Mission. Mickey: in this age of electronic book publishing, you should take these threads, (the other couple where you tell stories as well) put them together into a .pdf, and sell them to Barnes and Noble and Amazon as an ebook. They are fresh, engrossing, and extremely well told, not just for gambling specialists. At 1.99-2.99 for ebook only, you'd have a killing on a short read (30-50 pages), under 10 you'd have a bestseller memoir for a novel-length. Truly. Do it. I'm not an editor, but I'm dying to edit this stuff into a book.

Thank you so much, BBB. I've had offers. Dancer offered to get me published through Huntington Press. Henry Tamburin has made some offers. I've been contacted by ghost writers who want my story. So far I've turned them all down. It's a pride thing. Once I start taking money for my stories I can no longer say that I make my entire living gambling. The last time I was broke was when I showed up in Laughlin with 99 cents in my pocket. Seventeen years running now. I wear it like a badge of honor.
But the situation will be changing in the next few years. I'm not that far from Social Security. I suppose it will be then that I try to publish something. And I like the e-book way. For now I'm happy enough telling my stories to people that understand them. I've told lots of my gambling stories on vpFREE. Now I'm telling them on WoV. The members of these two sites have an understanding of gambling that is far superior to the general public. I get more gratification writing for free to people who understand it than I will ever get taking money from the masses who probably won't understand much of it.
I can use some advice. I'm about as computer stupid as they come. I have stories in Notepad. A few months ago I downloaded and started putting stories in Open Office. I'm especially concerned about the stories I have in Notepad and what kind of problems a person would have if I attached the Notepad document to an email and sent it to them. The Wizard has offered to put some fictional stories I have on his site if he likes them. But they are in Notepad and he might have problems with it. I can write the stories, but for the technical stuff, like I said, I'm about as computer dumb as they come.
In the fictional stories I try to give some insight into how the mind of a professional gambler works. They are also sexed up a little bit. I have these two characters, River Johnny, a professional gambler, and his on and off again love interest, a knock out of a girl, Delia. She's a compulsive gambler. The stories are written from my own experiences in that situation.
Any technical advice is appreciated. And please try to explain it to me like I'm a three year old. Take care.mickey,
one question:
Whats a credit hustler?
u mean those people that leave 8 cents in the machine when they went broke because its not worth their time to try to cash the ticket?
wait.. this was back in the 80's and 90's where slots gave out real coins.
now even more lost on credit hustler?

Colorado Belle
The property as seen from the Colorado River in 2018
Location	Laughlin, Nevada, U.S.
Address	2100 South Casino Drive
Opening date	November 10, 1980; 39 years ago
Theme	Riverboat
No. of rooms	1,168
Total gaming space	42,706 sq ft (3,967.5 m2)
Owner	Golden Entertainment
Renovated in	1997, 2005, 2012
Website	coloradobelle.com

The Colorado Belle is a casino hotel on the banks of the Colorado River in Laughlin, Nevada, owned and operated by Golden Entertainment. The Colorado Belle is a fixed building made to look like a six-deck replica of a 19th-century Mississippi Riverpaddle steamer riverboat. It has 1,168 rooms in two seven-story towers. The casino has 42,706 sq ft (3,967.5 m²) of gaming space with 750 slot machines, and 16 table games.^[1][2] The hotel has three restaurants. The Loading Dock, Big Easy Deli, Pints brewery, and two gift shops. The resort also includes two pools, a fitness room, a koi pond, an arcade.

History[edit]

Advanced Patent Technology, a slot machine maker and slot route operator, announced plans in 1979 to build a hotel and casino, with the hotel to be managed by Ramada.^[3] Construction began in October, as a joint venture with John Fulton, a Southern California restaurateur^[4] and the casino was opened on November 10, 1980.^[5]

In 1983, a preliminary agreement was reached to sell the casino to a group including attorney William Morris and Circus Circus Enterprises executives William Bennett and William Pennington for $1.6 million^[6] but Morris quit the deal a month later.^[7] The next year, Circus Circus bought the casino for $4 million, and made plans to move it to make room for an expansion of its neighboring Edgewater Laughlin.^[8]

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Plans for a new Colorado Belle hotel and casino were unveiled in 1985^[9] and it opened on July 1, 1987, at a cost of $80 million.^[10]

Circus Circus Enterprises later became Mandalay Resort Group in 1999 and was bought by MGM Mirage in 2005.

In June 2007, MGM Mirage sold the Colorado Belle and the Edgewater to a partnership of Anthony Marnell III and Sher Gaming for a total of $200 million.^[11][12][13]

In January 2019, Golden Entertainment bought the Colorado Belle and the Edgewater from Marnell and Sher for a total of $190 million.^[14][15]

References[edit]

1. ^'Nonrestricted Square Footage Report'. Nevada Gaming Control Board. March 6, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
2. ^Nonrestricted Count Report (Report). Nevada Gaming Control Board. June 30, 2018. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
3. ^'Advanced Patent slates gambling-activity boost'. Wall Street Journal. via ProQuest. July 26, 1979. ProQuest134402295.(subscription required)
4. ^'Advanced Patent starts hotel-casino construction'. Wall Street Journal. via ProQuest. October 8, 1979. ProQuest134309172.(subscription required)
5. ^'Advanced Patent adds 3 directors as part of an SEC settlement'. Wall Street Journal. via ProQuest. November 25, 1980. ProQuest134405424.(subscription required)
6. ^'Advanced Patent Technology to sell casino for $1.6 million'. Dow Jones News Service. via Factiva. January 10, 1983. Retrieved June 26, 2012.(subscription required)
7. ^'Advanced Patent says talks on sale of Nevada casino off'. Dow Jones News Service. via Factiva. February 18, 1983. Retrieved June 26, 2012.(subscription required)
8. ^'Circus Circus buys casino from Gaming & Technology'. Wall Street Journal. via ProQuest. February 16, 1984. ProQuest397964596.(subscription required)
9. ^'Circus Circus: New hotel-casino'. Wall Street Journal. via ProQuest. August 19, 1985. ProQuest398031945.(subscription required)
10. ^'Colorado Belle sets sail for grand opening'. The Courier. June 24, 1987. Retrieved March 22, 2012.
11. ^Stutz, Howard (October 17, 2006). 'MGM Mirage selling two Laughlin casinos'. Casino City Times. Retrieved May 6, 2007.
12. ^Stutz, Howard (May 18, 2007). 'Group gets approval to buy casinos'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
13. ^'MGM Mirage closes sale of Laughlin hotels'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. June 2, 2007. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
14. ^Velotta, Richard N. (December 5, 2018). 'Golden Entertainment closer to operating 2 Laughlin casinos'. Las Vegas Review-Journal. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
15. ^'Golden Entertainment completes acquisition of two Laughlin, Nevada casino resorts' (Press release). Golden Entertainment. January 14, 2019. Retrieved January 14, 2019 – via BusinessWire.

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External links[edit]

• Official website
• Media related to Colorado Belle Hotel & Casino at Wikimedia Commons