Hey John

Welcome back. I need you to keep me in line. It seems you always catch me when I try to rip someone off. Nice going.

I will answer your questions.

How dumb do you think we are?

Answer: You use the word “we” so I can’t really answer this question fairly, but if you used the word “I” then it would be easy to answer.

What's the REAL reason you are offering to swap?

Answer: I wasn’t able to play much at the Palms and they ran out faster than the other casinos because of putting 20 blue caps per hopper fill. I was surprised at how many collectors won twenty blue caps at the Palms. I though I was the only one who did that.

Like the other weasels, you never do anything that doesn't largely benefit you, and you only.

Answer: I might be a weasel, but I would rather be a weasel and use my real name than hide behind an alias.

Is it because way less than 750 each of the two Palms blue cap strikes were won, during the convention, and the remainder were then pulled and sent back for destruction? How many of the 750 each Palms blue caps were really won? Maybe half? Less? You always claim to be Mister Insider, so what's the true story?

Answer: I have no idea where you got this information. I can’t believe that the palms would be dumb enough to destroy any blue caps. And I am not going to be dumb enough to believe it. Are you.

You want to swap the more common blue caps from the other casinos, most of which are still in the machines right now, waiting to be won, for the much rarer ones that are gone from the Palms? One for one? How generous of you. What's your next offer? Face value?

Answer: They issued 1000 Plaza, 1000 LV Club and 750 El Cortez. They are harder to win at these casino because they put fewer per hopper fill than the Palms.

Six potentially rare Palms blue caps for one of the 4Q blue caps that your paid stooges monopolized the machines for? If you have extras of the 4Q strikes, does this mean that your story about only getting enough for your "customers" is bogus? Were you really trying to totally corner all of them, as most of us realized early on? This wouldn't be the first batch of strikes you paid your stooges to play for in order to corner the market.

Answer: Every time I think people have forgotten about paid stooges and cornering the market you bring it up again. I am out of the $200 4Q strikes. I sold them all at $320. I think I cornered the market on these or they would probably have sold for $350-$400. As far as monopolizing the machines, the only time of year that we need special rules is during the Convention. The mini-weasels are hard to control.

Norman