My Thoughts;

The Four Queens issued an additional 2000 silver strikes since the release of the Joker strike. That is a potential 100 more sets of 20 to be turned in for the $200. I estimate that there are already enough sets of 20 strikes to acquire over 200 Elvira strikes. There will probably be around three hundred sets of 20 at the time of release. Now that means 200 sets that will not be able to be exchanged and probably will be held for the next release.

The only problem with this is that only 2000 will come back to the cage from the $200 Elvira exchange and within a couple of weeks the Four Queens will run out of $10 strikes and probably order another 2000 strikes which will make about 400 sets of 20 available for the next release. I figure with each release there will be about 100 additional bags of twenty (2000 strikes) on the market if this continues.

Collectors will hold on to these strikes as long as there is an availability of $200 strikes at the Four Queens. But what happens when the $200 strikes are no longer going to be marketed at the Four Queens. I say there will be an influx of extremely common $10 strikes in the range of 5000-10000 or more. Unless they stop the outflow by issuing a common $200 in the limited 250-500 range they will continually have to issue more $10 strikes which will eventually come back in mass quantity.

Now on to more important things

Here are my picks for this week

My Record 9 Wins 15 losses 1 Tie
Leader Record 17 Wins 7 Losses 1 Tie

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