By all means take your machine and throw it out!! SOON -
OR MANAGE your business and have the $200 strikes available at the time 20 of the $10 strikes are retrieved by a player. Something called management and contingency planning. I have been here a year and have seen nothing like this. Do other casinos a problem with this? None I have been to.
Either course of action would eliminate the sour/bad mood of many Strikers (excluding certain local dealers, of course, that greedily upset the fairness of the market).

Regarding comments from Mr. Smorse, who seems to always back Mark, a mint of 150 of these $200 Strikes is described as a fair number in many messages that were posted on this board by far more knowledgeable persons than myself. And Mark can do what ever he wants, but fairness to all collectors does not seem part of what he does. Is it? Why not? Why is insider information seemingly limited to just a few?
I joined the Silver Strikers Chapter hoping the people I have met were representative of the organization - all good people from Out of State. Not so. The more I see, the more I believe everything associated with the Four Queens and Silver Strikers is strictly business for local business men with clout, and not for the real collector.
It all comes down to money, and making it for a small minority that appear to corner the market which certainly influences the prices.
Why did the rules change as Pete Ryan has asked? What are the rules for timely disemination of timely information meant for all here to get that strike?
I was in that line for 9 hours. I don't ever want to do it again. So throw that machine out! That was not close to having fun.