There aren't enough players to make the 25c machine viable in most casinos, let alone a $5 machine. I agree.

Hey guess what, I had the answer the whole time and wasted my effort thinking and writing a solution. Silly me, here's the answer.

Make More Strikes!

I mean why didn't someone think of this after the FOur Queens Joker sold out and some NIS/Dealers got skunked.

It's so easy, why didn't someone think of it?

Oh that's right, about 50 people thought of it and expressed their wishes to buy the strikes. But the issue number continues to be 100 for some strange, illogical, reasoning.

Lets say the casino has to pay for the design and the dies, that's a fixed cost. The same for 50, 100, 150 or 200 strikes.

Then they have to pay for the strikes.

Lets say hypotheticaly the casino makes a profit of $100 per strike. And they sell 100 strikes. That's a fast $10,000 profit.

Why in the world would they want to make 150 strikes and make $15,000 profit, when they can have all this anger, accusations, attacks, poor public relations and alienate collectors. How silly...

Wouldn't you want to run your business and give up a $5,000 profit on a fixed cost, for a couple of hours of work. It's probably just too much work to sell those extra 50 strikes?

Issuing the $200 strike of the month, as it looks like now, the casino is just passing on a measly $60,000 a year profit. Sounds fair enough. Who cares about $60 grand, a pittance...

And that folks is why the casino doesn't want to make 150 of each new issue. It's just too much trouble for the tiny extra profit.