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$200 strike will bring in the open market. The Four Queens Las Vegas Christmas strike #80 (ltd 100) brought $565.55 on ebay (if memory serves me correctly the only one I have seen trade in an auction market). Maybe the New Frontier will break this record (but if I was a betting man I would bet against it).

Some of us wondered what interest does a casino have in the resale value or eBay sales of their strikes?

In case you missed the rest. Four Queens is now my favorite Downtown casino, by default. Binion's closed.

I think there's something about all this profit vs strike machines debate that hasn't been presented. If a casino has six square feet of floor space (hypothetical but aproximate) with a machine that brings in $300 an hour, and another machine brings in $600 an hour, the second machine will get the spot.

If a conventional slot has the same drop as a strike machine, but the Strike machine takes more man hours to re-fill, order strikes and remove jams. The conventional slot will get the space.

As for Norms redundant claim that the other casinos without strike machines, has only to do with collectors, I think enough people have shot enough holes in that line of reasoning. Something else to consider, unlike the Four Queens, some of them really had no strike program.

Every restaurant doesn't serve the same menu, that doesn't prove that places without steaks, are missing something. Some casinos are burger joints, some seafood specialists, some might be vegetarian.

Likewise, strike machines might work and be a success at some casinos, especial those with someone who cares, manages and runs a program. Other casinos may just decide they don't want to run a strike program and fuss with the machines.

Reno airport question. I'm up at the gate waiting for my plane and I win a strike. How do I cash it in? Oh yes, truck down to the first floor, go to the booth, turn it in, go through security again. Or I put it in my pocket and it walks.

By all logic, more strikes will walk from the airport than any casino in the world.