Chuck, there has been several casinos that are cancelling their strike program as to what I am hearing. Some of them did not even have the $200 strike program. I think that the casinos that had the $200 strikes with multiple machines will reduce to one or two machines.

I think in the year 2002 they issued approxiametely 27 new $200 strikes. If the average cost to acquire each strike was $300 and each casino issued only 150 that would amount to

27 x 150 4050 strikes

4050 strike won at a cost of $300 = $1,215,000

I think the $200 strikes took too to much money out of the hobby and now you will see an increase in the value of $10 strikes. That is if the collectors don't sink all their money into these chaser strikes. Stuck with 48 garbage strikes in order to get 2 pinks. Not good.