I just joined the club and will not be able to make the convention this year but hope to next year. I have been playing the strike machines for several years and just this last May found out about the club from several local Vegas people as I struck up a conversation at the machines. Never saw a red or blue cap before this year. Managed to get two from Four Queens and two from Slots-o-fun. I sem to have good luck on the machines and have come home from Vegas on each of my annual trips with several strikes. So far, I am still under the $10 mark for each strike I've won. I know that can't be normal. Regular slot machines eat me alive. ANYWAY, have fun you all. And to you locals: keep talking to out of towners about the collectability of strikes and the strike club. That's what got me and my brother hooked. Also, a guy named Charlie "LUCKY" Susio was especially helpful to my brother and I so a specdial thanks to him.