I agree with Dan. I went to Vegas late Thursday night to play for the Palms Playboy strikes. I had a nice 4 hour long conversation with another collector (I wont say who because I dont know if he would want me to say) while he finished playing the machine. I even gave him a ride back to his hotel because it was raining when he finished. As far as the cost of purchase vs. playing, counting up what I won against what I spent, it cost me $13.58 per strike to win out of the machine. That $81.48 for the set of 6 and $271.60 for enough strikes to turn in for the $200 strike. Thats out of pocket cost, not counting the few hundered I won during the course of playing 4 hours that I re-played. I'm lucky enough that it only takes me gas money to get there, not a plane ticket, so you have to cinsider that as well.

Kevin