Walt, Let's say that this is true about IGT, but I do not believe that this is the entire problem. IGt may have been dragging their feet in the last 6-12 months after they decided that they wanted to get out of the silver strike business. There is a real problem with these new machines and how you have to just about take the whole machine apart just to fill the tubes. Also, if I am not mistaken, not all of the machines are set-up for $10, $20 and $40 strikes. Once these Casino's purchase these machines at approximately $9500.00 each, and if they wanted to go into $20 or $40 strikes in these machines, where are they going to get the parts to do this once IGT washes their hands of the entire program? Also the problem the Casino's are having now is they have to get new purchase order numbers because the old purchase order numbers that they had with IGT cannot be used any longer. This is why SAF had the Red Caps and $200's in house, but did not have any $10's and when they tried to re-order them the order could not be filled until they were issued a new purchase order number for the Sunshine Mint. When you take into consideration that the Casino's not only have to put up with some of the ignorant people who play these machines, but also the purchase price per machine, possible problems with the machine maintenance, the rising price of silver, the higher cost of minting these silver strikes whether they are $10's, $20's, $40's or $200's things will not change. Possibly if and when the program goes on and the problems are worked out, I think you may see some of these casino's coming back into the strike program.

Jerry Sacco SS#673