i talk to one on the guys at the flamingo who came over to fix the strike machine i was on that had a jam, he told me he had been working there a little over a year now and has never seen anyone ever hit the jackpot! he also told me that he thinks that the strike machines at the flamingo and o'sheas will be gone before christmas? i don't think this info can from anyone, i think it was his own thinking? i talk to him about 20 minutes, and i got the hint that he was not very happy the way he was being treated by the flamingo? all i can tell you is when i told the slot manager i was a strike collector and had come over 1800 miles to trade my $10 strikes in for the $200 he got very rude with me after i told him i was a strike collector, i was there on saturday night and he said the change of no tradeing started 3 days ago, so that would have been thursday the 23, i almost beg him to let me trade these in, when he said no, i told him i did not feel it was fair to change the rules with out a notice, thats when he got real rude and told me they can do anything they want with out telling anyone, that that was that, and he walk away! i guess he put me in my place!!