My wife and I have always gone to Reno for our anniversary the last 8-9 years now in October. Its time now to start making arrangements for airline tickets, rooms and car rental. But this year we are regretabley not going to Reno but Las Vegas. Main reason ofcourse, silver strike machine play.

Since Reno's casinos have pulled them all we decided it time to make our anniversary trip somehere else. Even thou Reno is a special place for us, our main reason for going there was Silver Strike collecting. So it looks like as long as there are a few casinos in LV that have them we will visit them and they will get our non stirke playing as well.

It got me thinking also, how many people either quit going to Reno on a routine basis because of the pulled machines,went to LV or another casinos area to play. I have heard some of our freinds say that once they broke an annual trip gambling they found out it was even more fun to go on a cruise or a vacation get away. They more or less just quit gambling and spent their money in other ways.

I can't help but think that the smaller casinos like Sids lost a lot of business because of strike play. While one of us played the strike machine they other would always drop money in the slots. With it being so out of the main stream the only reason for our visits there was the SS. No way we would venture that far out of downtown now to play there.