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Originally Posted by Bighurt52235
Holy crap! That play has been available to you for seven years? That's mind blowing.
Yeah, well, I was in the right place at the right time and benefited from a lack of competition by other pros. If a play like this developed in Nevada it would have been torched by pros in short order.
Montana is a unique situation. First, it's off the beaten path, so lack of competition benefits me. Second, what constitutes a casino here? If you have a liquor license you can have up to 20 multi-game machines in your establishment, video poker, video keno, video lines games. So what you have is a bar or bar/restaurant with up to 20 machines in it, and maybe a poker table. There are about 1700 liquor licenses is the state so, technically, Montana has a lot of casinos. But they are super small.
When I found the play the question was torch it or milk it? Torching it wouldn't get me much money. You beat one of these small joints out of a few thousand dollars in a couple of days and they'll have the slot route operator in investigating in short order. So I ran a route on the machines pulling about $600 out of a machine then letting it soak for a month or two. I wrote the meters down so when I got back to the machine I could tell if I had competition from another pro. No competition ever developed.
There were only a few spots where they figured it out and knocked the Aces Full meter down to where its supposed to reset. I lost locations one by one usually when they would put new games in the machine and somehow that corrected their mistake. But this took a long time.
I'm now down to one location with three machines. It's been a fun run though.