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The Bride Of Bulletman Part8
Frank: When you have won a jackpot, do you quit?
B-O-B: Yes. I relax a little.
Frank: Do you quit for the trip or just for a short period of time?
B-O-B: I quit to take a breath… Not very long. I never would have won two progressive jackpots in a row if I had quit for the day.
Bulletman: The next day, she hit another jackpot.
Frank: That was three jackpots in two days?
Bulletman: Here.
[At this point bulletman hands me a photostat with all of B-O-B's winning jackpot tickets and there are the three jackpots in two days. Incredible.]
B-O-B: I thought I was invincible after that trip. The only thing we had to worry about was the taxes. We went back a few weeks later and sure enough I hit again.
Frank: You talk about a feel for a machine? What do you mean?
B-O-B: Machines run in cycles. That's my experience. In a ten-minute period a machine will hit a string of relatively large winners. Then, all of a sudden, nothing happens.
You could conceivably lose a thousand coins in an hour. Machines very rarely are choppy. They are either blazing or cold. That's been my experience. You're either doing very well or you're putting much too much money in. There doesn't seem to be an in between.
Bulletman: What gambling isn't streaky?
B-O-B: But this is so pronounced.
Frank: Do you ever have a "feel" that when things are cold they're going to get hot again? If so, what do you do?
B-O-B: Yes. In a case like that I'll stay with a machine because I just know it's a good machine getting ready to hit. You have to ride out the bad times. That's why bankroll is such an important factor.
Frank: You realize that some of what you're saying defies the traditional ways of looking at machines. Most gambling writers would dismiss the idea of "intuition." Even if such a thing existed, it would not be transferable. How can you teach someone to be intuitive? So intuition is generally put down as a superstition. What do you think?
B-O-B: Well, it may be superstition but I do trust my instincts. And so far so good.
Frank: Do you leave machines that are cold where you don't "feel" as if anything is going to happen?
B-O-B: Oh, yes. The worst thing that ever happened to me was some guy who was sitting next to me and he was drunk. Picture this now. He was hitting the buttons with his tongue! It was disgusting. Now, the machine I was on was a good machine, one I had won on quite often in the past. I was even winning this night. But I just couldn't stand sitting next to this drunk. He smelled. His tongue was coated. I mean, I felt as if I was going to throw up. So I decided to move. I moved across the aisle to another machine, just to be away from him.
The guy puts some coins into my former machine, hits it with his disgusting tongue and wins the jackpot! Now, I know from reading your other book [Break the One-Armed Bandits!] that I probably wouldn't have won a jackpot at that moment because the machine is constantly making decisions but it was just typical of a bad streak.
Frank: You were in a kind of tongue depression?
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The Bride Of Bulletman Part7
B-O-B: Yes.
Bulletman: How do you factor in luck? Frank: I wish I knew.
B-O-B: I do have hunches about progressives. At a certain point, rows are about to pop. Some machine in the row will go. It might be because the progressive is at a certain level or whatever. But I can tell when a progressive is about to go. I can't always pick the machine that will win it but I'm usually there when the progressive is won.
Frank: Well you've been there and you've won much more than anyone I've ever heard about in such a short period of time. I've heard of people winning two, sometimes three times but never what you've done.
B-O-B: I see the game through. I'll play at a carousel that I know will hit. I'll put in the time. And I always feel that I have a chance for the big one. I'm confident.
Bulletman: Part of her success is a positive attitude. She's upbeat and confident. Even though much of casino gambling is supposedly cut-and-dry, I think what makes her such a winner is this positive attitude.
B-O-B: It's a personality type. I'm not a sore gambler. Win or lose, I have a good time. I don't complain. I'm happy to be in the game. Win or lose. You can't be negative. There's always that luck factor and you waste your time cursing your luck if you are losing. Why play if playing makes you miserable? I'm not afraid of losing and I don't fear losing. I'm going to go bang it out. When I say goodbye to Bulletman, I say to him: "I'm going to go bang it out." And I mean it. I go into the game with a determination that I'm going to win. You actually have to have physical stamina to play the way I do. I'd give up all the comp if I could have someone behind me massaging me. That's so much better than the drinks lady who comes by.
I'm probably the only person who loses weight when I go to a casino. I don't eat much, I don't drink much. I'm like a fighter. I have to be in form. A good massage therapist rubbing my shoulders when I play would be heaven. So I don't go in there worrying about losing my money. I go in expecting to win. I'm going to bang it out.
Frank: What about the actual playing of the hands?
B-O-B: I'm a big player. I go for the big win.
Bulletman: She has a look. We call it the original look. It's the look she had when she won her first jackpot. I could be playing craps [Bulletman's game is craps] and I'll see her coming from across the casino and she'll have that look. She'll be holding in her hand a ticket that tells you how much you've won. I know that look. She'll start giggling. One day she won two progressive jackpots a couple of hours apart. She came up to me and she looked happy but different. Then she showed me how much she had just won. It was flabbergasting.
B-O-B: I tend to discard weaker hands, even payable ones. A lot of people play for the little wins. I go for the bigger ones. I'll discard four cards and just keep a joker because I'm going for five of a kind.
Frank: Why video poker and not the table games?
B-O-B: Because there's no rivalry at the machines. We're like one family. I'll sometimes give advice on how to play a certain hand. People give me advice. It's all very friendly. I don't find that at the tables. If I were going to play table games, I'd play craps. But at the machines I notice that people don't take the game as seriously as do the table-game players. There the players can be downright nasty when they're losing. When you win at the machines, even if some people might get jealous, they congratulate you. We exchange tales of what happened last trip, or yesterday. But getting back to strategy. Most people play conservatively. I tend not to go for straights. I'd rather discard that potential straight and go for a better hand. That might be one of the reasons I've won so many jackpots.
Throwing away an entire hand, I've been dealt straight flushes, four of a kind, five of a kind. So I'm not afraid to take that chance. I'll rarely throw away a pair. The only time I throw a pair away is usually for the straight flush.
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