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The Bride Of Bulletman Part9
B-O-B: That was awful. Your pun. The guy was awful too. My attitude now is that I don't worry about someone winning big near me because I know that sooner or later I'll win on another machine.
Frank: Maybe I've asked this before , but why do you play?
B-O-B: I love to play. I'm in a zone. It's my total escape from all the world. But it is a social thing too. I'm a bit of a yenta [someone who likes to talk and socialize] and I get to know all the people around me. It's the same people who go to the same area—because we've all had a good experience on these machines.
Frank: Explain the zone idea.
B-O-B: I'm communing with the machine. This is very strange. You want me to talk about this?
Frank: It's exactly what I want. Commune with those machines. My book is rather dry, pages and pages of strategies. It could use a little more communing. So commune away.
B-O-B: It's as if I'm hypnotized. I'm in another world. It's just me and the machine. I feel as if it's^a symbiosis between me and the machine. I just concentrate on the machine and in some way the machine is concentrating on me.
Bulletman: Robo-player!
B-O-B: Go ahead and laugh. But it's like I have a rapport with the machine. It's almost as if the machine is human to me. It's almost as if the machine has a kind of consciousness and it's a chess match between me and the machine. It's crazy. I sound crazy.
Frank: You aren't as crazy as you think. In The Physics of Immortality ( Doubleday), Frank J. Tipler talks about the possibility of machines having a kind of consciousness. I'm not kidding. Not just computers but any kind of sophisticated machine. So maybe what you're experiencing is an advanced state of consciousness or an alternate state of consciousness. Of course, what you experience is probably what others experience too but they can't put it into words. You're able to put this feeling into words.
B-O-B: I'm communing with the machine and I'm lost in my own world. The troubles of the everyday world just vanish. I never get tired of playing. I never want to stop playing although sometimes I do take short breaks.
Bulletman: The reason B-O-B goes for the better hands is to give her enough money to sustain herself for long sessions. She's not afraid of losing but she is afraid of not having enough to last a trip. She's an action player and she wants enough action. It's not a question of coming home a winner as of coming home…
B-O-B: Satisfied. Satiated. Fulfilled.
Frank: Yet, you have had incredible success.
Bulletman: The ultimate rush is to go to a casino with plenty of money, knowing that you can really make a killing. Before there were casinos, my thing was to go to a racetrack. Now, I would first go with one-hundred dollars and that was okay. I played cautiously. But the best was when I started going with five-hundred dollars or a thousand dollars. Then I knew I had a chance to really lay it in. I was a threat. That's the ultimate rush. Now, I don't think you've ever experienced that.
Frank: No.
Bulletman: You're much more business-like when you gamble.
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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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