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tableplay
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Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
I started out on the quarter linked Flush Attacks in early 1997. It was a huge edge, 35%, on a small wager because you only played when the flush attack light on. Consequently, no comps and you had to watch out for heat.
I switched to the unlinked Flush Attack in Northern Nevada in 1998. Running about a 5K wager a day I got plenty of room and meal comp.
Mickey, it sounds like Sigma put out the linked version first and then the unlinked. Or perhaps they hit the floor at the same time, but the linked was just more common. Definitely a VHOF (Vulturing Hall of Fame) game if there ever was one.
a few VHOF games:
Draw 'til U win
Flush Attack
Piggy Bankin'
At first, they were all linked and were doing well popping up at many locations. In the meantime, they came out with House-A-Rockin(Full house bonus 4/5 FH's to active a 200 coin bonus ) and Max Attack(4 of a kind bonus: 1 4ok to activate a 625 coin bonus) both in the 135% range during bonus mode, but they were not as popular.
Eventually, even some of the regular players including little old ladies would wait whenever they got a 4 card or pat flush. I'm sure you can only imagine the complaints from the people who just wanted to play straight through... especially if you consider the fact that they knew they were feeding everyone else. It's actually the first time I heard the term vulture used, it was a customer complaining about someone sitting there being a vulture. Sandbagger was another one a customer used. Sigma made it so u had to complete the current hand before you were eligible, but That just made it better for the faster more accurate video poker players. The first place I can remember them going to individual non-linked machines was at Boulder and the trend seemed to take off after that in many locations. That didn't seem to last too long, I don't think the customers actually like that, most of them truly liked the fact that other people were contributing sent it would come on much quicker and they would never know when it was going to come on. There were still quite a few linked Banks, I don't think any of the locations in Laughlin ever went individual, but I could be wrong about that.
4 of my girlfriends all become efficient flush attacks players, two of them weren't even 21 yet. I also hired 2 young chicks that did well. They were super fun to be around, but they were distracting and a big pain in the ass to deal with. I eventually had to cut them loose since I didn't really have the time to continue with them as there were far better things I didn't see them fitting into, and by that time there were not many banks left.