Originally Posted by
AxelWolf
That was at other places other than the Pioneer if that's the location in Laughlin you were thinking about. There's been many like situations, I can't remember them all.
I'm thinking it was 2001. The Pioneer came with that paycheck promotion again. I didn't know anyone in Laughlin other than casino hustlers. I knew one hustler that was a former poker dealer at the Edgewater. He knew lots of casino employee's in Laughlin.
He was offering them $50 plus all the card benefits to cash their checks at Pioneer then play vp until they hit a 4K. Of course, he bankrolled them. He told me he wasn't getting many takers. I told him to offer them half the royal if they hit it. He objected at first but I told him the money was in the quads, not the royal. Only 1 out of a hundred plays would they hit a royal.
So then he started getting lots of takers. A few weeks later I was in line at the Pioneer cage and heard a cashier shout to the back "Got another Belle paycheck!"
Then a few weeks after that, in my hotel room, I had the TV on to the local morning talk show which was about the Laughlin casinos. They had the Pioneer casino manager on.
So the host says "You've cancelled the $5 video pokers from the paycheck promotion. Why is that?"
The casino manager said "Well, sometimes, when you put on a promotion, you get beat."