Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
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.
They unlinked the 8/5 Flush Attacks at the Pioneer in Laughlin in 1999. So we had a 101.8% game with cashback, comp and promotions. And you could still sweep the bank sometimes. It was the only spot they unlinked them in Laughlin.

Northern Nevada was where all the unlinked Flush Attacks were. At southshore Tahoe the unlinked were at Harrah's, Bill's, Horizon, Caesar's and Lakeside. I could never sweep through all of them in a day. There was also the multitude of big meters running on the video poker games at Harvey's. Harvey's was called the "Meter Capitol of the World." Combined with the advantage slots I did damn good at Tahoe.

The unlinked were also at MGM/Reno, Verdi, Minden, Elko, Wendover. Minden had the unlinked House A Rockin' too.
Yeah, I totally forgot about the pioneer even having Flush Attacks. They also had a few sigma bingo Poker machines. IIRC Frankie, his mom, and that crew killed the 4 bank of $1 linked at Gold River by locking it up. I was miffed about that since they also had a small bank of .25 within eyeshot of the $1 bank. Granted there wasn't a ton of action, but There was almost no competition either.
Stratosphere had 8/6 FA. Jai Alai and a few of his cronies would attempt to play str8 through in the wee hours of the morning hoping people wouldn't jump in and snap them off. Yeah, good luck with that.

That shit hole western actually had .5 FA at the entrance.

Boston Pizza actually had 2 flush attacks lol.