Midwest Player, I went back and watched Holy Roller movie to see the size of their checks. At the dinner where they celebrated “closing a bank”, one guy got a $2000 check and he actually showed it to the camera. I have won $2000 in a weekend red chipping. Not often but I’ve done it more than once. And I didn’t go out and have a celebration dinner.

I expect when the church team calculated their hourly rate, they did not include the training time. Based on some of the material on BJA, I epect they trained about three months for 40 hours a week before they played in a casino. If you include the training time, the travel time and expenses, and the playing time, I expected their hourly rate was probably about what you could make part time at McDonald’s.

And working at McDonald’s or some other part time job, they would’ve been adding value to society rather than extracting revenue from state and local governments, which rely on casinos for some of their revenue.