Poll

[For The Lead]

It just so happens I can answer this poll question from experience, not from conjecture or speculation.

Ok, first the story.
In this story I am not going to talk about exactly what the key to “riches” was because it doesn’t matter. These “riches” are long gone so it doesn’t matter and it would be too lengthy to try and explain. These “riches” did NOT involve horse racing. I’m going to tell this story in an effort to answer the poll question, which I will do at the end. Oh, one more thing. Regardless of what you might think, what I am about to tell you is 100% FACT!!

Back in about 1996, slot machine manufactures developed some new slot machines games. Yes, they had the same old “reels”, but there were some “extra” monetary features built into these games. These machines were all over the country, wherever there were casinos. In Delaware as an example, they could be found at Delaware Park, Dover Downs and Harrington. In Mississippi, they could be found in the casinos in Biloxi or in the casinos in Robindale, throughout the mid-west and naturally, in Atlantic City, Reno, Tahoe and Las Vegas.

There were a group of machines In “Resorts” in Atlantic City, that if you only played them on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you were “guaranteed” to earn between $1,800 and $2,400 every single weekend. And these were $0.25 machines. Why the weekend? Tourists, aka CUSTOMERS! This was a very important ingredient. I “heard” a story that a guy in Reno got shot over these same machines, with the exception that the machines there were not $0.25 machines, but $1.00 machines. You do the math. These were but one group and one type of machine from many different types of machines.

“Riches” to one person may not be “riches” to another person, but it was extremely easy to earn $100,000 a year and all you had to know is when NOT to play a machine, when TO play a machine and when to STOP playing a machine. Simple!

When this first started, there were a handful of people that knew about these games. Now I happen to know a guy that weighed about 400 lbs., maybe more, and he had this penchant for oriental girls that weighed about 90 lbs soaking wet! He figured the only way he was going to meet and spend time with any of these girls was to tell them about the slot machines. Show them how they should be played. Harmless enough, right? Except for one thing, these girls had boyfriends, friends, relatives and etc., and they weren’t keeping the “secret” to themselves, so after a while, everybody and their mother knew about the games. It got so bad in Las Vegas, that some of these people were harassing the casino customers, trying to get them off a machine that had become playable. Obviously, the casinos are not going to stand still for that, so in the end the games were removed and the same thing happened all over the country. End of “riches”. It lasted for about 6 years.

So this is the measure by which I will answer the poll question, but I will not cast a vote.

Would I sell the secret? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!
Would I share it for free? NOT ON YOUR LIFE!
Would I share it with a select few? YEAH. MY WIFE AND MY SON!
Would I keep it to myself? YOU BET YOUR “A—“ I WOULD. Except for my wife and my son.

So there is a true story and that story is the basis for my answer.

Now, perhaps Mikesal57 would like to put up another poll based on this story, with the question being not "IF" you had the secret, but "YOU HAVE THE SECRET" and I explained what the secret was, what it was worth and what happened as a result of what took place. Would you now answer the poll question the same of differently?