Welcome to Las Vegas! My name is Victor H. Royer, but everyone just calls me Vegas Vic. I was named after that famous neon sign in Downtown Las Vegas, that cowboy with the hat on top of the Pioneer Club, always waving his hand and beckoning to his long love, Sassy Sally, on the other side of the street. I will be writing a few articles for AccessVegas.com, so I hope you enjoy them.
The King and I Part Two
Neither Lady M nor the King ever had to worry about announcing themselves, or about reservations. They just showed up whenever they felt like it. In this case, the King had a problem with Lady M, and so the casino thought they had a problem. But the King was very well adjusted. He wasn�t fretting about it. He simply did whatever it was that he did in his suite, and when Lady M finally left, he came down to play his machines. Me being there must have, at first, seemed like it was going to be another problem for everybody, but the King's graciousness and understanding resolved the situation and rendered a potential problem totally moot. I was actually quite impressed by him, the way he acted, and his royal persona.
I continued to play my machine, slowly, and out of the corner of my eye kept watching the King. He had one of his attendants summon the executive host, who would bring a marker. When the host brought the marker, the King's attendant would take the little tray on which were the marker and a pen, and hand it to the King. The King would then take the pen in his gloved hand and quickly wave it across the paper in what seemed like a short scribble instead of a signature. The attendant would then hand this marker back to the host, and he would then motion to the slot change persons to bring the slot tokens. These were in racks of $10,000. Then they would all leave.
Now the King's attendant placed the racks by the side of the machine that the King had selected, and picked up one of the racks. The King then motioned, almost invisibly, with his hand, and the attendant dropped three coins into the slot. The King then reached out with his gloved hand and pulled the handle. If he won, he would clap his hands together a little, and then the attendant would place three more tokens into the slot and the King would reach up with his gloved hand and pull the handle and watch the reels spin. If he didn't win anything, he would just sit there and the attendant would place three more tokens into the machine, the King would pull the handle, and so this whole process would be repeated.
When a taxable jackpot occurred, which happened quite often on a $500 machine with a $1,500 per pull total, the slot floormen and hosts would have the tax slip all ready, hand it to the attendant who would then hand it to the King, who would wave the pen around the paper in that quick signature scribble, and then the game would go on. Shortly after a win that was less than $50,000, the slot change person would show up with more racks of coins equivalent to the amount of the win. If the win was more than $50,000, then they would bring cash. All the racks of coins and cash were neatly stacked up by the King�s attendants to the side of the machine.
This went on all night. The King never moved, except to change machines once or twice. When he did, the entire procession moved with him, and all the coins, racks, and cash were stacked up next to the new machine. Eventually the King would move back to the original machine he selected, and stay there the rest of the time. I tried to be unobtrusive, and played my machine. I even hit a few small jackpots, but nothing even remotely like what I had been hitting the night before. But that night my real focus was on the King and his entourage. Watching him was the real entertainment! After several hours I counted about $300,000 in cash and coins stacked up by the side of the King�s machine. He never played the coins that came out of the machine�s hopper. Instead these were neatly stacked with the currency, and new coins were brought to him after he signed another marker.
Victor H. Royer is the Author of 22 books on casino gaming. His newest series of 13 books -- including the new release Powerful Profits from Tournament Poker -- are now available in all major book stores, or from The Gambler's Book Shop at 1-800-522-1777, or at Amazon.Com. Visit his Web site at: http://www.GamingAuthor.com
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