Bob and Richard interview a free-spirit gambling loner, Mickey Crimm. Mickey spends about half the year in Montana chasing down various types of progressives, and spends the rest of the year traveling through about 20 states knocking off various promotions.
Mickey also shared some of his experiences of when he used to hop the freight trains to get from place to place.
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Show Notes
[00:00] Introduction of free-spirited AP Mickey Crimm, @MickeyCrimm
[01:00] Is Mickey still spending most of his time in Montana?
[02:53] The games in bars in Montana
[07:45] Must-Hi-By machines
[09:08} Casinos in Oklahoma
[11:50] Does Mickey still play live poker?
[14:02] Riding freight trains
[18:16] How often does Mickey play in Nevada?
[23:00] Do Native American casinos offer different games?
[26:40] Using a card to generate offers
[29:37] Does Mickey usually work alone?
[33:37] Mickey’s Twitter, @MickeyCrimm
[35:56] South Point Casino’s April Promotions: Free buffets, email bonuses
[37:07] VideoPoker.com: Gold membership offers corrections on most games
[38:02] Mickey’s drinking and gambling stories
[42:39] How did Mickey discover that video poker could be beaten?
[44:49] Piggy Bankin’ stories
[49:28] Harley Davidson and Buffalo Diamond
[53:45] $5k and $10k progressives
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Wonder what the strategy is that brings RF occurrence down to one in 33,000?
Great guest. Awesome! Thanks for the podcast, I listen every week.
Probably a go for it at all costs strategy. Example: dealt A♠️ A♥️ A♦️ 5♥️ 8♣️ in JoB and holding just the A♠️
You wouldn’t have to go that far, basically 3RF>2P>HP will do it. That’s a typical progressive move.
Yeah my example was extreme, but just wanted to describe how.
According to the strategy maker for JoB (with the royal paying its normal 4000 credits and everything else paying zero) on WoO, going strictly for a royal gives a royal hit frequency of 1 in 23,080.75. I set everything else to zero to give a “go for the royal and nothing else” strategy possible. Pat royal>4 royal>3 royal>2 royal>single A, K, Q, J, or 10>toss everything
He’s a parasite. Vacuuming up all the progressive money lowers the return to everyone else, The other customers do worse than they normally would, which cripples the businesses offering the games. These are small bar/casinos and many would be at risk of going out of business if their regular customers don’t have any chance to win at all.
He says he makes $75 an hour. But that’s while he’s in action. He has to spend hours and hours driving around, and sometimes he winds up in one of those small joints and there’s no play. Onward, 50 miles down the road to the next small town. It doesn’t sound all that profitable on a yearly basis, and it sure sounds time-consuming and not very much fun.
How does one person vacuum up all the progressive money in a state? More negative nonsense.
To Kevin Lewis: I don’t think u quite understand the process and the potential. You’re welcome to your opinion but believe u r misinformed and lacking information to make an accurate assessment.