The Law of 250
29 September 2000
By Mark Pilarski
Dear Mark,
I agree with you about judging casinos in your
column "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." I would
like to add the Soaring Eagle Casino of Mt.
Pleasant, MI to your ugly list. Besides
employees being extremely rude, they charge for
drinks while you're playing slots and their
machines are the tightest I've ever played. If
they don't change their ways soon, they're going
to lose a lot of customers when the new
casinosin Detroit are built. You need to let
your readers know how bad it is. In the future
I'm going elsewhere to do my gaming. Rick J.
Wixom, MI
Dear Mark,
What really annoys me about Casino Niagara are
the high minimums on the Blackjack tables. If
you are lucky you may find a few $5 tables, but
the majority are either $10 or $25 minimums. I
know that you preach always betting within your
limits, but let's face it, for this area, it is
ridiculous.
To me, it is blatant robbery of people who like
to do some recreational gaming. I don't know
many individuals who can afford $25 a pop at
blackjack. Joe M. Buffalo, NY
Dear Mark,
Just writing to inform you that little has
changed since you blasted Casino Windsor in your
column, "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Just
try getting on a low limit blackjack table on
the weekends. Don't they get it? Robert L.
Toledo, OH
No, they don't GET IT. The above three samplings
of carpetbaggers at work proves that when a
self-contained casino complex has zippo
competition, you the customer are the victim of
a holdup. Sure, casino operators come to town
drunk with virtue on how they boost employment
roles and stimulate the economy-an argument I'll
debate with them inebriated or sober-but what
they really have is an exclusive license to
print money.
The three letters also prove casino management
has no conception of Girard's Law of 250. Girard
is Joe Girard, who has twelve times been named
"The World's Greatest Salesman" by the Guinness
Book of World Records. The Law of 250 is
Girard's belief that everyone knows 250 people
in his or her life important enough to invite to
a wedding or who will show up at their funeral.
Mistreat one, and 250 will eventually know about
it. He also believes that customers are the most
important asset in the world to someone involved
in sales. And casinos are selling, selling
gambling.
The mentioned casinos should soul search and
question if our three letter writers have
already told 250 people. Can they afford to have
clientele leave sore and unsatisfied? Can they
afford to jeopardize the patronage of any
customer, even the low roller? Worst case
scenario: Disgruntled patrons might tell me, and
I'll take those pillaging casinos to task in the
dozens of newspapers that this column appears in
across the country.
The bottom line; it's only through established
competition that payouts on all games become
more liberal. It's your choice; continue getting
mugged or "just say no" to gambling in these
joints.
Dear Mark,
I recently saw a video poker game that drew
cards from five different decks. The top jackpot
at the time was $223,500. Do you know anything
about this game? Janice J.
Called Five Deck Frenzy, this game has earned a
following among video poker enthusiasts who
enjoy the super jackpot produced by the game's
use of five independent decks of cards. With
random card delivery, the game also provides
more winning combinations than standard video
poker. Marketed jointly between Shuffle Master
and IGT, it uses IGT's MegaJackpot format, a
wide area progressive system that offers a
progressive jackpot starting at $200,000. The
top hand possible in the game-five aces of
spades.
Though casinos can offer video poker jackpots
starting at $200,000, the probability of hitting
five aces of spades is 14,896,150 to one. Hit
five bullets in another suit and the jackpot
drops down to $2,500.
Also note, Janice, you can't dash out and buy a
new Ferrari if you achieve gaming immortality.
IGT primary jackpots are paid in annual
installments.
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