Thanks for that list. Printing it and will keep it with my stuff to do and get in June.

I have read of the unwillingness of some casinos to sell them from the cage. That is a bit frustrating I guess. As for the person who said they won a jackpot, Did you tell them I don't want the $1000 I just want a Silver Strike.

Just Kidding of course. Some machines are set very tight and are a rip off. Others seem a little loose. I have found those at the airport. I guess they might figure that you aren't going to cash them in so they can give them to you cheaper. Gives you the illusion that you are winning big when the tokens have a value of $10 and you win a few. However they don't cost them nearly that much and the most of them never get redeemed. They end up in your pocket on the way home. I have redeemed some though and they gladly and easilly will give you face for them.

Another place I used to get them easilly is The Orleans. They had 2 machines on the floor. One was real easy. I could put $20 into the machine and walk away with 1 or 2 easilly. The other machine, which I think, is the machine that still exhists, was harder. I could put $40 into it and get nothing. At the airport I put $10 into a machine several years ago and got about 7 tokens in about 15 minutes. A couple years ago I put in $20 and got nothing. Last year I got 3 out of a machine for $40. In general though I have found, on average, that I would be able to win one token for $20. Sometimes I win a couple and others I might have to go to $40. As is the case last trip at the airport. I had lost $20 with nothing and opted to try another. On the second $20 I hit for 3 of them. I usually won't go more than $40 in a single machine before I call it quits. As I said, I usually get at leas one on a $20. If it doesn't pay anything by then I consider it a dud machine.

A suggestion here for those in the casino industry that might have some pull in this area. One machine at McCarran had a foam pad inside the chip tray. Nothing fancy. It was just a piece of padding, like what you would use under your carpet, that was cut to fit in the bottom of the tray. When a token dropped it would hit the soft pad and be ok. I have had many tokens come out of machines out of their capsules or in cracked plastic holders when they hit the tray and the protector shattered.