REGGIE

A GUEST AUTHOR’s HARVEST STORY

RED EARTH CASINO SALTON CITY, CA

By: Steve Gobel

As long as I'd gone all the way down to the Augustine, I figured I might as well go see the Red Earth Casino, down by the Salton Sea. I fell in love with this little joint! Unlike Fantasy Rip Off Springs and Moron-go these folks were genuinely interested in having you stop in their place! Got the slot card and needed to earn 3 points to get $10 in free slot play. Reasonable. I thought. After giving me the card, the lady at the club desk asked if I'd like a bottle of water "Yes, Please". She ducked in the back and brought forth a half frozen bottle of water! Boy, was that refreshing in 110 degree heat. She and I started talking, told her I was a collector... she said they has some t-shirts that they'd been giving out, Would I like one? But she only had size 4x left. I'm a 3x, and when it comes to those sizes, not much difference between wearing a 3 man tent and a 4 man tent. I went looking around for "the Machine" that wouldn't lie to me about giving off the vibe that it was getting ready to pay off. Found it! Put in $5 and pretty soon I had $11+. I went back to the nice lady to see if I'd racked up 3 points for free play. Nope, not yet she said. The heck with the free play, I'm taking doubling my money in a slot and running. She and I talked some more, and she said that they had some of the old chips in the back, even though they'd not had table games in 4 or 5 years. I was hoping she'd have a $5 or a $25, but came back with a 50 center that I already had, and besides she said they told her that they were not letting go of any of the chips, even for full face value. So I went back to my hot machine and put in a dollar to work it down to 1c for a take home TITO. Well, the dang machine kept paying off, I kept cashing out and putting in another dollar to try again. LMAO at the concept that I was trying to LOOSE money and the machine wouldn't let me do that. If only I'd been playing quarters!!! I could have dang near paid for my whole trip Still, it was a great way to end the gambling portion of my vacation !