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A Columbia County Boy's Recollections and Memories of Columbia County Florida (2012) Lenvil H. Dicks

sizzling 7’s too. It seemed that I could not lose on that trip, but that is usually vastly different from the
way it usually is.

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On my 80 birthday, 3 Vz years ago from when I am setting this down, I went into Boom Town Casino,
which is one of the smaller casinos, and with the intention of playing a 10 time pay machine. I went to
the place where the 10 time pay machine had been the last time I was there, and could not find it, so 1
asked an attendant where they had moved it to. The attendant showed me where it was, in another room
of the casino, and Happy Jack was with me when this happened. It was a 3 coin machine, so I put S3.00
in it and spun the reels. I repeated this until I had spun the reel 6 times, at which time two 10 pay
symbols and a red 7 rolled up, and that just happens to be a S15,000.00 win.

The attendant came and took my social security card and my picture ID and left to go fill out the
paperwork for Uncle Sam on that win, and while 1 was waiting for him to bring the money back I moved
down close to where Jack was playing and started playing on a 12 time machine. It kept giving me
smaller wins, but no jackpots, but kept building credits in a regular manner. 1 turned around to Jack and
said, “Jack watch this machine, because I am going to hit something big on it, I just feel it.”

Not more than 2 or 3 spins later, it rolled up two 12 time pay symbols and red 7, which paid 517,400.00.

Therefore, within a 10 minute period I had won 532,400.00 on two dollar machines, and the odds of any
one person doing that almost back to back are probably one in several million, but it happened.

It was if the Lord had looked down and said “Happy Birthday Lenvil, but don’t count on this.”

Sure enough, for the next several times I went to the casinos I won hardly nothing at all, but 1 still
believe 1 am maybe just a little bit ahead.

Beadie also loves to go to the casinos, but we have cut way back on going due to the fact that I feel the
casinos are feeling the recession too, and they are trying to make it up by cutting back on what the slot
machines pay off. I have not been able to win hardly anything at all in the last couple of years, and until
this recession is over, I may not go back.

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