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            <p><b><font color="#CC0033" size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Frugal 
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              Jean Scott</font><b><font size="3" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br>
              </font></b><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><b><font size="3">A 
              Q&amp;A on TV, VP and MBA's</font><br>
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            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Q: 
              We saw you and Brad on &quot;Dateline.&quot; You both looked good, 
              but was everything they said on that show really true?</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">A: 
              Every time Brad and I appear on TV, we get a flood of mail&#150;e-mail 
              and snail. And we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone 
              who says such complimentary things. It makes us feel that we have 
              friends all over the country. That is my definition of being lucky&#150;and 
              we are two very lucky people.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">&#9;No, 
              not everything that was said on the show was exactly accurate. A 
              little background here. The &quot;Dateline&quot; crew filmed us 
              for two 12-hour days. They seemed very committed to portraying our 
              lives realistically.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">&#9;However, 
              none of the crew knew very much about casinos and gambling. I tried 
              to give them as many details as I could so they could produce a 
              balanced picture, but the glamorous stuff always impresses more 
              than all the study and VP schedules. So, when they took all that 
              film and cut and mixed it until they got the 10 minutes to be aired, 
              some details came out, well, not quite right.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">&#9;No, 
              we don&#146;t &quot;make a living&quot; gambling. Brad receives 
              a pension that would allow us to live comfortably if we never went 
              into a casino and we have savings and investments from a lifetime 
              of frugality. However, we do play in the casinos about 80 hours 
              a month (the total for the two of us). Because we&#146;ve learned 
              to use the comp system wisely, we don&#146;t have to spend much 
              of our own money for food, entertainment, gifts and many other expenses. 
              So comps allow us to have a champagne lifestyle on a beer budget.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">&#9;And, 
              no, we didn&#146;t buy our condo with the money from one giant jackpot. 
              We had a couple of years when we were fortunate to enjoy long stretches 
              at the good end of the winning/losing curve, but it was still won 
              the way we always win&#150;grinding it out over a long period of 
              time.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Q: 
              The program showed you enjoying luxury comps. How did you get them 
              by playing only quarter video poker?</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">A: 
              Their description that we play $1.25 a hand for a total of $600 
              per hour came from my describing how we started out our first few 
              years at video poker. Yes, we got lots of comps back then, but the 
              upscale comps they showed us enjoying at the Venetian came from 
              our more recent level of play&#150;on dollar Triple Play and Five 
              Play machines&#150;at $15&#151;$25 a hand. If you looked closely, 
              you could see us feeding hundred dollar bills into the machine.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Q: 
              Do you get paid for being on shows like &quot;Dateline&quot; and 
              others you have done?</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">A: 
              I was paid money for being on one TV show, &quot;To Tell the Truth,&quot; 
              where I was like any other guest. The three &quot;Jean Scotts&quot; 
              split $2,000 because we fooled only two on the panel; my share was 
              a whopping $666.66. I haven&#146;t been paid for filming any other 
              show. However, even though we spend many long days with TV film 
              crews, don&#146;t feel sorry for Brad and me. After our &quot;Dateline&quot; 
              segment, The Frugal Gambler shot to #2 on amazon.com and is now 
              in its fourth printing.</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Q: 
              Do you think that the widespread publicity given The Frugal Gambler 
              and other gambling resources will make it harder for the skilled 
              video poker player?</font></p>
            <p><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">A: 
              This issue has been debated for many years now. The debate began 
              long before my book came out. First it was with blackjack and card 
              counting; lately it&#146;s been about video poker. It&#146;s true 
              that casinos do take countermeasures when they see their bottom 
              line adversely affected by skilled players; there has been a steadily 
              decreasing number of good video poker opportunities for the dollar-and-up 
              player. However, this hasn&#146;t been a problem for the recreational 
              quarter VP player, especially in Las Vegas. It seems that when one 
              casino takes out full pay Deuces Wild, another casino or two puts 
              them in.</font></p>
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