One Seven (Conclusion) Monopolisto Man Makes A Small Mint and Heads for Vegas

All but one of the income bearing clusters are unavailable to Mr. Coffee. The available one is the cheapest cluster of two, should he fill it out. The cluster available to our hero is the most expensive pair, of which he now owns one.

Monopolisto Man now has more money than Mr. Coffee. As day four progresses we shall see what we shall see.

As the contest becomes more defined things happen quicker. Mr. Coffee soon had his pair of cheap spots and revved them up to income-bearing speed. But they were no match for the service spots that MM had in abundance and in due time our hero manages to obtain the most expensive pair of properties.

The contest continues but the end is clear. It is clean up from here.

Could Mr. Coffee had won. Only if there had been no payments made to our hero and if our hero had made substantial payments due to being detained and requiring several million time after time.

As things stand, with five services and the two most extensive properties in hand it is looking like time to turn the vise a bit to bring abut a quick and merciful to the contest.

The end has come. Mr. Coffee refused all of MM's trade offers. There was a truce offered  and accepted. But Monopolisto Man had already determined that the valley was not for him. There were high stakes to be won in some of the world's prime gambling venues. He counted it good fortune to have had such games as these, streaks interrupted by an occasional loss. He realized that in a gambling venue the chances fell because of some inherent nudge within gambling itself. He could not explain it but it was real. Conceding it he purchased Mr. Coffee's Caddy with a portion of his profits and exulted in the cool evening Mojave air as he ducked Death Valley on the way to Searchlight and beyond. He would go back to Binions. Even with the new ownership it would always remain a home of sorts.