Black Hawk – Tina Coleman has seen gamblers plop miniBuddhas, rubber pigs, stuffed animals and photos of dead parents and pets on slot machines for good luck.
“I think it’s a lot of hooey,” said Coleman, a customer-service representative at Bull Durham Casino. If superstition is in fact hooey, then the substance oozed Saturday – the seventh day of the seventh month of the millennium’s seventh year.
Slot machines guzzled patrons’ money on one of the busiest Saturdays in at least a couple years, some casino managers said. “Seven-seven-seven sounds good when you say it really fast, but it doesn’t mean nothing to me,” said Joe Sell of South Park.
Aurora resident Carl Norman sat at an Isle of Capri penny slot, methodically punching the keys. He’s not superstitious, either.
“You have to have something to hold on to,” he said of the hope behind superstition, and, for that matter, prayer and religion.
The so-called luckiest day of the century brought in about 50 percent more business than a typical Saturday at Black Hawk Station, said Cindy Brock, a casino manager.
Nationwide, triple the number of weddings were set to take place Saturday than on July 7, 2006, according to. “If you’re that superstitious,” Norman said, “I don’t think your marriage is going to work.”
Staff writer Vimal Patel can be reached at 303-954-1638 or vpatel@denverpost.com.
