Oh, Esther... I doubt that the casinos are doing anything different about their layouts to "hinder our card harvesting efforts." They are just trying to liven up the appearance of the machines a little with snazzy lights and bells on the tops to attract the eye of the wandering gambler. And a lot of machines with a narrow top edge (like the ones at Nevada Palace come to mind) have a plastic unit mounted on top with a triangle cross-section, so nothing can be put up on top. The reason isn't so that people won't put cards up there -- it's all the other junk people pile on the machine tops. I bet what they really want to get an end to is people parking their drinks up on that edge. A spilled half a glass of beer or soda can't do the inards of the machine very good! Plus the broken glass of the floor! Yikes! You just have to accept that there are places where you won't get rows of video poker machines where you can look down a long row of machine tops and spot cards twenty feet away. There were places where I could not find much on the machines this trip, but others I did, and all the places I could at least get a couple of new cards issued in my name at the booth. We just have to keep looking. And eat your supper so you grow up big and TALL!