dolphiNny5's ongoing TR w/ pics!
12-05-2015
, 02:42 PM
12-07-2015
, 12:43 PM
12-07-2015
, 07:03 PM
Nice trip report ! Always tough to gamble when you have the wife/GF along for the trip. I always find I can't get enough free time to put in a good 4+ hour poker session.
So off to the pit it is
A pretty decent game to play that won't kill the $$ quick, is to play some Jacks or Better video poker. It takes a minimal amount of time to learn strategy and has a much higher return then slots etc.
So off to the pit it is
A pretty decent game to play that won't kill the $$ quick, is to play some Jacks or Better video poker. It takes a minimal amount of time to learn strategy and has a much higher return then slots etc.
12-08-2015
, 02:29 PM
Quote:
Nice trip report ! Always tough to gamble when you have the wife/GF along for the trip. I always find I can't get enough free time to put in a good 4+ hour poker session.
So off to the pit it is A pretty decent game to play that won't kill the $$ quick, is to play some Jacks or Better video poker. It takes a minimal amount of time to learn strategy and has a much higher return then slots etc.
So off to the pit it is
A pretty decent game to play that won't kill the $$ quick, is to play some Jacks or Better video poker. It takes a minimal amount of time to learn strategy and has a much higher return then slots etc.
12-09-2015
, 01:28 PM
Saturday
Woke up early today again around 8AM as I love gambling during this time. It is way more quieter, less busy, and I tend to run good in the mornings!
Calm before the storm
Had an OK dice session probably up around +$300. It is now 11AM and I decided to check up on the wife. She is just getting ready so I head back down again to play more craps. This time is it a lot busier but I had a breakeven session.
We decided to eat light since we are going to the Bucchanal Buffet at the Caesers tonight. I decided to take my wife to try White Castle since she has never tried it before. It was about a 15-20 minute walk from PHo to Casino Royale. It always surprises me how different this casino is........it really feels like we are just back at home and now even in Vegas when we step into Best Western Casino Royale.
Lineup at WhiteCastle is pretty long....
After that we decided to do casino hopping and played slots at different casinos and this is when my wife found a $50 bill in her wallet. Yes, she is aware of the $50 juju which I didn't believe on our last trip in Xmas 2014. Well, guess what.........this is the start of our run bad.......like real real bad! We probably spent about $500 on slots in the next 2 hours and literally hit only 1 or 2 bonuses. It was insanely frustrating! My wife's favourite slot is the "Goldfish" one (pic below). We spent about $200 on that machine ($1.50 per spin) and got NO bonus whereas the girl beside us got 9 bonuses in that short time we were there.....yes I was counting.
Pic from google search
Well we decided to take a break and go check out the coke store as we missed that on our last trip. Our friends told us that we need to check out the Taste of the world thing at coke store so we decided to do that. We thought it waas going to be "Cola" around the world but in fact it was just different unique coke products around the world.
And after that it was time to meet up with my parents at the Bucchanal Buffet (my all time favourite buffet place in the world!). Needless to say I was pretty excited and I definitely hyped it up for my parents and my wife. It turned out to be just as good as I remembered it in my trip during WSOP. I just LOVE that buffet place and will go back every single trip! However, it is pretty expensive at $65/person but well worth it!
Plate 1 of 4....but thats all the pics I have...
Dinner was great! We had a good time and my parents and wife said that it lived up to the hype! Perfect! Decided to stroll back to PHo and try some craps.....well the bad juju continued and just kept 7ing out and wife kept losing in slots! Decided to call it a night at around 1AM since we have an early flight back home tomorrow.
Sunday
Last day and we have to catch a flight at 2PM so it pretty much is a written off day. I woke up at 9am and got ready by 9:30am. Decided to once again throw some dice for an hour or 2 before we have to check out. This session I was maybe up +$200. Had a quick brunch at the PHo Spice Garden and then checked out. Went to my host to see if she can do anything about our room charges which I put everything on it including Earl of Sandwich purchases. The total charges was $700 which consisted mainly from the Bucchanal buffet and the show tickets to Mat Franco. My host decided to comp us and took care of the charges based on our play. We did play alot as we are now 5,000 points shy of Diamond Aspiration 1 (40,000 tier credit to reach it). Well I guess that's our rungood for this trip.
Was a little late getting to the airport. Aimed to get there at 12PM but we got there at 12:15PM instead and our flight back to Canada is at 2PM. Right when we were about to check in we realized that we forgot our passports and cash in our safe!! Well as you can imagine, we are both panicking! We ran back out to the drop off area to catch a cab but they told us they can't pick us up......we have to go to the arrival area to catch a cab.......seriously!? If you don't know it's about a 10 minute walk from 1 area to the other. Tried to offer the guy a big tip but he wouldn't take it. So we ran to the arrival area, caught a cab (thank god there was no lineup) and told the cab driver of what happened. I told him the cab driver we NEED to get back to the airport by 12:45PM. In the cab, I called my host and she told me she has my room key ready and I can hop back to my room ASAP. Got the room key, went to the safe took out the passports and cash and hop back into the same cab. We got to the airport at 12:50PM.
Well luckily for us because it's Thanksgiving, the line at the airport custom was short and we got to our gate at 1:15PM and boarding time was 1:20PM. I count that as another rungood for this trip. It was supposed to be a boring day which turned into a panic filled adventurous day I guess but glad we didn't have to miss our flight!
We had tons of fun this trip and we are booked to be back out on December 24-28th which is in about 2 weeks! Overall this trip, we were down -$2,000 in gambling mostly due to the horrible run on Saturday but I count it as an "even" trip since our charges of $700 + suite for 3 nights ($450 x 3) were comped.
That's it for now! Looking forward to continuing this TR in couple of weeks for our Xmas trip! Thanks again for following this thread and I will make sure to deliver more updates and more pictures for our next trip!
Woke up early today again around 8AM as I love gambling during this time. It is way more quieter, less busy, and I tend to run good in the mornings!
Calm before the storm
Had an OK dice session probably up around +$300. It is now 11AM and I decided to check up on the wife. She is just getting ready so I head back down again to play more craps. This time is it a lot busier but I had a breakeven session.
We decided to eat light since we are going to the Bucchanal Buffet at the Caesers tonight. I decided to take my wife to try White Castle since she has never tried it before. It was about a 15-20 minute walk from PHo to Casino Royale. It always surprises me how different this casino is........it really feels like we are just back at home and now even in Vegas when we step into Best Western Casino Royale.
Lineup at WhiteCastle is pretty long....
After that we decided to do casino hopping and played slots at different casinos and this is when my wife found a $50 bill in her wallet. Yes, she is aware of the $50 juju which I didn't believe on our last trip in Xmas 2014. Well, guess what.........this is the start of our run bad.......like real real bad! We probably spent about $500 on slots in the next 2 hours and literally hit only 1 or 2 bonuses. It was insanely frustrating! My wife's favourite slot is the "Goldfish" one (pic below). We spent about $200 on that machine ($1.50 per spin) and got NO bonus whereas the girl beside us got 9 bonuses in that short time we were there.....yes I was counting.
Pic from google search
Well we decided to take a break and go check out the coke store as we missed that on our last trip. Our friends told us that we need to check out the Taste of the world thing at coke store so we decided to do that. We thought it waas going to be "Cola" around the world but in fact it was just different unique coke products around the world.
And after that it was time to meet up with my parents at the Bucchanal Buffet (my all time favourite buffet place in the world!). Needless to say I was pretty excited and I definitely hyped it up for my parents and my wife. It turned out to be just as good as I remembered it in my trip during WSOP. I just LOVE that buffet place and will go back every single trip! However, it is pretty expensive at $65/person but well worth it!
Plate 1 of 4....but thats all the pics I have...
Dinner was great! We had a good time and my parents and wife said that it lived up to the hype! Perfect! Decided to stroll back to PHo and try some craps.....well the bad juju continued and just kept 7ing out and wife kept losing in slots! Decided to call it a night at around 1AM since we have an early flight back home tomorrow.
Sunday
Last day and we have to catch a flight at 2PM so it pretty much is a written off day. I woke up at 9am and got ready by 9:30am. Decided to once again throw some dice for an hour or 2 before we have to check out. This session I was maybe up +$200. Had a quick brunch at the PHo Spice Garden and then checked out. Went to my host to see if she can do anything about our room charges which I put everything on it including Earl of Sandwich purchases. The total charges was $700 which consisted mainly from the Bucchanal buffet and the show tickets to Mat Franco. My host decided to comp us and took care of the charges based on our play. We did play alot as we are now 5,000 points shy of Diamond Aspiration 1 (40,000 tier credit to reach it). Well I guess that's our rungood for this trip.
Was a little late getting to the airport. Aimed to get there at 12PM but we got there at 12:15PM instead and our flight back to Canada is at 2PM. Right when we were about to check in we realized that we forgot our passports and cash in our safe!! Well as you can imagine, we are both panicking! We ran back out to the drop off area to catch a cab but they told us they can't pick us up......we have to go to the arrival area to catch a cab.......seriously!? If you don't know it's about a 10 minute walk from 1 area to the other. Tried to offer the guy a big tip but he wouldn't take it. So we ran to the arrival area, caught a cab (thank god there was no lineup) and told the cab driver of what happened. I told him the cab driver we NEED to get back to the airport by 12:45PM. In the cab, I called my host and she told me she has my room key ready and I can hop back to my room ASAP. Got the room key, went to the safe took out the passports and cash and hop back into the same cab. We got to the airport at 12:50PM.
Well luckily for us because it's Thanksgiving, the line at the airport custom was short and we got to our gate at 1:15PM and boarding time was 1:20PM. I count that as another rungood for this trip. It was supposed to be a boring day which turned into a panic filled adventurous day I guess but glad we didn't have to miss our flight!
We had tons of fun this trip and we are booked to be back out on December 24-28th which is in about 2 weeks! Overall this trip, we were down -$2,000 in gambling mostly due to the horrible run on Saturday but I count it as an "even" trip since our charges of $700 + suite for 3 nights ($450 x 3) were comped.
That's it for now! Looking forward to continuing this TR in couple of weeks for our Xmas trip! Thanks again for following this thread and I will make sure to deliver more updates and more pictures for our next trip!
12-09-2015
, 03:40 PM
12-09-2015
, 05:03 PM
12-10-2015
, 12:46 AM
Quote:
Well we decided to take a break and go check out the coke store as we missed that on our last trip. Our friends told us that we need to check out the Taste of the world thing at coke store so we decided to do that. We thought it waas going to be "Cola" around the world but in fact it was just different unique coke products around the world.
You have to not let your wallet or any money it touched to air out for a few days so the bad luck evaporates. I was cashing out $450 one night and the cage was about to give me a fifty and I yelled out before she put it on top of the stack of hundos. I didn't want it to stain my good money.
Last edited by pig4bill; 12-10-2015 at 12:53 AM.
12-10-2015
, 04:01 AM
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, 01:46 PM
12-13-2015
, 08:43 PM
12-17-2015
, 02:23 PM
12-24-2015
, 03:43 AM
Leaving tomorrow or rather later today for our Christmas poker trip! This trip I will try yet again to post more pictures and document our trip better! Will start off as usual my roll pic!
12-24-2015
, 05:12 AM
12-24-2015
, 07:21 PM
Getting ready to board
12-25-2015
, 12:26 AM
Landed and this is my favourite sign that we can finally relax and have fun!
Got a limo from my host at PHo
Our room a strip suite
View from our room
Having our dinner at BurGR
And a beer to start off the trip...
Decided to go with the hell kitchen burger
And a side of truffle fries
Got a limo from my host at PHo
Our room a strip suite
View from our room
Having our dinner at BurGR
And a beer to start off the trip...
Decided to go with the hell kitchen burger
And a side of truffle fries
