Late Nov TR
Background- it's that time again. Fully a month has elapsed since my last trip. Set this one up pretty much as soon as I got back in Oct. There's a freeroll slot tournament with first place being up to 45k in free credit, and an additional drawing element where first is 22.5k in free credit. I've got the time, got the run good, so let's do this!
Pretty much as soon as I arranged this trip, the doomswitch activated at the local casino. I think I went 3 times in Nov, and got crushed each time. Just could not make a hand, spin poker in particular took money lightning fast, 2k losers turned into 4k, etc. Just enough to make me super gunshy prior to this trip. I've still got plenty on me, but as I said earlier paradoxically having more I can lose makes me realize
I've got more to lose. Ugh.
I'm bringing 30k with me. I got in on a Thurs, with plans to stay until Monday around lunchtime. Other than the slot tourney and gamble, only thing on the agenda is meeting up with Gobbo on Friday for dinner. Should be a good time. Here we go!
Day 1
I get off work fairly early, and start receiving updates on my flight very soon after- delayed due to the rain. Uh oh. I've seen this before. My flight gets pushed back more and more, and pretty soon I'm looking at the other, earlier flights to see how they're doing. Weird- a flight leaving at 5:30 isn't getting delayed at all, but meanwhile my flight now has me getting in close to 11p. That's unacceptable- quickly check and for a pittance more I can change to the earlier flight, AND now be business select. No brainer. I make the change, quickly pack and off I go.
At the SD airport. So excited.
Headed to the Wynn- SO EXCITED!
I love the holiday decorations.
I've got a regular room again, no need for more.
Pretty standard welcoming gift from the host.
Basically as soon as I put my stuff down, I grab money and head downstairs. I've got to earn 30k points by Sunday, 9am to qualify for the top tier of prizes in the tournament and the giveaway- should be a snap given I earned over 50k pts last time.
Starting pts.
This time, I start off with spin poker. No need to screw around with what WERE my usual machines- short of being dealt monsters or running insanely well, the potential for massive hits just isn't there like it is with spin. On top of that, my usual machines were SO cold last trip.
1k gone. 2. 3. 4k. I seem to be rapidly approaching the first night stop loss of 5k. Pick up a few good draws but can't get there. I'm seeing the negative variance of spin for sure. I end up 5k down and of course don't stop- it's the first night after all!
I make this pretty much as soon as I kept going past 5k. Thank god!!! I'm up!
Switch the 10 and 3 and I make another 4AWAK as opposed to just 4 aces- two lines run through there.
Emboldened by that hit, I step up to 12 lines total. 12 lines basically means trip draw hits will create 4 hands rather than 3. Of course, the doomswitch reactivates and pretty soon I'm stuck again.
Switch to the other spin machine- no good. Try switching to a third one, but the screen is messed up and I can't even select my game. Head to my usual- same old ice. Rinse, repeat.
At some point I'm down 5k again. Stupidly keep going, and I'm down 7k. I KNOW I should go to bed, but this can't just keep going, can it? I literally was up over 1k what seems like a second ago, and I know I can erase this with just one more hit.
It's not to be. End up stuck 9k and come to my senses. I don't think I've ever had a first day so devoid of pictures. I'm really worried how these next few days are going to go- at the current rate, I'm not even going to make it until Monday...
Day 1 result- -9k
Note about bringing 30k- intellectually I think I know on some level just how fast I could lose at spin if it's cold, hence I brought more money. The runbad at the local was certainly confirmation. So while I'm prepared to lose more than usual, I know it's really going to piss me off if so. Let's hope I don't need the money...