Ongoing video poker "TR", how long will this last?
10-23-2020
, 02:09 PM
Oct Vegas TR
So this trip happened a couple of weeks ago. I've been pretty busy at work and this is the first chance I've had to do a write up.
Backstory-
The trip sort of fell into my lap, to be honest. We were hanging out with friends that our kids are in the same pod with and they asked if we'd been back to Vegas since COVID. I was literally days away from my Sept trip so of course told them all about it. That got their Vegas fever going, and soon enough we had booked an Oct trip. For them, it's a weekend getaway without their daughter. For us, I always knew I was bringing my kids. They haven't been since July and this would be my 4th trip back since the reopen. Seemed a little unfair to book yet another trip without them, and it's probably the last chance to use the pool and cabana in 2020 for us.
Agenda-
- get in LATE Thurs. Between SW reducing flights and my work, the only flight I could get has us getting in at 8p. We've got a late dinner at Elio booked (first for my friends and kids, 3rd for me, 2nd for wife).
- Fri- kids have virtual school and wife has work. I'll be gambling, then take kids to NYNY. Early dinner at Kabuto, no kids.
- Sat- cabana, dinner at Costa di Mare.
- Sun- early flight home
Bankroll- 30k
Day 1
Departing SD airport is smooth.
Does this count as a shoe pic?
Haven't arrived at Terminal B in a long time, feels weird.
Headed to the Wynn.
Kids have a regular room, double beds.
Parlor suite for me and the wife.
We have to hurry and get changed to hoof it over to the Encore/Elio.
The bar at Elio.
We've met up with our friends and they're very excited. I let our friends pick most of the food since they've never been. My youngest will eat pretty much anything and my oldest, although far less adventurous, still has a much more refined palate than most people. He'll be fine.
Oysters. Didn't eat. Let's just say I had the worst food poisoning ever from oysters back in 2005 and the only time I've eaten them raw since then was at Kabuto, ironically, in 2017.
Seared tuna, 6/10.
Cucumber salad, 6/10 but added some freshness to an overall heavy meal.
Wish I could remember exactly what this was, tataki? 8/10.
Truffle tostada, just as good as last time, 9/10.
Kampachi with "tiger's milk". 6/10 like last time. It's a cool concept but not particularly tasty when you get right down to it.
Something with beans, I don't think I even got to try this. Meh not a fan of beans anyways.
Lamb barbacoa, 8/10.
Seabass, 8/10.
Pineapple tart, 7/10.
Churros, 8/10.
Overall, a good meal as expected. I think I was the least happy with everything simply bc I've been 3 times in as many trips. The kids are fading fast and have school tomorrow, so wife takes them upstairs. It's basically 11pm so she's done for the night as well. Friends also head up to bed, and I finally settle in for VP close to midnight. Plan is to not stay up too late, and hopefully start off on fire! I'm acutely aware I am 5/5 for trips in 2020. This very well may be my last trip in 2020, and if I can book a winner... I'll be 6/6, a perfect unbroken streak over a year of pretty hardcore play. I know how unlikely that is at the outset, but I'm nearly there!
I lead with the exact opposite start that I needed. It's icy, and I'm 4k into the 5k I gave myself to lose the first night. The machine finally redeems itself with dealt quads!
These aren't the quads you're looking for.
At least I've broken the seal. After that, it's back to ice, which of course means I'll turn a pair of 8s into quads twice.
Finally see a lightning strike but it's too late.
It's interesting how when you run bad, they really find a way to stick the knife in. Regular quads 3/10 spots!
Stick knife, part 2.
I blast way past my stopping point of 5k and am now 7k stuck. In desperation, I fire 1k free credit at the machine before I resolve to go upstairs.
Start.
End. About 80% payback.
I fire that money off as well before I head up. It's about 2am. Stuck 7k. Tomorrow is going to be PAINFUL. REALLY, REALLY not what I was looking for.
Day 1 result- -7k
Day 2 coming soon...
So this trip happened a couple of weeks ago. I've been pretty busy at work and this is the first chance I've had to do a write up.
Backstory-
The trip sort of fell into my lap, to be honest. We were hanging out with friends that our kids are in the same pod with and they asked if we'd been back to Vegas since COVID. I was literally days away from my Sept trip so of course told them all about it. That got their Vegas fever going, and soon enough we had booked an Oct trip. For them, it's a weekend getaway without their daughter. For us, I always knew I was bringing my kids. They haven't been since July and this would be my 4th trip back since the reopen. Seemed a little unfair to book yet another trip without them, and it's probably the last chance to use the pool and cabana in 2020 for us.
Agenda-
- get in LATE Thurs. Between SW reducing flights and my work, the only flight I could get has us getting in at 8p. We've got a late dinner at Elio booked (first for my friends and kids, 3rd for me, 2nd for wife).
- Fri- kids have virtual school and wife has work. I'll be gambling, then take kids to NYNY. Early dinner at Kabuto, no kids.
- Sat- cabana, dinner at Costa di Mare.
- Sun- early flight home
Bankroll- 30k
Day 1
Departing SD airport is smooth.
Does this count as a shoe pic?
Haven't arrived at Terminal B in a long time, feels weird.
Headed to the Wynn.
Kids have a regular room, double beds.
Parlor suite for me and the wife.
We have to hurry and get changed to hoof it over to the Encore/Elio.
The bar at Elio.
We've met up with our friends and they're very excited. I let our friends pick most of the food since they've never been. My youngest will eat pretty much anything and my oldest, although far less adventurous, still has a much more refined palate than most people. He'll be fine.
Oysters. Didn't eat. Let's just say I had the worst food poisoning ever from oysters back in 2005 and the only time I've eaten them raw since then was at Kabuto, ironically, in 2017.
Seared tuna, 6/10.
Cucumber salad, 6/10 but added some freshness to an overall heavy meal.
Wish I could remember exactly what this was, tataki? 8/10.
Truffle tostada, just as good as last time, 9/10.
Kampachi with "tiger's milk". 6/10 like last time. It's a cool concept but not particularly tasty when you get right down to it.
Something with beans, I don't think I even got to try this. Meh not a fan of beans anyways.
Lamb barbacoa, 8/10.
Seabass, 8/10.
Pineapple tart, 7/10.
Churros, 8/10.
Overall, a good meal as expected. I think I was the least happy with everything simply bc I've been 3 times in as many trips. The kids are fading fast and have school tomorrow, so wife takes them upstairs. It's basically 11pm so she's done for the night as well. Friends also head up to bed, and I finally settle in for VP close to midnight. Plan is to not stay up too late, and hopefully start off on fire! I'm acutely aware I am 5/5 for trips in 2020. This very well may be my last trip in 2020, and if I can book a winner... I'll be 6/6, a perfect unbroken streak over a year of pretty hardcore play. I know how unlikely that is at the outset, but I'm nearly there!
I lead with the exact opposite start that I needed. It's icy, and I'm 4k into the 5k I gave myself to lose the first night. The machine finally redeems itself with dealt quads!
Spoiler:
These aren't the quads you're looking for.
At least I've broken the seal. After that, it's back to ice, which of course means I'll turn a pair of 8s into quads twice.
Finally see a lightning strike but it's too late.
It's interesting how when you run bad, they really find a way to stick the knife in. Regular quads 3/10 spots!
Stick knife, part 2.
I blast way past my stopping point of 5k and am now 7k stuck. In desperation, I fire 1k free credit at the machine before I resolve to go upstairs.
Start.
End. About 80% payback.
I fire that money off as well before I head up. It's about 2am. Stuck 7k. Tomorrow is going to be PAINFUL. REALLY, REALLY not what I was looking for.
Day 1 result- -7k
Day 2 coming soon...
10-23-2020
, 08:00 PM
Day 2
I wake up at 7am exhausted. I reason I'll be able to take a nap at some point today...
Head downstairs for coffee and my usual pre-breakfast session. We're going to do room service since the kids and wife will need to start work after we're doing eating.
My usual is occupied, so I head to an old school machine.
Good start.
Not getting it done. Still haven't made a 4k hand yet.
"redealt" quads. F you.
The usual opens up, and I move over.
OK, things are starting to come around!
AND... I'm unstuck!
Break the royal seal early!
Duh. "Redealt quads" AGAIN!
That, ladies and gentlemen, was simply a kickass session. I think I was 13K positive, so now I'm up 6k for the trip! I think this answers the question of "do I always run cold pre-breakfast" and of course the answer is no. There's no rhyme or reason to this game.
I'm in a much better mood now (if still tired). Grab a good breakfast (forgot pics), but wife manages to get basically everything wrong, which is probably why I forgot the pics. As she puts it, "eggs are eggs", and she's probably right, but missing two orders of bacon doesn't help. I'm forced to eat more croissant than I wanted to simply to get enough food (was going to try and behave this meal). After breakfast, the rest of the family gets to work, and I head downstairs again.
Where I get pummeled. So, so, so frosty. I have no pics to show, and I can't remember exactly but I believe I went ahead and gave back the entire 6k I was up.
I help the kids with their work for a bit, the head back downstairs in the 30 min break my wife has. Grab a whiskey which takes FOREVER, and dump 1k before
BOOM!
Timing worked out here just perfectly. I finish that short session 3.5k ahead and head back upstairs. I grab a short nap, until I am awoken by sounds of conflict coming from my youngest son and my wife.
Turns out, his teacher emailed us. Work we thought he was getting done? Nope. Assignments turned in? Nope. Once we sort through the tears, we realize he probably had gotten most of the work done but due to poor organizational skills we can't find half of it, and he never submitted the work online so from his teacher's perspective he hadn't done any of it. I realize my afternoon is now booked.
We sit for a few solid hours getting assignments done, getting the quality up, submitting, etc. It's a massive pain in the ass. About halfway through the process, I realize there's no way he's getting this done by end of day today, even if we skip NYNY. So I call it, and tell him that I'm going to email his teacher and beg for mercy (give us until the end of the weekend). Now he's in full-on "I'm getting this SHT done" mode and actually refuses to go to NYNY. I finally manage to convince him- this is going to be their one opportunity to get out of the casino this trip and I don't want him to miss it.
We head to NYNY, his teacher emails me back within 5 min and says that's ok (I knew she would), and as a post-script the kid actually cranked out work later that night, AND Saturday. Hopefully lesson learned, but I ended up proud of his work ethic.
NYNY is the usual. We hit all the normal games and amass our usual large amount of tickets-to-be-converted-to-junk.
Halo, usually 4 player but now with social distancing max is two. That's fine, I'd rather let my kids play and mess around on my phone anyways.
We wait in the prize line FOREVER. Literally, probably 45 min. Picture a single line, families with screaming kids, and one attendant who has at best an 80 IQ. So brutal. In front of us, there is a girl and her dad, and the girl is taking her sweet time on EVERY DECISION. The blue plastic junk or the red? Can I see what else is in the back? No, no I want the prize that literally is so high up on the wall the 80 IQ guy has to go get a ladder from the back to get out... and the line has to move back to make room. Zero social distancing and people are getting REALLY mad. Finally the attendant yells at everyone to move back, give space etc and I say "where the F am I supposed to move? I'm next and completely jammed up by people behind me". The family behind me is cool, they've got 5 kids that are out of control but they start moving back and we know we're in this together. Meanwhile, dad of indecisive girl realizes his girl is the reason the line is stretched around the block and proceeds to... yell at us?!
The dad behind me LOSES it. Literally starts screaming at the dude, telling him he's the problem, he has no business getting upset at us, etc. The other guy, meanwhile, starts puffing out his chest until he realizes a) dad behind me is about a ft taller than him and b) the other 30 people in line are NOT on his side. All of the sudden it's "it's all good bro, it's all good, ya just gotta let the kids choose, ya know?". Wink wink, nice nice. Whatever dude. I actually thought a fight was going to break out there for a second and had already kind of scooted my kids out of the way. So F'ing tilting.
After an eternity, we finally get the hell out of there. We make it back just in time for wife and I to get ready for an early dinner at Kabuto. She's done with work and I tell her I'm done being a dad for a bit. SO tired. SO not how I wanted to spend my Vegas Friday (school work and standing in a line for junk).
Gotta take a pause here. More later.
Day 2 thus far- +10.5k
Overall- +3.5k
I wake up at 7am exhausted. I reason I'll be able to take a nap at some point today...
Head downstairs for coffee and my usual pre-breakfast session. We're going to do room service since the kids and wife will need to start work after we're doing eating.
My usual is occupied, so I head to an old school machine.
Good start.
Not getting it done. Still haven't made a 4k hand yet.
"redealt" quads. F you.
The usual opens up, and I move over.
OK, things are starting to come around!
AND... I'm unstuck!
Break the royal seal early!
Duh. "Redealt quads" AGAIN!
That, ladies and gentlemen, was simply a kickass session. I think I was 13K positive, so now I'm up 6k for the trip! I think this answers the question of "do I always run cold pre-breakfast" and of course the answer is no. There's no rhyme or reason to this game.
I'm in a much better mood now (if still tired). Grab a good breakfast (forgot pics), but wife manages to get basically everything wrong, which is probably why I forgot the pics. As she puts it, "eggs are eggs", and she's probably right, but missing two orders of bacon doesn't help. I'm forced to eat more croissant than I wanted to simply to get enough food (was going to try and behave this meal). After breakfast, the rest of the family gets to work, and I head downstairs again.
Where I get pummeled. So, so, so frosty. I have no pics to show, and I can't remember exactly but I believe I went ahead and gave back the entire 6k I was up.
I help the kids with their work for a bit, the head back downstairs in the 30 min break my wife has. Grab a whiskey which takes FOREVER, and dump 1k beforeBOOM!
Timing worked out here just perfectly. I finish that short session 3.5k ahead and head back upstairs. I grab a short nap, until I am awoken by sounds of conflict coming from my youngest son and my wife.
Turns out, his teacher emailed us. Work we thought he was getting done? Nope. Assignments turned in? Nope. Once we sort through the tears, we realize he probably had gotten most of the work done but due to poor organizational skills we can't find half of it, and he never submitted the work online so from his teacher's perspective he hadn't done any of it. I realize my afternoon is now booked.
We sit for a few solid hours getting assignments done, getting the quality up, submitting, etc. It's a massive pain in the ass. About halfway through the process, I realize there's no way he's getting this done by end of day today, even if we skip NYNY. So I call it, and tell him that I'm going to email his teacher and beg for mercy (give us until the end of the weekend). Now he's in full-on "I'm getting this SHT done" mode and actually refuses to go to NYNY. I finally manage to convince him- this is going to be their one opportunity to get out of the casino this trip and I don't want him to miss it.
We head to NYNY, his teacher emails me back within 5 min and says that's ok (I knew she would), and as a post-script the kid actually cranked out work later that night, AND Saturday. Hopefully lesson learned, but I ended up proud of his work ethic.
NYNY is the usual. We hit all the normal games and amass our usual large amount of tickets-to-be-converted-to-junk.
Halo, usually 4 player but now with social distancing max is two. That's fine, I'd rather let my kids play and mess around on my phone anyways.
We wait in the prize line FOREVER. Literally, probably 45 min. Picture a single line, families with screaming kids, and one attendant who has at best an 80 IQ. So brutal. In front of us, there is a girl and her dad, and the girl is taking her sweet time on EVERY DECISION. The blue plastic junk or the red? Can I see what else is in the back? No, no I want the prize that literally is so high up on the wall the 80 IQ guy has to go get a ladder from the back to get out... and the line has to move back to make room. Zero social distancing and people are getting REALLY mad. Finally the attendant yells at everyone to move back, give space etc and I say "where the F am I supposed to move? I'm next and completely jammed up by people behind me". The family behind me is cool, they've got 5 kids that are out of control but they start moving back and we know we're in this together. Meanwhile, dad of indecisive girl realizes his girl is the reason the line is stretched around the block and proceeds to... yell at us?!
The dad behind me LOSES it. Literally starts screaming at the dude, telling him he's the problem, he has no business getting upset at us, etc. The other guy, meanwhile, starts puffing out his chest until he realizes a) dad behind me is about a ft taller than him and b) the other 30 people in line are NOT on his side. All of the sudden it's "it's all good bro, it's all good, ya just gotta let the kids choose, ya know?". Wink wink, nice nice. Whatever dude. I actually thought a fight was going to break out there for a second and had already kind of scooted my kids out of the way. So F'ing tilting.
After an eternity, we finally get the hell out of there. We make it back just in time for wife and I to get ready for an early dinner at Kabuto. She's done with work and I tell her I'm done being a dad for a bit. SO tired. SO not how I wanted to spend my Vegas Friday (school work and standing in a line for junk).
Gotta take a pause here. More later.
Day 2 thus far- +10.5k
Overall- +3.5k
10-23-2020
, 08:28 PM
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, 04:30 AM
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, 08:17 AM
10-27-2020
, 01:22 PM
Rest of Day 2
We've got the early (5:45pm) seating at Kabuto. Limo departs at 5:15, so I basically have time to get changed etc before we meet up with our friends. The plan for the kids is they stay in the room until we get back, then my wife will take them to Mizumi! WTF- my plan was for them to get room service afterwards, but my wife is nicer than I am, apparently. It does make sense bc my youngest loves Japanese and is bummed he can't go to Kabuto. Oldest is not disappointed, but is still down with teppanyaki grill so that's what they're going to do. We get back from dinner early enough anyways that they'll be time for them- I'll go gamble with my friends afterwards.
Kabuto
An excellent meal, just like last time. Since it's been a few weeks since we had the meal, I'll mostly just post the pics and comment only when meaningful. First time for the wives.
5/10.
7/10- the black paste (seaweed based) is amazing with the fish.
7/10 overall. Generally not a fan of uni, this uni was actually decent for me (which probably means it was amazing).
At least 8/10 on the hand rolls.
The limo back shows up right on time- I'm ready to gamble! We meet up with my kids and wife takes them to dinner. I explain how VP is basically the optimal game to partner on and friends are down. My wife and I have met up with husband friend (HF) here before, I think it was a couple years ago. We only played craps and I believe I was down 20k at that time. It was fun, and he and WF are up for craps as well, but otherwise they don't care. HF's normal game is BJ and roulette, both of which I'm not into. Money wise they're well-off but they gamble very differently than me. Acceptable loss per trip maybe? 1-2k, and I think even that would upset WF. For reference HF won 400$ on slots earlier in the day and he's pretty amped up about that.
So, I explain kind of what they'll be facing and explain we can partner with any percentage. Somewhat to my surprise, HF wants to go 50/50. I reiterate that I fire 1k bullets at a time and that I've dumped 4-5000 in 30 min many times, but he still wants to give it a shot. OK man, don't say I didn't warn you...
We tee up a 1k bullet and get a ton of play from it. Making 400s a bunch of times and we turned a pair of aces into quads, no kicker once (literally as I was explaining how a pair turns into quads not infrequently). HF jumped out of his chair for that one- how cute
They catch on to optimal play reasonably quickly but overall it's still very slow for me- I have to watch every hand and probably remind them every 4th or 5th hand. Anyways, we're having fun, but eventually bleed that bullet back down to even (we were up for about an hour). Then, dealt quads #3 of the trip!
Dream deal for a partnership!
I explain the situation exactly to friends. How we're getting a jackpot, guaranteed. How we need kickers. We slow the machine down. Break out the video. Their first-ever hand pay and it's going to be huge!
Result-
Not gonna lie. I'm disappointed. Bad kicker draw, and of course only 50% of this is mine. Friends, meanwhile, are hooting and hollering, super happy, sending video to their friends, etc. I really have to force myself not to be Debbie downer and explain how we actually got hosed LOL.
OK, so they're up several K for the trip, and of course I'm positive this session too. I believe we fired 2 bullets total, and we binked this towards the end as well-
So it's just a great result for that joint session, I'm up basically 6k. My wife is done with dinner so we head over to Encore for some craps. It's an icy session where I lose 3k, so now I'm up 3k overall. Everyone else heads to bed, and I head back to VP.
Hell yeah.
Dealt quads #4!
Meh- wish I had those 3's all to myself...
A great evening session. Clearly, I shoveled in money pretty quickly too, but I think I finished that session up 6k, so up 9k for the day. Went to bed too late, but not as late as the first night.
Day 2 result- +16k
Overall- +9k
Day 3 coming soon...
We've got the early (5:45pm) seating at Kabuto. Limo departs at 5:15, so I basically have time to get changed etc before we meet up with our friends. The plan for the kids is they stay in the room until we get back, then my wife will take them to Mizumi! WTF- my plan was for them to get room service afterwards, but my wife is nicer than I am, apparently. It does make sense bc my youngest loves Japanese and is bummed he can't go to Kabuto. Oldest is not disappointed, but is still down with teppanyaki grill so that's what they're going to do. We get back from dinner early enough anyways that they'll be time for them- I'll go gamble with my friends afterwards.
Kabuto
An excellent meal, just like last time. Since it's been a few weeks since we had the meal, I'll mostly just post the pics and comment only when meaningful. First time for the wives.
5/10.
7/10- the black paste (seaweed based) is amazing with the fish.
7/10 overall. Generally not a fan of uni, this uni was actually decent for me (which probably means it was amazing).
At least 8/10 on the hand rolls.
The limo back shows up right on time- I'm ready to gamble! We meet up with my kids and wife takes them to dinner. I explain how VP is basically the optimal game to partner on and friends are down. My wife and I have met up with husband friend (HF) here before, I think it was a couple years ago. We only played craps and I believe I was down 20k at that time. It was fun, and he and WF are up for craps as well, but otherwise they don't care. HF's normal game is BJ and roulette, both of which I'm not into. Money wise they're well-off but they gamble very differently than me. Acceptable loss per trip maybe? 1-2k, and I think even that would upset WF. For reference HF won 400$ on slots earlier in the day and he's pretty amped up about that.
So, I explain kind of what they'll be facing and explain we can partner with any percentage. Somewhat to my surprise, HF wants to go 50/50. I reiterate that I fire 1k bullets at a time and that I've dumped 4-5000 in 30 min many times, but he still wants to give it a shot. OK man, don't say I didn't warn you...
We tee up a 1k bullet and get a ton of play from it. Making 400s a bunch of times and we turned a pair of aces into quads, no kicker once (literally as I was explaining how a pair turns into quads not infrequently). HF jumped out of his chair for that one- how cute
They catch on to optimal play reasonably quickly but overall it's still very slow for me- I have to watch every hand and probably remind them every 4th or 5th hand. Anyways, we're having fun, but eventually bleed that bullet back down to even (we were up for about an hour). Then, dealt quads #3 of the trip!Spoiler:
Dream deal for a partnership!
I explain the situation exactly to friends. How we're getting a jackpot, guaranteed. How we need kickers. We slow the machine down. Break out the video. Their first-ever hand pay and it's going to be huge!
Result-
Spoiler:
Not gonna lie. I'm disappointed. Bad kicker draw, and of course only 50% of this is mine. Friends, meanwhile, are hooting and hollering, super happy, sending video to their friends, etc. I really have to force myself not to be Debbie downer and explain how we actually got hosed LOL.
OK, so they're up several K for the trip, and of course I'm positive this session too. I believe we fired 2 bullets total, and we binked this towards the end as well-
So it's just a great result for that joint session, I'm up basically 6k. My wife is done with dinner so we head over to Encore for some craps. It's an icy session where I lose 3k, so now I'm up 3k overall. Everyone else heads to bed, and I head back to VP.
Hell yeah.
Dealt quads #4!
Spoiler:
Meh- wish I had those 3's all to myself...
A great evening session. Clearly, I shoveled in money pretty quickly too, but I think I finished that session up 6k, so up 9k for the day. Went to bed too late, but not as late as the first night.
Day 2 result- +16k
Overall- +9k
Day 3 coming soon...
10-28-2020
, 07:33 PM
Day 3 part 1
Slept in a bit today, pretty unusual.
Good morning Vegas!
I head downstairs feeling really good about the trip. We've got cabana all day today, kids and wife are done with work, I'm up... things are fantastic. So of course I walk into a completely frigid session. I hit nothing on my usual, move to an old school machine and it's pure ice as well. Decide to burn my last 1k free credit.
Start.
End. Over 100% payback, but when that's the best thing you can say about a long session you know it's a loser.
And of course, since I'm getting my ass kicked it's clearly time for a "regular quads 3 out of 10 times".
Jeez. Can't remember exactly how this turned out but I think I lost at least 6k here. Time for breakfast. Family wants to eat at Tableau, I wanted poolside (from Tableau) but they won.
The amuse bouche no longer features beets. 10/10 on this alone.
My usual.
Kids' waffles with sweet butter, etc. At least 8/10- wish I could just start my day with carbs like this and not feel guilty.
From here, we move to the cabana and hang out there pretty much all day. Our friends soon join us.
At some point in the early afternoon, HF and I give VP another run. We fire three bullets, and hit-
and
So we're up 3k for that session, 1.5k each. I'm now at 4.5k up for the trip, and so is he! Given the relative differences in our level of play, he's just crushing. No way he goes on a 4.5k downswing whereas we know I could easily do that. So he's super happy while I'm feeling nervous. We head back to the pool for a bit, then up to the room to change. Plan is we get a craps session in before dinner. When we get up to the room, there's a housekeeper in the kids' room (this is going to become relevant soon). I need to get into their room to grab their clothes and whatnot. Housekeeper is very nice but gets to see that I'm there with my boys. OK, so far, no big deal. They want to take a bath while I'm already ready to go; wife is still by the pool, so I leave them in our room knowing they can handle it, lock the connecting door and downstairs I go.
I find all this out later during dinner, but it's easier to just tell it now. Apparently after I left, someone from the Wynn came to "check" on my room which had already been cleaned. They meet my (small) 9 yr old who says mommy and daddy are downstairs but coming up soon. They leave. Turns out, they F'ing report the incident as a "6 yr old being left in their room alone". Meanwhile my wife and I are throwing dice like degens downstairs and have no clue this is going on. This will become relevant later.
That dice session is pure ice as well and I believe I lost 3k, so now I'm only up 1.5k for the trip. Wife and I come back upstairs, hear what happened from the kids and think nothing of it (not knowing we'd been reported). I of course change far faster than my wife and head downstairs for another VP session. I donk off 4k and am rage smashing buttons when
Which puts me dead even for that session. Now that I look at it, I was given an escape. Still up for the trip. Everyone comes downstairs, and we head to Costa di Mare for dinner.
Part 2 coming soon...
Slept in a bit today, pretty unusual.
Good morning Vegas!
I head downstairs feeling really good about the trip. We've got cabana all day today, kids and wife are done with work, I'm up... things are fantastic. So of course I walk into a completely frigid session. I hit nothing on my usual, move to an old school machine and it's pure ice as well. Decide to burn my last 1k free credit.
Start.
End. Over 100% payback, but when that's the best thing you can say about a long session you know it's a loser.
And of course, since I'm getting my ass kicked it's clearly time for a "regular quads 3 out of 10 times".
Jeez. Can't remember exactly how this turned out but I think I lost at least 6k here. Time for breakfast. Family wants to eat at Tableau, I wanted poolside (from Tableau) but they won.
The amuse bouche no longer features beets. 10/10 on this alone.
My usual.
Kids' waffles with sweet butter, etc. At least 8/10- wish I could just start my day with carbs like this and not feel guilty.
From here, we move to the cabana and hang out there pretty much all day. Our friends soon join us.
At some point in the early afternoon, HF and I give VP another run. We fire three bullets, and hit-
and
So we're up 3k for that session, 1.5k each. I'm now at 4.5k up for the trip, and so is he! Given the relative differences in our level of play, he's just crushing. No way he goes on a 4.5k downswing whereas we know I could easily do that. So he's super happy while I'm feeling nervous. We head back to the pool for a bit, then up to the room to change. Plan is we get a craps session in before dinner. When we get up to the room, there's a housekeeper in the kids' room (this is going to become relevant soon). I need to get into their room to grab their clothes and whatnot. Housekeeper is very nice but gets to see that I'm there with my boys. OK, so far, no big deal. They want to take a bath while I'm already ready to go; wife is still by the pool, so I leave them in our room knowing they can handle it, lock the connecting door and downstairs I go.
I find all this out later during dinner, but it's easier to just tell it now. Apparently after I left, someone from the Wynn came to "check" on my room which had already been cleaned. They meet my (small) 9 yr old who says mommy and daddy are downstairs but coming up soon. They leave. Turns out, they F'ing report the incident as a "6 yr old being left in their room alone". Meanwhile my wife and I are throwing dice like degens downstairs and have no clue this is going on. This will become relevant later.
That dice session is pure ice as well and I believe I lost 3k, so now I'm only up 1.5k for the trip. Wife and I come back upstairs, hear what happened from the kids and think nothing of it (not knowing we'd been reported). I of course change far faster than my wife and head downstairs for another VP session. I donk off 4k and am rage smashing buttons when
Which puts me dead even for that session. Now that I look at it, I was given an escape. Still up for the trip. Everyone comes downstairs, and we head to Costa di Mare for dinner.
Part 2 coming soon...
