Day 2
Woke up at... 2:30am. Yes, you read that right. Obv that is ridiculous, so I toss and turn until 3:30am when my eyes pop wide open. Jesus F so annoying that I can't sleep here!!
I decide not to even fight it. I'm simultaneously physically tired but mentally excited. I'm in Vegas, I'm up, and hell I can always take a nap later today. Good thing the cafe is 24/7.
LOL breakfast #1. We're eating at Tableau at 8am, but no way I make it until then without some food. Surprisingly good actually, at least 5/10.
Head to UX, dump 2k at 10 lines, then realize I really should slow down esp since B won't be up for at least another couple hrs and step down to 5 lines. Dump another 2k, then get even-
Dump more, get some (but not enough back)-
Really could have used a kicker on this one.
Dump dump dump, hit...
Always with the non-premium quads in a big spot.
At this point, I believe I'm down 4k for the day. I decide to use up my 2k free credit. I don't even bother to take the ticket out, I figure I'll let B get 5% of whatever we generate although technically that's gifting him 100$. Whatever.
Start.
End. About 85% payback.
It's near 6am now and B is up. We decide to go back to 10 play, this is the only hand of note.
UX remains cold, and we head to hi limit to play on the multiline machine. I've been a little starved for options my last few trips since "my" old school machine that dealt me a royal twice has really dried up. There's UX, of course, but when that's cold there is no way to lose money faster. I always throw a few k in "my" machine just to see, and it's been garbage since Feb. Ditto a real old school machine- haven't found one that's been even decent. Multiline machine at hi limit has been the most productive next to UX.
Unfortunately, that was the only pic we took before breakfast, which means we lost. I think total pre-breakfast loss was 5k.
Tableau
Not much to say, I got my usual steak and eggs. Had a nice breakfast conversation with B, of course forgot to take pics beyond the amuse bouche bc things were so "standard".
Pretty nice starter, 8/10.
OK. Wall of text time. We gave UX another shot post-breakfast, I remember that. It was ice cold, and after the session I check us into the cabana. We hang out there for a bit, B is not a big pool guy, we both forgot sunscreen and he burns pretty easily. I don't believe he even took his shirt off. I hit the pool for a bit, and otherwise we just hung out and watched the olympics.
After a little while, we decide to try craps. It's terrible again, I lose a few k and B loses his 300$ buy in again. He's quite stuck from craps now, and I tell him he needs to partner with me for craps as well. His exposure is simply too much with a 25$ min, and for my part I have no problem going in for a few 100 more, esp if it reduces his exposure. So we decide on a 10/90 or 20/80 split from here on out.
Back to the cabana. I'm getting kind of tired, but also want to gamble (and get back the growing daily loss). We try VP again, and it's ice cold. Simply cannot hit a draw, and aces have just evaporated. In contrast to the 2 "pair of aces into 4awak" conversions we had last night, we can't convert ANYTHING today. SO MANY PAIRS OF ACES. ZERO conversions. Only one trip aces, at 10 play UX of course, multipliers everywhere, NOTHING. That one really hurt.
Back to the cabana. Dinner is slightly later tonight, so we grab a snack, some bourbon and then... let's try craps again. It's garbage, AGAIN. Only upside is B won slightly- he likes to shoot more than I do and relatively more line bets came in than 6 and 8. I think he won like 30 bucks though LOL. I lose "only" 2 or 3k more but let's face it, today just sucks.
Back to UX. Straight ice again. We're now DOWN for the trip despite being up huge less than 12 hrs ago. We head upstairs to clear our heads a bit, then back downstairs for a pre dinner session. Back to UX- ICE AGAIN. We're now stuck 10k, and B is stuck relatively more bc of the two craps sessions where he had 100% of himself.
The mood is garbage. I'm so upset, specifically at UX. Why the F can we not make anything come in any more? So now you readers can tell- lack of pics was from lack of hits. It wasn't purposeful. We head to hi limit, looking for a save.
Time stamp on this pic is 5:30pm. Literally played the whole day and this is the first jackpot since before breakfast. Note the credits in the machine- FAR lower than before. We actually busto'd the giant ticket we had, this is a new 5k ticket. And of course, finally converted three aces, twice, of course no kicker either time.
At least we have some blood. The machine is generally warm- we're making lots of regular quads, dealt two pair, etc. We're getting to play. Then, we finally make our first dealt quads of the trip, just about 4000 hands in (so right at expectation).
But that is WAY above expectation!
B was on his phone, I was driving and we had the speed turned all the way down. I got to watch each glorious card come in. When I realized we had trips I started hoping against hope that we'd see the HOLY F THERE'S THE FOURTH THREE!!!!!
I say to B, "DUDE! F'ing pay attention!". He looks up- and his face just blanks out. I think he was having trouble processing, honestly. I tell him, this hand is a
hand!
We let the credits ring obnoxiously the whole time. Huge smiles, many fist bumps. We're BACK!
I wanted them to just key the win off in the machine, but for some reason they can't do it. I decide on 20k cash and 10k ticket, I pay B his share directly so we can keep the remaining ticket pure. We move to 25 lines of course. Play for a bit more, give some back, step down to 20 lines and give more back until
That gets the ticket back to around the original 5k. It's close enough to dinner, we head upstairs to change and then to SW. B and I discuss- we're now at 2 5 digit hits. One more, esp with this one being 30k, and we're going to win for sure. As it is now, though, anything can happen...
SW
I go with a regular NY. B wanted the kobe rib cap but told himself to save the comp. I encouraged him to use it up on himself, we'll have enough and I've had it plenty of times, so he did. So I think I'd better behave. 7/10.
Stuffed squash. 9/10 presentation, pretty interesting. 8/10 flavor, the peppers on top were HOT (in a good way).
Au gratin potatoes, 9/10.
After dinner, I'm super full and tired, so we stay away from dice. Still can't stay away from UX though, so we head there and... get raped again. UX has really gone cold. Most frustrating, we finally start getting dealt trip aces- I think we got them three times. Blanked them all, of course. We decide to hit hi limit again, better stay with what's working. Pretty much 5 hands in-
TWICE! Actually, technically three times- once without kicker!
That makes up for SO many misses. This is becoming my new favorite machine. We play on a bit more but don't hit anything else. It's after 10pm now and I've been up since 3:30am. We decide to call it- we've gone from (just VP)- up 16k, to stuck almost 10k, to up 27k in a day! The swings...
Day 2 result-
VP- +11k (+27k overall)
Craps- -5k (-10k overall)
Overall- +17k
Day 3 coming soon...
Last edited by leon; 07-31-2021 at 03:23 PM.