Hardly, and you all are missing the point. My point is, if you are dead set on sitting with my family because you want that row, just realize my kid is your new best friend. And he will talk your ear off.

And it’s obvious none of you fly on SWA on routes where families are prevalent. Saving space for families is never an issue for two reasons: priority and A boards first, meaning at a minimum 2/3 of the plane is empty by the time the kiddos get on in family boarding. Second, the early boarders all sit up front and families head to the back.

I will almost guarantee any issues with saving seats revolve around adults saving for large groups of adults. I think that’s crap. Why? They are saving for people late in C class, holding seats the entire time. The families have been on the plane before B even boards.




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Or you know, you could be a responsible parent and teach your children it's not polite to bother other people.

Day 3 Part 1

Went to bed slightly earlier, and wake up slightly later (7am) which is a good thing. Really motivated to get the winning ways back on track.



Move over to spin soon after, and FINALLY get my first dealt quads of the trip!



Too bad it’s not premium, this is only worth-



Shortly after, I see-



Which must mean I made premium quads, once w/ kicker and once w/out.



Unfortunately after that, I go through a long cold patch and give most of the money back. I finish the session off with



Which puts me up 3k? For the pre-breakfast session.

For breakfast, we grab room service (no pics). There’s something magical about a good croissant, slathered with butter and dipped in egg yolk. Let’s just say we ate far more than intended. Post breakfast, we were slated for another day of cabana but we cancelled it the day before once we realized that it would likely be even colder and less pool-friendly on Sunday than Saturday. The kids decide on Circus Circus; my wife has some work she wants to take care of and no one is in a particular rush, so I head downstairs for another quick session. My family will meet me downstairs when they’re ready to go.

I head back to spin and am rewarded immediately-





My family shows up shortly after, allowing me to book a win that short session. Up 4k for the day.

Circus Circus

Sure, it’s ghetto. But they’ve got tons of games and the roller coasters/bigger rides are actually decent for what they are. We get all day passes for me and the boys, knowing we’re not going to stay all day but you get value out of it if you basically ride on > 4 rides. We start off with some video games, then my oldest wants to play laser tag but curiously my youngest doesn’t. So the young one heads off with mom while I proceed to play against my oldest and some random kid- the place was so empty we’re the only 3 competitors. I try and soft play a bit but my competitive juices come out and I just can’t help myself- yeah, I’m that adult beating up on kids in laser tag.

After that finishes, we meet up with wife/youngest and he’s convinced her to play some ticket-winning games. So now they have a few tickets, and my wife actually is ok with them getting more/getting more junk prizes. Ugh, I thought we said we weren’t going to bother this trip. She encourages me to play the ball drop game so we head over there. The jackpot is at 1000 tickets again (never seen it higher), OK here we go.



First play. EZ game.



I’ll win them, but you guys need to collect and redeem them.

It was trivially easy to win the first time, but I think I figured out a catch to the game; I’ve written in previous TR’s where the settings at other places (eg, NYNY) are much more difficult- there, for instance, you need to drop balls in two groups of 5 and the rest 4s to have any shot of getting all 50 before time runs out. Here, I was super relaxed, never pressured for time, and I went in groups of 4 and a final group of 2. EZ. Well, after we got those 1000 tickets out the jackpot meter reset to 500, but we didn’t quite have enough tickets for what the boys were going to get. So I head back to the game fully expecting to just bring the pain again, but I whiff 3 or 4 games in a row again- 46??? 49, 49. The first try time was noticeably shorter. I accounted for it the next two times and realized the rotation speed slowed down after the jackpot- so now I had to do two groups of 5 just like at NYNY. Interesting- so the game gets harder depending on whether it’s been hit recently. I bang my head against that wall several more times, always whiffing the last ball until I finally hit again for 530 some tickets. Circus Circus 1, me zero (since I blew about 10 bucks to collect meaningless prizes).

After that, I manage to convince my oldest to ride on the two scariest roller coasters they have- first what I feel is the better of the two, very steep, sharp drops and multiple points where you are literally hanging off the edge of the track or upside down moving SLOWLY, the only thing holding you in are the restraints. My kid is kind of a chicken and it took a lot of convincing but finally he went. Scared to death the first time, but once he realized he lived he was ready to go again. So we did that a few times, then the bigger of the two that goes around the entire place. Never a line, this is actually decent value. Play a few more games, ride a few more rides and by now we’re hungry.

We were going to eat lunch at the Wynn, but it’s already 1:30p and we’re supposed to eat at Costa di Mare for dinner at 7p so I don’t want to eat too much for lunch. And, at some point in there I’m supposed to pick my parents up and bring them to the Wynn- I call them and arrange for us to head directly to the condo from Circus Circus, we’ll eat leftovers as a quick snack, then all go to the Wynn in the afternoon. We get in one final round of laser tag (youngest actually plays this time, I team up with him against my oldest and a random kid, win handily but my youngest gleefully shoots ME several times) then head to my parents.

Eat a quick snack, then it’s back to the Wynn!

My dad and I play next to each other while my wife takes the kids upstairs. I hit this pretty early, while my dad runs cold-



Unfortunately, my phone says that an hour took place between that and this next pic- an hour is an eternity for me to not hit at my speed of play.





Look carefully- finally got a trip draw to come in on spin. 2k hand YET I have no kickers on inspection. That means I hit quad 2s, FIVE ways. I don’t know whether to be happy or annoyed. Put a kicker up there and this is WAY bigger.

So there we see the greatness that is making a hand at spin on the center line, but it’s still a “woulda coulda shoulda” hand. I get nothing else out of that machine and head back to my usual just in time for a small slap in the face-



I’m stuck 3k for this session, so basically up only 1k for the day.



Well, THAT helps!

Go to 2$ credits and get nothing. Step back down to 1$ credits.



Pick up three aces, draw…



Agh of course it comes in twice but no kicker either time.

Keep going. Give most of the money back. I’m only up 2k total. Dad comes back to spin next to me. He’s not doing well- down about 8k I believe. Then, he hits 4 AWAK 2 ways for 8k and is back even. OF COURSE, what does he do but immediately go to 2$ credits. I try and warn him off, remind him he’s just even again, and not to get himself into a big hole again so fast. He of course doesn’t listen.

I’m playing while he narrates periodically- basically any time he gets a small pair I hear about it as if it’s a good draw. Pair of aces OBVIOUSLY gets spoken about. 3 to a royal… whatever, I half zone out and don’t even watch his draw… then I hear the jackpot noise go off. Yep, he’s turned 3 to a royal into the big one, 3 ways, 2$ credits. 24k hit. Go dad.

I’m happy for him, but not hitting myself. I decide to give 15 line spin poker a try- I’ll give myself 2k for this little endeavor. I have to hit a big draw at some point, right? 4 AWAK or something, 5, 6, 7 ways, that’d be great.



The machine agrees- I have to hit a draw at some point, right???

To be continued...

Woot! More VP, less SW airlines

Need pic of dads hit!


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Didn't take one- it really takes a lot for me to take pics of OTHER'S hands haha. Sub in my royal hit from last TR and double the credits

I was thinking he probably wouldn’t let you take the pic. He’s the original VP degen, you should be honored to take pics of his monster hits


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I wonder if the rotation speed is slowed only after a jackpot is hit, or if it's just programmed randomly, like how those stuffed-animal claw machine games are only programmed to have a strong grip X% of the time.

I had to look up that Quick Drop game...

reminds me of the time my Dad spent nearly $20 in the early 1980's so I could "win" a big orange ass bottle/can opener worth $1 max in a coin pusher machine.

Leon,

Having a bet with mrs Ferguson. She thinks you’ve hit two big jackpots over $2k on WD and I say one. How many is it?

It’s on a bottle of wine btw.


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Oh he'll let me. His 200k hit back in May 2016, I still have those pics. He took a pic himself, I was just absorbed in self-pity.

That could be, not enough data to tell. I will say the "new" slower speed was consistent- once I figured out it was off it was easy enough to get back to 49 balls. That last one binked off the rim both times- pretty frustrating.

Your wife loses, sorry to say for her. I hit the grand on WD2 recently, but the only other handpay was on WD1, it was almost 2k but not quite.

Or is the bet she thinks I've had two handpays on the WD series and you think one total? If so, she's more correct.

even though i live in town, might have to use an offer and get your room service sunny side up if i don’t go somewhere for one of the upcoming holidays

question about Circii (or NYNY): do they have any regular arcade games, like anything Capcom/Sega/Midway/‘80-‘90s? so far i’ve wandered to Excal, Orleans, Red Rock and South Point “arcades” while there for w/e reason and bricked.

I mean practically yea everyone should just cough up the dub

A friend is in Vegas from Sweden playing high limit $500 a spin at the Cosmo and live streaming it. Bit annoying hitting a handpay every 3-4 hands. They are up $25k at the moment.

Leon or anyone else, a quick strategic question: They were dealt 44455 on 100-hand play at $500 bet for $4500. What is the best strategy here, do you ever split the full for quad chance?

Circus Circus seemed to have a good mix- they have a bunch of old school games in a specific section where you pay 5$ or something and then can play as much as you want. For sure they have most of the old classics like pac man. I saw a few Mortal Kombat type games as well scattered throughout.

It completely depends on what game type they're playing. Triple double bonus for example you break the full and draw for quad 4s. Jacks or better keep the full.

If your friends are betting 500$/push I suggest they learn proper strategy right now, or look it up on their phone. Wizard of odds will give them the right play.

Don't look it up on your phone while you are actively playing VP in casino. Nevada law prohibits using electronic devices for assistance while you are gambling. I'm sure they never enforce it but I can see a zealous executive using this an excuse to ban while someone is up big. You can use those paper card cheat sheets all day long.

Yea one of them knows for sure. I would be incredibly torn about what to do, the inner degen in me would say **** it and go for the quads

Update: Stream ended, they blew through $25 000 in no time and are busto, drunk and about to board a 20+ hour flight back to Europe. At least they had fun!

Just got here. My view.



Ok ... Let's get this party started... A La Leon style



Apacolyptic Win!!!??.... Oh Baby this could be BIG

Nice always like HL play. Someone should have told them about Cosmo's FastPay.

One of them did say they ran $400 into 20K right?
Would like to know how it all started.

Yeah, last $400 into $20k. But they were already down $12k at that point


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Ahhhh so they WERE at an 8K profit zone.

Hand Pay!



I'll be darn you get 1k if you hit bonus all the way across right off the bat









Good Night Leon!!!

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