I doubt it, but I'll check for a pic.

The request for a balcony "pre-Riviera going bye bye" pic came up blank, but the search through the old photos brought back some great memories... Here's a good one that I posted in a craps TR a few years ago. I'll let the pic speak for itself. Only about 20k of this is mine (rest is dad's) but it was still a good couple of days.

Day 2

I'm up bright and early, tired but excited to be in Vegas! Plan for breakfast is the Peppermill. Here's a pic of the lobby of my parents' condo.



The pool is off to the left, and the security desk/main door/valet is to the right. Elevators to the condos are behind me.

I get chicken fried steak, while my parents get corned beef hash and steak and eggs. Sorry no pics of their food.



It's pretty hard to screw up breakfast food IMO. Some meat, don't overcook the eggs and make the potatoes crispy and you're there. Breakfast food will never win a 5 star award but when you're in the mood... nothing else will do. I'd give this an 8/10 as chicken fried steaks go.

Afterwards, I take my dad to the Wynn so my mom can chill. We fire bullet after bullet at the UX machine and it is ice cold. I think we collectively put in 10k (so I'm stuck 2k). We hit a few regular quads, but no big multipliers and certainly no premium hands. Ugh. We head back to the condo for lunch- leftovers.

After a nap, I decide to head back to the Wynn early. My parents will join later in the afternoon and we're going to eat at Lakeside for dinner.

I belly up to my usual TDB machine. The machine that has been great to me in the past, was super cold except for the last day last TR, and thus far pretty damn cold. It...

remains cold. Frustrated, I move to the next machine, even though it has no sound. Typically this is a deal breaker for me but I just cannot stomach the thought of dumping more money into the one that is ice-cold.



GOD. FINALLY. That's how it's done!

Now I'm even again LOL. Let's keep it going.



YES LET'S KEEP IT GOING! Note the 4th ace came in twice- once without the kicker.

OK, now I'm pumped up. Let's try the machine with sound again.



Nice try, but you can do better. Man, I'm the king of dealt "non-premium quads".



BANG!

OK, that was the bomb. I have about an hour before dinner and am up 5k now. I decide to head over to my friend the Walking Dead to relax a bit.



Theoretically, there's a non-zero chance of hitting the grand...

I play for a little while with the expected result- I hit nothing of consequence and donk 200$.

At Lakeside, we start with the stone crab claws (just the bomb), I get the bone-in rib eye with mashed potatoes, sauteed mushrooms and asparagus as sides. Mom I believe got king crab, Dad got filet (don't think I got pics of those two).



Stone crab. Not on the menu but if you ask, they'll get them from SW steakhouse across the way.



Rib eye. Definitely better than their NY strip which I've had many times. I'd give the strip a 7/10, this was probably an 8/10.



Sides. Mom's King crab made the pic, apparently.



Dessert is shared- some bourbon-infused cake with ice cream (8/10) and coconut cream pie. The pie is a 9/10- the cream is just super light and fluffy, nothing is too sweet, and the coconut is there but not overpowering (a common flaw with most things coconut IMO). It takes a lot for me to give something a 9 or above so if you have the chance I'd snap order this one.

My dad and I head back to hi-limit for another joint venture while Mom plays penny slots. We fire in 5k with no result. My parents decide to head home while I keep playing. It's pretty cold, with none of the pre-dinner magic. I move to 25c UX, TDB "bonus streak" (same game available at my local casino- too swingy for my tastes and probably too big, but I want to play UX/TDB and 1$ credits is DEFINITELY too big for me to take on on my own).

The gods reward my stupidity, with-



That's the thing about this game. If you multipliers working, there's a fair chance they'll be 12x (note upcoming 12x multipliers). WHERE IS THE KICKER! Kicker comes in, this is a 6k hand at quarters. Instead, it's worth-



I pump this back in in about 10 min before I decide to call it quits. As great as the pre-dinner session was, the rest of the day was pretty cold and I'm actually not up that much. Better than being stuck, I guess.

Day 2 result = +2k

Day 3 coming soon.

Dang, I was up there this weekend, too, and didn't see you. Oh, I didn't go into the Wynn.

great TR as usual leon.

Ultimate X is going to make me a millionaire or make me busto. Game is evil, but fun.

looking forward to the next update. if/when you hit a million+ jackpot, are you retiring from VP or is that never happening?

Yep. The way I'd put it is- VP itself is fun but evil. UX VP is (fun but evil)^10.

No way! That'd simply allow me to lock up 400k or so, and gamble much more with the remaining 200k (gotta figure Uncle Sam is going to take 40%).

Note that they have a $.05 credit UX machine at Cromwell. Similar fun with much less risk of busto.

So you cashed out $97,100 without feeling the need to keep playing to try to run it up to $100K...and instead actually lose it all?

Such a joy to read these, and this coming from someone who - I kid you not - has never put a nickel into a video poker machine.

Your comment about the Walking Dead grand is well taken. Tell your wife to stay away from the newer Walking Dead machine - it's even more volatile. But a guy recently did record himself hitting the grand, albeit for a factor of about 50 less than the grand on the original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9k_089DcgY (go to 10 minute mark). And here's a $12,500 hit on a 75 cent bet (6:15 mark).

Also, all the best to your dad. I can sympathize, what with parents (and in-laws) of my own who are in the 75-80+ age bracket. From your reports I have a picture of him as a very decent man who appreciates and properly leverages his whale status without using it as a license to make the lives of casino staff miserable.

97.2k, there's TWO blacks there.

What actually happened was I brought a 10k roll, and had run that to about 12k the day before. Took I think 2k to the tables one last time and turned it into the chips. Independently, my dad capped off a sick few days of VP and had 80k in bundles from various payouts. So we decided to just put everything together to take a pic before I left.

Must be fun to crush a penny slot like that!

Yeah, my parents are just regular people. My mom actually is the one who everyone loves- she's always been that way since I was a kid. Just one of those people that everyone likes and is instantly drawn to, she always remembers everyone's name, little details about their life, etc. Both of them have told me multiple staff have come up to them saying how much they appreciate my parents, usually followed by a story about some dickhead whale who thinks his money means everyone is here to lick his spit and LIKE it...

You see some of those guys at the Wynn every once in a while. One guy taking up a whole bank of machines, obnoxious behavior towards the staff, women carrying their poodles in some 20k Chanel pet carrier and putting the carrier on a seat (which ties up a VP machine)... yet for some reason they always reek of cheap cologne or perfume. You'd think they'd have better taste.

Great - and thoroughly unsurprising - to hear. Apparently I forgot to link to the other new WD slot hit, in case you or others are curious:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2K-YpFMwXE

Best game on this? Pay table?

What location inside Cromwell is this $.05 UX machine that you are referring to? Thanks for any info you might have.


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Don't forget Uncle Moonbeam's cut. He won't.

Leon, my apologies if you answered this before, but what line of work was your dad in? Medical as well?


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Cromwell has lots of low-denom machines, which is funny considering they are trying to sell themselves as an upscale place. I hadn't been in there since it was the Barbary Coast, but I was doing the TR Quest for badges and they have no poker room any more.

No idea what the best game is, or what the pay tables were. It's only $.05! I enjoyed playing this with a hangover on my last morning during the few hours before my flight.

Location: I'll never tell! It's mine!

No, actually, if you go in to the Cromwell from that corner door by Flamingo, it's all the way down, past the bar, on a bank of machines on the left side of the aisle. I was facing the Flamingo when I was sitting down. I remember it being really far back on the left side.

Note this massive score:

Love that bank of full pay quarter games right in the front ($25/tc though)

No, business. He worked for an import-export company for a long time, then started his own company in 2000.

Vandelay Industries?

Never was into Seinfeld, I had to look up the reference.

Here's a Grand Progressive x10 Hit I came across for a cool $31,000 on WD2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRm0-o43Omc