Day 4
I wake up around 7am; perfect. We've got nothing on the agenda today except making a comeback/maybe booking a win! I sit at the old school machine and B joins soon after.
These two jackpots, then the resulting coldness, allow us to book a 2k win for that session.
The ladies are up and I've been trying to get a 4 way craps session going all trip. We have them order room service for us- wait time, 70 min! So they come downstairs and we find a mostly empty table.
Alas, we get no magic and it's just not fun. I have to twist wife's arm to roll, and unfortunately when she does it's bad. R is not much better, but since she's a total noob she asks innocent questions, the answers to which are not fun to give (eg, "that was a decent roll right?" Actually you only hit one number so no, that was not decent). We actually lose pretty quickly and I'm down 2k really fast. We're not having fun and in the interests of bankroll preservation decide to head up to the room, pack, and wait for our food.
All the chips I've got on me and a 10k ticket. I assumed at this point the stack wasn't going to get any bigger...
After breakfast, the ladies decide to just chill in the room. B and I plan our attack. Ultimately, I'd be ok with a 10k total loss. I feel like we've shortchanged ourselves a bit, getting draws when we've stepped down in lines. Also, the aces have basically been quiet this whole trip- not that that means anything, but if we're due, it's now or never. So I say, let's go to 20 lines, we'll fire 5k and hard stop if we lose that. So we head to hi limit, feed in the big ticket, and we're losing fast, before the overdue second dealt quads of the trip!
Meh. MEHMEHMEHMEH
We give back money pretty much as fast as we get it. At some point we step down to 18 lines, and at some point we get up down 2k for the session and the day. We've killed a lot of time. I'm no longer ok with a 10k loss. It looks like it's not happening this trip. We finish off with some old school.
Two good results, way overdue!
We milk our play down to the last possible second. Finally, I have to stop to redeem my chips and this big ticket. Final result- only stuck 3k for the trip. Won 2k today.
I'm in the front for the ride to the airport.
Thankfully, we run into zero issues with the return flight. Given the amount of fun we had this trip, I'm calling this a win. A 3k loss total and multiple satisfying recoveries? I'll take it.
Day 4 result- +2k
Overall- -3k
Post-thoughts
I did pretty darn well from a bankroll management standpoint. Obv not perfect bc I had that big Sat AM implosion. 50k seems to be the optimal bankroll number for me from a mental standpoint. I'd rather bring 50k, run cold and stop with 10k left than bring 40k and have to stop with zero. Completely the same loss, but the mental feeling is so different. Hell, just having that extra 10k is a huge mental cushion, even if I'd never let myself crack into it.
E! was awesome of course, as was all the non-gambling stuff we did. I've obv tried to arrange non-gambling stuff for years now, but I think I'll do even more of it in future trips- it can only help stop the bleeding from a neg EV game, and there's a bunch of touristy stuff that I haven't done in years or decades that I can redo. I'm actually really looking forward to the next trip I can take with the kids- the last couple of times I will admit I kind of ignored them bc I was too busy gambling/running hot/bored with NYNY, Circus Circus, the pool, etc.
Thanks for reading! Next TR sooner rather than later I hope...