Day 2, part 1
After going to sleep at 2:30 I wake up at 6:30... Jesus. Grab 5k and head downstairs for some coffee. I head to the UX machine again in hi limit, which proceeds to drill me for 2k in about 10 minutes. ****. I really had only intended on losing max 2k for this morning session, but I'm sure my wife is still asleep and won't be ready for breakfast for more than an hour. I don't want to head up to the room and sit there in a half-daze... so I decide I'll go back to my usual TDB/25$ a push machines.
Generally, I try not to pull out my phone to take pics of the draws in hi limit, but I'm totally willing to here. Not sure why- it seems kind of lame to be doing that in hi limit with a bunch of slot attendants and hi rollers around most of the time, but of course I'm willing to take pics of hits, and no one cares anyways. The spacing of the machines outside definitely are more conducive to just doing your own thing, taking pics whenever you feel like it, etc. Anyways, I pick up some good draws pretty fast.
Which of course don't go anywhere. I actually had a few more there as well but after the first two blanked I got a little discouraged. Suffice to say they all missed. I switch over to deuces wild bonus just to slow it down a bit... which fails utterly. I lose 1k playing DWB in about 15 min, and the highlight was picking up... AAA2 as a draw playing 10 handed! I knew if I made 5 aces with the natural 4th ace I was going to be super pissed- of course, I never caught the 4th ace, let alone another deuce and my 4 of a kind (20 credits) didn't improve 10 ways.
I finally head up around 8am stuck the whole 5k and pretty pissed. Whatever- I'm still up. My wife is still sleeping, but I subtly make more noise than I have to and she's alright with the time. She wants to hit the pool soon anyways. We grab a standard room service breakfast.
So the plan for the day is-
- wife hits pool until lunch, I play +/- join her at the pool
- lunch at Red 8, then 2 of 3 tournament rounds at 2pm at the Beethoven ballroom in the Encore
- wife spa session in afternoon, I play from about 2:30pm until 6 (here's a potential "donk off the whole roll" situation)
- 7pm show at Palazzo, Baz Lurhmann's "Star Crossed Love", comped by Mr. Wynn
- 9pm dinner at Mizumi
- play until ???
I grab another 5k, swearing I'll play slower while my wife heads to the pool. This session is totally icy as well- about the best thing that can be said is I lost more slowly. Interestingly, I was dealt this as my very first hand, which of course makes the degen gambler in me think, "ok, here's the comeback. They're giving it to me". It's like the machine knows...
I'm playing next to a guy who is playing TDB, but 3 lines. I turn a pair of aces into quads but no kicker, which of course I'm sort of disappointed about. He sees it, and the very next hand HE turns aces into quads, also no kicker. Meh. I'm tired of getting crushed by TDB and go back to deuces wild bonus. Fairly soon after, I make-
I don't know how to feel about this hand. Sure, it's a handpay. TDB, it's a nice draw for 4 2's w/kicker (which the dreamer in me thinks I could hit twice). Clearly the right move is hold everything, but I actually wanted to toss both 3s and just go for 4 deuces bc, well, they're cooler... anyways, I took the jackpot but with a slight feeling that the universe was playing with me.
The machines now turn to ice AGAIN. Frustrated, I take my last 1.5k over to UX, but some jerkoff is playing on one of the machines and of COURSE locking up the other one. I head out to the main floor where there is one full pay UX TDB machine, but no sound. It takes the first 1k pretty fast, then I make-
Yeah BOOOYYYYYY!
Outta nowhere. No sound. Bang. I can't believe it is only 11am. I play on, lose 2k back before I come to my senses and join my wife at the pool, only stuck 1k for that session thanks to the UX hit.
To be continued...