I made it home safe and sound and have a suitcase full of dirty clothes in the washing machine
Thanks again to all who followed along. I enjoy doing these reports and it gives me something to do in my Vegas downtime. Not being a 24/7 action guy I have plenty of downtime. I know my reports are all pretty much the same even with the food choices but whatta you gonna do?
I had a great trip and LV is always a wonderful way to break up a dismal Chicago winter. The weather was fabulous for a few days and rainy and gloomy a few days. Still better than Chicago
I even hit the jackpot on the flight home. First plane ride I have had in seemingly years that wasn't totally booked and I ended up in the first row aisle bulkhead with no one sitting next to me. As far as Southwest goes thats first class!
Treasure Island
As I said this was my first time staying there. It's nothing special nor is it a nightmare. If all you want is a bed and shower and easy access to a poker room it fits the bill. The walk from my room at the TI to the Venetian poker room isn't really much further than the walk from a room at the Palazzo to the Venetian poker room. The Wynn is reasonable and even Caesars isn't too bad. Bellegio and Aria are more of a trek. But for me that fine because I kile walking although I didn't spend as much time down at theat end of the strip. I probably would have as the weather was either spectacular (65 and sunny) or sketchy (50 and rainy) seemingly every other day. Walking out of the Venetian casino into the TI casino is like night and day. The loud, bright and busy Venetian to the dark, quiet, empty TI. TI is basically a low roller slot machine joint. They have a few table games but seem empty or closed most of the time. They have leaned into the cheaper to run stadium concept. Stadium, craps, blackjack, roulette, and even stadium 3 card poker.
Poker
The games were pretty good for the most part. I played mostly at the Venetian for the convience aspect and only played cash the Aria and Caesars othe than the V. I did okay in cash buth nothing spectacular. That last cash session was the only time I got felted. I played for about 7 hours and basically treaded water for the most part and was done in by the 2 hands mentioned above. Once February hit for the mystery high hand bonus (it was 200 in Jan) all the locals were buzzing about the chance to hit that 25K. Somebody hit it on Sunday but they will be adding another 25K next week. Also all the bonuses will double on Superbowl Sunday. So if you would rather grind poker with a bunch of grumpy locals than watch the superbowl you could win 50K. I was just glad to get a piece of that bonus money after watching 2 bucks slide down that bonus shoot every hand. There was one grumpy old rock at our table when it hit and he didn't play another hand. It took about 30 minutes to get paid and he just walked around the table, missed 2 blinds and was outta there like a bat out of hell when he got those 2 black chips
I probably had a reasonable run of hands at cash but was totally card dead in the tournies. I did have an okay run at the Aria tourny but the situation never seemed to work out. The Wynn tournies though I never stood a chance. I just had absolutely no real playable cards or situations. Especially the last one. It was torture. All that said I still prefer tourny play to cash. I enjoy both but prefer a good structure tourney, turbo donkaments not so much.
Gambling
I didn't gamble a whole lot because I know it is a losing proposition but the little I did went surprisingly well. My style is strictly low roller hit and run techniques. If you get up take the money and run no matter how small. If you keep playing they WILL get it back
I did stay away for the money sucking slot machines other than to 20 I slid in to get my "free" 5 dollars from the TI. At bubble craps and stadium bacarrat you have a chance as long as you don't overstay your welcome. It's tempting though. Once you get all those craps bets pressed up you want to get to that position again. But I know from painful experience that it probably aint gonna happen anytime soon.
Results
My results were pretty much meh. Which really isn't so bad. If I can win a bunch thats great! If I can avoid losing a bunch thats pretty great too. And that is basically what happened. I had a great trip, got to scratch my poker itch, and eat some spectacular meals.
Cash +270
Tourny -740
Gambling +517
Total +47
So I didn't exactly break Vegas
But I enjoyed it but am happy to be home. 7 days may be a bit too long for my taste and style. But I only have another month of Chicago winter in front of me know and this trip was a good way to break it up. Usually I go for 5 days and that is pretty much perfect for me. I will probably go back in May as thats my favorite time to go for the weather.
So thanks again for following along on my low roller mediocre poker adventures.