Wednesday, July 29, 2009: Day One
Oh wait, my flight is cancelled? Never mind…….
Thursday, July 30, 2009: New Day One!
My flight is supposed to leave at 10:18 am It doesn’t. I’m following up on my new tradition of taking a picture of the departures screen so you can see mine is the only flight on this board that is delayed.
Saturday, January 1, 2011 – Day Nineteen of Nineteen: Last Day
[This is the last part of a nineteen day trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, go here.]
One last morning waking up at the Riviera. Sigh. I am up at 7:30 and out at 8:30. No no no no noooooooooooooooooo I DON’T WANNA GOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEE WAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH.
I play quarter Double Double Bonus video poker:
$20-$0
$20-$75 – four of a kind fives
Friday, December 31, 2010: Day Eighteen of Nineteen. Last Full Day 🙁
[This is day eighteen of a nineteen day trip report. If you want to start at the beginning, you can go here.]
Oh how I hate going home.
I am still at the Riviera. I wake up at 10:00 and am out at 11:00.
Whoa what the hell is going on here? The Riviera is PACKED. Damn, all these people must have piled in for New Year’s Eve. Yesterday I had the casino to myself. Today I am unable to play MY Double Double Bonus video poker game because there is a couple on it playing one quarter at a time and holding all the wrong cards. Oh hey look – let’s drop a pair of Jacks because you have a Jack and a Queen that are the same color but not the same suit. Sure, that is the correct play! I am so happy for you that you are on MY machine because with skills like that, you are just running up the progressives without any chance in hell of hitting one yourself!
That said, I lost $40 on Double Double Bonus video poker.
I walked down the Strip to catch the 119 bus to Ellis Island. It stops right on the side of Palazzo, across from Treasure Island.
The restaurant at Ellis Island is PACKED. Being solo, I got in right away though. Take THAT all you people with your big fancy party of twos and threes.
Thursday, December 30, 2010 – Day Seventeen of Nineteen
[This is part seventeen of a nineteen day trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, please go here.]
I wake up at the Riviera this morning at 6:00 am. I am out by 7:00.
Quarter Double Double Bonus video poker:
$20-$80 Jacks
$20-$0
$20-$0
Wednesday, December 29, 2010 – Day Sixteen of Nineteen
[This is part sixteen of a nineteen day trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, go here.]
I unintentionally slept until noon today. I am finally sleeping in and my trip is coming to an end.
I am at the Riviera. I need coffee. I planned to play $60 and get coffee, then come back and get dressed. That did not happen.
I did get an iced coffee. Then I put a $20 bill into a progressive Double Double Bonus video poker quarter game aaaaaaand…
Wait for it…
Okay why am I making you wait for it? I am sorry. Without further adieu, I hit the $552 progressive for Aces with a kicker! EEEEEEEEEEE!
Tuesday, December 28, 2010 – Day Fifteen of Nineteen
[This is part fifteen of a nineteen day trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, go here.]
Up at 8:30 at the Imperial Palace. Breakfast is at their buffet. There are people out there who will swear that you will die if you eat here. I always get so annoyed at how ridiculous these people are. But today when I took a bite of a chocolate chip pancake only to discover the chocolate chips were raisins, I started leaning towards joining the boycott.
I went next door to Harrahs for some Starbucks. I miss having a Dunkin Donuts nearby. I came back to the Imperial Palace to play Ultimate X video poker in nickels:
$20-$0
$20-$35
$20-$0
Today I am moving hotels again. This time to the Riviera. So many people hate this place and rant and rave about “THE SKY IS FALLING. IT IS A DUMP. SQUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAK” I happen to love the place. First, it gets my vote for Las Vegas casino with the best exterior visual. Continue reading
Monday, December 27, 2010 – Day Fourteen of Nineteen
[This is part fourteen of a nineteen day trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, go here.]
Awake at 7:00 at the Imperial Palace. I am in a bad mood, despite having actually won money yesterday. Maybe it’s because my trip is almost over no no no no nooooooooooo.
I actually ate Burger King for breakfast. It cost more than any other option because any other option would have been comped. But I just did not feel like having to deal with any person today so that seemed to be the easier option.
After breakfast, I go back to sleep and wake back up at 1:00. I’m going to shower and then go out and collect all my leftover free play and random cash back.
On my way out, I cashed in a 95-cent Imperial Palace TITO and it shorted me a quarter! I am losing money today without even having gambled yet.
Sunday, December 26, 2010 – Day Thirteen of Nineteen
[This is part thirteen of a nineteen day trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, go here.]
I wake up at the Orleans at 9:30 and an hour later I am downstairs for my last few hours here before I move to the Imperial Palace.
My quarter Double Double Bonus video poker machine is free so I give it $40 as a going away present. Sigh.
I have a comped meal at the Orleans coffee shop for breakfast and then get going on a Carnival of Mystery slot machine:
$10-$20
$10-$15
$10-$20
$10-$30
$10-$0
I put all the winning tickets back in to play off the change. I cashed out for $80 in the end.
Saturday, December 25, 2010 – Day Twelve of Nineteen: Merry Christmas!
[This is part twelve of a nineteen part trip report. If you would like to start at the beginning, go here.]
I wake up at The Orleans with my huge $35 win from last night in tact. I go downstairs with $170. This is a sure sign of degeneracy because The Orleans is off strip so there is nowhere for me to go. Thereby, I do not need that much money in ONE casino.
I managed to get it up to $220 and played back down to $170. See? I told you I was degenerate.
Quarter Double Double bonus video poker. I hit four of a kind eights into sixes and back into eights.
Friday, December 24, 2010 – Day Eleven of Nineteen
[This is part eleven of a nineteen part trip report. If you want to start at the beginning, go here.]
All I want for Christmas Eve is my first quarter royal…
I wake up at the California hotel. I am out at 9:30 and bee lined it to Dunkin Donuts at Fremont for some iced coffee and some SuperTimes Pay video poker at my most favorite SuperTimes Pay machines in all of Las Vegas.
$20-$30
$20-$45 – hitting four of a kind sevens with a 2x multiplier.
