This morning I slept until 11:00 at Flamingo. As a reminder I was up until 4:30 am taking thousands of dollars out of a Buffalo slot machine at Linq. How and why, I don’t know! What a fucking incredible night that was.
I head out to Starbucks and then back to Linq.
Las Vegas, day fucking 12 of this trip. I don’t like how fast this is going.
I am up at noon. I have a couple of work meetings today, even though I am on vacation. I hate that.
Once I am done, I Uber to Wynn for no real reason other than I need to stop going back and forth between my room and my Buffalo machine. I haven’t even played one penny at Flamingo during this stay.
Las Vegas day 10, waking up at Treasure Island. It is 7:00 am, I am out by 9:00.
I walk over to Mirage to use my dining credit for breakfast. The wait for The Pantry is 2 hours. I call the front desk and ask for a late check out and am told “sure!” but fortunately, I got a text saying if I want to sit at the bar, they can get me in now. Yes please!
Breakfast with a view:
Day nine is here! I wake up at El Cortez in Downtown Las Vegas at 6:30 am. The next thing I wrote was “should have gone right back to bed.”
My shampoo opened in my bag and that sucked. Not so much because shampoo is now all over all my toiletries, although that sucked too. But because I use fancy expensive shampoo to try and keep the hair dye in my hair, which is getting more impossible the greyer it gets. Now I have to go buy some, but I don’t want to. What I do want to do is whine.
I went outside to smoke and check my email. It is time to check into Flamingo. Except I accidentally booked a nonsmoking room. NO. So I cancel that and rebook but there are no smoking rooms today. That’s okay because I was triple booked anyway. So I rebook Flamingo for tomorrow and go about checking into Treasure Island and Mirage today.
Why was I triple booked? Here is why:
I originally booked a semi-suite at Flamingo, which does not normally come up for me. Then I got an offer from Treasure Island that came with $100 free play – sign me up! I didn’t want to rebook Flamingo in case I lost the room type. My Flamingo reservation was for four nights, Treasure Island was for 2. Then just for the hell of it, I booked a Mirage offer for that came with $25 resort credit and $65 free play. I have no intention of staying at Mirage because no smoking rooms. But I want the freebies. I am totally fine with burning MLife offers. The resort fees alone are fucking ridiculous and my freebies will likely go away once the world goes back to normal, so why not. Continue reading
Las Vegas day 8! I start off at Fremont hotel whining about my trip being half over.
I am up at 7:00 and out at 8:30. The line at Dunkin Donuts is so long, but also so worth it.
I decide to play at The D this morning and I hit Queens.
Las Vegas day six starts out at Fremont Hotel in beautiful Downtown Las Vegas. I can never talk enough about how much I love waking up here. It just feels so good. Looking out the window, seeing Vegas. Knowing how quiet it is. Thinking of all the people who are just crawling to bed after having a winning night. Fate moving around invisibly to possibly smile on me today. And then the iced coffee shortly in my future…
I am up at 7:30 and out at 8:30.
I lost $100 on Ultimate X video poker and then switched to Supertimes Pay video poker. I put in a $100 bill and went down and then back up before cashing out at $100. Sometimes wins like this feel better than an actual win. I love being saved.
I grab McDonalds for breakfast and am back in my room at 10:10 for a nap.
When I wake up again, I walk over to The D. I don’t know why I love playing here since points are shorted and I don’t even drink alcohol to make up for it. Thanks to Covid, every other machine at Long Bar is shut off. This unfortunately includes the machine that gave me Aces with a Kicker twice back in December, both times holding only one Ace. I sit next to her and pet her a bit before playing.
I hit for 7/9 on Cleopatra Keno for $100.
Las Vegas day 7 starts off a lot like day 6. Up at Fremont hotel, down at Dunkin Donuts. The only difference is that today, I slept until 10:00 am.
Breakfast is at Binions, courtesy of their app. There was a line to get into the coffee shop and every single table was full.
I lost $40 on Buffalo on my way out of here.
I went to Circa to see if I could actually have my choice of machines and I sure did. Iced coffee here is $8, compared to Dunkin Donuts where it is just a bit over $4 for a cup that is twice the size.
I played Buffalo Chief for the first time. I lost $60 with nothing happening. I hate that so much. Just give me the fucking bonus you asshole. Continue reading
After sleeping through the grand opening of Circa last night, I wake up at Ballys Las Vegas, and I am officially on vacation! Oh how good it feels to not have to log on and work. There is a whole neon city out there waiting for me and I cannot wait to grace it with my presence.
It is 8:25 am and the first thing I do is get coffee. Wow this line is long when you are not down here at 4:00 am.
I don’t really want to gamble here because I am moving Downtown today and I would rather gamble there. But I feel obligated to somewhat earn my keep so gamble I do! I lost $200 and called it a day and waved good bye using only my middle finger.
I checked into Fremont and got room 740 and this time I took photos! I also took video but I hate my voice so I have to learn to deal with that before I post. While we are waiting:
Today is a Monday in Las Vegas. I wake up at Ballys. It is freezing outside. Like a freak cold day, freezing, windy, so cold.
I am up at 4:00 am. I have to be “at” work in my room at Ballys at 6:00 am.
I went down to get coffee from the insanely overpriced coffee kiosk in the lobby. At least it was open, it could have been worse.
I lost $100 on my coffee run and then went back up to make my paycheck. Continue reading
This morning I wake up at Luxor Las Vegas to begin my first full day of this trip. It is 5:00 am.
Normally, I would smoke a cigarette and go back to bed, but there are no smoking rooms here so I have to get dressed and go downstairs. I hate this. I force myself to shower first, so that I get down there when Starbucks is open at least, since we all know I am not going to just smoke and come back up without gambling.
I lost $100 on Supertimes Pay and $100 on Buffalo. For crissakes. Is the sun even out yet? I did hit this though:
