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Woke up this morning at Linq. I slept for nine hours last night, cannot get out of bed. At all. So tired. ZZZZZZZZZZ. Today is my last day working in Las Vegas during this trip. I could not be more fucking happy.
I grabbed breakfast at Nook, which is a really little nothing place to grab and go. I like that they have LARGE iced coffees and are right by the room elevators. This morning, the cash register is not working. Like just not. The nice woman said “I guess it is free!” and now it was. Fun fact: If you are a customer who says “I guess it is free!” when something does not scan, the cashier is in their right to murder you with their eyes. But if the cashier says it is free…then you are a winner.
I could not wait for my work day to end because I am just done. DONE. My vacation starts the second I close my laptop today. I am free. I am ready. I even scheduled a nap during my work day.
I feel like before I left for Vegas, I have such visions of my trip and how I will be outside and free and going crazy and YAY. I pictured me bouncing all around on the Vegas Strip, overflowing with excited energy Vegas YAY!
As such, I planned tonight as if I would be bouncing off the walls with excitement. I booked not only a facial treatment after work today, but I also purchased a ticket to see O. The more my work day went on, the more I just wanted to log off and go to bed and start my vacation fresh tomorrow. I think part of this is less physical exhaustion and more mental exhaustion from work.
After work, I had a profitable Buffalo run!
I took an Uber to Thai Spa Wellness Center, which is down by the South Premium Outlets. I had planned to get back to taking buses and stop Ubering everywhere, but nope.
I used a Groupon for a one hour Guasha Facial with a honey and milk hand nourishing mask. It was so relaxing. As it was a facial, I needed my mask off, which is something I have not experienced at a spa in 2 years. Funny how this is a thing I had taken for granted.
From here, I could see the bus stop but took an Uber back instead because I can’t stop myself. My driver thinks Covid is made up by Bill Gates to insert microchips into you, but might risk the vaccine because he wants to go Hawaaii.
I went to Planet Hollywood for dinner. Burger at Cafe Hollywood. Here is the mostly water iced tea my server gave me until another one saw it and replaced it for me.
After eating, I lost $100 at Cleopatra Keno. I hate this fucking casino.
I walked over to Bellagio to get my MyKonami free play loaded. The MLife desk line is sooooooooo long. I eventually have to give up as O is about to start. And of course, it is closed when the show is over so I will have to come back.
This was my third (?) time seeing O. I don’t know what it is about the smell of chlorine I love so much, but I love inhaling it during the show. I actually ended up falling asleep during it. Exhausted from working from Vegas, relaxxxxxxed from my facial. I had a great nap. And loved what I saw of the show before and after napping. Quite the expensive nap though.
Afterwards I played the Buffalo slot machine I love. These are hard to find. I also keep referring to them as Monopoly and I don’t know why.
Woo hoo look at me! I am leaving Bellagio with a $400 win! Look at me! I am going to lose the $400 win on Cleopatra Keno.
I walked back to Linq. As I am getting this post up 10 months after the trip, I wish I could remember what the air smelled like during that walk. I love Las Vegas in December. The dry, cool air just feels so good.
I played some Buffalo back at Linq, no photo worthy wins, although I did get to play for awhile.
Bed at 4:30 AM because I AM ON VACAAAAAAAAATION!
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Jennifer, it is just so good of you to post every day of every trip for all these years. I am a long time lurker from England. Huge fan and just love your style. I have read every report since 2003 and notice an underlying trend in colourful language, working from home (Vegas) and bet size. Fantastic. Bless you.
Thank you so much for this comment!
You are welcome and, if you don’t mind, I’ve always wanted to tell you to consider giving the seven spot at keno a major blast. The odds of getting 7 out of 7 are in one in 40,000, whereas nine out of nine is one in 1.3m. Just mentioning this in case you were not aware. I used to travel to AC and LV a lot and pretty much would play keno all the time. I looked into the odds after a long spell of not hitting 8 or 9 out o 9. Since switching to the seven spot I must have hit it around 15 to twenty times over the years. I think even now just one quarter still pays around $1,750 for 7/7. Anyway, I just wanted to tell you this, to give you the tiniest smidgeon of something back by way of saying thank you for sharing your travels and thoughts with us, and to also compliment you on the humour, effort and excellence of your writing. Bravo!
I have never hit 9/9 and have only hit 8/9 3 times in my entire life. So this is good to know!
The odds of hitting 8 out of 9 are one in 30,682. I prefer the seven spot as the payout is better, even though the odds are a little higher. I find single line keno too boring so I have come up with a method of playing the multi-card keno that can pay really well and, of course, can blow the bankroll pretty quick, particularly if one is short-stacked. I find it is nevertheless a really precarious but fun way to play keno. I mark a six spot five times and then a seven spot five times, all on the same card, often with the the six and seven spot lines overlaid over each other. This means ten lines are being played on one card at the same time. Often I will play these various six and seven spots within a three x three grid, therefore nine spots are marked in total. This means it has the appearance of a nine spot ticket, but in fact there are a total of ten six and seven spots within the nine, with many of the numbers being picked multiple times to make a different six or seven spot. If six or more spots come up within the nine it is fun not knowing for a short while what you have actually hit. It can be a spectacular way to play but of course is but one way to play the multi card, of which the variety is endless. I play the ten lines x three nickels per card, so $1.50 per spin. A 6/6 pays $240 and a 7/7 pays $1050 – so no tax withheld. The last time I came to the US, pre-covid, I won $4,350 using this method with one hit on an eight spot ticket. I had eight lines marked, 15c per, of which I hit 5 x 6/6 and 3 x 7/7 all at once, when all eight numbers in the 2 column came up. I would not recommend this ticket though as hitting an eight out of eight is a mere 230,000 to 1 chance and is for mugs only – just like trying to hit 10 out of 10 (odds of one in 9m!).
When I play 4 card Cleopatra Keno, I do 3/6/9/10. Sometimes the 3 is the biggest winner of a session, but I don’t think I could stand to play one card with 3 numbers since the wins are so infrequent.
Yes, understood. The card I mention is not the four-card but the twenty card, multi-way which are often on the IGT machines which I am sure you have seen.
So, I take six numbers on the first card, card A, lets say I choose 1, 2 and 3 and then below them I will choose 11,12 and 13. That gives one box of six. Then I would go to card B and select 11, 12 and 13 along with 21, 22 and 23. That gives me my second six spot. Then I would go to card C and select 11, 21 and 31, along with the adjacent column of 12, 22 and 32. This gives me my third six spot. Then I would go to card D and I would likely select six numbers at random within the nine box grid of 11, 12, 13, 21, 22, 23, 31, 32 and 33. I would then finally choose a fifth line and choose another set of six random numbers within that nine box grid. It is more difficult to describe than to actually do. The outcome is that one is playing five x six spots within the same nine spot grid. I then also put in five times seven spots within the same nine spot grid. And finally I would select all nine numbers and play the nine spot too, just for the hell of it (1.3m chance) so not gonna happen – but will catch the eight out of nine (30k chance). It typically means that if you get seven out of nine you will be very unlucky not to have hit one or more six out of sixes and you will be in with a good chance of hitting a six out of seven and sometimes seven out of seven. So, hope that’s if interest and maybe its something to try once you’ve emptied the Cleopatra keno. I once saw a lady play only the three spot at keno, $1 a spin. She hit the play button every five seconds and lost a thousand in under two hours so yes, three spot is what you play if you don’t like money or know what you’re doing (three out of three is a one in 73 shot – for a typical payout of 25!).
I know exactly which machines you mean – they have pretty colors. My biggest win ever was on Keno in Atlantic City. I put in $100 just to break it and won $5000 on accident.
Ha Ha! What fun! It just goes to show that to meet the requisite skill standard at slots one might as well be blindfolded and just choose the numbers or hit the buttons with a Dunkin Donut.
A similar thing happened to me at the Borgata. I accidentally played all four cards without knowing. I was out course concentrating one the card where I had picked numbers but out of the corner of my eye I noticed the card next door filled in the first seven numbers drawn so I hit a 7/7 with 2 coin in for $3,500. Sadly the Borgata did not know the overseas tax rules at that time (2006) so they mistakenly kept a third of the win, which took me over a year to claim back via the IRS. Anyway, always great to get a surprise hit like that, albeit too rare.