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
Monopoly $20-$0
Double Double Bonus video poker $40-$0
I go outside and take the Deuce bus to the Bellagio. One goal of this trip is to eat breakfast here because I have not done that in so many years. It is FREEZING out. I wish I had my gloves.
Oh terrible day. The Bellagio buffet is doing holiday brunch today even though it’s not a holiday. This means that it is $35. This means NO.
I stopped and took pictures of their conservatory done up for Christmas.
I went across the street and paid Planet Hollywood $20.83 for their breakfast buffet. UGH. That is insane. The coffee here is too hot so I kill some time by writing my notes for the morning and playing with my camera. Then of course as I finally go to fill my plate, the server completely clears my table. She TOOK MY COFFEE AWAY too, just as it was getting to a temperature that wasn’t going to burn my tongue off. “I’m sorry, I thought you left.” I like how you assumed I wouldn’t tip you either. So I didn’t. Okay I did. But I didn’t want to. But KARMA. DAMMIT.
At 10:00 am, I am on the Deuce bus headed back to my room at the Riviera. Once there, I take a nap. I have the “Do Not Disturb” sign on my door. So housekeeping calls to wake me up. Why do they do this? Why doesn’t “Do Not Disturb” apply only to knocking on the door? This infuriates me always and forever.
Later on, I go outside. I take the 108 bus to Terribles to try and repeat yesterday’s big wins and NO WINS FOR YOU.
Next is Ellis Island because I cannot get enough of playing penny Ultimate X. I put in $40, got up to $110 and cashed out at $100.
I actually had a dealt four of a kind Queens with multipliers that was an $80 win.
Cleopatra Keno: $20-$150
This is what I’m talking about!
I stopped at the Westin on my way back to the strip for Starbucks and slot machines. I lost $30 on an Easter Island slot here.
Barbary Coast! I put $40 into a Wizard of Oz Big Event slot and hit nothing, nothing and more nothing all the way until I had nothing left. These games have a community bonus. Your eligibility is dependent on you actually playing. When you are done playing, you usually have time left on your meter. I did. As I was waiting it out, the Big Event Bonus kicked in the literal second my timer ran out. YOU SON OF A BITCH.
Hello Ultimate X nickels at the Imperial Palace! $20-$65. Hit and run.
I get on the Deuce and make my next stop Encore.
I played Cleopatra Keno here for a very long time. I went up and down and back up and back down. I must have played for about two hours and lost nothing. I also won nothing but the glass is half degenerate.
Back to the Riviera and in bed by 1:00 am.