Saturday, April 25, 2009 – Day Two of Eleven

[This is part two of an eleven part trip report.  If you want to start at the beginning, go here.]

I hate this boothling; I’ve dealt with her before. I hand her the coupon and my ID and say “I need a new card”  You don’t have a card?  “Not with me”.  So you need a new card?

I give her the silent look of death as she starts to explain “You can only double the points you earn and you can’t earn them without a card”  NO SHIT, REALLY?  THEN MAYBE YOU SHOULD GIVE ME A NEW CARD. I don’t like repeating myself so I just stand there silent as she prints me a new card.

Deep breath.

She gives me a new card and I then go to find the video poker with a wheeeeeeeeel machines.  I see they have been replaced with a regular slot machine with a wheel.  I venture over to the Plaza and find wheel poker with a wheel.  Whew.  I try it out and get two 4-of-a-kinds, but still manage to lose money.  Great.

I go back to Las Vegas Club and try a Viva Monopoly slot.  I cashed out at $50.  I didn’t write how much I put in to get that $50.

On my way back to the El Cortez I stop at the store next to Fitzgeralds with the cheapo Diet Pepsi and get myself a 32-ounce fountain Diet Pepsi for $1.07.  The best part is that when you are done, if you have ice left over, you can pour all the half full and warm Diet Pepsis you have been carrying around in the cup!  This is the best deal in all of Las Vegas.

At the El Cortez, I planned to play $30.  I turned this into $45 on Invaders From the Planet Moolah.  Then I did $30-30 on Viva Monopoly.  Then I did $15-0 on Monopoly so I’m back to my initial $30.  I put more money in and hit a $96 bonus.  I wanted to play it to $100.  But at $110 I got a $75 bonus so I cashed out with $175.

I get back to my room at 3:00.  I have five dollars more than I left work with yesterday afternoon.  So that’s great for me.

I nap and get dressed and come back out.  I do the El Cortez free daily slot tournament.  I hate this new one.  It’s impossible to get ANYTHING AT ALL unless you get the red, white and blue sevens.  This makes it so boring.  It’s four minutes long.  All I want to do is for it to end.  Once it finally does, I guess I took my card out too soon because it tells me to reinsert.  So I do and it resets all over again and I get to go again!  No.  I don’t want to.  I hate this tournament!

I did crappy on both tries.

My notes say “Monopoly, won something?  $50 bonus?  I need to start writing more”  Yeah I do.

Karen thought she could kidnap me and use my Craps virginity to make her some money, but I had to get back to the El Cortez for the Saturday night drawing.  We parted ways and wouldn’t ya know it, I lost the Saturday night drawing.  However, the winner who got the television had also won $2000 earlier in the Cash is King drawing.  You go girl!

I play Invaders From the Planet Moolah and get her up to $125.  This machine RULES!

I cannot make out the rest of my notes here.  It looks like I went back to the Las Vegas Club and lost $200 in dollar video poker.   Oof. Why would I do that?  I rarely play dollar video poker because it scares me to bet $5 a hand.  Have I lost my mind?  I’ve only been here 24 hours and I did this?

Fremont Street and the El Cortez were packed packed packed packed packed tonight. I’ve never seen the El Cortez so packed before.  I watched a bit of the Fremont Street Experience light show.

I stopped at Binions for sandwich to go and brought it to my room. I ate and then was asleep by 11:00.

Want to continue reading?  You can find the next chapters here:  three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven!