Day 2
Thursday October 16, 2008
I woke up pretty early today. I looked over the options for playing today as far as promos and coupons went I decided to go with Sam’s Town. Since this is really my only day in town this week I wanted to hit something good. While this isn’t the greatest play I had traded for a $20 match play and a 5X points coupon. I also wanted to reestablish myself at Sam’s Town after not having been here in a few years.
My first order of business was to get new slot cards. Since the last time I was there, the club changed, merged with Coasts and B-Connected. The girl at the booth was very helpful in getting me set up with a new card. I had all of my older players cards from Sam’s Town, Coasts, and the downtown Boyd properties. She was able to combine all of those cards into one account and I had over 200,000 points between all of the accounts.
From here I found some 8/5 bonus $1 triple play machines. While I’m not fully bankrolled for this game long term, I like it from time to time to take a shot. Things weren’t good here today and not only did I not get any decent dealt winners, I got no quads and dropped $600 in no time. After this it was time to take a break and get something to eat.
I had a nice breakfast of hash and eggs at the Café in the Park, the temporary coffee shop. Everything here was quick and service was good and as always, it was comped.
After breakfast I hit the blackjack tables. I found a $10 double deck game and played 2 hands. Things were choppy here to begin with but then got better. I was hitting some doubles and splits and got a nice gain. Things got bad for a few decks and most of those gains were lost before I got back to back hands with double opportunities on both hands. Not only did I get them, I won them. I also won my $20 match play and walked away from the table with a $700 win.
Next up was more triple play video poker. It was pretty much more of the same as before. There were very few dealt winners and I only scored one quad. I dropped another $500 into this machine and it was time to give up at Sam’s for the day after running only 10k through the machines.
As I was walking through the casino heading to the parking garage I spotted some coupons sitting on a slot machine. One was for a free beer and one was for a free hotdog. Hmm, free lunch! I headed over to the snack bar to cash in my coupon for a big hot dog. They also give you a pickle and a small bag of chips with this. Over at the bar I grabbed a soda and headed out to the park to eat my free lunch! Now I know I have plenty of comps all over town and can eat free but something was fun about eating for free with coupons I found!
I finally left Sam’s Town and went back to the Strip to Bally’s. I had to collect my $400 and that was only available between 4-6pm. I hate when they give you a great offer like this but then limit the pick up times like this. I got my $400 with no issues and went right back out and made my way to the Silverton.
Here I had a tiny $25 in free play but free play is free play so I’ll take it. Here I played some 10-play video poker for quarters. If I could sum up 10-play in 1 word it would have to be FUN! I wasn’t getting many dealt winners but did manage to pull a few quads before things started to dry up. I wasn’t down much at this point so decided to try DDB hoping to hit a quick quad or 2 and get back into the game. This worked out well because on the 3rd hand I was dealt 3 deuces and pulled the 4th with a kicker on one line and a 4th on another. This got me back into it and I switched back to bonus poker. A few minutes later I held 3 to a royal and hit one on line 6 for my first quarter royal of the year.
Shortly after I cashed out to lock up the gains and played some penny slots. My luck on these was great. I was hitting large pays and getting lots of bonus rounds. I didn’t get too far ahead but got to play a lot. So much in fact I ran over $2,700 through one machine. I eventually cashed out even and went to dinner at the Sundance grill.
Things were slow at the Sundance Grill and I sat up at the counter. I went with my favorite prime rib sandwich and mashed potatoes. After dinner it was getting pretty late and I had a busy day tomorrow with packing up and leaving for LA.
Total win/loss for the day $900
Total comps for the day $617