Day 2
Saturday June 13, 2015
Today we went downtown to play. But before we played we had 2 meets. The first was with Yahtzee Mike and his kids. I hadn't seen his kids since they were tots and they have grown quite a bit. We hung out for a while out on Fremont Street before he left.

The next meet up was with AP and Just Mare and Scott for breakfast at Magnolia's Veranda for breakfast. I'd never met Mare in person so it was good to finally meet her. I had eggs and coned beef hash and Dee had eggs with no meat. We had some good food and good discussions. Mare took care of the bill with the food credits from her room offer (thanks Mare) and we were out of there.

We decided to play at the Four Queens today. I had an offer for $200 in free play. We didn't need the room here so didn't bother to book it. We sat down at the 9/6 jacks machines and played for halves. Things here were not good. Few quads and few full houses. By the time we ran through our action we were down $600.

We took a break and walked down to Neonopolis and went to the Toy Shack and Ultimate Sports Cards, both of who you see on Pawn Stars as the “experts”. We got Dee a hockey card of her favorite Ottawa Senator for $1 and left.

On the way back to Four queens I stopped at the Harley Davidson store and picked up a few souvenir chips for a buddy at work and then we went back to the Four Queens for more video poker.

Things were just as bad this time around. I was lucky enough to hit a straight flush only to lose the credits in about 10 minutes. A few quads kept me going for a while but then it was down the tubes for me. I cashed out even this time around but Dee bled a little bit more.

We took another break and walked up and down Fremont Street. The people dressed as characters are a real pain in the ass as are the sales people that try to sell skin care products.

We went back tot he Four Queens and for a little variety played the 50 play machines and some Bonus Deuces. Despite Dee hitting multiple sets of deuces and deuces with an ace she dropped 2 more bills. I actually hit a natural royal flush and had one hand with 12 dirty royals and broke even. The swings on 50 play can be tough!

We'd finally gotten the action in we were looking to run in order to keep the offers coming in the future.

I stopped by the Player's Club and turned in my coupon from the LVA MRB for $10 free play. I also had the AGC Coupon good for 2x points up to 500 points.

I ran the free play through 9/6 jacks for quarters and turned my $210 into $185. This took us to being down $900 for the day. Not exactly they way I had hoped our first day of action was going to go.

For dinner we had plans to meet my friend AP at Binion's to go to the Steakhouse for a 5:30pm reservation. He's got a ton of comps there and invited us to come along. Even though I was a big fan and played a lot of blackjack at Binion's over the years I'd never been to the steakhouse here. I was and still am a fan of the casino coffee shop. Nothing was better than getting a $3 steak dinner in their downstairs coffee shop.

For appetizers I got Lollipop Chicken and Dee got snails. Dee said the snails were good and I thought the chicken was tasty. It was a bit pricey for what you got but it was a different type of appetizer than you'd typically get. For our entrees Dee got the portabella mushroom ravioli and I went for the rib eye. Dee said hers was awesome and I thought the rib eye was good.

For dessert we split volcano cake with ice cream. It was rich and very filling but very tasty.

By the time we were done we had lots of great discussions and walked out of there stuffed. Thanks again to AP for inviting us along.

We left the downtown area and made a quick stop at Saver's to get Dee some books to read during the trip before heading back to the Tuscany to wrap up the night with some TV and typing this report.

Total win/loss for the day - $900
Total Comps for the day $325
Room $115
Cash/Free Play $210