Day 13
Wednesday June 24, 2015
We got up today and had one last breakfast down in Duet to hold us over until we got back to Las Vegas. I had the roast beef paninni and Dee got the ham and cheese wrap. I also got 8 bottles of juice to go with the remaining drink vouchers we had.

We came back to the room to gather our things. I checked the TV and saw our host took care of the few charges that we had put on the room so we were on our way.

The ride back to Las Vegas was a little different today. Instead of taking the usual route we decided to take Christmas Tree Pass. We've wanted to do this for a long time but never really felt we had the right vehicle to do it. This time with the full sized SUV we thought it would be a good opportunity to do it. There are sings at the beginning suggesting 4 wheel drive and telling us that it's a rough road. Rough isn't the word for it. It was like driving on the worst pothole filled road in your town, times 100. I was glad we finally did it but see no reason to do it ever again. There wasn't much to see except for some cool rock formations and it took well over an hour to do.

The rest of the ride was uneventful and it was nice to be able to do 80mph on a smooth road instead of 15. We stopped off in Henderson and dropped our laundry off for fluff and fold service.

We were back on the road in a few minutes and continued the drive towards downtown Las Vegas and arrived at Main Street Station where we'd be spending the next 6 nights. I booked this with a mailed offer through host Ipo who picked up the additional nights. Over the last few months my offers from Main Street Station have been cut substantially despite higher play than ever my last few trips. This mail offer was only good for $25 in free play and 3 nights. Ipo still offers me a silver card for complimentary meals at the non gourmet restaurants so the only thing I'm really losing is $50 in free play. I'm not happy about it but I can deal with it. My offer also included 5x points Monday – Thursday so we'd be cashing in on that too.

When we arrived we were able to check in but the room was ready. We grabbed our stuff from the car and went up. I requested #1724 and that's what we got. This is a handicap accessible room. These rooms are the same as the standard rooms here at Main Street Station with a king bed, nightstands, table with chairs, dresser, 32 inch flat screen TV, closet, fridge and a work desk. The bathroom is laid out similar to the regular rooms as well except it's all one room instead of being split into two. It also has safety bars around the toilet and in the tub.

We hit the VP machines and our usual 3/5 plays. Things here were miserable. I dropped $600 in under an hour hitting only 3 quads. I even tried to switch it up a bit with some Spin Poker and a few hands of 10 play with no luck. Dee did a little better only dropping $100. In total we had only run 7k through the machines between us and we were down $700 already.

We took a short break and then hit the Market Street Cafe at the Cal for something to eat. I got my favorite hot turkey sandwich and Dee got pasta. The food here is basic but good and it's one of my favorite cafes in town.

When we were done eating it was back to the VP machines. This time around I did almost as bad. I only dropped $100 this time and Dee broke even but not after hitting a dozen quads and a straight flush. The killer part for me was hitting a hand of 5 play with 2 sets of quad fours on dealt trips for over $100. Not ten minutes later not only was the $100 gone, so was another $50. We somehow ended up with 27 scratch cards. All were for $2 and worth $54.

We ran my $25 free play through a penny game to try and have some fun and even that was terrible. By the timer we ran $25 through we were down to $11.

I had enough of losing so by 8pm we were in the room watching TV which sucks because I was getting 5x points today and had hoped to run a little extra action through the machines to take advantage of that.

Total win/loss for the day - $750
Total Comps for the day $178
Room $42
Cash/Free Play $79 (Includes Scratch Cards)
Food $57