Day 22
Friday July 3, 2015
Today is the cousin's last day in town so we were hopefully going to make the best of it for them. They went over to the Gold Coast to the pool. We went downtown to the Four Queens.

We parked at valet at the D and then walked over to the Four Queens. I have a July offer giving me $200 in free play and if I earn 2000 points in 72 hours I get another $200 in free play. We started off playing dollar 9/6 jacks. I'm not a huge fan of playing dollars but we didn't have a ton of time. Dee was off to the races popping 3 quads in the first 15 minutes including the dreaded aces. She had her meter up nicely. I was hovering with just one quad but not doing too bad. Things started to change I Dee hovered but I was feeding in bills. Between us we were ok though so we continued at the dollar level. She hit a downward spiral and I came back a little bit. We were half way to the goal of 2000 points and took a break for lunch down just $200.

Lunch was at Magnolia's Veranda. Dee had eggs and I had a hot turkey sandwich. We filled up and were back to the machines.

We continued with dollar action and Dee was getting beat up, she lost all of her gains and another $100 and I dropped $100. Between us we were down $500 and almost to our goal.

We switched over to the 50/100 plays and some deuces bonus. Dee played the 50 play and I was on a 100 play. Dee was up and down with no major wins. I was getting dealt plenty of trips to start with and a few quads. These kept the meter steady. I did manage to hit a set of deuces on one hand where I held a single deuce. During the whole session never hit 4 deuces with an ace though. I also got dealt 4 to a royal. When this happened last week I hit 3 royals on pennies. Today though I was playing nickels. I held the 4 cards and drew. Wild royals were popping up and then the real ones. By the end of the draw I'd hit 5 natural royals at $200 a pop for a grand plus the wild royals, flushes and straights. The total win for the hand was $1080.

We reached our goal and went to the slot club to have the extra free play loaded to my card. I also cashed out my points for $150. This was 2 – 3 trips worth that I had in my account. I took a shot running the free play through $1 jacks or better. It wasn't great but not bad. I managed to hit quad 7's and cashed out with $440.

We walked over to Binion's to get our picture taken at the $1,000,000 display at the request of the cousins. They wanted a picture of us from the trip to take home. After wandering around for 30 minutes and losing $10 in penny games the pictures were ready and we went back to the D to fetch the car.

We came back to the Rio for a short break and then met up with the cousins and went to the Strip. We had plans to go to Guy Fieri's Las Vegas at the Linq with the cousins and my friend Anne and her family. I redeemed $200 of my 7* celebration dinners. Everyone arrived and we were seated outside. As hot as it is outside the patio wasn't too bad. I got a bacon mac n cheese burger that comes with fries. Dee got the turkey picnic sandwich. For dessert we split the triple – double mint chocolate chip ice cream. Everyone else enjoyed their meals and desserts too. This place is pretty reasonable with it's prices and 8 of us had dinner, drinks, and desserts for $195 ( I hated wasting that $5 and would have ordered an extra drink had I realized we were under $200). After dinner we said our goodbyes and left the strip.

We dropped the cousins off here at the Rio and then went over to the Gold Coast. Over at the Gold Coast I checked the scorecard from yesterday's video poker tournament and to my surprise took the bottom spot in 35th place for a $50 free play win. We hit the video poker machines again. The machines were good today. Dee lost $100 quickly but her second bill caught on fire. She was hitting more quads than she could keep count of including dealt sixes. Few were bonus quads and none were aces but I never saw so many quads. I was doing well scoring a good number of quads including aces. My machine fell apart though and I ended up losing my original $100 bill plus another one. Dee started losing too so we cashed out with a small $100 win but got a lot of play.

We ran the $50 free play through NSUD at the 50¢ level. Not many deuces showed up this time around and the $50 in free play became $40.

To wrap up the day we came back here to the Rio for some TV and then bed.

Total win/loss for the day $1400
Total Comps for the day $1407
Rooms $598
Cash/Free Play $600
Food $215
Other $14