Day 23
Saturday July 4, 2015
Happy Independence Day to My American Readers
I was up early today because the cousins had an early flight and I needed to take them to the airport. They had a 10:30am departure so I wanted to get them there with plenty of time. We left the Rio and since it was so early there wasn't much traffic at all. I dropped them off at their terminal and headed back to the Westgate to make those football bets I was looking at last week.

My next stop was the Gold Coast. I wanted to have the few room charges we had comped by a host. After a quick stop to the host office and a a check of the room to be sure nothing was left behind I checked out and came back over here to the Rio.

When I got back I got caught up on this very trip report and that's where we are now.

We had no real plans today so we decided we'd play a bit here. We played some triple/five play with short pay tables instead of playing dollars. Nothing serious with no large coin in plans. Dee hit a few quads and cashed out even while I dropped a few hundred.

Next Dee still had her $25 free play for booking the room. We played a variety of penny slots for fun. We hit some bonus rounds but nothing major. We did play one of the new Ellen machines and scored a bonus round for over $80. We cashed out with almost $100 so a pretty nice return getting an hour of play and a $100 on the free play.

We took a break up in the room for a while and actually fell asleep for way too long! I guess we needed it though.

For dinner we went to the buffet here at the Rio. I was surprised to see that they removed the entire first station that had the soups and salads one it. There's a wall there now. They also removed the diamond/7* entrance and just added another line at the main entrance. Just another case of Caesars Entertainment discouraging high level players.

After dinner we played a little bit more taking a small shot at the dollar games. Dee was hovering and the held 3 aces and caught the 4th for the $400 hit. Soon after she was dealt quad kings. I was hovering myself and then I popped for queens. We cashed out with about a $600 win and ran away.

For a little fun we decided to play one of the video blackjack games. That was until I realized it was a 6-5 game. Fuck that. As soon as I realized it we cashed out and ran away away as fast as we could. Luckily we won $20!

We came back to the room to watch the fireworks but they were launched from Caesars Palace and we couldn't see them, only could hear them. We were able to see the fireworks from the Stratosphere though.

Total win/loss for the day $400
Total Comps for the day $358
Rooms $239
Cash/Free Play $25
Food $80
Other $14