Day 8
Wednesday December 16, 2015
Today is actually moving day but we started off with a trip to the gym for our usual quick workout.

We came back to the room and got ready for today's move. Since we were getting killed here we skipped playing today before we left. Instead we went back over to the Riverside. The plan here was to get Dee a card and do 5k in action on her card to see what mail, if any, she'll end up getting. We hit the same machines as yesterday. Things here were bad here for me. I hit no quads in $2500 in action and only a few full houses, flushes and straight. I ended up dropping $400. For Dee things were much better. She hit 3 quads and a bunch of full houses. She ended up winning $200. The session saw us losing $200 on 5k in action.

We stopped back at the player's club and got Dee two $5 Safeway gift cards. They are still running the same promo as yesterday where for 500 points you get a $5 card.

The next plan was to go lunch. We went to the Sidewalk Cafe at the Riverside and got a couple of sandwiches. Dee got an Italian combo with coleslaw and got roast beef with pasta salad. With drinks the bill came to $18.05 and Dee had just earned $18.71 in comps so that worked out well.

She also got $5 in free play for signing up so we ran that through a penny slot and she had 40¢ left. I thought we were doing bad at VP losing 10-20% of everything we had run. This is ridiculous.

We were done playing now and it was time to leave Laughlin. The drive back to Las Vegas was typical and the journey brought us to the laundromat in Henderson, the bank (and not for a good reason) and then to Main Street Station where we'd be spending the next 4 nights. I booked this stay using my monthly offer of 4 nights and $35 free play. Recently my offers have taken a real nosedive despite bigger play than ever before. If it weren't for my host giving me a silver card for free food during the stay I'd be seriously looking at dumping this place.

Checking in took just a few minutes like it usually does and we were off to room 1720. I actually asked my host to block the same room we always get and not only did that not happen, she only listed the handicap room as a request. Of course the slowest week of the year I'm told at check in that they have none available. This room has 2 queen beds, a nightstand, table with chairs, dresser, 32 inch flat screen TV, closet, fridge and a work desk. The bathroom is typical of the rooms here with the vanity outside the bathroom and the toilet and tub inside it. We've got the same view we've normally got from our regular room of the Freeway and North Las Vegas.

We got our stuff to the room and settled in and then hit the casino. The first stop was to the player's club to activate my whopping $35 in free play. Next I ran a quick 10 points on a penny game (losing $5 for a 50% rate). I did this because they are running a promo where every day you get a swipe after earning 10 points. You could win food, free play or multiple points. I took my spin and of course, won $25 in food that has to be used today. You're fucking kidding me right? It's bad enough it has to be used today but I'm LRFB, I don't need to win fuckin' food credits.

Today's game of choice is five play video poker. Things here were all over here. Dee got off to a great start with a quad on her 3rd hand and then hit a few more and a straight flush. I struggled but hit a few quads myself. I was feeding in bills while Dee hovered. Then I looked over at her meter and saw it down to under $100 when she was up over $250 and that was only about 5 minutes ago. I was still getting slammed and even my hail Mary attempts weren't working. One one try I only had $3.75 left on my meter and switched to triple play for one hand getting dealt 3 to a royal. I actually hit the royal on line 2.

We continued to play and continued to get pounded. By the time I said fuck about 647 times we had actually dropped 8 bills in an hour on only 5k in action (excluding the royal so a $200 win). These 10-20% loss rates in short time have just got to stop at some point.

For dinner I went to the snack bar at the Cal to use that stupid $25 voucher I won in the free swipe. I had the saimen and Dee had the burger and fries combo. I also got a bunch of drinks and snacks for the room and brought everything back up here for a “room service” dinner.

After we ate it was back to the machines again for more video poker action. As we were getting set up I put a slot card in Dee's machine and then she asks me if I put that in there and points to her meter. There was $100 on it! No, I didn't put that in. The joke was on her though when she played it and lost it all after just $200 in action. Things were quite good for her after that though. I gave her $100 and she played on it the whole time. She almost busted out and she took one of my hail Mary attempts and scored aces no kicker on the top line. She was so excited she (and I) forgot to get a scratch card. She switched back to bonus and hit aces again getting out of her session with a $200 win. This time around things were shitty here for me. I was feeding in bill after bill. I only hit 2 quads the whole time we played and had no dealt winners other than one flush. I even tried $100 on ten play with no luck. I'm not sure how you can hold a pair in 10 play and not hit one stinkin' three of a kind. Between us we dropped $300 this time around. After this afternoon's session, and this one, we finished the day here at Main Street Station down $100. Normally that is a great day but considering I hit a royal, it sucks.

Thanks mostly to Dee we scored 18 scratch cards today worth $39. Dee actually got one for $5. I thought they were going to ask her how she hacked the system when she cashed that fucker in.

We ran my whopping $35 free play through a penny slot. This was as bad as the Riverside. After a 1000 coin hit on our 5th spin, we managed to turn it all into nothing and only got $53 in action out of it.

We finished off the day with some TV and then sleep as another day came to end.

Total win/loss for the day - $250
Total Comps for the day $177
Total Coin - In for the day $21845
Room(s) $50
Cash/Free Play $74 (includes scratch cards)
Food $43
Shows $0
Gift Shop $0
Other $10