Day 20
Monday December 28, 2015
We headed out to Aliante to meet with Jimbo & Katy and Carol for lunch at the Medley Buffet at Aliante.

Once we were fed it we went and checked out Jimbo & Katy's suite. We hung out here just telling stories and then was off to the video poker machines again. We started off with 8/5 bonus for halves. We were doing well and hitting plenty of quads. Dee hit aces, deuces, got dealt kings and a few others. I got dealt sizes and hit a variety of other quads too. Dee was up quite a bit but things turned and she cashed out with a $100 win. I also cashed out with a $100 win for a decent nonstarter. I also had $30 in free play from a mail offer so we ran that through one of Dee's favorite penny slots. This didn't work out so well and the $30 turned into $14. Not great but it's still 14 bucks.

We left Aliante and came back here to the Rampart where we had gotten no action at all yet today. First thing we did was get Dee's free play activated at the kiosk, then a stop at the players club to add in a $10 free play coupon from the LVA coupon book and then it was off to the machines. We hit the dollar 9/6 jacks games again and loaded the machines and covered up the meters so we wouldn't see the swings. Dee was doing well with a lot of full houses and flushes. I wasn't hitting many of those but did hit more quads than expected. I noticed Dee's meter moved over a notch and considering at that point she hadn't hit any quads I wasn't surprised. We lifted her cover and she was down to $80. She switched to DDB in a hail Mary attempt and still didn't hit a quad. I looked at my meter and I was down $250, most of which probably happened in the last few minutes as I had gone through a streak of losing about 25 of the last 30 hands. That's just an estimate but it had to be close. I switched to DDB for the last $50 and was going to cash out $200 when I hit a regular quad for $250. I got out of the session only down $50 and $550 combined for all the play.

We decided to take a break for a late dinner at the Promanade Cafe. I had the chicken pot pie as part of the 3 for menu. I also got the quesadilla and apple cobbler. Dee got spaghetti and meatballs, a salad and apple cobbler.

After the meal it was back to the machines. Dee ran her free play through the 50¢ jacks and then also redeemed $200 worth of points for a total of $385 in free play. She didn't hit much of anything and turned it into just over $300. We took a shot at one more session for $200 each. I started out hot with 3 full houses and 2 flushes in my first few hands shooting the meter up by over $100. I hovered on this for a while and Dee did ok for a while too getting up almost $100 with no quads. As her credits dwindled she took a shot at DDB hoping for her first quad of the night but it never came and she dropped $100. I was up $105 took a 1 hand shot at DDB and actually ended up getting 4 hands out of it but no quads and combined we cashed out even.

We had gotten enough play in for the 2 days on Dee's card so we decided to just come here to the room and watch TV for a while before bed.

Total win/loss for the day $0
Total Comps for the day $574
Total Coin - In for the day $19745
Room(s) $110
Cash/Free Play $415
Food $49
Shows $0
Gift Shop $0
Other $0