Preparing for another extended leave...in Vegas!
This will be the first post-coronavirus lockdown trip to Vegas. Yes, masks will be worn, and the action will be heavy!
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Preparing for another extended leave...in Vegas!
This will be the first post-coronavirus lockdown trip to Vegas. Yes, masks will be worn, and the action will be heavy!
Wynn Las Vegas reveals 548 positive COVID-19 cases among employees
However, Wynn Resorts contends contact tracing results showed 98% of employees who tested positive got the virus outside of work, and that they are testing the h. out of current employees to make sure they don't work once infected.
Excitement is building as the trip nears. It is not exactly next week by any means, but relatively soon.
My wife is bringing all these interesting items she has gotten into lately. She has this massive red LED / infrared device she got for home - salon quality obviously that is not going with us. It's one of those deals that costs something like ten grand in the U.S. but I managed to get it for two delivered via some wholesale contacts.
And now she got two portable ones - these portable ones contain gemstones besides heating up to 70 degrees Celsius - one has jade and tourmaline, the other some other gemstones, both have red LED, to bring to Vegas with us. Relatively portable anyway.
Whatever makes her happy. Young girls are into this type of stuff these days, but it's not exclusively the realm of the young. This is along the lines of William S. Burroughs and "organes" - a pseudoscientific concept variously described as an esoteric energy or hypothetical universal life force, but then again who knows maybe red and blue LED light therapy actually does do something.
Checking the Vegas casino coronavirus outbreak list
https://www.truepassage.com/forums/s...1191#post41191
of the casinos we plan to stay at this Fall one is very low on the list, and the other two are at least not at the top.
Excitement is building as the date for the Vegs trip approaches. Part of that enthusiasm has to do with that - it's not like we're going to Vegas to stay in some bargain joint off the strip (i.e. we're not talking about the Moonlight Motel, which is out on Paradise Boulevard and actually a very fine place of lodging and only sixteen blocks from the Strip, with its own pool and . . ., or even about going to Caesar's Palace to beat them for about $38 at the blackjack tables, and then head for the Circus-Circus to whoop it up . . . .) but rather will be staying in average 2000 square feet power suites and man handling great stacks of black, purple and yellow chips on the way to Victory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdzoIHJBGt0
Arrived yesterday. There is definitely a different vibe in Vegas, and it's not just to do with the masks and anti-coronavirus measures.
There was some southbound traffic on the way in, although didn't really hit much if any traffic on the northbound route in.
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Why there was so much traffic on a Tuesday in Southern California around 1pm, I couldn't tell you. Lot of trucks, lot of trucks everywhere, both directions.
An hour outside of Vegas the southbound lanes narrowed down to one, and there was bumper to bumper stretching as far as I could see,
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but luckily for those leaving Vegas, the jam didn't last too many miles.
Arriving into Vegas, not much looked different from the outside,
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but driving around the areas close to the Strip (hit a bank to change a couple of C notes for $5.s and $10.s for tips before pulling in), there seem to be a lot of out of town African Americans afoot. Now, not all of Vegas is white by any means, but these people were clearly from out of town. A caravan of these sped past us on the way in, and looked like L.A. residents.
Within the casino, I saw very few well dressed people like us - not a very upscale crowd milling about. I saw this one gentleman with a blazer with his wife, and we nodded at each other. There weren't too many like us.
I'll be posting Adventures time delayed for security reasons. This won't be as much fun, but I'll keep records and release them all to once each time we move to a different resort. The plan is to be here all month, and with all the suites on a full comp all that matters is winning!
Sounds like something out of Mad Max where undesirables infiltrate the cities.
Troublemakers aside, the general caliber of the Vegas crowd has gone downhill quite a lot. And this low end crowd consists not necessarily of minorities but of a lot of white trash too. The lower price hotel rooms and deals may have lured these people in.
For example we went to one of the highest end restaurants in our hotel the other night and when we arrived, dressed extremely well, slipping the maitre d' a ten (party of two) for the great, very large table he gave us far away from the others (I'm sure it helped also that the top host at the property made the reservation), we were treated like gold. Not that this restaurant was by any means filled with low lifes, but not much in the way of dressed up people were there either.
On the Strip some entrances are closed off
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to try to regulate people through fewer available checkpoints, and some of the hotels are starting to employ metal detectors at entrances, and more drug and explosive sniffing dogs (maybe the dogs may sniff out firearms that have been previously fired?). There might be bag searches too for arriving guests.
These searches are "random" though and might depend on your appearance. I walked in and out of several of the top resorts on a short walking tour of the Strip and I wasn't even temperature checked, while some of the crowd that walked in right at the same time as I were detained.
Still, I haven't noticed low lifes in the VIP rooms or high roller pits. Occasionally someone will walk in with a few hundred, sit at the table and then realize quickly that the minimum bet is $200., and walk away.
Things are good, will have a day to day update posted from my log upon leaving this resort. Keep getting extended - on a full comp!
We will be leaving this resort tomorrow, and I will post a day by day from the journal I kept, as far as the gambling.
As far as Vegas in general, I had long talks with different people...pit bosses, my host, the shoe shine man. Everyone concurred - this is the worst Vegas has been as far back as any of us may remember. I was here in Vegas on the first flight after 9/11, in 2001. Vegas was empty then. No one wanted to travel right after 9/11. And yet - the few who WERE here, were part of the typical Vegas crowd, including both tourists, and high rollers (I mean - hey - billionaire high roller Kerry Packer was here too, stuck in Vegas after all air travel was cancelled).
Post 9/11, empty as Vegas was, the demographics hadn't really changed a great deal, other than that some of the overseas Asian high rollers weren't flying in.
Today, post coronavirus pandemic, EVERYthing has changed, as far as the composition of the crowd. People aren't really flying in much, especially from overseas, due to fears of catching coronavirus on flights. It's mostly Southern California and other closely visitors here now, and locals from less desirable (such as North Vegas) areas where the smaller casinos remain shut down, so the locals end up on the Strip.
Hotel rooms, including at nice places like the Venetian and Wynn/Encore, are down to Motel 6 rates (around $120. a night weekdays, with only one night a week - Fridays - bumping up to $299.), such that droves of people who would not normally think of going to Vegas, a much lower end crowd, are here. These people are not gambling much, they're not dining out much, and many of them are packed into one room, bringing their own alcohol, getting wasted, and causing "problems" of all sorts most especially out on the Strip at night, but even inside many of the resorts too.
Las Vegas Strip Increasingly violent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrXtCIvmnWo
Over all, most of this crowd in Vegas at present is not here to gamble, not here to fine dine, mostly here to drink heavily and party.
And while the free rooms for essential workers SOUNDS good in principle
Venetian on Las Vegas Strip offers free night stay to first responders, essential workers | Coronavirus | fox5vegas.com
many of these "essential" workers are low lifes with low end jobs that are somehow deemed "essential" who get drunken and cause trouble. Go to Cosmopolitan for example, and see if you don't observe at least one fight and even up to a few, in one night, is what other friends of mine who are here at the Strip right now too tell me is going on there.
It's just not a nice, well dressed, well mannered Vegas right now. Not to say that there is anything wrong with getting rowdy, but there is a time and place for everything. The sirens are going off on the Strip constantly, and there they go again right now as I type this, and I don't see it getting better until sometime next Spring, when room rates are scheduled to rise again, which may finally deter the lower end crowd from coming here in such droves.
Bottom line: if you stick to your high roller suite, and the high roller VIP areas, and stay off the Strip at night, you'll almost surely be okay and have a good experience - but, stray off the gold paved path at your own risk, as you may encounter trouble.
Executive Wellness Suite, 1850 square feet.
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Exercise Room and Wet Sauna
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Vitamin and Tea bars in full swing
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The suite we are staying in is called the Venetian Executive Wellness Suite. Back when I used to go to Vegas a lot, and until not so long ago, these were called Renaissance Suites. 1850 square feet, and they come in two versions � the one, such as the one we are staying in now, has an exercise room with a treadmill and wet sauna (hence the term �Wellness�). The other version has a surround sound media room with a stereo. The stereos used to take CDs � perhaps now that has changed and they have a plug in for iPhone as CDs aren�t as prevalent. Back then I used to travel with a stack of CDs and blast the stereo so loud I�d get calls from VIP about noise complaints.
We�re now fully moved in, complete with Vitamin bar
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Hot tea bar
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and cosmetics and skin care, men�s and women�s stations.
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The view is of the back side of Vegas looking towards the Westgate (formerly Hilton, formerly International, of Elvis fame) and the mountains. It�s quieter anyway than the Strip side view.
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There is some construction across the way behind the Wynn employee parking lot.
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Assume it is the MSG Sphere. Hope that by the time it is completed this coronavirus mess is receding and live entertainment and concerts may resume.
MSG Sphere at The Venetian Construction Makes Progress - Arena Digest
VIP is barely open nowadays
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only weekends and only mornings. Will check it out this Friday what�s changed in there.
There are masks in the suite foyer
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but we brought our own.
I get the general feeling that the hotel is understaffed. It took an hour after check in for them to bring up our luggage, and even though I called a few hours ahead to ask that all the sheets and towels be changed for hypoallergenic ones, this wasn�t done before we arrived, and it took two hours for housekeeping to get up here to handle it. When I stay in Vegas suites for too long � longer than say two weeks � whatever they use to wash the sheets starts bothering my skin. Not to the level of a rash, but just bothersome light itching. The hypoallergenic sheets help.
The plan is to hit the gym, eat and then start play. There are stories of shootings and violence in Vegas, but I doubt these will intrude into the Venetian high limit pit. Reminds of me some years ago when there were increased carjackings in southern California and someone I know mentioned that these were happening all over the city I live in.
When I asked him, �Really? Even in _______ ?� he responded sarcastically, �Yes, right at the corner of ________ and _______� referring to the precise area I lived in, and area where no home was under a few million back then, and pretty much no home under ten, these days. The point being that Things may Fall Apart all over, but not so much in the guarded areas of the rich, so I don�t anticipate any problems inside the casino high roller areas.
The closet clothes bars are pretty flimsy. I guess they didn't figure on anyone bringing this many clothes? The rods are sagging!
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Day One play
I played about five hours. At the midi-Baccarat table there are plexiglass divisions between each of the stations, which limits the number of players to five, although at no point did more than three or four of us play. It was actually somewhat crowded, as they had three midi-tables going which isn�t bad for a Wednesday, I think. The dealers told me that it�s been slightly busy lately.
There is full beverage service. I had a few hot teas. One was brought with cellophane wrapped over the top of the teacup, and others were brought with a sort of loose plastic cap fitted over the top. Obviously we are allowed to take our masks off, or pull them down, when drinking.
Coronavirus wise, if there is someone at your table who has it and is contagious, I think you�d catch it from them. I don�t see how at that close proximity the plexiglass would do much of anything, although the masks would definitely help.
As far as masks, I suppose the plus side is that we guys don�t even have to bother shaving as regularly � you can�t see your face anyway. Also, at least the Venetian, smoking is prohibited at tables games
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(may not be the case at all casinos � I stopped by Wynn to visit a friend who was playing Baccarat, and the pit boss there told me that where they have the plexiglass barriers in place, smoking IS allowed.) Those are about the only upsides I can see. Otherwise, it�s a pain wearing a mask all the time.
Part of the reason I like casinos too, is the crowd. Of course I�m speaking mainly of the girls. Now, some girls look good in a mask � adds a bit of allure to them. I�d place my wife in this category, and occasionally there might be a girl at the gym I know who looks hot in a mask too. But, that might have much to do with having a hot body as anything else. Here at the casino, all the mask does is cover the girl up, and I haven�t seen any that look good in masks yet. Oh well, small price to pay to stop the spread of coronavirus.
I wasn�t playing all that hard, although some bigger bets brought my average to around 900 (confirmed at the end of the session). I was ahead 3500 at one point, but after that at one point I was also down, about the same, down -3500. I ended ahead about twelve hundred and probably tipped out a hundred and fifty along the way here and there via side bets for the dealer (bets for the dealer alongside mine). I placed one fifty for the dealer on a run where I bet about 1200 at the top (end of the run), and lost that hand last hand.
Ended up about 1200 ahead for the day.
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Day Two
Not going to the gym today � I go every other day, especially if the facilities are complete, and Venetian has probably the best gym I have ever seen in a hotel � complete with free weights, TRX, all that.
Did a couple quick stock trades, booked a few K.
I found out that all Venetian suites have done away with their show steams. The spout is still there in our shower
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but the steam mechanism has been removed. I couldn�t find any trace even of the wall control plate. However, our room has a wet sauna that works extremely, so that�s pretty much the equivalent and works.
VIP, both at Venetian and Encore, is open only a few days a week, mornings only, and is pretty much � pointless. There is nothing in there, no food, no beverage service, nothing but a large empty room. When VIP is closed, which is most of the time, there is a small invited guest area (two or three windows only) which I have not seen busy at all, which seems a testament to how few high rollers or even, players of any caliber at all, are here right now.
Day Two Play
Had an easy shoe � barely betting, pressing only 100 per hand, a played a chop where not only it chopped perfectly but I also noticed towards the end that ALL THREE indicators (that some people follow � the �hamburgers,� �doughnuts� and �french fries�) were progressing perfectly as well). Given that yesterday I was up 3500 and ended up leaving only 1200 or so ahead, today I took the four grand from this shoe and just left. Now ahead over $5K for the trip.
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The host won�t like that I played only one shoe today, but there will be other days when I will play longer times, and anyway the most important thing is to WIN.
Day Three Play
I played quite a long time � 5 � hours. This casino credits for actual time played, which for me � because I blaze through the Baccarat shoes � works out to my disadvantage. I�d be better off if they gave me an hour for each shoe.
I wasn�t up or down much today, and finally called it quits $400. ahead. There was a pretty cute (not spectacular by any means, but � she looked good in a mask!) Middle Eastern girl playing at my table, showing off her boobs, who told me she had been up for two days (as in, no sleep). At Venetian they have this Tiger bet that she hit twice for $50. (pays $2500.) but she gradually lost all that she won and told me she was quite down for the trip over all. I wanted to suggest that she just quit, sleep for a day or two, and then come back � lack of sleep does not contribute to good gambling decisions, but I left it alone. I was actually down a grand or so when I left her table and went over to a different one, in seek of a better shoe, which I found, at least � good even to get me even and ahead a bit before I stopped. As I glanced over at the screen for her shoe, and her stack chip, I realized that she once again gradually lost everything.
You just can�t keep playing ad infinitum. Get a good shoe, get ahead, and leave. This has worked for me for years on end. The average gambler has no discipline.
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$400. win today only.
Day Four Play
Today didn�t go so well. I pulled an $8K marker and eventually lost it. Then a $10K and lost that too. Then a $20K and amazingly, lost that too. I pulled a final $12K, and rallied all the way to having about $35K in my hands, lost about $4K of that and then stopped for the day. A 12 hour nonstop session that ended at about 11pm. Even though I had plenty of big bets, $5000., $6500., the computer had me down for only a $740. average, because I did make plenty of smaller bets, but the pit boss at my request adjusted me up to $1000.
I contacted the host and extended our stay a few days. The plan is to hunker down, go to the gym tomorrow, rest, and go back the next fresh after a one day break from gambling regrouped to recoup the $20K I lost yesterday, which actually I have over five grand in cash I already won, so I am down about $15K for this leg of the trip at the moment which is pretty manageable.
There was a certain hand where the dealer kept saying �all in Bank now.� I almost didn�t bet the hand at all, but when he mentioned it again, I piled a bunch of chips on, with three greens ($75.) on the side for him. Player got a seven, I drew a 2 and a 3 for a total of five. Odds were definitely not in my favor, but I drew a 3 and won. I slammed that 3 down hard as could be. Looking back, and of course hindsight in gambling is always crystal clear, I should have jammed it all down right then and there. I had $35K in front of me at that moment! which is the current limit at this casino. Much easier said than done though.
Day Five
Took a break did not play today at all. Went to the gym, ate, stayed in the suite with the wife. Very relaxing. Need to reset mindset and not be �chasing.�
The suites are well sanitized, right down to the wrapping on the water glasses.
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and the sealed utensils that come with room service, if you choose traditional silverware versus plastic.
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Room service is available contactless, where the server just hands off the cart to you at the door.
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Ate at Delmonico, which is one of my favorite restaurants in Vegas, as far as traditional steakhouses.
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The host, who is the head guy here, made the reservation, and the maitre d' gave us a large secluded table away from most everyone else. I slipped him a ten, which is what I usually do for a party of two. Twenty for a party of four.
The event seemed safe enough. We haven't dined indoors in a restaurant since March 2020!
When I take a spill, such as I did yesterday, I take a full day off from play. This removes the edge and desire to "go right back in" and recoup all the losses at once. The break adds perspective to the event, as it makes me think about all I have won in Vegas over the past two or three years, and in general over my lifetime. It makes me think about how little the amount I am down - about fifteen grand - really is, and that it is more a matter of ego, and trying to always be a winner, that is at stake, than the money itself.
Perspective and calm are always good.
Day Six Play
Four hours � won about five grand. Really could have won a lot more but there were others at my table who kept betting against what I had in mind, and losing. At such times I�d either not follow through with what I had planned, or bet less.
I took a bathroom break before an obvious side by side player run, and missed out there too.
But, at the end of it all, as I played alone, I managed to walk ahead the five grand, and the pit boss bumped my average bet to 1200, versus what his computer was showing (1000). �I�ll do that for you. You�re a nice guy, and you take care of my dealers.�
Always � when I win, the dealers win too.
Day Seven Play
Quick session � won about five thousand quickly, and just left.
Day Eight Play
About three hours of play, pit boss said my average was about $900. I was down as much as four grand today, but rallied and came back to stop a little over a thousand ahead. Over all, I am still getting out of that hole I got myself into on Day Four but I am close to even now.
I really do play best alone, but if others are at my table I more or less try to do my own thing and not follow anyone. I can�t tell you how many times over this past week that I�ve been pushing into a bank or player run � boom! boom! boom! � hitting it hard, and others just do nothing, and later tell me they were too chicken to jump in because they were sure that the run was going to end.
Having a good time, playing just one session a day, and enjoying the suite and whatever Vegas offers the rest of the day. Hitting the gym religiously every other morning.
Improvised stove to re-heat some French fries.
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Every morning, in the elevator, social distancing is in full effect!
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This suite is great. About all it could use though, is some new carpet. The carpet looks the same as it did fifteen plus years ago when I last played here!
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This suite has three bathrooms. Don't think I've been in a Vegas suite with three bathrooms before. Two, all the time. But three....
Day Nine Play
Three shoes, played the commissionless (pays � on bank win 6) table, won two thousand, stopped. Was three hours of play, and the average bet was lower today, about 400 is what the put boss said, although I did have one thousand dollar hand and one twenty-five hundred dollar hand (won both of those, but I wasn�t particularly ahead when I won the $2500.).
It was a fun session, very smooth. Their boiler was broken so no hot tea. I had to go up to the room to drink some tea from our own electric kettle and to bring down a natural energy drink to pour over ice in a glass they brought me.
Venetian VIP lounge (high roller's)
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No food - drink only.
Day Ten Play
This leg of the trip is over. Leaving � AHEAD. Not a lot ahead, just a couple grand (plus whatever I tipped out), but today finally I completed chipping away at the hole I got into on Day Four play. It was pretty exciting today and after some back and forth and a few losing hands I placed two chocolates � total ten grand on bank and drew a nine.
I tied!
Crazy. Tie with nine, with ten grand at stake?
I free handed the next hand and saw bank draw another nine. Which player tied again!
I stood up and paced for a bit, and then put the two chocolate chips back down. That wasn�t easy, maintaining the ten thousand dollar bet after seeing bank tie twice, but I�m not one to let a tie hand necessarily dissuade me from anything.
I drew a nine again, and this time, player a mere one. BAM! I slammed the cards down and collected ten grand � NO commission either, as I was playing the commissionless table today. That�s five hunny in commiss saved, on that hand.
You can�t really put a price on that feeling � winning a ten thousand dollar hand like that after hesitating on it over three hands. Anyone who gambles should understand.
Next hand I placed five hunny for me (no I didn�t/couldn�t leave up the ten grand, although I should have), and $125 for the dealer. Bam! another winner for me, and the dealer collected $250. I am certain I�ve tipped out at least fifteen hundred during this trip, maybe two grand, maybe even more. I don�t mind, we leave ahead, once again.
Several days ago my host let me know my theoretical loss was fifteen grand. By now it must be closer to thirty, and yet � leaving ahead!
Chips have been cashed in,
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and with 3500 removed :blue: from the winner's envelope (gotta do what you gotta do),
all markers have been paid
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Of course it doesn't mean anything, but I pulled this in the little slot machine I have back at the suite, before going down to play.
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Does it mean anything? Not really but - if you think it does, it just might!
On to the next resort!
By the way, I had a chat with my host about my play at this resort - other than this trip, I haven't played here since the early 2000s, and even back then I played for only two or three years total here - nevertheless:
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he's got me down for over a hundred K lifetime here. And this casino is by no means my biggest lifetime win, I've won five to ten times more, lifetime, at other casinos.
Booyah!
The final bill for that nearly two week stay in that large suite was barely five hundred dollars - even all spa services were comped. Just tips that I hadn't made in cash, and spa retail were left on the bill.
It's nice to both win and get 100% comped.
"It's good to be the king."
Day One
This resort is in Henderson, about 11 miles from the Strip. Parts of Henderson are dumpy, but there are upscale parts too, with nice homes. The Green Valley Ranch (of Discovery Channel �American Casino� fame) is located next to a nice outdoor shopping mall with a Whole Foods in it.
GVR has about five hundred rooms. It has many different styles of suites. We�re in some kind of Mediterranean style one, about 1500 square feet, with a balcony. No steam shower � it�s unclear which suites here have that. Our host actually thought we�d get one with a steam, but no.
The room has a bright updated look to it.
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We have a balcony which overlooks the pool and has a Strip view. That�s great, but we are also not too far from the freeway and hear that every time the French doors are open.
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Will take it easy tonight � I don�t usually play on check in or check out days.
I have to activate my new line here, it�s already approved, and then start play tomorrow. Again, we opened the line here because Palms (owned by the same outfit, Station Casinos) is closed until at least Spring 2021. GVR was the star of Station Casino�s lineup (unless you consider the Golden Nugget downtown, which is no slouch, also owned � indirectly � by the same owners of Station by way of their owning Landry�s) until they bought the Palms.
Tea and Vitamin bars ready to roll. Of course.
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Day Two � First Day of Play
I pulled an 8K marker and my bets ranged from 100 � 3000. I was behind much of the time, so as soon as I got ahead, around the three hour mark, I quit. +$700. or so.
There is only one midi-Bacc table open at GVR. A second midi they had closed a couple weeks ago. It is a commissionless table where you draw if Bank wins with a three card seven. I hit that three card seven two or three times. One time I recall vividly because it was on a $1500. bet. No fun to win, 7 over player�s 1, and not get paid!
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GVR has all those same exotic bets available at the Palms. I don�t play those much if at all. I do play the tie sometimes, rarely, but when I play it I hit it more often than not. I hit it for $100. today - $800. payout, and many times for $25. - $50.
I tested my luck in my in-room slot machine before going down.
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Day Three � Second Day of Play
Didn�t play long. Today I was ahead most of the time. My average bet was lower, probably more like 300 or 400. I walked with about $2K.
A girl played alongside me, and was betting against me until she had lost about 2K, losing 100 at a time. �I wish I had just been following you all along.�
She then switched to a Martingale strategy, betting only player and doubling each loss to recoup. Lucky for her, it was a nearly two to one player�s shoe and the bank never went more than three in a row. One time on the fourth bet she lost her nerve and didn�t put down the full double. As soon as she was back to even and up slightly (seventy bucks), I convinced her to leave. Golden rule � stop after you come back from a loss.
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Tested my luck on the way up
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and I did hit triple Bars, so maybe it WAS a harbinger of winning!
There are some key differences between this resort and where we were before. Here, housekeeping will not enter the room while you are in it. Fortunately, we have a huge patio so they made an exception for us and allowed us to chill outside while they do the room. In the casino, at the Baccarat and BJ, there is no plexiglass. Masks mandatory of course.
In the gyms, masks are not required either while exercising, while at the prior resort masks were mandatory at all times except while on aerobics machines.
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The bellmen at this resort will not transport anything that resembles food or drink up to your room � you must hand carry those items.
Laundry bags � those cool plastic bags with the hotel�s logo on them � seem to have disappeared from at least this resort. (There were a few in the room at the prior resort so seems some still have them.) Only generic trash bags and those clear plastic small bags used for ice available at this resort these days.
Day Four � Third Day of Play
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Today had some major downs and ups. I was down 2 � 3 K and then lost the whole 8K marker I had pulled. Then I pulled another 10K and gradually got to within 400 of even (for the day�s session). This was right around shift change. A new dealer came in, and unbelievably, within something like five or ten minutes, I had dumped the entire nearly 18K, pulled another $20K marker and dumped half of that too. In the process I lost an $8500. hand!
I actually got as low as -34,000 or so for the session, and then rallied, slowly but surely over a series of shoes including a perfect chop B-P-B-P etc. etc. I followed perfectly for a progressive 500, 1000, 1500, 2000, 2500, 3000, 3500 (then I chickened out and reverted to 500 per hand for the rest of the series), and closed the final shoe with an 11 bank run that I definitely pressed into, but not quite hard enough, to wind up just 3800 in the hole (for the day�s session), at 11pm.
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All who played with me today also won, as long as they followed my lead, that is.
Other than a two hour break for lunch and sex I had played nonstop 11am to 11pm!
Went to bed energized, feeling good.