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    Pretty smooth sailing today. I arrived at a shoe that was about half played, completed that one, played one more shoe, and walked with some money. Not a ton, about fourteen hunny. That's a purple at the end of the stack.
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    Marker paid. That is an 18K rose gold Breguet I am wearing today by the way, not a Rolex. What they call, a "complicated" watch.
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    I was down no more than a couple thousand before starting to win, which is within expected variance for a $300. minimum table. Also, I was losing on the shoe I walked up to, while I won on the shoe I cut. Does it make a difference? Well, maybe. All I know is that I tend to cut very good shoes.

    Tomorrow we move to the next resort, so I didn't want to spend time playing catch up all day again today or take any big risks. So as soon as I got a little ahead I just left. I generally am cautious on the last day of play at each resort. Anyway, success! Leaving this casino, too, ahead!

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    Why eat noodles in the room? Yes, everything is comp'ed, but sometimes if I am in a hurry to play, I just won't eat. Will just head out the door rather than wait for room service. So it was my wife's idea to bring some of these Asian soups and canned fish so that I won't skip meals. Also, we keep a lot of fresh fruit and tea in the room, along with a water boiler. And a refrigerator for health drinks that you may not find in a hotel. Kombucha, yoghurt, probiotic drinks, all that.
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    Travel with vitamins and supplements too!
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    I've been going to the gym every other day pretty much since I was 18 and do some cardio then a lot of very heavy weights. I started bringing my own TRX straps last trip to augment my workout because there is only one resort gym in Vegas (Canyon Ranch at the Venetian) that has its own TRX straps, and I use the straps in addition to free weights and strength conditioning machines on each workout. I just string them up in the hotel gym, and no one has objected, in fact at Encore the main guy who runs the fitness center commented on how "Now THAT'S dedication" when he noticed that I bring my own TRX.
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    I'm pretty young and my wife is very young and we try to stay active, including when traveling. We stay very balanced in Vegas. We don't drink, we sleep fairly regular hours even in Vegas, she goes to the spa a lot. This is why, I think, that I am able to sustain extended stays in Vegas and not lose it.

    Never be in a hurry. Au fur et a mesure!
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    All righty, almost 2/3 of the trip is completed, up over eight grand. It adds up. So far, so good. I probably will not play at all tomorrow. I need a break, and it will be check in day at the new resort anyway, and I typically do not play on check in / check out days.

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    No one's trying to make a living at gambling. But at the same time, if I lost money at it I wouldn't continue with it. I just somehow have managed to stay ahead, and the only dent they have made in my progress was when they banned (handicapped) my BJ play. To summarize, they got tired of my wild fluctuations between table min and table max at double deck BJ and that I was winning all of my table max bets including many double downs. Obviously the count alone could not have justified such luck, but after this went on for a number of days on yet another winning trip, the casino I was playing at, owned by Steve Wynn, stepped in and "handicapped" me - to a 3X spread.

    "From now on if you bet $25. on a hand, you can't bet more than three times that, $75., on the next. No more $25. $2500. $25. $2500."

    The limit at that time was $2500. This wasn't that long ago actually, about twenty or so years ago, but that was the limit at that casino at that time, $2500. This was when I was barely of legal age to gamble, but I had been playing blackjack and other card games since I was about eight years old, for fun, so I may have been relatively new to casinos but not new to playing cards.

    After the BJ "ban" (handicap), I stayed away from Vegas entirely for almost two years, came back to the same casino, kept playing the same way, won for a matter of hours only, and got booted again from BJ.

    Then I switched to Baccarat, and won even more at it than I had ever won at BJ. Eventually I became friends with the Director of Table Games who had set the handicap on me, who had since transferred to a different Wynn casino on the Strip, and he let me resume BJ play, and even laughed about how I liked to alternate between table min and max. But for whatever reason, I never really went back so hard to BJ, and have stuck with Baccarat. I just feel more comfortable betting big at Bacc.

    I still play double deck BJ occasionally, but there is only one casino on the strip where they stand on soft 17 double deck BJ, so I pretty much play BJ at that casino only. There is one other casino, off the strip, where the double deck BJ is not only stand 17 but allows resplit aces and comes to a 0.14 house edge, but I am banned entirely from that casino - they fear me.

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    I have had about ten Vegas trips since I got back into playing in 2018.

    On each trip have stayed at about three different resorts, sometimes hitting the same resort more than once during the same trip, such as during my MONTH LONG trip to Vegas in late Summer / early Fall 2019.

    However, if you view each "segment" of the trip - each stay at a different casino - as a separate trip, then that would be more like about thirty Vegas trips since 2018.

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    Checked into the wrap around terrace suite - 1200 square feet.

    Upon arrival in the Foyer, everything looks poi-fect:
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    But then, as we start to put our things away:

    The bathroom closet is not big enough for both of our hanging clothes:
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    and there actually isn't any drawer storage for other clothes, so I end up putting some clothes into the bar cabinets:
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    (This is common at all of the Cosmo suites - lack of drawers for clothing storage.)
    And because my clothes won't fit alongside hers, my hanging clothes end up in the hall closet:
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    This building was originally to be a living complex of condominiums, later bought out to be used as a casino. All these shortcomings could just have to do with that whoever bought this unit originally as a condo never finished it, and it was left to the casino to slap it together, and they forgot some living necessities such as clothing drawers.

    I mean here we have a wine cooler:
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    which is an upgraded amenity for any hotel suite, but no drawers for clothing anywhere near the bedroom?

    As well, there is no jacuzzi tub in this suite:
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    and again perhaps the original purchaser of this particular condominium unit decided not to upgrade to a jacuzzi tub, which is why some of the suites here have jacuzzis, and some do not.
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    There are some niceties for a hotel room, such as this hanging cabinet, which she puts to good use:
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    The powder room is more than just a powder room, it is a 3/4 bathroom:
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    and then of course...the view. The wrap around terrace view:
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    all surrounding 1200 square feet of living space.

    Over all, very nice.
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