Fall 2020 Vegas trip

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Arrival Day

We got a Parlor suite on the Wynn side which is about 1300 square feet, Strip view. Nice, gold tone room. We had a suite like this towards the end of 2019.






The anti-coronavirus measures at Wynn are more in line with those at Venetian. Staff may enter your room if you permit them to do so. There is no paper room service menu, so you must find everything on the TV and then order via the TV or by phoning.

Masks are of course mandatory in the casino, but unfortunately smoking is still allowed at the table games such as Baccarat where the plexiglass barriers are in place.

I strolled outside Friday, at around 6:30pm, and when I walked back in I was screened with metal detector wands. I mentioned that I am a hotel guest, but the staff said that everyone must be screened.




At the main Wynn entrance there was a LVMPD officer posted too. (The next day I left the resort in the afternoon, and walked back in, and there was no metal detection screen at that particular entrance, a side Wynn Plaza (luxury stores) entrance, although they were metal detecting people entering from the main Wynn parking garage, so there is some inconsistency there � not every Wynn/Encore entrance is being metal detector screened on the weekends.)

The crowd � at Wynn/Encore is definitely more upscale than what we observed at Venetian two weeks ago. Whether this is due to the current screening and high security presence, due to higher room rates at Wynn versus Venetian, no free rooms for �essential� workers, or something else, it remains a fact that Wynn/Encore doesn�t seem so very different from the way it was in March 2020, last time we were here. If you want to experience more or less the same higher end, better dressed crowd that Wynn is known for, come back to Wynn - that crowd is for the most part still here.

Food and beverage are available at Wynn/Encore in VIP, but no open food, and you must request everything from the attendants, all of whom know me well.

I don�t generally play on arrival/departure days, and made no exception today.

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Day One play

I played three full shoes, plus part of a fourth.

The first shoe, I ended up winning about five hundred, even though I was probably up about two grand at one point. Second shoe I ended at least six grand ahead. This was that second shoe.

Towards the end of it, the pit boss remarked that, �______ you should have won fifty thousand on that shoe.� He also remarked to his dealer that his bigger players would have easily won a million. It was quite a shoe, I mean really exceptional.


The third shoe I held my own then towards the end I started zagging when I should have zigged, and dumped nine grand or so � actually ended down three grand! Ouch. That shoe was far less predictable, far more random.

On the fourth shoe I got a bank run early on, pressed into it, ended it a few hundred ahead, paid off the marker and left. The pit boss was impressed at my discipline but the dealer couldn�t understand why I didn�t keep playing.


�You were up so much, now so little.�

Yes, but a win is a win. All I care about is winning, not necessarily the dollar amount. And there�s always tomorrow.

The host must have liked my play anyway, as he texted me and asked if I wanted to join some special all day food and beverage comp�ed football event the next day. Sure, why not, I would drop by.

It was funny when one of the cocktail waitresses dropped off a hot tea for me both the dealer and I paused to watch her walk away. �Nice, eh?� he smiled. I had to admit. Yes.

Life is good.

We had a room service breakfast this morning for two - $163. Granted we had fruit, and an extra glass of juice besides the two that come with each breakfast, but still comp�ed or not that�s excessive.

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Day Two play

I pulled an 8K marker and eventually lost it. I did a call bet for 1000, and lost that too, and printed the second marker to ten. I actually got as low as -12,000, but rallied pretty easily on a good shoe, and ended up exactly twenty dollars behind. I started the next shoe out and it ran bank nine times straight. Because I was already ahead was playing it for a ridiculous hundred a hand, pressing eventually to four hundred on the tenth hand, which I lost.

In this instance if I had started that last shoe BEHIND, I would have won a lot more, as I would have been really playing hard into that bank run. In any case, I walked about five hunny ahead. A win is a win.


I chatted with a buddy in VIP, then went over to the event they had going to watch Sunday night football and the World Series, all you may eat and drink free � gourmet made to order burgers.

A good day in all. Haven�t won much at Wynn yet, but haven�t lost either!

One of the servers who works in VIP was talking about a group they had to ban from the hotel. These guys were some relative high rollers who were eating at the Sinatra restaurant and refused to wear their masks while they were not eating.

�But this is our policy.�

�Do you know who we are? We don�t have to wear masks.�

Yes, well, this is also our policy. All of them were 86�ed from Wynn. And that�s the name of that tune.

You see, too many people are insecure with their success. They have something to prove. They can�t look at others eye to eye, they always have to feel either superior or inferior. F. people like that. I�ve had money all my life � I mean my family has been successful going back a _______ years - and I don�t need to treat anyone less than. I know who I am.

One thing I noticed over the weekend � when I entered via the Wynn Plaza entrance (the one that is open � two are closed), even carrying bags, I was not metal detector checked, just waved in. And then as I passed the side entrance by the former Ferrari store the people coming in from the parking garage WERE being metal detected. That inconsistency is not good. All it takes is one unregulated entrance for someone to bring in a firearm.

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Day Three play

Three shoes � walked ahead about two grand. Was pretty smooth sailing.


Had a really good time actually, won a lot of hands, and more than a few ties too.

This blonde waitress was laying it on thick with the �honey� and �sweetie� and she had what it takes to make a player feel good and lucky. I�m actually looking forward to seeing her again tomorrow if she�s working that shift � not in a sexual way, just as in a good luck charm. Winners all the way!

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Day Four play

Got hectic, more than hectic actually, at times but I was smiling and positive throughout most of it. I pulled an 8K, lost. Pulled a 10K, lost. Pulled a 20K, got down to just four or five grand, then rallied gradually to minus 7K. Pretty consistent, but tremendous mental effort.

Then I took a break to eat an arugula salad and a ribeye steak, and went back to play. I lost a couple grand slowly, then something like ten grand quickly. Then almost another ten grand. Ouch. I had only eleven in front of me left.



Then I won 1K on bank, tripled to 3K, won, tripled to 9K won. That was insane. I�ve done 100, 300, 900 presses before, and 500, 1500, 4500s, but never 1000, 3000, 9000. The shoe indicated player so I moved to that and won three in row again � for peanuts (compared to what I had just won).

Then, somehow I sensed a chop and I hit it PERFECTLY, I mean perfectly B-P-B-P-B-P starting at a measly two hundred but pressing it by 50% each hand until I got up to almost four grand I think it was. Everyone was following me. Along the way I placed 100 � four greens � on the side for the dealer and she picked up that $200. (plus I swear, at least another five hundred over the course of the day from other side bets). I then counted that I was now almost even, so I played smaller, and actually cut back to 100, and lost the last hand.

I had to pull two C notes out of my pocket to pay off the commission, but I was clear - $38,000. in front of me and all markers paid off � again.

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Day Five play

Played just a couple shoes won about fifteen hunny, stopped. Was relatively smooth sailing no major ups or downs.


Extended the stay a couple more nights, so will play again tomorrow too.

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Day Six play

Played at Encore side. I played with this Spanish speaking guy with a special limit (up to $40K per hand) which means that he either has a half million credit line or that amount of cash on deposit. He was at his own table, not reserved table, but one where he had raised the limit to keep people away, and was losing badly.

He came over and played with me a bit, and still lost. Finally he left saying, �I am sorry, I can�t win when I play with you.�

After a while he came back to my table, and had only about $20K left from the hundred K or so that I had seen him with prior. But now, he followed me completely � I mean he generally opened the cards, but he simply bet exactly where I bet � except much higher � and we both started racking in the chips. I was betting, mmm, maybe average five hunny a hand, he was betting easily average ten K a hand, but every time he plopped down 40K, he lost, which was on the hands I either didn�t play or didn�t believe much in and put just a couple hundred down for.

But eventually, he started to win big and was something like $200K ahead. He actually tossed a yellow thousand to the dealer as a tip. When we stopped, I was ahead over six grand, effortlessly. I hope he held on to it. He left his chips there under a glass as he left with his wife who had come to watch, while I left entirely to drop by the Wynn side and show the dealers I knew over there how I�d done on the other side, and to meet up with my resident Wynn buddy who practically lived in this hotel continuously the past two years.


Life is good! The winner�s envelope is pushing twenty K now.

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Day Seven play

Played Encore side again. Apparently the guy I helped win 200K dumped it all, and then some, last night after I left his side. And so it goes � I won 6K yesterday (plus another 5200 today, with ease), and I have it all, while he won six figures last night and has nada today. Slow and steady might just win the race!




I am not cashing the white chip because if I do, that will represent over $10K cash out within twenty four hours. Will hold. (Hodl?)

This big player is part of a group of Mexicans staying here. Most of them are stupidly crowded around the DOUBLE ZERO roulette table, betting black chips. As I was leaving high limit Baccarat, they must have hit a number (I assume for $250.) as one of them screamed at the other, �Eight thousand! puta.� Still, if these guys had a clue they�d play the single zero roulette inside high limit, which is at least a little better odds. They'd find the single zero just twenty steps from where they are playing the double zero. Even the pit boss chuckled when I asked him why anyone would play that roulette out there, when they are willing to put stacks of black chips into action.

The friend of the guy who won (and lost) 200K was there today, playing with a monster stack of about thirty yellow chips (no more or less than I had in front of me several days ago when I made my comeback to slightly ahead from over thirty grand in the hole). He was losing. At least he had some semblance of varying his bet and didn�t bet white (5000) chips every single hand � sometimes he would bet one thousand, sometimes eight � but at least today, no matter what he tried, he kept losing.

I was the only winner to come out of High Limit during the few hours I was there. Hola!

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Day Eight play

That big player was back today...I won another 6500 and he won about 150K. Wonder if he will keep it this time, he's up and down constantly.

He has asked me what type of law I practice etc. and he keeps talking about how he "needs to quit gambling" etc., bc I told him about I quit playing for over a decade etc., but I dunno...will see.

One thing he said somewhat blew me away. After a big win on the Bank when all indications had shown player, I said to him, �That was smart that you switched to Bank.�

�If I were smart I wouldn�t be playing this game!� was his response. Wow.

The winner�s envelope is getting fat. Don�t want to jinx it by stating exactly how much is in there, but it is over twenty K. Chips I am holding uncashed are getting up there too.

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Day Nine play

Pretty smooth, won $5500. and stopped.