Fall 2020 Vegas trip

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Day Ten Play

I had to do one big bet, $7000. on the bank, won it 6 / 5. It was fun AFTER the dealer pulled the card that took the player only up to 5 and I won.

Ended up just under 4K ahead after three shoes. Even though I bet a lot of big bets, for whatever reason the pit boss said my average was only 500. He bumped it up to 575 at my request.

The winning chips,

plus the winner�s envelope, are really adding up.

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Day Eleven play

Things started really going south today. I started playing at 11am, and at some point, lost not just an 8000 marker, but also the nineteen grand in chips (winnings) I had with me, and pulled another $42,000. in markers and got down to � literally, one case bet of about $2400. I won that! and then kept going up.

What kept me down was partly this stupid Indian kid who had no clue about Baccarat and kept placing stupid bets against me � and losing � but when he would, I would either not bet the right side, or bet small. Finally the kid left, after I had berated him into following me or giving up the game. I mean the guy was clueless.

After he left, and all the others too, and I was left alone on the table, I kept going up and up until I had gone from $2400. to a monstrous stack of yellow chips that equaled about $63,000., meaning that I went from minus � man, don�t even want to say, to plus thirteen K by the end. Host must be ultra happy too as they had me at a $1500. average bet. Quite a run. I tipped out MASS along the way by way of side bets for the dealers, including black chips on the side of my larger bets, and the female dealers were all calling me �Honey Pie� and �Sweetie� and the other dealers in the room kept echoing their compliments. It was funny.

At about midnight I quit, just because I started getting weary. I had eaten a huge breakfast, but otherwise nothing but green tea all day.


With all markers paid, I celebrated with the wife, who hadn�t gone to sleep yet, with a tower of seafood, green salad and NY Steak Nachos from room service.




One thing interesting � during the period I was still playing with others, a special limits player came and pulled a $100,000. marker � all white $5000. chips (I call �em, �white boys�). He would OCCASIONALLY drop one or two chips on a single bet, here and there, either at my table or at another. He was pretty much playing a Martingale system, but luckily never had to progress past his second bet. I assume his line was a million, as I heard the pit boss tell the dealer that he was allowed to bet up to $70,000. He seemed like he was playing for some syndicate, and that it wasn�t his own money � I just got that impression. Some of the Asian players are like that, "representatives" for others.

What was really interesting about his play, was that when he got cards that mandated a draw to the other side, he would simply tell the dealer to draw without showing his cards. One time the dealer balked at this, and told him that he had to see his cards, but the guy got mad and said, �Draw!� The pit boss actually stepped in and told the dealer it was okay. In that instance, he was holding a four on the bank, and player had zero, so yes � there was a mandatory draw on the player, and then depending on what that card was, the game was either over or bank would draw again. The player was calling for a �Monkey!� to end the hand, and sure enough the face card came, and bank won.

The dealer said to the pit boss, �Okay, if you tell me it�s okay, I�ll do whatever this guy wants.� - that is to say, draw without seeing the player's actual cards.

Apparently, this guy had some kind of relationship with the casino where they trusted him on whether there was a draw or not, based on his cards, without seeing them. Obviously he wasn�t going to get PAID unless all the cards were laid out for the camera, but it did look like he had some serious pull at the Wynn. He ended up ahead about twenty-five grand, but gave back most of that before paying back the marker and leaving ahead one white chip.

Another player, an older Asian lady, pulled a $100,000. marker too, but barely played at table minimum ($300. at that time) and left after she had won a couple grand.

So, it takes all kinds � the biggest credit or cash deposit players aren�t always looking to make a killing. Some just want to hit and run a win and move on.


After this long session and triumphant return from a loss, took an entire day off, no play. Just gym, and chilling in the suite with the wife.

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Day Twelve play

Came in about fifteen hands into this shoe and followed it precisely � I lost MAYBE four hands out of the sixty or so I played. Playing only black, I won over ten grand. (I literally took two black chips to over ten thousand.)

Hit a lot of ties too. Exceptional shoe! Left after that, why play more? Done for the day.


Take look at those indicators...remained true for almost all of the shoe.

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Day Thirteen play

Another LOO-EASY day. One shoe, won about five K.

With chips, the winner�s envelope + chips now total well over $40K.

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Day Fourteen play

Today was hectic, crazy. I pulled a twenty marker and lost it. I then lost 26K in chips I had in front of me (winnings). Then I pulled thirty K, and at one point I was almost back to even, won a $5K and a $10K hand but then I chickened out on the next logical progression to $20K and free handed what would have been a twenty thousand dollar winner with player natural eight. All downhill from there � lost it all.

I walked away from the table in a daze. Luckily I had enough cash in my wallet to cover the three hundred bucks in commission on the table.

I walked across the street and pulled a thirty K marker. I assumed I was going to play crazily � but I didn�t. I got nowhere the first shoe, lost maybe a grand, but on the second and third shoes I powered up, pressing into bank runs that mirrored prior parallel runs. I mean � it was perfect. I was probably ahead about $33K at one point, lost a few K, and then left with an even $30K � cash. I took three stacks of high society I didn�t care about the CTR that would be issued at that point because I knew I was just going to use it to pay off Wynn.


Walking on the way back my host texted me � concerned about my terrible session. I guess they get alerted in real time when one of their players is playing heavily. Do you need more credit?

No! I just won it across the street, I�m on my way back to pay it all off.

I went back to Wynn, pulled twenty K out of the winner�s envelope, and went back to the same table where I had dumped. I threw all the cash on the table and told the dealer, that�s your punishment for taking all my money � you have to count it out. At one point the pit boss said, Listen what we�re going to do is go to the cage to count that all out, but then he acquiesced.

�Okay ______ , we�re going to do it.�

As the dealer counted, I told them about how I had won most all of it across the street.

�You look relaxed now.� the dealer said to me.

Of course. Yes I was. I wasn�t up forty grand anymore, but I wasn�t down at all either.

Went to bed at about 8pm, exhausted. It had been another nearly all day play session.

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Day Fifteen play

I was a little afraid to go down and play today. I mean, I was basically starting over after having been over forty thousand ahead. I went to the gym first, then we ate, then I rested some more.

I went down and pulled a thirty K marker, and actually lost it. Pulled a twenty K, got back to even, paid back the thirty K. Then I lost the twenty, and pulled the thirty K again. I had a bank run when I got up to a twelve thousand dollar bet on the progression, but chickened out on plopping fifteen grand on the next hand (put down only three). Won that hand for 3K, and the next for 4K, and the next for 1K (reduced bet), and then after several more hands, counted up to note that I was ten grand ahead, paid back all markers, and left.

So now � over all, ahead about twelve grand again. Not, it�s not over forty which is what I had just two days ago, but we�re still here and we�re still winning. What a roller coaster this weekend has been. If only I�d kept my nerve and done the fifteen K, and then twenty K hands on the bank run (or maybe it was a player run, it�s somewhat a blur now looking back), as I declared I was going to do � I�d be up over forty now again. Oh well, progress not perfection.

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Day Sixteen play

Pretty smooth � won just under ten grand.

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Day Seventeen play

Had to do one large catch up bet, that fortunately worked out � ended about two grand ahead.

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Day Eighteen play

Have befriended the very large player who now gets a private ("Reserved") table and allows me to play at that same table with him, including when he is away, which is most of the time. This is good, because I don�t like playing with others, and when he and I play we seem to do well.

Won about three K today. Winner�s envelope is now about $15K, plus another ten grand in chips.

My host has comp�ed everything including spa (to the tune of over two grand in spa so far), and of course, all food too. He is even going to comp a meal we had (take out) from one of the restaurants here that is not owned by Wynn. He flat out told me he couldn�t believe how well I am doing given how long we have been here. �Keep it up at the tables!� he texted me later.

Life is good!

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Day Nineteen play

I had a lot of large bets, unfortunately each time more or less when I was behind. I was ahead a little over three grand at one point, but after another spill, I stopped a clean K ahead.

I am allowed to play on my buddy�s Reserved table at any time now. He told everyone that I am the only one. We generally play well together � but today we both had a hard time. He quit around $60K down, and will resume later.

I walked ahead, just the 1000, but a win is a win.

I stick to one session a day only.