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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....
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    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.
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    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 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!
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    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!
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    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."

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    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.
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    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.
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    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.
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