Winter Spring 2021 Vegas Trip

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Day 39 play

The first marker (10K) went while I was playing with someone else at my table. Then drew a 20K marker and pretty much went up from there quickly to -4000. At that point I started to place some 1000 - 3000 bets and the other player at my table was betting against me. On one particular hand where I had 3000 on Bank, he drew a 7 to add to his 1, to make Player's hand 8, and I drew a 9 to add to my initial 0 to win the hand. He fled. He should not have fled though - he should have stuck around, and followed me - especially in that I ended the session after 2 1/2 shoes (average bet 1000) with +4100.

Ole!

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Day 40 play

Lost the first marker, pulled a second larger one. It was pretty smooth sailing from there, all the way up to +5100 where I stopped. I played alone.

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Day 41 play

Interesting session. Played most of it with this other player who bet anywhere from 2000 - 20000, with most of his bets being 3000. As a result, I was not usually the high bettor (once I bet 7000, another time 5000) so this player had the option to open the cards pretty much at all times, although was willing to let me open too. Pretty easy going player.

This player did a couple of table max bets and luckily won them both. I believe this player was up pushing eighty grand at one point, but just kept playing.

I blew my first marker then pulled a bigger one, and eventually got to +1000 and quit. I just couldn't do my thing effectively with someone else at the table constantly handling the cards.

Before I left, two more players arrived who were doing some kind of Martingale on the Bank. They bet against me on a Player run and lost everything, then came up with another twenty grand and were doing all right with that, until I took a bathroom break, came back, and they had lost everything again to the point where they were scrounging paper money between them to pay off the commission.

When I quit at the +1000 point the other player, the one who had been at the table since the beginning with me, had given back about half of what was ahead, so was in the neighborhood of about forty grand ahead, but was still playing - hard - at least five thousand a hand.

There was an interesting blondie at a nearby table smoking a cigar. I asked her if she was from New York.

"No."

"I'm just trying to put it together, with the cigar, and everything."

"I'm a local."

"Vegas?"

"Yes, does that make sense now?" she smiled broadly.

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Day 42 play

I ended up about two thousand ahead on the first shoe, from the first marker. Didn't really hold, I gradually went downhill until I had to pull another marker and was actually -14K at one point. I put the entire 14K on Player and drew a 4, with Bank 5, which is a very unenviable position. I then declared that "I need a 2," and sure enough, BAM! SLAM! on the table, there it was. A 2.

No commission!

From there I wobbled up and down slightly until, by the end of the fourth shoe, I was up +4500 and stopped.

The player from a prior session arrived around the third shoe, and we won together for that entire shoe, but after I stopped and I was still hanging around in the high limit pit, I noticed that the player dumped everything. Not good. Actually, this player confirmed that the prior time we had played together the player had also dumped everything once I had stopped and left for the day.

"I usually lose much faster than when I play with you, so, that means you're pretty good at this."

Ouch. Losing slower equaling a good thing?

Anyway, +4500 for me.

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Day 43 play

This was a monster session. A monster losing session. I pulled marker after marker and couldn't win, at least not consistently. Something was shifted, worse, I wasn't aware that it was shifted until it was too late. Wasn't anything intentional on the part of the casino, just the way things were done during this session.

I actually had one shuffle where things were as usual and I was winning, then the next one was again not right, and everything went down again.

Anyway, that's -68K down the drain!

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Day 44 play

Using the 6K in promo chips I was given (which were very nice chips...play 'til you lose), I managed to claw myself to +28K, but I was trying to win back more of what I dumped before, and due to a variety of new and old factors, just couldn't do it, and ended up dumping everything I was ahead. Paid off the markers and fled the table. +0 (minus commission actually).

Part of this is PLAYER FATIGUE I'm just not playing at my best. Part of this is due to new factors introduced by the casino that I now am able to perceive.

Talked it over with my wife and it's Time to go home. Ride out some of the comps earned, and leave while ahead.

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Day 45 play

Partly because I was annoyed at what happened the prior session, partly because I was annoyed at the recent drop in the stock market, partly because I was annoyed at the recent drop in bitcoin, I went down and played again. I pulled a very small marker and played conservatively.

Seriously, this session I could have EASILY won well over a hundred thousand. Even two hundred thousand. On one shoe I was winning close to 80% of my hands. With almost no effort, I walked with just under +25K.

I chased anyone away who tried to play at my table. When they asked for my permission, I would scowl and say NO, which, actually, I had no right to say anything but I didn't care, I just said it anyway. One player was this player who recognized me from the Fall 2020, trip, and I told the player flat out, "Last time we played together, you BLEW it!" and the player just skulked away, and, sure enough - I glanced from a distance, blew whatever cash pulled out. I'm tired of these losers I don't want them at my table!

+25K

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This may turn out to be it. It was more just an experiment in making certain that I still "have it."

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Day 46 play

MONSTER session. My average would have been 4K but I settled down near the end and the pit boss ended up entering 2500 as my average.

I was back and forth up and down with 5-10K hands, and even hit a thousand dollar tie TWICE and won the third hand after hitting the tie back to back, for a 24K or so win over the course of just those three hands alone.

Some bozo walked up and plopped 100 against me on a Player run, lost, and left the table. As soon as the bozo left I had them raise the minimum to keep said bozo (and others like said bozo) away.

But, I was playing catch up much of the time, ended up six thousand, and called it a day.

+6025

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Day 47 play

A monster session to end all monster sessions. LITERALLY DID NOT WIN A NICKEL, but...a monster session nonetheless.

I got up about five grand on the first shoe, and really should have walked. I kept playing and one marker at a time, dumped eighty grand. It got to where no matter what I hit to, the other side hit one point better. I draw a seven, other side would draw an eight. I'd hit to eight, other side would hit to nine.

Later, I noticed that a friend of mine whom I consider to be bad luck had been texting me frantically (I could feel the phone vibrating in my pocket, and saw all the messages later), asking for some advice on whether to sell or hold some crypto he had picked up last week, exactly during this period when I couldn't win a hand.

I regrouped, moved to a different table in a different area, and from there...it was win! win! win! After an initial bit of back and forth, I started RAKING in the chips. The pit boss kept saying that I should be up two hundred grand, but...all I did was recoup the entire eighty K, and stop. Along the way, on the final run, I was stacking two to four black chips alongside my bet for the dealer, and I must've tipped out three grand easily. Didn't care though, I made my comeback, and all is well. I got to about +77 and then won the last three grand, and stopped.

Pit boss said my average bet was a solid 5000. I must've earned a Theo loss of at least forty grand this session, maybe fifty.

Later talked to my host and extended for 11 more days - no questions asked. The host emphasized that everything was being cleaned off my bill.

Anyway, I'm here for another day. I'm learning to press harder when I need to and believe me, one of these days I am going to hit them for between a hundred and a hundred and fifty K in one session. Believe it. Yes, I'm getting a little greedy but I am fine tuning what it is I am doing.

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