Wed we headed back to M Resort, this time for high jackpots every 30 min. mmoose scored on two of those. My notes say I won $25 at 2-4 limit but with the blur of losses I really don't believe it.
mmoose killing the 2-4 and red chips from high hand winnings.
Note the quads by mmoose actually got beat for high hand by quad 7s and then quad Js within the 30 min window.
After that we went back to Caesar's for the $1 oysters at PJ Clarke's in the forum shops. The losses were bad but fortunately not as bad as to have to fish quarters out of the Caesar's fountain. But meh.
Then we had tickets to UNLV. Great game. After building a big lead by half time, they actually fell 4 points behind and then came back to win it on their final possession. But yeah, a 2 point victory did not cover the spread. So suxors. Note: two Canadians are starting for UNLV, and one of them, a freshman is their leading scorer. Go Canada!
Then on to 1-2nl at Ballys, basically at this point hoping to save our trip by hitting the $560k BBJ. Another cash win for mmoose and of course I get dealt KK utg on my final hand of the evening. You know this doesn't end well when I flop a set and get it in three ways against a flopped straight and two pair. Sigh another $400 gone and I feel like cruising the streets in a Maserati, hoping to draw some gunfire.
So the next morning the strip was closed from the shooting/explosion. Fortunately the Bally's garage exits onto 3 different streets, two of which (Las Vegas blvd and Flamingo) were closed. We had planned to drive to the Valley of Fire anyways so it didn't really affect us other than having to detour around the mess to get on I-15.
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As we headed towards North Las Vegas we pull off to visit Jerry's Nugget which has some really awesome $1 Paulsons. As soon as we get of the highway though we run into hundreds of homeless. The area has actually been named the Homeless Corridor. Apparently there is some ordinance which keeps them away from the casino's on the strip and downtown and the cops just dump them over the city line from Las Vegas to North Las Vegas.
So chips acquired, we head back north on I-15. As we head out of town, the car makes this ding sound. WTF? Read the led display under the tachometer.
Speed governor on our Mustang! Top speed 80 mph. !#$@#$^@#^@#$!%!%!%!
So anyways on to Valley of Fire. Amazing scenery. 10x better than Red Rock Canyon.
Heading into the valley.
As you can see the terrain was extremely varied and awesome drive in a Mustang convertible!
So after the drive we had back to Vegas and stop in Henderson for some more craps action at Joker's Wild. Boom, another $510 gone between the two of us. I couldn't take the losses anymore and left 9 chips short of a full rack of quarters. Sigh. Will take one more trip to get my rack filled.
Then we headed back to Ballys and had a great burger at Le Burger Brasserie, also using our comps and a BOGO coupon we scored by asking at the Total Rewards desk in Ballys.
So back to the nl tables at Ballys and I finally break the 5 day losing streak with a $306 win. However the worm turns and mmoose starts a spiral downward that ends with her being down overall on the trip.
Fri we get up and start with lunch at Big Al's Oyster Bar at the Orleans casino. Really awesome seafood chowder followed by soft shell crab sandwich.
Then back to M Resort for more beers and high hand of the 1/2 hour jackpots. We don't get any but they also start a $3 max rake nl game with $30 splash pots every 1/2 hour. This promo will run until the end of March. I book another $241 when I double through some maniac with the nut flush but mmoose takes her turn to get stacked with KK against 108 on a 1088 board as we are getting up for dinner, which puts her down for the trip. So overall we lose another $59. We had $28 in comps on our cards to use towards the buffet, so 14 hours of play each this week at M Resort.
The seafood buffet is ok but the raw oysters were all dead and completely disgusting. What a waste. Have not been to the Rio seafood buffet for a few trips but we would generally consider it a lot better than the M Resort.
After dinner we head back to Ballys. mmoose gives up and heads to bed for our flight out on Sat. I play at nl and continue the win streak for another $88 but I was playing badly on a very soft table so I cashed out, down almost 50% of the roll for the week. Sigh.
Sat we fly back to Detroit and check into our comped room at Caesar's Windsor. Sun morning we were comped two buffets, another $25 gas card and $15 in slot play. The winning continued and I played that into another $22.50.
Chipes and racks scored on this trip:
Ah Las Vegas, that sweet temptress...anyone up for Sept. 2013?
