Monday, January 15
Aw, our last
moving day! Kip got up relatively early to go with TB to Popcorn Girl and
Gelatology. (They know the owner, and she opened up especially for them, since
she’ll be leaving for Chicago shortly.)
I thought about going, but decided to stay at the Silverton.
I called for
a host to check about my room charge and was told that a host wouldn’t be on
duty until noon. What? Oh well. I head down to the slot club and asked the
person if they do discretionary comps, or was it all based on points. She
responded with, “What?” I then asked if there was a host I could speak with.
She said their office is by the front desk and that someone should be there. It
was about 11:30, and I told her I was told no one would be there until noon,
but she reassured me that someone was there. I get to the front desk and ask
about a host and they tell me that no one is there. I say I’ll be checking out
today and wanted to see if I could get my room charge comped. She took my
information and said she’d give the request to a host. I asked that someone
call me to confirm and she took my number.
I finish
packing and go down to the bar to play a little and say goodbye to the
bartenders. They were very nice. (Did I mention that before?) I got another
Bailey’s and coffee and tried some more BP. It wasn’t going well, but after
putting in $80 total, I hit a quad and managed to cash out for $45.
Just before
noon (checkout time), I get a text from Kip asking me where I am (she’s in the
room). I say I’ll be right up and since it’s a small hotel, I’m there shortly
and we take our bags out to the car.
Now when I
arrived, I saw they had a machine that I had seen on Videopoker.com: Super Draw
6-card Poker. For a double bet, you get a sixth card on the draw to complete
your hands. Plus there are additional six card hand payouts. We played some
9/6/4 DB at nickels and put in $20 each. We got some play out of it, getting
the six card hands up to the 150 six card flush. We had a few nice draws with a
dealt full house, so if we hit a quad, we’d get a nice 1500 coin payout, and
even two three of a kinds would pay 250, but we didn’t hit those. We were close
to even, but we gambled and lost. It was
fun though.
We head out
of Silverton. Hopefully we’ll get some decent offers for the summer. I had to
stop by the Post Office to drop off my 2017 estimated tax payments, since they
were due today, and then we headed to Ellis Island. Kip had never been to Ellis
Island, and she didn’t know what she was missing. I was just there last summer,
and I noticed that quite a bit was missing. A whole area of machines between
the bar and where they have the karaoke was missing! Well, they weren’t exactly
“missing.” There were machines in the parking garage and where the cashier used
to be. They’ve apparently moved the cashier closer to the Village Pub &
Café (which is better than calling it, “The Restaurant”). These included the slant top NSUD and other
good games (like 9/6 JoB and Shockwave). I inquired at the player’s club about
this, and he said that they were remodeling and were going to move the pit
(which consists of like 6 tables) over there and filling in the current pit
with the machines. Hopefully they keep their decent games. We checked the
remaining machines, and most were not good. They even had a horrible version of
what they called, “Bonus Poker,” but the bonus was a slightly inflated quad
payout (for all quads, there wasn’t a separate payout for aces, and deuces to
fours). We did find some 8/5 BP
machines, which was also on a progressive for DDB (for the aces and kicker and
the royal). I discovered that these were individual progressives, so I checked
the machines and there was one around $1,700, one at $1,500, and one at $1,400,
the rest were around $1,000 - $1,200. We decided to take a shot on the
progressives, so Kip sat at the $1,700 and I sat at the $1,500, which were
catty corner across from each other.
We put in
$20 to play for the ACG (play $10 and get up to $100 in FP) and LVA (play $10
and get $10-$100 in FP) coupons. Kip
also got a chance for $5-$500 in FP for $5 play as a new member, and we both
had the play $5 and get a T-shirt. So during our play, I hit a quad (5s) and
cashed out at $85. Kip did okay, and cashed out at $28.75. We went back to the
slot club and got our free play loaded up and went to the kiosk. After the spin
and picking the chip, I got a total of---$20! Oh joy. Kip got the same thing. I
think one time I did get $25 in FP, but yeah, I’m sure it’s weighted to get the
minimum. Well, free play is free play, so we head back to the progressives, but
someone is playing the $1,700 one, so I say we could both play on the one at $1,500.
We’re just going to play off the FP, so I’m counting hands for Kip as she
plays. On the 16th hand, she hits quad nines, which we are excited
about. Then two hands later, she is dealt Qs-Ks-Js-As-X. We chant, “Ten of
Spades, Ten of Spades, Ten of Spades” and then she presses the button. It takes a moment for us to realize that the
Ten of Spades has materialized on the last spot. OMG! Another royal! And this one is for
$1,542.50! The machine goes off and we go crazy. I get my phone and take a
video recording of the jazz song, but in my excitement while waiting for the
hand pay, I deleted it, to apparently be lost forever. I’ll have to get another
chance to get a good recording of this song. . . But while we are waiting,
there a woman behind us who goes on about how they took all sorts of taxes out
of her hand pay and it took them like an hour to pay here and how we’ll just
give it all back. We were just like, go
away. Another guy stands next to me, and I thought he was going to ask for a
handout, when I noticed that he has a jacket with, “SECURITY” on it. He said he
was waiting for the guy to pay us. He
then tells us that he hadn’t seen a royal flush before. I found that odd. We
eventually got paid and she had to finish off her free play. So, for $20 in, she cashed out $8.75 + $67.50
+ $1,542.50, the last two payouts on Free Play!
Me? Well me? Well, I figured we didn’t need to play on that machine,
since someone reset the progressive, so we went over to the one at $1,400. I did not have that luck, but I did cash out
a ticket for $32.50.
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| Ten of Spades, Ten of Spades, Ten of Spades. . . |
While I was
playing off my FP, the attendant came up to Kip and asked if she wanted to take
a quick survey and she did. One of the
questions was, “What would make you come back to Ellis Island?” She said, this
was her first time here, and she’s only been in the casino for about 15 minutes!
It was lunch
time, well it was after lunch time, and winning makes you hungry (as well as
not eating breakfast), so we went to the Village Pub & Café. I was going to
use the coupon from the kiosk for the $7.99 steak special, but we wouldn’t be
able to use the LVA 2-1 coupon. After doing the math, I paid full price for the
steak special and we used the coupon. I usually get the prime rib special, but
the steak special was nice. Kip got fish and chips, which she said was nice,
although a bit bready. The base bill was $22.98, plus $1.90 in tax, but with
the coupon, that took $10.81 off, making the total $14.07. Since Kip was the
big winner, I suggested that lunch was on her, and she obliged, leaving $20.
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| Salad |
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| Steak special |
We also had
four match plays to do. Since Kip
doesn’t like table games (and there weren’t many there to play), we just did
roulette. This time we did decided to
halve our coupons intentionally, and the first spin, Kip won. Now, I’m not sure how long the dealer had been
dealing, but she proceeded to pay Kip her winning bet, and then attempted to
pay me my losing bet. The pit boss was
right behind her (I’m assuming she was relatively new) and asked what she was
doing. I was wondering what she was
doing as well, and I would have said that my bet actually lost, but the pit
boss was there to clear that up. If she did pay me, that would have been the
first time I’d have seen a payout for both red AND black. At least green didn’t
come up. We tried some straight up numbers as well, and didn’t win, so we took
a color up for $60 total for a $20 loss overall.
We then
headed to Tuscany, getting there around 4:50. We had never been there before,
and I thought there was a decent coupon there (turns out there wasn’t, earn 300
points, get $10 free slot play). I also
thought they had a new player promo, they didn’t. We should have left then, but we decided to
check it out. The casino looks very
nice, as does the exterior. Our trip to
the slot club was pretty efficient, we got a little coupon book, nothing of
great value (but the ACG says it’s, “a good little Fun Book with some nice
coupons in it including match plays, food discounts, FREE gifts and comp deals.” I didn’t see any match plays. I found it
neither good, nor fun.
In any
event, VPFree2 said the best game was 9/7/5 DB Prog at the bars (99.11%). We
set up at one bar and for the first 10 minutes we were there, no one asked us
if we wanted anything. There was a bartender down the bar talking and a
bartender about ten feet away from us talking and another one came and was
talking, but no one was talking to us! Our $20 went pretty quickly and we were
going back to the slot club when someone finally asked us if we wanted
anything, to which we said no, we were just leaving.
Back at the
slot club, I felt it was too easy to get that 300 points, and, as I suspected,
they were running a 6x point multiplier day, so we needed to play a bit more,
like a lot more. We didn’t want to go
back to that bar, but we didn’t find any other bars. We went into the Pub 365 when I saw they had
VP there. They had the same game, so we
sat down. We figured since it was a
separate “bar” that they wouldn’t comp drinks for play, and the bartender said
they could do drafts or well drinks. Kip
asked for a Bailey’s and coffee and was told that would be a “specialty drink”
and not comp-able. She ended up getting
a plain coffee (which she said wasn’t that good) and I got nothing. They do have a nice beer list (if you’re
willing to pay), including Founder’s Kentucky Breakfast Stout on tap! Our bad vide continued at these machines. We
both lost an additional $40 each. I checked my points and we were around 150. I
decided that we ought not to continue to try to get $10 in FP, plus we just had
a bad overall vibe here, so we left.
It’s a shame, because we both did like the property. Perhaps we’ll have
a different vibe the next time we come here.
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| If you want KBS on tab, you can find it here (for now). . . |
Kip asked if
we were going to Hooters, since I knew they did have a new member promo, plus
there were a few coupons there (ACG play $10, get $10, and ACG $10 MP). It wasn’t far away, so we stopped by, getting
there around 6ish. They are also running a $1M Dare Devil spin, where you get a
free spin to try to win $1M and other assorted prizes. You also earned another
spin at 250 points, and Kip got a new member offer where she earned $10 free
play for every 250 in points (I think that was the deal). In any event, we were
playing 9/5 JoB instead of the 99.11% 9/7/5 DB since we lost at Tuscany and we
wanted to go less volatile. We played our $10 and both cashed out at $15. We
then took our $10 FP and both cashed out at $12.50. We then played a bit more
so Kip could get more Free Play and the additional spin. On our first spins,
Kip won a shot glass and I won a Krispy Kreme doughnut (with a purchase of a
small coffee). On Kip’s second spin, she was the doughnut as well.
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| Congratulations! You won a doughnut! *(with purchase) |
This free
play session was not as good as the one at Ellis Island (which would be hard to
top anyway), and we ended up losing.
While doing this review, I noticed that we failed to use the LVA play
$10, get $10 in Free Play (lost EV), although we will probably be back, I’m not
sure we’ll go out of our way to redeem this.
Sadness. . .
We still had
our MPs, so we did roulette again. The
one table was a bit crowded, but eventually we were able to get to the
table. The guy in the middle was leaving
and as he was taking his chips to go, another guy mentioned that he needed to
cash out the roulette chips at the table (rookie mistake). We did our red/black split and did not hit a
zero. Kip played her $5 MP from her new
member bonus and lost that, so we left the table with a small loss.
I wanted to
make a deposit at the local Navy Federal CU, but the ATM wouldn’t accept
deposits (must have been full due to the holiday), so we headed to our last
hotel stop, The D. We arrived there
around 9:45 PM. The parking garage is
not one of my favorites, where the first 6 floor are reserved for valet, we
ended up parking on the 8th floor.
We got down to the lobby and checked in together, asking if we could get
connecting or rooms close together. We got
rooms 716 and 718, which were next to each other, but not connecting. Oddly enough, our rooms connected with other
rooms. Oh well, not a big deal.
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| Waiting for the light to change seemed like a good time to take a picture. . . |
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| Hey, the best view of our trip! |
We didn’t
want to open up a play day at The D so late, so we decided to go to Main Street
Station to take advantage of the 6x points on VP. We got there around 11:25 PM and I asked when
the multiplier ended. The person at the
booth said midnight. I then asked when
the gaming day ended, and she said, “What?” Hmm. It used to end at 3 AM or so,
but she gave me the impression that it now ended at midnight. Oh well, we were
here and were going to play, so we set up at the Boar’s Head Bar, one of our
favorite bars to play.
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| Panda lantern for the Lantern Festival *(I found the link) |
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| Black Chip porter at Boar's Head Bar at Main Street Station! |
We both put
in $40 at 50c 9/6 JoB and did pretty well.
I hit four quads, including some FU aces (our term now when we hit aces
on non-bonus machines), and Kip hit three (the last quad we hit almost simultaneously). We both cashed out up over $200, so
it was a pretty good session. Our bar service was not outstanding, but the
microbrews are always good. Our seven scratch cards gave us an additional $14
dollars, yay!
Since we
were there, I had to play the Pay the Aces machine that our friend showed me a
few years ago. Last year, I got three
aces on the deal with no faces for a nice 250 coin payout. We had no such luck this time, but I did hit
a quad and cashed out for $60 on my $20 buy in, plus a $2 scratch card.
I then had
to take a shot on the 50c 8/5 BP Progressive, where I hit my first royal in Las
Vegas back in 2008, and follow up with another one on the exact same machine in
2010. I sat at the same machine, but unfortunately did not hit a royal, or any
quads for that matter, and that was that. Looking back, I see we never had
dinner. . . We headed back to The D to prepare for our last full day in Las
Vegas. . .
Silverton Housekeeping: $5 tip
Village Pub
& Cafe: $14.07, plus $5.93 tip
Jackpot
tips: $15
Drink tips:
$7
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