Sunday, January, 26:
I think we set the alarm for around 9:30, but we both got up around 7ish, I believe. We were planning a play day at Four Queens and Binion's, along with some couponing.
We got cleaned up and got to Four Queens around 10:00 AM. I redeemed some points from the Four Queens slot app for a $25 comp at Magnolia's. We had to go to the slot club to get the voucher, and we loaded up our $10 FP coupon.
Magnolia's was good, as always. Originally I was going to get steak and eggs, but changed my mind and got hash and eggs. Kip was getting an omelette, but with my hash and eggs, we had money to spend, so she got the $1.99 add on for avocado and I got an orange juice. We used $24.46 of the comp.
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| Hash and eggs! |
Kip learned that she shouldn't wash her hair the first 2 days of the New Year and she should wear red or green for good luck. Well, that must have worked, because shortly after we started playing she held the Ace-King of spades, and drew the Ten-Jack-Queen of spades for a Royal Flush! And, since we wanted to reduce the amount of time for our play requirement, we were playing at fifty-cents. A great start to our play!
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| Kp's Royal! |
I hit yet another King-high straight flush (only holding a king).
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| Oh look, another King-high straight flush! |
I didn't hit a quad until my play was mostly done. I was up $15 at the time when I got dealt quad 4's (too bad we were only playing JoB). That still gave me a profit of $75, which isn't too bad.
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| And we weren't playing Bonus either. . . |
We were planning on being at Aria by 4:00 PM to see the Lion and Dragon parade, so we caught the SDX and got off near Cosmopolitan and walked to Aria. While we were waiting for our friend to meet us, I lost $55 playing Dragon Spin. Eventually we were sitting in the lobby, waiting for the parade. Well, the article I read didn't mention that there was going to be a show outside, so we missed most of that sitting inside. I did go out and caught the end of the show before they started their parade it. It was interesting and I'm glad we saw it.
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| Aria lobby. |
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| Aria lobby. |
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| Outside the lobby. |
We walked back through The Shops at Crystals back to Cosmopolitan, where I picked up a Chinese New Year chip.
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| The Shops at Crystals |
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| The Shops at Crystals |
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| Kip, Alicia, and I at The Shops at Crystals |
We caught the Deuce up to Wynn, where Alicia was staying, and Kip and I switched to the SDX and continued back downtown.
We weren't sure what we were going to do for dinner, so I redeemed some Binion's slot game app points and got a $100 comp for Top of Binion's Steakhouse, a place that I've wanted to try for a long time.
We had some time to kill, so we went to Fremont and used a $10 match play coupon. We just played it safe, and bet opposite red/black. Fortunately, green did not come up, and we split our profit ($5).
We then went to Downtown Grand, where they had a $5-$50 match play (Las Vegas Advisor) and a $10 MP (American Casino Guide). We went for the $50 MP and again bet opposite red/black. Kip won both bets and we split the profits again. Even though they again allow point earning on video poker, we earned the 25 points on a few slots for the $10 free play. We did redeem the free play on VP though, and between the seed play and the redemption, I was up around $3.
We went to Binion's to get the voucher and start play. There was no slot club line, but when we starting playing, there was an issue with Kip's machine. After she loaded up her free play, the buttons nor the screen worked, so she had to call for a technician, which took around 15 minutes to fix, and we had around 20 minutes before our reservation.
We had an 8:00 pm reservation, and we just had a short wait to be seated. She asked if we wanted a table or a booth and I said whatever was by the window (table). She said all of the seating had views though (but it is definitely nicer by the window).
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| Our view. |
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| Another view. |
The steaks come with a potato and vegetable, so that's a bit better than some other steakhouses. Still, we had $100 to use, so we each got a glass of wine and the lobster bisque. Kip got the lobster mac and cheese for her meal (it is a side) and I got the 16 oz prime rib. They have a larger one, but it's a good thing I got the smaller one, the portions were so large, I didn't even eat all of my potato or veggies. They also serve a warm sourdough bread before your meal, with a sweet butter which was very nice.
After dinner, we continued our Binion's play. The slot club closed at midnight, so we had to make sure we finished up before that, so we could turn in our coupon. We did, but we didn't have as much luck as we had at Four Queens. We also managed to get our photo taken with the $1 million.
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| I'll replace this with a scanned version when I get a chance! |
We stopped at the room and decided we would go to Boar's Head Bar at Main Street Station for some celebratory drinks. I did have a tasty Black Chip Porter.
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| Black chip porter! |
We played some 9/6 Jacks or Better, with Kip out quading me, 6-4. Kip did come out a winner, while I took a loss. We then tried Treasure Chest bonus poker, and only Kip hit a quad (for 140), so not terribly exciting. We also tried Pay the Aces No Face, but no luck there either.
We walked back to Golden Gate and called it a night.
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