I woke last night to the sound of thunder. . . No wait, I woke this morning to the sound of thunder! I went to the window to check it out, then I started a video. A few seconds in, I captured these images:
The first and last images were screen captures on my phone when I paused the video. The middle two I actually used the image capture on the photo software (after I figured out how to get the Facebook live video onto my phone). This was around 7:15 AM.
Well, not that I'm awake, I guess I can get ready to head to The D for our big play day. I'm using the $5 free play for every 50 points and plan on maxing it out, and that's going to take around 10 hours of play at 25c VP.
We had some breakfast bar things, loaded my $175 free play for the day at Plaza, and drove over to The D. Yes, we drove, because I was picking up our friend Scott at the airport around 11:00 AM, so it was going to save time to have the car at The D instead of walking back to Plaza.
Kip and I get settled in at Vue Bar around 10:30 and we commence play. Roy was tending bar, and we've know him for quite a while. He decided to get a little fancy with the "Reserved" signs. . .
So, the first sign was about when he was standing over the machine watching me play. I told him I couldn't perform in front of an audience. He just laughed, and then when I took a break, that sign was waiting for me when I returned.
Around 11:00 AM, Scott said he landed. I headed to the airport to pick him up while Kip stayed and played. She'd meet us at Saginaw's at Circa (where Scott was staying) for lunch. No issues picking up Scott and we got to Circa a little after noon. I parked at the Garage Mahal, thinking that we'd get out for free using Kip's Maverick Club One card.
I messaged Kip that we were there and she already gave me her order for lunch. Scott checked in to his room and I got a preview of the room, since I would be staying there next week.
He had a Stadium Swim view and his room was also a Flex King, which had a pull down King murphy bed. If I could have gotten one of those comped, it would have been better than paying the extra $20 for a two king room.
Around 12:30 PM, Scott and I get to Saginaw's. We order and as we're waiting, Bob and Jon show up. I knew Bob was coming, but didn't know Jon was. I had only learned that Jon was in town when he messaged Kip Tuesday morning to say he was in town! In any event, I got the loco moco, which I got on my last trip here. It was as tasty as I remember.
We head back to The D and continue our play at Vue Bar. Now when we play, we have a thing called the quad (or better) bet. So each person who wants to play puts in a dollar, and whoever hits a quad (or better) wins the pot. It's really for degenerates who need to gamble on their gambling, but it's based on the Main Street Station "Score with Four" promo. Usually someone wins a few extra dollars, but sometimes with a lot of players, the side pot is quite big. This time, there were five participants, so that was an extra $4 to the winner. A woman sitting next to me was inquiring about what was going on, since I was giving and collecting money from people around her. I explained it to her and she asked if anyone could join in. I said sure, and she gave me a dollar for her and her husband who was there celebrating his 50th birthday! She told me her name and I didn't remember it, except that it started with "N". Later I called her "Nancy", and she saw her name was "N...". I was able to lock that in my memory.
I don't think it took long, but she hit four threes with a kicker (she was playing double double bonus), collecting an extra $6 in addition to her $200 win for the hand. She then followed that up with quad fours with a kicker. Hey, the new people aren't supposed to win! She then hit six more quads, including aces (no kicker). Her husband said this was her first winning session, so I suppose that's good. We got to talking and apparently her husband is (was?) a member of the LVA, so they knew about couponing and such. I told her about all of the match plays I had and was planning on using them and she said she had to be there when I used them I did have to go to the club to get this trip's match plays, and she mentioned a few other things which were supposed to get me more (Say hi to Matthew, take the reading test). The say hi to Matthew worked, the person didn't know anything about the reading test, but I somehow got $100 in match plays, so something else worked. I told her I'd let them know when I was going to use the match plays and we exchanged numbers. Oh, there was more signage. . .
Kip and I were going to have a pre-dinner snack at Pizza Rock during the happy hour, so we headed over there around 5:30 PM. One of Scott's friends, who was going to be joining us for dinner that night suggested we try the gorgonzola fries. Kip got green beans and I (not feeling like loading up on pizza before our dinner at Andiamo) just ordered meatballs. Everything was excellent as usual, and cheap during happy hour!
Kip and I still had the $5 - $50 match play bet at Downtown Grand, and since we were nearby, we stopped in. It didn't take us long to get the match play slips and we were going to halve them again on roulette, but the dealer wouldn't let us. So I played mine and won, then Kip played hers and won. So instead of splitting $50 between us, we each won $100! Take that, DTG!
After dinner, it was back to Vue Bar to finish up play. We ran into N and her husband again and we all started playing again. She did hit three quads with us, but I managed to hit the most this session (and take a win!).
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