This report covers my latest trip in June which consisted of three nights using my Binions offer, three nights using my Four Queens offer, and finally three nights at Main Street Station. I'll get into the offers I received later. I will say that from my February play, the Four Queens and Binions first produced offers for June, for Main Street Station it took until July.
Binions was for 3 nights and $100 in free play. June was for 1/2 the normal amount sice the offer was for only one month. The Four Queens had a special offer for June, $100 in free play and an additional $10 in free play for every 100 points. A maximum of $400 in additional free play could be earned in June. If you hit the maximum of 4000 points which is $32,000 coin in on video poker, you would also be entered into a cash drawing at the end of the month where they give away $5,000. It also included a food credit of $50 plus whatever additional comp/food dollars you earned. This was too good to pass up. At Main Street Station I had no offer yet, but the room would be comped, and I would be able to participate in the Wendesday young at heart promotion. Based on my prior play I was also given a silver card.
Sine the first three nights was using the Binions offer, (The rooms are at the Four Queens) I first sat down at the progressive 25 cent machines. THey has just changed these so that the bonus poker was no longer tied into the progressive. The best play on the progressive was the 9/7 double bonus. 10/7 double bonus is streaky. 9/7 with the progressive is even more so.To make long story short this a disaster for me. on the three days I finished $680 behind playing quarters. This was inclding $90 that I won on my free play.
I also made a side trip as I rented a car for one day from Advantage at Main Street Station. I had couponifrom the AGC which would give you a free dinner buffet in you earned at least 300 points at Southpoint. I earned the the 300 points playing some of the many NSUD machines they have. I was $30 ahead. I should had the buffet and left. Instead I kept playing, I lost the $30 plus an additional $150. Maybe they will send me an offer. If not I won't be back till next year and only if they have the same offer in the AGC.
I also made some sports bets and won about $40. I also collected $41 cashback form Binions. I would go into the next three days in the hole about $750, so far this trip was just like the others, it seemed like ground hog day evey day.
I started off the first day at the Four Queens playing my 50 cent JOB machines. Late in the afternoon I held the King and Jack of clubs, and magically it filled in for a royal flush for a $2,000 win. Aside for the jackpot, I lost about 560 dollars. However after playng thorough the $500 in free play which I played on the 25 cent JOB I hit 2 four of a kinds and cashed out for $541 on the free play. So I was now $1,980 ahead at the Four Queens. In addtion I earned $100 in cash back so overall ahead $2060 at the Four Queens. Was now ahead about $1,300.
Next up was the three nights at MSS. I actually had two return trips booked with Southwest, one at the end of the Four Queens stay, and one after the MSS stay. I had booked the earlier flight in case i lost a lot. Now I had the opposite problem, I was ahead, should I risk giving back my winnings? Of course I stayed.
The first day at Main Street Station was not good. I played less thatn I usually do, lost about $480 mainly playing the 50 cent JOB. Maybe it was a mistake to stay the extra days.
The second day was a Wednesday so it was point multplier day. I woke up early and started playing at 7:00 in the morning I played 25 cent JOB and won $100. Later someone at the slot club told me it started at 7.00 not 8.00 as I previously thought. Anyway I swiped my card and got 10X points on video poker. I promptly lost $80 on JOB 50 cent machines. Then it was off to the 25 cent bonus poker 5 play. It is fum to play these as you can get a lot of stratch cards and accumulate points quicky. You can also loose a lot quickly. THe first machine I sat down at within the first few hands I was dealt 10 Jack King of hearts. The top right hand filled in for a royal flush, a $1,000 win, I was now ahead at MSS about $500.
I continued playing the 5 play 25 cent bonus poker. Late that afternoon i was dealt King Ace ten of Hearts. The second row on the left filled in a royal fush another $1,000. This macine was not finished yet. I had started with about $173. Shortly after the royal flush, I got four aces. Shortly after this I got 5-9 of clubs a straight flush dealt. The machine will not go past $1,200, so a ticket spit out for $312.50. After this I got four threes, agian a ticket spit out. Finally I got four Queens. In all I took out $1,567 from this machine. In all by the end of the second day, I had turned my $480 loss into a $2,150 gain things were looking up with one day to go.
The third day a surprise ending. i resolved that since this was my last day that I would not try to give too much of my winnings back. hoppefully not loose mre than $500. I was also going to play as close to 3 A.M. which is when the slot day ends at MSS. I was down about $400 for the day and the time was about 1:45 in the morning. The bar at MSS was still busy so I settled on a mchine with small cards and no speed control so it played quite slowly. I started playing the 50 cent JOB. Whith the first 15 minutes, I hit four four of a kinds. You have to remember that the machine was dealing the cards very slowly, and i had to wait for the scratch cards.
Ordinarily, I would have thought about switching to dollar but I remembered the saying "stay in your lane". I contuned to paly about another 40 minutes hit three more four of a kinds and got the machineup to $755, I had started with $200 in. I played it down to $705 and quit. I $505 win and $14 in scratchers. It was now about 20 minutes to 3 A.M. and time to quit. Not a bad way to end the trip.
I ended up at MSS ahead about $2,250 plau $143 in scratchers, and $69 cash back ( i kept about $103 on my card for food which I will explain later. Overall over $2,450 at MSS. Overall ahead over $3,750.
This cut my losses for the year total down to about $5,000.