Once again Harrahs, Rincon had a multi-point promotion on 1/17. For Diamond members, it’s 7X Reward points. So, considering their new inventory of full pay VP along with the multi-point promotion, it was just too lucrative to ignore. Fortunately, I had the day off and made the hour and a half drive at 6:00 AM.
At 7:30, after swiping my card for the promotion. I had some cash to play considering I had made a royal last week. I sat down with a plan: $200 at Ultimate X deuces; $200 for 8/5 BP; $200 for Ugly Deuces; and $200 for 9/6 Jacks. Even if tragedy hit and I lost everything, I would still be ahead quite a bit for the year.
The Ultimate X machine was already busy with a guy who was on the phone the whole time giving a play-by-play to whomever was on the line with him (probably the same guy that Lolly talked about last week). With the extra points, I chose to play exclusively at the $0.50 level. Though I played a good long time (a little over $4K) on my initial stake, I couldn’t hit the deuces. I took out my next $200 and switched to 8/5 Bonus Poker (the guy on the Ultimate X wasn’t going anywhere soon, he had just hit quad 3s with a kicker at 4X).
Within a few minutes, I was dealt quad deuces (ain’t it always the case?). At least it was still a bonus quad. I also managed quad 3s later and a couple other quads, but no Aces and eventually lost.
The guy on the Ultimate X was now gone, and I put in my stake for $200 at the dime level. I’ve been pretty lucky on this machine hitting quad deuces three times (once for 7X). However, this was simply a horrific session rarely, if ever, catching back-to-back good hands, which is necessary at this game to win. I lost my stake WAY too soon.
It was back to the fifty cent games. Though I was supposed to play 9/6 Jacks, my heart simply wasn’t in it, and I figured if I could hit the deuces just once, the $500 would bring me almost back to even. This session lasted a good four hours. Though I never caught the deuces, I had a plethora of Wild Royals, 5-of-a-kinds, and such that allowed me to make two cash outs (reach $300, take out a hundred, and put the $200 back in). After over 10K run though on this session alone, I had now put in almost 7 hours. I finally hit 0 and chose to play at least a hundred through the 9/6 Jacks.
I was at the same machine in the far right corner that I had won my Royal on last week. I guess you can see where I’m going here. I held the 10/Ace/King of Diamonds and the Jack and Queen show up for my first $2000 Royal ever.
After being paid, I played off the rest of the initial hundred and was heading out when a spot opened up at the Rockin’ Olives machine. I played full coin for a hundred and managed to play for a little over an hour and adding another 2K before losing it. So, in total, I played just short of 20K ($140 in Reward comps) and left with a nifty profit of $1300 for my VP toolbox and the next multipoint day.
If only every story ended this well.
At 7:30, after swiping my card for the promotion. I had some cash to play considering I had made a royal last week. I sat down with a plan: $200 at Ultimate X deuces; $200 for 8/5 BP; $200 for Ugly Deuces; and $200 for 9/6 Jacks. Even if tragedy hit and I lost everything, I would still be ahead quite a bit for the year.
The Ultimate X machine was already busy with a guy who was on the phone the whole time giving a play-by-play to whomever was on the line with him (probably the same guy that Lolly talked about last week). With the extra points, I chose to play exclusively at the $0.50 level. Though I played a good long time (a little over $4K) on my initial stake, I couldn’t hit the deuces. I took out my next $200 and switched to 8/5 Bonus Poker (the guy on the Ultimate X wasn’t going anywhere soon, he had just hit quad 3s with a kicker at 4X).
Within a few minutes, I was dealt quad deuces (ain’t it always the case?). At least it was still a bonus quad. I also managed quad 3s later and a couple other quads, but no Aces and eventually lost.
The guy on the Ultimate X was now gone, and I put in my stake for $200 at the dime level. I’ve been pretty lucky on this machine hitting quad deuces three times (once for 7X). However, this was simply a horrific session rarely, if ever, catching back-to-back good hands, which is necessary at this game to win. I lost my stake WAY too soon.
It was back to the fifty cent games. Though I was supposed to play 9/6 Jacks, my heart simply wasn’t in it, and I figured if I could hit the deuces just once, the $500 would bring me almost back to even. This session lasted a good four hours. Though I never caught the deuces, I had a plethora of Wild Royals, 5-of-a-kinds, and such that allowed me to make two cash outs (reach $300, take out a hundred, and put the $200 back in). After over 10K run though on this session alone, I had now put in almost 7 hours. I finally hit 0 and chose to play at least a hundred through the 9/6 Jacks.
I was at the same machine in the far right corner that I had won my Royal on last week. I guess you can see where I’m going here. I held the 10/Ace/King of Diamonds and the Jack and Queen show up for my first $2000 Royal ever.
After being paid, I played off the rest of the initial hundred and was heading out when a spot opened up at the Rockin’ Olives machine. I played full coin for a hundred and managed to play for a little over an hour and adding another 2K before losing it. So, in total, I played just short of 20K ($140 in Reward comps) and left with a nifty profit of $1300 for my VP toolbox and the next multipoint day.
If only every story ended this well.
