Vegas trip report Jan 22 to 29

       We flew Alegiant round trip for 258 round trip for the both of us non stop.  Rental car was with Payless for 239 all in for the week.  The payless desk was closed  so Avis agent gave us a free upgrand choice of miini van, EV, or Jeep.  WE went with the jeep and got a off road Jeep Wrangler from Col.  Pretty fun to drive, but the wife had a hard time climbing in.  It did make me smile every time.

      I am going to keep this 7 day report pretty short.  WE stayed 7 nights all comped with no resort fees.  We stayed Thur, fri sat, at Green Valley Ranch with 125 fp and 50 fc.  Sun at Resorts World with 60 fp and 10 fc, although we earned an extra 90 dollars in the food court after playing.  Mon, tues was at the Suncoast with 20 fp and 10 fc and Wed wasat Sunset Station

      We had great meals at Botiglia at Green Valley,  Lindo Michicon 3 blocks south of Green Valley. The great steak deal at The Martini,  Rubios fish tacos at the Alliante,  a great Breakfast at the George at Duango, and the Cheese burger special with the 2.99 shimp cocktal at the Palace Station was pretty good.  Other meals were good, but nothing special toreport.

     We stopped by on friday and picked up our books, but this was probobly the first time we didn't use a coupon on a trip.  Probably because the wife was hot and didn't want to dink around at places that didn't have the games she wanted to play.  We only played at Green Valley Ranch, Durango, Sunset Station, Palms, Resorts World, Suncoast, Red Rocks, Rampart, The Martini, Alliante, Sante Fe Station, and Palace Station.

      This was the 2nd winning trip in a row for the wife as she flopped 4s at tne Durango on 10 play DDB bonus streak with some multipliers, and then got a couple kickers  The next day she got a Royal times 12 on the same game, different machine at Durango.  She also hit it pretty good at Alliante on Tuesday as we were playing on the 10 times multipier day.  I had a great session playing ultimate x spin poker at Green Valley, and Bonus streak at Sunset station.  Also some really good Keno hits at the bars early in the week.  Some good sessions at hundred play and 3 way action poker as well, but I was down  a little for the week.

       We had a great week with some good deals .  Too bad we didn't take off a day and do something fun with that jeep, but wehad fun driving it.

Nice to hear that you had a winning trip.

Thanks for sharing!

Wow, that was a quick Trip Report.  Glad you had some good luck and some good food and drink.  Bummer about not being able to use coupons, but there will be more trips, so it will happen.   

I like your "short" but informative report, Brent.  And how about those hits at Durango, GVR and Sunset?  Might that have been some of that "reset" luck Bob Dancer has written about?  Who knows, but good for you and your wife!

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I don't have the tolerance for some of the multipier games like my wife does. She likes the excitement of more lines and gets bored with single or even triple play games. Also it is a challege to find games side by side where we can play together..  I played next to a lady at Red Rocks this trip who hit a Royal playing triple play the origainal Hot Roll playing 50 cents times 11 for over 20 grand.  Pretty fun and I think she only held 2.   

If you're a winner, meaning you only play +EV games/situations, you don't want volatility, so multiplier games are not your friend. If you're a loser, meaning you play -EV games, you want volatility in order to give yourself a better chance to significantly exceed expectation. The downside of that, of course, is that when you do significantly worse than expectation, you can get pounded through the floor.

I don't like multiplier games that require a doubling of your bet. That 12x multiplier is an illusion; you're really only getting 6x your original bet. And if you couple that with some game that shorts you on the smaller payouts in order to pump up that rare big big hand payout, your money can evaporate.

I also hate those games where you have to double your bet for the bonus.  I don't mind Deal frenzy or the one with the extra coin for larger quads.  Supertimes used to be pretty fun, but just seems to be a money suck the last 5 years.  They must have changed how often the multipliers come up

It's all how you match your bigger hands in multiplier games so you are taking "luck of draw" and running it through one more "luck of draw" scenario.  For that reason, I agree with you guys about multi hand multiplier games.  Just not my cup of tea but I don't begrudge people that it is theirs.  

I think it's a successful attempt to turn a video poker machine into a slot machine. Just spin and watch. Strategy is irrelevant.

The degree to which that's true depends on how you get the multipliers. If they just randomly pop up on the deal, like Super Times Pay, no thinking is involved. But if they're based on your final hand, like Ultimate X, some strategy changes can increase your EV.

I also hate the fact that all the multiplier games have worse paytables than their non-multiplier equivalents. The multipliers usually add back a tiny bit of EV, but not near what is lost by the paytables downgrade.