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Bobby Vegas: Crazy for 4 OAKs — ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS Play Max Coin

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Here’s why it pays to investigate video poker.

Checking out the new VP inventory at Downtown Grand, I came across two side-by-side machines with wildly different pay schedules. When I say wild, I mean like 1,200 coins for 4 aces!

Okay, that’s with a max bet 18 coins, so even at the lowest denom, that’s a $4.25 max bet. But checking it out on VPfree2, the max bet in this configuration is 99.63%, which for the Grand is pretty golden. (This game can be found at the Rio as well.)

Also, I wanted to pump up my points activity, being the end of the quarter (my host told me they reassess every quarter). I really wanted to hold on to my two comped nights a month, along with my max casino 50% room discount and $20 resort fee. So I was looking for a good play and lo and behold, the VP gods shined on me.

I’ve come to the realization I really play for 4-of-a-kinds more than royal flushes. It’s not like I don’t want RFs; it’s just they’re so rare, that I don’t play expecting them. Statistically, I’m “way overdue,” but in the meantime, I’m happy with my self-anointed King of 4 OAKS crown, with 16 of the little beauties in eight days — for me a new record.

And when playing a game with huge extra bonuses for 4 OAKS, yes, I’m tilting my strategy in their favor. Oh boy, did that work out well.

So what’s the game, Bobby? Come on! Shake the tree! The game is Triple Play Draw Poker on machines that say “Four of a Kind pays big with 6 coins bet per hand!” That’s how, with the max bet, you bet 18 coins.

That caught my eye and when I saw the pay schedules, I was flabbergasted.

I started playing JoB and hit a 4 OAK. Switched to Bonus Poker, hit another. Then went on to the golden moment on DDB and this is the payoff.

I’d started out the day taking my advantage protégé on an LVA MRB Fremont coupon run starting at El Cortez. There was some good free play in the back room and, well, I screwed up running my $10 FP through and did not do max bet, so of course I hit 4 OAK losing the additional $50. And on FP no less. GRRRR (hand slapping forehead “Bobby, you bonehead!”). Anyway, this lesson paid off big.

Later, I was playing the Triple Play machine at the Grand and was running out of money. So I fed a dollar in to make the max bet. I won a little, but needed to insert another dollar. BOOM! Not just 4OAK but 4 aces for the 1,200-coin payout.

Lesson learned. Always play max bet. Always.

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Bobby Vegas: Plaza, Rio, and Downtown Grand

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

The 2025 MRB offers some enticing hotel discounts. These also lead to even better casino offers.

I recently stayed at the Downtown Grand for eight nights, followed by four nights at the Rio, for a total hotel cost of $400.

It’s not hard to get comped at DG. I get two free nights a month as well.

Of course, each has different values, depending on your tastes, goals, and preferences.

Downtown Grand’s MRB coupon is good for waiving the resort fees. This is very valuable, saving $40+ a night, especially for your first stay. You also get daily in-room coffee and water.

I prefer the Gallery Tower right over the casino. The room rate is a little higher, but access is key, at least to me. Everything is close: the free Parking, casino, restaurants, new food court at the Fremont across the street, and Fremont Street is one block away.

Be sure to use your check-in coupon for up to $50 matchplay and your MRB matchplay. And with just $50 coin-in at video poker, you get 50% off on a great selection of entrees including breakfast, a great burger, and prime rib.

Once you’ve stayed and played, call casino reservations. They might give you up to 50% off your resort fee and the max room discount.

I cashed in on the Rio, with its no resort fee as well. The resort fee here is $56 a day, so this saved me $250. I stayed Monday-Friday for $107 total. No kidding.

Since I’m old school, I like the Masquerade Tower with a bathtub. It’s also less expensive than the new tower and self- parking is very close. No in-room coffee, but a fridge is comped. They also have room service, which tickled me. Great views, food hall, and pool too.

Check out the 9/6 JoB by the Sports bar. Hop over to Gold Coast for good VP, low-limit table games, and Ping Pang Pong. Then use your 50% or 2-for-1 at the Palms Buffet, including the Wednesday and Thursday lobster nights (a $79.99 saving). And I hear the Wow show is spectacular.

Finally, the Plaza. The MRB coupon is good, but the real deal at the Plaza is bingo.

Every month they have two-day $160,000 bingo that’s $160 to enter and is good for two lunches four nights Sunday through Thursday for $40 a night! And that includes the resort fee. The North Tower rooms are nicer, but noisier, facing the Fremont Street Experience. The South Tower’s are old-school with a tub, but quiet and very close to the free parking for guests.

Plaza has $15 single-zero roulette, excellent VP, and lots of food options where you can also use MRB coupons, from pizza to steaks. Pink Box donuts and Hash House A Go Go are also on the premises. Plus, fire up the positive expectation video poker at the Sand Dollar lounge with great comedy on Wednesday. A.C. and others love the new Mavericks show.

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Bobby Vegas: The Cat in the Hat

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Why gamble when some high roller buys the hat off my head for $1,720?

I’d come to town to celebrate the one-year anniversary of my favorite dance spot ,The Pinky Ring, squire my aspiring advantage player Sean, meet music friends, take meetings on projects, and of course hit the video poker hard.

Sean offered to get me a comped room at Aria ($500) and let me use his premium Caesars and MGM cards, so I didn’t have to pay for parking (saving $125 ). I always rent a car, my big splurge, and this trip it was $35 a day. Not too shabby.

I hustled over to Aria, checked in, and hopped over to Bellagio.

The Pinky Ring with Bruno Mars and the Hooligans is a madhouse, totally over capacity. The hosts are frantic, so it takes an unprecedented 20 minutes to get in.

I’m dancing with two lovely ladies — Jenny from Seattle and Serena from Santa Barbara — for a good 45 minutes (for perspective, I was older than both of their ages combined), then head up the riser to stand by the sound and light guys, have a Perrier, and catch my breath.

An inebriated high roller comes up to me holding out a wad of $20s and says, “I’m buying your hat.” Entitled? Anyone?

I’m wearing my iconic Kenyan Kente’ bucket hat, Afro-centric design crossed with Keith Harring.

I love this hat. Everywhere I go (Costco, on the street, even earlier at the Pinky Ring), I get compliments on it. I’ve been trying to find a copy online, but no luck, even with a Google image search. The guy I bought it from for $20 at a (of course) dance event had disappeared.

This swaggering high-roller has the back-center-court $10,000 VIP booth with Bruno in the next booth. Of the six lovely young ladies in his, one might have been his girlfriend and the other five her girlfriend’s. Who knows?

So I say to him, “Sorry, man but this hat? It’s irreplaceable. One of a kind. I can’t sell it.”

He reaches into his pocket and pulls out some purple and yellow Wynn chips, $500 and $1,000 each, definitely a big-time player in town for a $50K weekend. He puts a purple on top of the $20s.

“Man, you’re making this really hard …”

Then he places a yellow $1,000 chip on the pile.

Stunned, I take the $1700+. That’s 86-to-1. Best bet in ages.

He gets the hat. I later see one of the ladies wearing it.

I’ve been in town 48 hours. I cashed the chips. The next day I find the material online.

Cool cats? Get ready for Bobby Vegas bucket hats.

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Advantage Evangelist—On Turning a Strip Slot Player to VP

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

I met Sean at the Pinky Ring when he asked if I wanted a drink from the $300 bottle of wine he wasn’t going to finish and wasn’t even close to hitting his minimum tab. I politely declined the wine, sat down, and ordered two Perriers.

Sean works in tech, lives in San Jose, and is a Vegas regular. At 45, he’s ready to retire.

Hopping on SW flights, he frequents Strip casinos, is often comped, likes slots and roulette, cigars, good food, and high-end fashion. He always brings a low-four-figure bankroll. High-limit $25-$50 slots and roulette or other high edge games are just fine with him.

Sean is, of course, the casino’s sweet spot.

Being an Advantage Evangelist, I fervently believed I could change that. “Have you ever played video poker?:

“No. I never bothered to learn.”

I liked Sean. And I knew advantage player revelations would turn him.

We started out with roulette. “I like playing my numbers.”

Okay. I wasn’t going to discuss the 18-month study and 45-page paper I’d written on non-linear recurrence theory in roulette or the work I’d done with the wheel-bias king Laurence Scott.

I started by steering him away from triple zero’s almost 8% house edge. “On that $50 game you were playing at Wynn, Sean? That’s almost $4 per spin you’re handing the house.”

“Really? Wow. But I got this really cute girl’s number while playing.”

Sigh. Cost of dating, I guess.

Later, we started searching out single zero. Yes, it’s still roulette, but at least the edge is 2.6% not 5+% or 8%.

I also discussed the concept of advantage play slots, but it was clear he didn’t want to work that hard to learn. So we went back to near positive-expectation video poker and strategy cards. Sean wasn’t intimidated and was willing to learn, even if his first reviews of strategy cards left him feeling like a fish out of water.

I kept it simple, 9/6 Jacks or Better hold-the-pairs simple. I also steered him away from Deuces Wild as I figured the high volatility would scare him off. And I felt like the lone monk in the jungles of Vegas, bringing just one soul out of the slot darkness — and into the fold of the Church of the Lower Edge of Advantage Play.

Revelations: “Prosperity is yours, my son! Read your strategy card! Learn what VPFree2 and the LVA gods have given you!”

And he started winning. Hitting his first $450 full house changed everything.

“So Sean, what about slots?”

“Slots?! Are you kidding? I’m never going back to slots!”

Praise Jean Scott and cash those TITO tickets, baby. I’ve found my mission.

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The Secret To Maximizing Las Vegas Birthday Deals

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

You do have a birthday, right? And an ID? (No AIs need apply.)

Plan wisely and you’ll get several complete days of free fun, free play, three meals every day, and more drinks, desserts, and coffee than you can shake a chocolate-dipped stick at. The best deals give you a week, two weeks, and even a month to cash in, so get ready to run around your whole birthday month collecting freebies. Damn. Tough job, eh?

Be sure to sign up for every e-club online in advance. You almost always need to be a member to qualify for the birthday freebies and discounts. Even if it takes a few hours, there’s nothing like walking into all these places, getting your birthday specials, and walking out with no money changing hands. And there are enough free play ($85 to $1,500) deals, plus and several hundred dollars in free food, to pay for your LVA subscription 10 times over. How cool is that?

As for technique, one word: stacking. Use more than one coupon where they’re available. Some places (Excalibur?!) have five deals. Fashion Show Mall has four. Many have three meals a day. Stack a great view (Eiffel Tower) and a great meal with another great view (Bellagio Fountains).

Consider doing a Fremont run by stacking your LVA MRB matchplay and free play offers and go crazy. Free food and double free play — all day long!

I’m abbreviating free play with FP.

No, it’s not worth going to Morton’s and spending a Franklin or two to get a free dessert. But walk in to Cheesecake Factory and leave with a free slice? Yes.

I’m space limited in this blog, but you can go to BobbyVegas.com for an even more complete and detailed list and several dozen more places. Also, these freebies can change at any time, so definitely check online or call ahead to be sure the promo is still active.

And Happy Birthday!

Why start with Starbucks? You’re gonna need caffeine, people.

Starbucks– Free coffee or food item, need active Starbucks card within 30 days of birthday.

Eureka Casino – (595 E. Sahara Ave.) – Player’s club members $25 birthday FP
(MRBs too and signup bonuses)

Ellis Island – $10 FP Passport Club members (MRBs too and signup FP)

SAHARA – Join Infinity Rewards, swipe at kiosk during birthday month, win up to $500 FP. (plus MRBs and signup FP)

Wynn — Wynn Rewards up to 48 hours before or after birthday get $10 in free play. Higher tiers get birthday month annual dining credit $150, Platinum, $300 Black.

Palms – Swipe Club Serrano Card at kiosk during birthday month, receive up to $1,000 in FP (plus MRB)

Earl of Sandwich (Planet Hollywood, Palms, Fashion Show) Join eclub for free sandwich, wrap, or salad + birthday month free cookie or brownie.

Hooters (OYO +) – Hooters eClub email certificate $10 free birthday wings. Good for 2 weeks, 7 days before or after. Nice $10 for $10 signup and $10 match play, plus signup FP.

Steak ‘n Shake (OYO + ) – Free specialty milkshake and another for birthday. Join Steak ‘n Shake Rewards Club.

Del Taco (near MGM Grand +) – Free birthday regular premium milkshake, plus 2 free tacos for joining Raving Fan eClub.

Krispy Kreme (Excalibur, Circus Circus + ) – Free donut and coffee eClub.

Dairy Queen – (Excalibur + ) Free Blizzard.

Buca di Beppo FANTASTIC $50 DEAL! (Excalibur + ) for Buca eClub members, $10 off for signing up, plus $20 off $40 and a Colossal Brownie Ice Cream Sundae ($18 value) on your birthday month.

Cinnabon – (Excalibur + more) – Free iced coffee within 1 week of birthday for members of Club Cinnabon.

Orange Julius (Excalibur + more) – Join Orange Julius’ Julius League for free birthday Premium Fruit Smoothie or Julius Original.

Diablo’s Cantina (Luxor) Special occasions wheel spin (including birthday) for free shots +.

Eiffel Tower Observation Deck – Free birthday admission, check in advance, as freebie is seasonal.

Lettuce Entertain You (Paris, Fashion Show, Forum Shops) – $15 account credit on birthday, does not expire, good at Eiffel Tower Restaurant, Mon Ami Gabi, and Joe’s Stone Crab.

P.F. Chang’s (Planet Hollywood + ) – Club members free appetizer or dessert during birthday month.

Cheesecake Factory (Forum Shops, North Premium Outlet Mall) – Free birthday dessert.

Grimaldi’s Pizzeria (Palazzo + ) – Free birthday pizza and free appetizer on signup

Fashion Show Mall

RA Sushi, Bar & Restaurant – $20 RA gift certificate every year during birthday and half-birthday month. Signup / The Hook Up.

The Capital Grille – Free birthday dessert, no signup required.

Maggiano’s Little Italy – Join e-club for $10 certificate and free birthday dessert.

Dunkin’ – (LINQ, Fashion Show Las Vegas, South Premium Outlets, Fremont Hotel) – DDPerks Club members free drink within one week of birthday.

Lettuce Entertain You (Fashion Show Las Vegas, Caesars Forum Shops) – $15 account credit

Downtown/Fremont

Denny’s (Fremont and Strip) – Denny’s Rewards free birthday Grand Value Slam Breakfast

Pinkbox Doughnuts – ( Plaza / other locations ) “It’s Ya Birthday” – birthday special doughnut Join Perks club.

Plaza – 25% off rooms, free dessert at Oscar’s Steakhouse, free bingo card. (plus MRB)

Hash House a Go Go (Plaza, LINQ, Rio Casino + ) – Free birthday dessert via Twisted Farm Club.

Hennessey’s Tavern (Fremont Street) birthday week free dinner entree.

Tony Roma’s – (Fremont) – Rib Expert Club signup receive free birthday entree. Check current offer at (702) 385-3232. (plus MRB)

Landry’s (Golden Nugget + ) – $25 membership fee, get $25 welcome reward + free $25 birthday reward during birthday month. In Las Vegas: Bubba Gump Shrimp Co., Chart House, Claim Jumper, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse, Grotto Ristorante, Red Sushi, Morton’s, Rainforet Cafe, Strip House, The Palm, and Anthony’s Steakhouse.

South and off Strip

Baskin Robbins (Orleans +) – Free scoop of ice cream.

Bonefish Grill (Town Square + ) – free birthday Jamaican coconut pie or bang bang shrimp.

Sickies Garage Burger (Town Square) – Sickies Rewards program free burger during birthday month

King’s Fish House (Green Valley Ranch) – Free birthday key lime pie / homemade whipped cream

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Bobby Vegas—Plaza, MRB, and Birthday Fun

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Due to medical issues beyond my control, I missed the $160,000 two-day New Year’s Eve Bingo Spectacular at the Plaza. However! The Plaza does it every month and the room deal for $40 per night is available each time. No resort fee. That’s an incredible deal and the Plaza folks are fabulous.

My stay in the South Tower before the medical situation was very quiet, old school with a tub, and near self-parking, Bobby V style. You want a newer upgraded room with a view (and the noise) of Fremont Street? Stay in the North Tower.

The self-parking for hotel guests is free. Some of the video poker is full pay. Some roulette is single zero. The $500 royal flush Member Rewards Book coupon is back in 2025. Anthony values it at $142, making 9/6 JoB positive expectation. Go for it! Play 9/6 JoB in the very cool Sand Dollar Lounge. Tell ’em Bobby V sent you. Please. (I want to meet Jonathan Jossel, Plaza’s CEO, and tell him, “Thanks for making old school new school and cool again, JJ.”)

Pink Box, the lobby and always mobbed, has a special free birthday donut for you. Sign up on the Pinkbox app.

Speaking of birthday bonuses, we’re finishing up a super free birthday run to be posted on my next blog. But here are some highlights: $100 to $1,500 in free Play, three meals a day (yes, breakfast, lunch, and dinner), coffee, donuts, drinks, desserts and more during your birthday month. That’s right, month. Many of the deals extend out two weeks from your birthday or even the whole month, not just your actual birthday. Plan a birthday-month trip!

I can’t wait for you to see it. The blog will be set up as birthday runs for the Strip, Fremont, locals casinos, etc. And now that the 2025 MRB is available, you can stack your LVA coupons for even more fun, free play, and free food.

Watch this space!

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Bobby Vegas: Dealing with Travel Emergencies in Vegas

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Hustling through Harry Reid over the years and onto my next Vegas frugal/advantage adventure, I’ve often felt sorry for the old wheelchair-bound gambling geezers.

Now I was one too.

Unfortunately, I had a repeat of my Labor Day kidney-stone experience on my New Year’s Eve trip.

I won’t dwell on how painful, scary, and frustrating it was. Instead, I want to focus on the resources in my wallet or with me and some of the stand-out support I got from the Plaza, Southwest Air, and Hertz.

Not since a female pit boss at the Wynn asked a doctor to call me in my room to follow up on my leaving the tables in the middle of a run (“You looked bad and were winning, so yeah, I was concerned,” she told me later; I sent her chocolates) had I experienced such good customer care as this trip.

If you’re going to Vegas, check your credit card benefits for trip interruption and/or travel emergency coverage. I use Chase cards both for points to travel free and other benefits like airport-lounge access.

On my Labor Day torture-by-kidney-stones “adventure,” I happened to have sprung for $20 for travel emergency/interruption insurance. This ended up reimbursing me for my hotel, car, and airfare, including extensions to my stay and flight changes like a nonstop home.

Some of the temp-insurance providers like Alliance previously were no help after the fact, though some premium credit cards will provide an advocate or other help too. So check reviews before you buy if you’re not covered on your card.

The next level up is full-stop travel emergency insurance, which can be purchased under annual plans for $200+. This is for major medical-emergency support when not at home and includes an advocate and even a trained nurse or to fly back with you if needed. I’ve had that before and will re-up.

Having an advocate to assist you from your hotel, get meds and food, arrange travel and support if you’re alone, can be a life saver. Literally.

The Plaza staff was incredibly cooperative, especially Ray, who runs the $160,000 SuperBingo events every month (and includes their $40 a night no-resort-fee room offer). When I told Ray what happened (hospital, etc.), he refunded my entry fee. That’s customer service. I’ve said it before and I’m saying it again: The Plaza is classic Vegas updated and done right and I’ll be back. (Seeing my matchplay coupons expire unused wasn’t nearly as painful as kidney stones, but the New Plaza MRBs will heal that wound.)

Next, I’ve flown Southwest (often for free) for 25 years and have a SW credit card. I buy in advance on points and all points, flights, and canceled or changed plans are fully credited (along with two checked bags up to 50 pounds flying free). I had an open trip home depending on meetings, etc., so when I called to upgrade to a nonstop and said I’d been in the hospital and would need wheelchair assistance at the airport, they used my points ticket to upgrade me to a nonstop one day ahead and transferred my ticket gratis. That was a $400 upgrade.

Finally Hertz. Wow.

Just getting from my hotel to the airport was going to be an ordeal and when I arrived at the rental-center drop off, looking like a crazy man the cat dragged in (they wouldn’t give me a razor at the hospital), and told the Hertz check-in person I had trouble walking and would need baggage assistance, she said,” Wait here.” Next thing I knew, a driver was chauffeuring me to the airport where a skycap and SW took over.

Between my hotel valet and Ray, the Hertz driver, the SW wheelchair assist, and all the great service I received again at my home airport, I tipped out $100. You can never be too sick to still be George.

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End-of-the-Year Wrap up

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Gather round, my advantage player scuffling children (“Please, sir! More coupons!”) and let me tell you the tales of Santa Vegas and Coupon Karma.

I’ve already encouraged you to use all your Member Rewards coupons before they expire, but what if you still have some left?

Here are two stories to warm your hard-boiled EV-calculating hearts. The purpose — nay! hey gift —is to keep an open mind. Don’t assume you know everything. More will be revealed!

I mean, does prayer work? Is God a good bet? Duke University did a double-blind study praying for two cancer groups. The group that was prayed for (unbeknownst to them) did statistically significantly better than those that weren’t. Hunh.

Now, I’m not making any assumptions about exactly what’s going on, but it’s very interesting, isn’t it?

So there I was, flying into Vegas with an extra unused MRB. The lady sitting next to me on the plane turned out not only to be a video poker player with her own MRB, but she was meeting family and was thrilled when I gave her my extra MRB for her clan.

Coincidentally, and many of you math freaks may call this unrelated correlation, it just so happens that was the trip I hit 14 four-of-a-kinds. Kinda cool, eh?

Then there was the time pre-COVID when there still were hard-copy American Casino Guide coupon books and I’d double stack coupon runs with both the MRB and ACG.

I’m up at Rampart and realize I have an unused matchplay. I HAVE To go back in for another roll of the dice. It’s a tough job, but someone’s gotta do it.

I’d also been distributing unused coupons everywhere I went. Texas Station, Four Queens (where the slot booth lady, seeing me give away a Magnolia coupon while waiting in line, reminded me to check my ACG and let me use both the MRB and ACG free-play coupons. “Well, thank you ma’am!” As Jean says, you catch more bees with honey than vinegar.)

So back to Rampart. I go back to the crap table and the guy I’d left there has turned his original $100 buy-in into a row of blacks and greens. He makes another point and I place my $10 with the $10 matchplay on the pass line.

“That’s it?” he asks me.

“That’s all I got.”

Shaking his head, he mumbles something to the dealer, lays down some chips, rolls an 8 for the point, then a hard 8.

The dealer pushes $200 over to me.

“Whoa! What just happened?”

“Oh, he just threw some green on hard 8 for you.”

Now that’s why my favorite movie is not The Cooler though I do love that one), but It’s A Wonderful Life.

I’ve run out of word count here, but for good cheap pasta, I just have six words:
Sign up for Buca di Beppo! More on that in my next post.

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Use Your MRBs, Great Point Multipliers, and a Trick EV Question

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Happy ChanuKwanSolstMas. There. I think I got everybody covered.

Now onto my other religion, advantage video poker.

I’m coming in for the Plaza Bingo NYE Bash. Due to my medical misadventures, I haven’t been back since (OMG) August and I notice some of my unused MRBs expire BEFORE 12/31. Like the 27th and I arrive the 29th. Wannnh !

Have you used all your MRB coupons? Check the dates. It’s really tough seeing a valuable unused coupon expire. I mean it hurts! I might have to talk with my therapist about it. I’m kidding. Kind of.

Also want to alert you to specials at Four Queens and Rainbow.

The 4Q December offer of an extra $40 in free-play and $20 in comps for 600 points got me thinking.
4Q offers both cash and comps. Very nice. So (VP math nerd alert!), I found the following information on VPFree2.

The 9/6 JOB (99.54%) points adder for cash and comps is .9375% combined or $7.50 per $1,000 coin in. Total EV 100.48%. Niiiice!

The 10/7 DB (100.17%) adder is .4683% combined or $5.71 per $1,000 coin in for a total EV of 100.68% (.2% better than 9/6 JOB).

Here’s the trick question. Which game would you play?

I’d play 9/6 JOB and here’s why.

If I’m strictly playing long term for a total cash return, then 10/7 DB with a higher EV and a .2% higher total EV makes sense. But I don’t play that long. And I like the extra comps, $7.50 over $5.71 per $1,000 in. I’ll use them in combination with 2-for-1 Magnolia coupon, doubling their value to $15.

I also like the steady play of lower volatility: two coins for two pair at Jacks or Better over one at Double Bonus.

Again, this is a STYLE of playing choice. I’m just not a high-volatility guy.

And why am I playing? I’m coming to the realization that I win a lot in the short term and often don’t have the fortitude to play through the peaks and valleys of higher volatility to reach royal flush heaven. And I’m the king of 4-of-a-kinds, so there ya go. Your choice, just saying.

Now at Rainbow, they’ve announced their January 28 and 29 barrel drawing. Start earning tickets now. It’s for a Rolex ($6,500) Diamond Date Just watch, one each over four Drawings. Five second prizes at each drawing for steak knives. Just kidding. They’re actually for $100.

Add their amazing point multipliers and play between 4 and 6 p.m. EVERY DAY one hour each at Rainbow, then Emerald Island, to earn 75x points for extra comps, gifts, and cash. That’s adding an amazing 5% on your return making ANY VP over 100%

The drawing trick is you earn only one ticket PER DAY PER location. But it’s just $200 coin-in to earn a ticket. Obviously, they want you to come in every day. Go for it. And dine at Triple B on your comps.

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Unbelievable New Year’s Deal

Bobby Vegas: Friends Don’t Let Friends Play Triple-Zero Roulette

Bulletin! New Years trip, five days in Vegas including resort fees, and 38 chances to win $160,000 in 10 hours over two days, plus $10 in free play and free drinks at bingo. For you, $400.

Bobby? What’s the catch here? I mean, there’s gotta be a catch, right? Like what, a friggin’ timeshare pitch? What?

No, it’s real. It’s the Plaza bingo!

I saw this puppy coming down the street back in August before my kidneys decided to send me on a masochistic little trip to painland. So folks, I paid the price — literally. I bled for you. Then I waited and just caught the announcement and whammo! I’m in. (Yeah, I said “whammo.” Yeah, pretty corny. Hell, you want corny? I grew up in Cleveland.)
Okay, I’m gonna let you in on this. You can do it too.

It’s the Plaza’s Super Bingo Spectacular over New Year’s. Book five nights for $200. No, not per night. All five nights, including resort fees. That’s $40 a night!

Over New Year’s? Did someone drop a zero?

You have to sign up for bingo for $200. Twist my arm.

Thirty-eight chances to win $1,199. Plus, they’re giving away $80,000 a day for two days. You got five hours to spare?

Do I play bingo? I do now! Who wouldn’t, to get five nights in Vegas over New Year’s for $400 ($200 for bingo, $200 for the room)? Hell, at most places, New Year’s Eve alone is at least $400. Register here and tell them Bobby Vegas sent you.

Feel me loving the Plaza? Matchplays, great VP, single-zero roulette, the Sand Dollar royal flush MRB $500 bonus I wrote about in my last post, along with great food and discounts. Downtown Grand, move over, it’s the Plaza, baby, and man, I’m hittin’ this one lock, stock, and bingo! And another tip: 9/6 JOB in the entrance to the bingo hall at $.25 to $2 a hand.

Then there are all those matchplay chips and MRB coupons I’ve been saving up for my Fremont run and the free Champagne coupon up in Circa’s whatta-view Legacy Club. And fireworks and, well, New Years in Vegas! And maybe I’ll also chill uptown at The Pinky Ring or see the Three Sacred Souls or just go total old school and hang out at the Pinball Hall of Fame.

This is gonna be fun, guys ’n gals. Book this puppy now — Bobby just gave you your Santa Vegas Christmas gift, five nights in Vegas for the biggest party of the year. Be there and be square with me when we yell BINGO!

Please tell them you read about it from Bobby Vegas’ blog at the Las Vegas Advisor. Please.