I wrote last week about my gambling aboard the cruise ship. I mentioned that over the two weeks, I was ahead $1,100. I want to address today how typical that result was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a casino, the more games you know the more opportunities you have. For me it is video poker and some slot machines. Other players include blackjack and\/or poker, and other games as well, into the mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Eleven hundred dollars over 14 days averages about $80 profit a day. But my score was never that. My three best winning days were $700 (slots), $450 (Ultimate X), and $145 (slots) that I wrote about last week. I had two losing sessions larger than $150, and the rest of the days the score, plus or minus, was less than $50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last week I mentioned I had more than 100 Ultimate X plays. On the Double Bonus and Double Double Bonus plays, I only connected on one 4-of-a-kind. It was quad 4s with a 2x multiplier on a 50-cent machine. That paid $400. While I hit several quads on the Deuces Wild game, those only paid 20 coins apiece, times the multiplier that might be on that hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of those Ultimate X plays, I had perhaps 80 of them on the first week and 30 more on the second. There are two possible explanations for this. There were fewer ploppy players on the second cruise, or, more likely, there were other knowledgeable Ultimate X hustlers on the second cruise. I suspect the latter explanation is the more likely, although I never saw any other player checking for unplayed multipliers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On slots, I did see other players checking the machines. My two biggest hits were right when the casino opened. One of them that I discussed last week was created by a player who ran out of time the night before. I theorize the second one was too, but I wasn\u2019t there the night before, so I don\u2019t know for sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I will definitely go on additional cruises and will check each casino when I do. Presumably, I\u2019ll know more advantage slots by then (I\u2019m learning all the time). Will I have another $1,100 win? Who knows? It definitely could happen, even a much larger score if I pop a royal or set of aces with a large multiplier, but there will be cruises where I don\u2019t find any plays at all. Also, on this cruise I had some \u201cextra time.\u201d We didn\u2019t go ashore much, and we didn\u2019t dance much due to my hip injury. Although some players go cruising because<\/em> of the casino, I\u2019m not like that. I play significant amounts off the ship and don\u2019t have the \u201cneed to gamble.\u201d It would be easy for me to go two weeks without even stepping into the casino.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I wrote last week about my gambling aboard the cruise ship. I mentioned that over the two weeks, I was ahead $1,100. I want to address today how typical that result was. In a casino, the more games you know the more opportunities you have. For me it is video poker and some slot machines. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15763,"featured_media":843442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Gambling Aboard the Norwegian Jade --- Part II of II by Bob Dancer","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[557],"tags":[561,585],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/spinach-2.png?fit=500%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15763"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}