Back in my town after a long hiatus, I was greeted like a conquering hero by the hosts and band at the Pinky Ring and Royal and Pedro at Downtown Grand. And, thank you very much, open wallets. A successful trip is when you keep putting Jacksons BACK in the safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oh, and I didn\u2019t end up in the ER or UMC Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also didn\u2019t get to the Plaza or South Point (hence, the title of this post), but like Ahnold, \u201cI\u2019ll be back\u201d soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now folks, Santa Vegas has a wunnerful wunnerful present for you. It\u2019s the RIO and a flood of 9\/6 Jacks or better everywhere<\/em>. 9\/6 at all bars<\/em>! It\u2019s like 20 years ago. And all over the casino floor! You may like Deuces Wild (too high a variance for me), but I love to \u201cplay long time\u201d and 2-for-1 on two pairs on 9\/6 really stretches it out. Of course, hitting lots of full houses and (this trip) ONLY five 4-of-a-kinds (awwww, Bobby, we\u2019re weeping crocodile tears for you) makes for this very happy scuffler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, people, go to the Rio. Haven\u2019t asked Anthony if there will be another RIO no-resort-fee coupon next year, but this year\u2019s saved me hundreds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Years back I wrote a \u201cSanta Vegas\u201d article about my Golden Week coupon good karma adventures, giving away end-of-year expiring MRBs. This year again, I had another good karma incident \u2014 picking up an antique from an online auction over near Durango. The 92-year-old lady didn\u2019t want to sell the item I won, so I gave it back to her. Immediately after, I was meeting Bobby Wilson for lunch at the (AWESOME) Durango and walking in, I immediately won over $200. Karma? Whatever, I\u2019ll take it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n BTW, their food court is off the chart. Great $10 burgers, a Hawaiian spot with Bruno Mars pic, awesome noodle and oyster bar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now for the good, the bad, and the ugly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rio wins the super-good prize for this trip, hands down (tapping the 9\/6 hold buttons).<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for the bad and ugly, I don\u2019t know what they\u2019re thinking at Downtown Grand. I love staying there, but they keep pulling the good games. The two-story ad facing Fremont says $1 blackjack and $5 roulette. The $1 electronic BJ is gone. (Is live still $1?) Meanwhile, roulette was $10. And please reopen Freedom Beat. At least the matchplays are still viable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Four Queens pulled or downgraded their 9\/6 bank. They still have $.25\/$1 9\/6 over by the FISH slots. Again, I love Four Queens, but come on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Out in Henderson, Emerald Island pulled their bank of full-pay Double Double Bonus. Sigh. Still a great diner and Rainbow next store was fab as always. Their Super Multipliers? Incredible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Overall, a great trip. So Happy New Year, people. Share with others. Spread joy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in my town after a long hiatus, I was greeted like a conquering hero by the hosts and band at the Pinky Ring and Royal and Pedro at Downtown Grand. And, thank you very much, open wallets. A successful trip is when you keep putting Jacksons BACK in the safe. Oh, and I didn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86405,"featured_media":843497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bobby-vegas-friends-dont-let-friends-play-triple-zero-roulette.jpg?fit=980%2C588&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900244"}],"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\/86405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":900245,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900244\/revisions\/900245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}