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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Loss of a Grand Finale

Our last day in Vegas. Got up pretty early as we had a 2:25 flight and we could get some playing time in.
I looked over at the wadded up subway wax paper ball in the garbage can and shuddered.

We decided to play at Main Street Station on just one of our cards so as to keep our daily average up there.

Settled in, got a coffee and the Quad Queen went on an absolute quad tear. She was amazing.
In the course of one hour she got six quads to my two.

That's a $3 card on top!
She hit the Aces on quarter bonus poker for $100. She switched up to 50 cent and got another quad. She switched up to dollar bonus poker and got the Aces a second time, this time for $400.





In that one mini-session she went from $40 in to $400. I was doing not so great, nothing really awful. Decided to play some slot, some Double Diamond Strike thing.

Man did I find a loose slot to play. It was one of those where you never win anything big, but you play for a long time. Most I won was 80 credits. I pounded that sucker for a full half an hour on $20. Cheap thrills, that, and a good way to pump up the slot points.

Grabbed breakfast at the buffet on points. A quick accounting showed I was down $180 and Mrs. F. was up $200.

After breakfast we did some of the higher-level play we wanted to do on this trip. So far we hadn't hit squat on it and in fact have never hit anything significant on a higher denom video poker machine, not so much as a quad.

$100 went into the $5 Wheel of Meat machine just outside the Triple 7 Brewpub. We've seen tons of folks win on this thing but never got to spin the wheel and didn't win dick.

Next we each loaded up a hundy into a Bonus Poker machine. I was going to play $25 a hand and Mrs. F was on the $2 level for $10 a hand. How can I make this suspenseful when I didn't win fuck-all? I didn't even win a pair.


Four hands of nothing. I have video of it but it is too brutal to even look at.


Mrs. F played through her $2 play without much happening. I decided to play a hundy on $2 as well. $10 a throw video poker. I eyeballed the paytable and dreamed of what riches various hands would represent.

Four measly Aces was worth $800. A royal flush, Eight Grand. MMM mmm.

I played and went down a bit, then got a full house and went up a bit. Played some more and got some sweet hands. Even had four to a royal once.

I found myself at $190. I decided to keep playing but cash out if I hit $100 again. Dropped. Dropped. Then dealt a full house. Then had a straight. Had a string of winners and the meter is approaching $300.

This is starting to get to be a nice win. Should I cash out and keep it? If I keep playing will I play it into the ground like I have on so many other occasions? Or should I go for it? When will I have the opportunity to do this again???

I kept playing. Dropped a bit, then a bunch more winners and I was up to $350 in the machine. Same questions going through my head.

I gave it a good college try and dropped straight down. When I hit $250, I bailed and booked the $150 win. Whew!

We headed back to the Four Queens and checked in with the hosts - the 5 day stay there was comped and all our food at Magnolias was picked up. That's a lot of free country fried steak and eggs with throwup sauce!

Hit the Player's Club booth for our cashback and our pal Jay was there. He fixed us up and we had more cashback then we've ever had before. I guess we are playing a lot.

Mrs. Flusher had $101 and I had about half that. Hers was from 2 stays though, one from her solo week, and the second with me.

Interestingly, Mrs. Flusher's coin in was $35,915. And her coin out was $31, 859 That's a lot of screwing around to lose $60. But as long as the country throw-up sauce meals and free rooms keep coming, who cares?!

Hit the bar and gave it hell.

What a time to have trouble getting quads. We poured the money in there for about an hour and a half. It was almost time to get our stuff down for the limo to the airport. With about 2 minutes to go I held two 3s and got two more for $100. No kicker. The very next hand, I held two 3s and got two more for $100. No kicker.

Limo guy was excellent, we'll ask specifically for him again instead of the dork that picked Mrs. F up. Hit the airport, where 'we always win', right? I mean we've had this amazing last ditch airport streak. OMG it was brutal, between the two of us we dumped about $450 at the frigging airport. Didn't win a thing.

The flight to Toronto was unremarkable except for the fact that I had a guy who thought he was a rapper next to me. Wearing a track suit and all kinds of fake bling. And of course I had the elbow in my ribs the whole way home, same as on the way out.

Good connection to the Aero-Spatiale Beechdeath 52 eleven-seater Fokker tri-plane flight to Flusherville Regional Aerodrome but a pretty bumpy ride.

We came in with a strong crosswind and that Beechdeath 52 was bucking and pitching like it was doing a reverse cowgirl. The pilot brought it in all skewed, touched a wheel and cut the power to let the plane drop to the runway as gracefully as an anvil.

The crotchety old bag next to me summed it up perfectly.

"Did we land or were we shot down?"

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This was a great trip. Mrs. Flusher had been in Vegas for 14 nights, and myself for the last 7. All our room nights were comped and all our meals except one (ElCo) were comped. We played a lot more, and a lot more at higher denoms so we are interested to see if our offers improve.

The final tally on this trip was:

Royal Flusher: +$176 for the trip
Quad Queen: -$1116 for the trip
Combined -$940 It's no wonder they keep inviting us back.

I'm not competitive but it is nice to be able to remind Mrs. F. that I have had two winning trips in a row, and out Royaled her on this trip to boot. I do this two to three times per day.

I'm back at North American Veeblefetzer setting up the size 7 grommet line for the special Muy Whang red grommet run.

I wish I was back in Vegas already. I promised myself to return.

And when I do, I'll bring you loyal readers along for the ride.

R.F.




Friday, May 13, 2011

Three times a charm

It was Monday Morning. But it was Monday Morning in Vegas and that meant that everything was cooool.

Things were actually kinda weird. We'd each had Royals, but we were both on sort of losing streaks anyway, outside of those major hits. The quads weren't coming and there was a few ways you could look at this. Without the Royals we'd be screwed. With the Royals, we were losing on everything else so we weren't up like we should be so we were kinda screwed. I think the 'without Royals we'd be screwed' thinking prevailed.

We banged around and I broke my streak with quad 4s and kicker for $203 at the bar. I'd had only 2 quads since my Royal the previous day. Mrs. Flusher managed to go down $-400 in no time. Not looking great for her trip anymore. The only thing to do for her, was to get hammered at the bar. That was easily accomplished, along with more losing, and witnessing my quad 4s.

The ultimate penance for losing was... to have to buy a keno ticket and go play keno in the room, watching the games about every 9 minutes unfold in blazing action on the 28" out of focus flat screen television. Now that's livin' large on Lake Labarge, I can tell you.

Mrs. Flusher thus ensconsed in the room, I pondered what to do. I machine hopped, looking for luck.

I played 20 in Boner Deluxe. I played 20 in Deuces. I played 20 in Double Double. I played 20 in Triple Double. I played 20 in Bonus Poker. I played another 20 in Bonus Poker.

All of them drained like the credits were being sucked down through a credit sucking hose into the credit sucking basement of the credit mothersucking Four Queens. In fact, I was down $340 on the day. I hadn't played Jacks are Better (better than what?) yet so I tried that and Hey! got on a kind of a run.

I played for 20 minutes, got my credits up somewhat and even did some 50 cent play. I was getting a ton of 3-to-a-Royals and was pondering what I would do if I nailed one. Had to switch back down to quarters and played down to maybe 15 or 20 credits, and then played it up again some.

Billy Idol was Rebel Yelling through the casino and I watched my play carefully, and saw the first needed card come up and then the second one.



My exact words were, "Oh fuck yeah! FUCK YEAH, BILLY IDOL, FUCK YEAH!"

Pretty edgy for a savvy gamblester like me, I know, but I got carried away in the moment. We'd had a Royal a day for three days. How sweet is that? I was up $570 on the trip!

I called Mrs. Flusher while the credits were still ringing up and didn't say a thing. She said, "Did you get a Royal?..."

She came down and we played some more. For good measure I got a quick quad, and cashed $1100 plus out of the machine.

We hit Binions for some DDB and a couple of cheeseburgers with fried onions on. OMG they are so good. I think I've mentioned that they are 'grease running down your forearms' good.

When things are bad for Mrs. Flusher, she hits the pick'em. She said, "I need a couple of quads here." And it's true, she really did.







Feeling lucky, I played the $5 Wheel of Meat for $10 a spin. Dumped $120 quickly there. I really wanted to take some shots at winning big this trip. Thus the Lion's Share and other dollar slot the day before.

We played around some more and finally got around to checking Mrs. F's Too-Drunk-to-Gamble Room Keno ticket. -- keno -- Holy crap! In 16 years of going to Vegas, this was the biggest Keno win we we'd ever had.


She played 20 games for a buck a throw and on one game, she hit 8 of 11 numbers. A couple more and we would have won like $25K. I went up to the counter and complained, "This game is not run normally.I know that this is true, because we WON something."



Mrs. F. went back at the video poker and I went off to the craps table. Bought in for a hundred, table was cold. Stake was down to $75. Then $45. Then $25.

Point was six, I had red on the pass line and put everything I had down in odds. It would have been a shame to bust out as the drink service was amazing. I was getting these HUGE Absoluts on the rocks every 7 minutes, like clockwork. Six, winner! Sweet! I'd taken it balls to the wall and was still alive.

The table hotted up and I went on a tear. Went from zero to $245 including what was on the table on the last seven out. Cashed out $290.

Along the way, I'd bet 3 times for the dealers. I was the only one doing so.

These damn Four Queens dealers, they didn't say a word when I bets down for them.

After the third time, I'm half in the bag and getting all obnoxious, saying, "YOU'RE WELCOME...." "Yes sir, YOU'RE WELCOME FOR THE BET...." Nothing.

I've read that Four Queens dealers have a reputation of being rude, and I've seen it myself numerous times. I usually shoot dice elsewhere. When I colored up one dealer said, "thanks for the bets". Okay. But sheesh.

(RF Note: On another trip, probably after this one, I bet for the 'boys' and was admonished because one of the dealers isn't a boy. I've haven't shot dice there since.)

I was kinda loaded and kinda hungry, so we stumbled up the stairs to Noble Roman's/Subway and we each got foot long subs. Went back to the room, sat down at the desk, took a bite and it was delish! It was AMAZING and exactly the thing I wanted in my drunkgry stupor.

Then I fumbled the fucking thing and it fell.

Some of the subway guts spilled out, there were jalapenos everywhere and mayo all over the carpet. The chicken was still sort of inside the bun.

I looked down at the mess on the carpet and swore and picked the sub up.

"It's still good, right?"

"You're not going to eat floor subway. You'll be eating hair, gunk, scum, and death."

"It's still good, though, right?"

I finished this fine day up $430 on the day, and $380 on the trip. Mrs. Flusher was firmly in the hole -$160 on the day and ouch -$776 on the trip. And the next day, we would be on a plane out of Vegas.




Monday, May 9, 2011

Royal Flusher and the Lion's Share

Sunday started off with a bang. There I was at the bar at the Four Queen's, minding my own business, playing a little Double Double Bonus poker to start the day.

It gets a little exciting when you are dealt four to a royal, and there's a lot of anticipation around hitting the Draw button to go for that fifth card that could mean a huge win.

This was no different, but I approached it with confidence. I said out loud, "Okay, four-to-a-royal, I need the King of Clubs right THERE."

I hit the button, and started to cry like a baby because I had now caught up to my Little Flusherette in the Royal count.






Oh yeah, baby, that's the way you do it.

Later on the Flyer-fan bartenders made me a special Go Flyers 'pussy' drink because Mrs. Flusher was out-drinking me 2-1. Could I help it if I was hung over?



We moved over to Jacks and Mrs. Flusher hit a quad on dollars for $125 in an attempt to catch up. But good on her, she turned $20 into $210 in five minutes.

A quick accounting showed the Flusher's budget's were healthy and combined, we were up around $330 for the trip. Mrs. Flusher was only $46 bucks off even, amazing for a 2 week gambling extravaganza.


I hit a BJ table and had a great run with a very helpful dealer named Yum Yum. I think she might have been a Bond girl about 30 years ago.

Bought in for $100 and cashed out two black chips.

We hit the strip, taking the WAX bus to Tropicana for two bucks. That's how I roll.

Hit the Lion's Share progressive at MGM and had an interesting convo with the attendant, who wishes someone would win the thing already, she is so sick of having to hand pay everyone who cashes out on that relic.

I asked her if the machine was getting more play lately and she said, yes, yes it is. I told her its because we are all posting about it on the internet and putting pictures up. She scowled at me and scurried off.

I played a hundy and hit for $60 and $150. Cashed out $200, so doubled my buy-in. What a day I was having! Mrs. Flusher gave it a shot but dumped a hundred. She also played the one next to it gunning for 1.2 mil, but no go.



Had a few cocktails, played a few other slots and some weird video poker game I'd never seen before. It deals you only 4 cards to start. You make your hold, and then draw. The fifth card shows up then.

Of course, the quad queen managed a quad on it.

We'd been saving a few quarters in our pockets for Sigma Derby. Managed to get a seat and I put our quarters in. I looked down to see Mrs. Flusher repeatedly pressing the button for the horse combination that is 148-1 odds.

I calmly said, "WHAT THE FLUSHER ARE YOU DOING?"

She kind of figured that if she kept pressing it, it would recycle. But I don't think there is anyway to 'undo' a Sigma Derby bet.

So we got to play one race, and bailed. The 148-1 longshot didn't come in and I forgave the button pressing silliness.

We played a bunch on the 9/6 DDB at Excalibur and pretty much dumped a bunch of money there. Grabbed the bus back and had an unimpressive dinner at the Flame in the ElCo. I think I'm done with the Flame. Two bad meals in a row there.

We really had very few quads this day compared to most. In fact, without the Royal, we took an ass kicking. Thank goodness royals show up.

The stats:

RF: +$500 for the day, $-50 on the trip.
QQ: -$560 on the day. $-716 on the trip.

Actually, we are really -$2,233,074.72 on the trip, because we didn't win the Lion's Share progressive.




The Streak and The Royal

Today was one of those weird days. Actually, every day in Vegas is kinda weird. And when the going gets weird, the weird play Sigma Derby (and also turn pro).

We started off with 100 play nickels which is kind of fun. Mrs. F. got a royal on it but that doesn't really count. $40 for that. I dumped 40 there. And then I promptly dumped a hundy in 50 cent Jacks trying to get something going.

Hit a quad on Double Double at the bar but played it back. I was kind of in a hole.

Mrs. Flusher got a nice dealt straight flush, which is kind of remarkable.

I was craving Du-Par's crack cakes so headed over there for breakfast. They have a nice little special for $7.50 called the egg crack cake sandwich or some such. Couple of disks, and egg, sausage or bacon. I added coffee and feasted at the counter, while Mrs. F. checked out the Vegas Club.


Took some forlorn looking pics of the Plaza. I can't wait to see it reborn.



I wanted to see if this doorway on the original Golden Gate building was still there - I saw a picture of it from long ago that showed a woman standing in this doorway on a Vegas History site. This would be like in the 20s or something.

Anyway, yes the doorway is visible, bricked in, but still visible, just above the 'R' in Restaurant.





By the time I caught up with Mrs. F she was taking a drubbing, and so was I. But there was a short pay Jacks bank with Royal progressive at $1750 and counting so we had at it.

That's where, on my third 20 in, my streak started. I banged that mother for all I was worth for 2 solid hours on that 20.

Here you can see my 400 credits.


And this is the point meter. $1 = 1 point so I put through $1218 in action in one session on one $20 bill. It works out to 974 hands, but who's counting - that is how a savvy gamblester like me does it!


Cashed out $100 and only ever had one quad. In fact I'd had none in 2 1/2 hours of play.

At this point I was down $180 on the day and the QQ minus $380. Gulp. Did I just say minus $380???

That's when we sidled up to the bar at the Four Queens and the DDB slaughter began. 20 after 20 went in and we had both dumped about 200 smackers each into those sticky fun loving machines.

But Mrs. Flusher pulled it out with a beautiful club Royal Flush for $1000. Nice.... !!!


Dinner was at Magnolia's with yet another Too Hot Too Dirty Room 2-4-1 Coupon's. We got chatting with a couple in the line-up and they invited us to our table. We spent a really nice hour chatting and eating with Don and Pauline, who are big time Escapees (RV'ers). They were really nice folks and we had a nice meal together, with everyone having prime rib. I even laid a Too Hot Too Dirty Room 2-4-1 Coupon on them for sharing their table with us.

I was down maybe $340 and dumped 40 more on Pick'em and Bonus Deluxe. And another hundy at Fremont's craps table.

It's weird. We had this spike of very good luck and the rest of the day was shite. Even with the royal, Mrs. F took a licking the rest of the time.

Mrs. Flusher got up in the middle of the night and snuck out for a $300 quad (Aces) on Triple Double Bonus, to pump up her numbers.

R.F. down $520 on the day and $550 on the trip.
Mrs. F up $420 on the day and down $156 on the trip.




Sunday, May 8, 2011

A Royal a Day

Quick post on the fly here with an update from last night, and from an hour ago.

Pictures are worth a thousand bucks.

Mrs. Flusher:


Royal Flusher, about an hour ago:




And some extremely large breasts:


Fremont Street is getting freaky on a Saturday night. I did overhear 'Mr. Spock' telling one of these overachieving ladies that the 'red shirts' weren't going to let them be here.



I can't imagine why.

We're off to win the Lion's Share!





Saturday, May 7, 2011

A Room Full of Elvises

I started the day out on Bonus Poker at the Four Queens and on my 3rd 20 put in, a nice Straight Flush for $62.

I'd played a while without a quad so switched to (short pay!) Double Double Bonus and 2 minutes later...



Aces WITH KICKER for a sweet $500 hit, my biggest of the trip so far.

Hit another quad on BP later on, while Mrs. F. couldn't hit a thing. By breakfast (Magnolias, Dirty Room coupon 2-4-1) I was up $420 on the day and she was down $190.

Hit the bar DDB and dropped a few bucks each. Took a rest, and did some blogging for yesterday.

Strolled over to the Fitz and tried the Meat Machines. I still had a coupon from yesterday, and we needed a second for lunch.

Oh lookee what I got:


So, another set of Aces, another $200 in my bankroll, and a free lunch.

We figured it was time to visit the ElCo since I hadn't made it over there yet this trip. Stuck my head in the Coin-in Video Game bar and lounge - it was closed, but the place looks nice Clark, real real nice.

I lost $40 trying to recapture the magic on my Deuces machine from last trip - no 2nd Royal though. Mrs. Flusher tried a similar machine but found it too slow so she hit the nice flatscreens at the bar. Managed a couple of $62 quads, but played it all out.

I had $15 free play and used it up - got nothing.

Tried some single deck Blackjack. The pit boss came over and said hello and introduced himself.

This after my embarrassing $20 buy-in. But it's happened before, the guy is just good at making you feel welcome. I got on a good run with a bunch of double downs and some 3:2 blackjacks (yes, the real deal) and cashed out $50 when it was done.

Went back to the Fitz and ordered two plates of the twenty-five minute 'the Colonel can go fuck himself this is the best chicken I've ever tasted' chicken. While looking forward to our free meal thanks to the Meat coupons, we dumped $20 on keno tickets, and about $70 between us at the bar DDB.

Sigh.

The chicken was as good as always. I had baked with mine, trying to keep the sodium down, which is impossible here in Las Vegas.

Back to the Four Queens - and this is where it starts getting fuzzy.

Played a bunch of Bonus Poker - I didn't do much, but the Quad Queen got two, and 7777 on dollar JoB for $125.

We took a break and I was still up $440 on the day, with Mrs. F at minus $230.

Our air conditioning was not working properly in the room, so stopped by the desk to chat up the clerk. She said she could get someone up there to fix it. I spied me some of them Fun Books right by the computer and asked her about them. She gave me one.

Mrs. Flusher piped up, "Can I have one too?" knowing damn well she couldn't refuse.

So we have two more full sets of Dirty Too Hot Room coupons to use including those valuable $10 match plays.

We have a friendly rivalry with a couple of the bartenders at the FQ as they are cheering for Philadelphia, while we are cheering for Boston. For me, it's mostly because Mrs. F has $10 riding on them. We have been having a ton of laughs with these guys and amazing service.

Headed to the bar hopefully to watch the game but it wasn't being shown on stupid Versus.

We couldn't get two bartop machines side by side so I gave Mrs. F the seat and stood next to her - the guys comped us both drinks anyway and the Gentleman Jack and Jameson's started to flow. Now and again I would push the Deal button for Mrs. Flusher.

On one such occasion, this resulted:




Whammy, Quad 3s with kicker for $232!!! Cash the ticket out and start again.

And five minutes later, she hit this:


Holy crap, in 5 minutes, her losses for the day were almost sorted! We were having a great time, tossing 'em back, and joking with the boys.

Hey, look what I managed to get:


Of course, I caught shit for not getting the kicker.

So I tried again:


This was turning into one of those gambling and drinking sessions you'll never forget. At one point, I went to the men's room and saw Elvis.

I came back to the bar and told the guys to 'cut me off, I just saw Elvis. I'm hallucinating.'

It turns out there is an Elvis competition downtown this weekend. Whew.

We were pretty chuffed at all the premium low quads we were getting, but were still wondering if we could pull off the Aces.

In fact, we were pretty much ready to go and I said, "Hang on I think I have one more in me." Played another minute and just about fainted when...


My third set of Aces for the day.

Take a close look, those bullets were DEALT to me. Held them and tried for the kicker, but was denied. No complaints from me though. Still, woulda been sweet.

The QQ pumped another quad out too - dealt 9999 for $62.

We thanked the barkeeps and regrouped. The stats were amazing.

Mrs. Flusher totally turned her losses for the day around, and I turned my TRIP around. She was +$90 on the day, and I was $+660 on the day, and up $70 for my trip.

Swung over to the Smug Nugget and plunked down at Bonus Poker. We'd had too much to drink so ordered some shots. One of the cocktail waitresses was showing off a ring which had gold spheres on it.


So I loudly slurred, "That's one hell of a place to have your BALLS!"

Well this started a torrent of comments and laughter by 3 or 4 waitresses, and everyone within earshot.

Waitress: "Oh yeah, yesterday she was wearing them on her TOE."

RF: "I can't imagine a more painful way to walk."

Mrs. F: "Hey, she's got six balls, what about you?"

RF: "Yeah I'm not half the man SHE IS! BWAAA HAHAHA!"

We must go back tomorrow and see where the balls are hanging.

Swung by the high limit area and watched some folks who operate in a very different world from me. Hubby playing the $25 slot, wifey playing the $100 slot. Watched her spin away $500 in 30 seconds.

Hubby gets an 'offer' on the bonus round for 35 coins. That's 35 times $25. you do the math. I can't. He turns it down.

We walked off and I took a side view of these folks - they were each sitting there with a STACK of hundys in one hand, just feeding the chrome monsters. God love 'em.

Dinner over at Binions - Dirty Room 2-4-1 Cafe coupons which we used for burgers. Stupidly we played DDB to try to earn enough comp dollars to pay for one burger. I dropped $20 and the missus dropped $40. Thank goodness for the fucking coupon.

Burger was amazingly great as always, meal 'cost' only $4.32. (Plus $60.)

Watched some Elvises performing and with the live band, they were sounding really good.

I took the elevator up to the Royal Pavillion stalking following one of the Elvi, because I wanted to try to get a picture of a room full of Elvises. Sure enough they were all up there, but the security drone shooed me away and wouldn't let me get a pic.

Final stats: Mrs. Flusher $+50 on the day, $-576 for the trip. Royal Flusher, +$560 on the day, down $30 on the trip. Life is good with a room full of Elvises.






Friday, May 6, 2011

Nice roll, Mr. Nick!

Thursday

Had a pretty good sleep and headed down early for my $21 cup of coffee.

Mrs. Flusher got going with a traditional 6:30am shot of Crown and some gambling. After all, its not like we are degenerates or anything - as I pointed out, it's actually 9:30am back home.

Played some Bonus Poker and enjoyed the quiet of the casino. We hung in there for half an hour or so without much happening, so the Quad Queen switched to DDB.

First hand out of the gate on DDB she holds a single Ace and picks up 3 more for a quick $200 hit.


Meanwhile, not much happening for me, so we changed location to some Bonus Deluxe on the south side of the Casino.

I kept losing, so made my own big move to DDB. If you are at risk, take more risk, I always say!

After about a minute I was dealt 2222 - awesome. Here's the fun part, I got to pull for the kicker to double it up to $200.





Nope, got a Queen. Damn!

Hit some more quads including a nice $100 quad fives for the Mrs. on Boner Deluxe.

Had breakfast at the buffet, nice omelette courtesy of Manny the throwing omelette guy. Some fruit, and some taters with country throw-up sauce on. Mmmmm mm.

I dumped a hundy on dollar Double Double. Notes say 'came close'. That means I lost $100.

Took a rest and then decided to play some dollar BP. I dumped $60 that way while Mrs. F. hit quad fives again for $125. She played it out and cashed out her original buy-in, trying to hit the big one.

I think I've gotten bamboozled by my dollar wins. Dumping it back is just too fast if you don't hit anything.

It was time to head over to the Four Queen's for the slot tourney part deux. Stopped at the Vegas Club. I think their lowball ad campaign and loosened slots are bringing people in. Have read a lot of folks who say the place stinks and they can't stand it. I never noticed it until today.

The famous Vegas stink-air was wafting around the place like a horny teenaged second cousin around a bunch of bridesmaids. Sifting here and there where you don't really want it.

I think what's happening is sewer gas is finding its way into the ventilation. Same smell you get around the IP and outside Caesars all the time. I'm not sure why we tourists should complain because it is our 1.2 million buffet-driven poops per day that cause it in the first place.

Anyway, this day there truly was something foul about the baseball themed Vegas Club. Just for fun, Mrs. F. got a quad on Deuces - on the redeal. Third time in 24 hours or so. Never seen anything like it. We took a minor beating there and went on our way.

Hit some Super Double Double Bonus to kill time until the tourney. Mrs. Flusher hit Sixes for $62 while I dumped $60.

At this point, I was down $280 on the day. I'd let the $400 win blind me and was now in a losing streak. I did pretty well in the slot tournament, but I think I'm out of the money. Slightly less than 4000 points. Mrs. F didn't do as well, so she's for sure out of the money. Didn't win anything on the drawing either.

It was interesting hearing a lot of people talk about how they didn't have a chance because 'some guy hit for 9000 points yesterday'.

Royal Flusher Slot Tournament Rule #6: If you can't beat 'em, mess with their minds so they quit the tournament and you have a better chance.

Got our room at the Four Queens. Whilst checking in, my Royal Flusher Gambler-vision clicked in and spied some coupons that included $10 Match Plays. I asked if we could have some and the desk clerk handed over a sheet each, even though we weren't supposed to get them. Score!

We went back to MSS and checked out there. No charge.

So far between us both, all room nights have been comped, and all meals comped or on points. Not too bad.

Shlepped our bags back to the Queens and hauled ass up to the room. The room was not to my liking - I have certain secret rooms that are situated so as to have certain secret attributes and the desk clerk misunderstood my specific request. This has nothing to do with the change rooms at Girls of Glitter Gulch. Nothing.

I made Mrs. Flusher go back down and get us an appropriate room while I waited in air conditioned comfort and typed up some blog notes. We changed rooms and the new one was a disaster.

Still dirty and stinking from the previous piggy smoking in a non smoking room subway eating littering bathroom destroying occupants.

Ugh.

We locked up our luggage as best we could. The previous dorkoramas had left the safe locked, of course. Fucking tools.

Then I spied, amongst the debris on the carpet three things. A nickel.

And two coupon books. Fun books, actually. I did not know the FQ had fun books and do not know the circumstances of their out-giving. But these little beauties included all sorts of freebies and 2-4-1s.

As if to make up for the grotty room we now had on our person the following coupons:

Four 2-4-1 entrees at Magnolias
Two 2-4-1 entrees at Binions Cafe
Three $10 matchplays
Two 2-1-4 breakfasts at Magnolias
Various and sundry 2-4-1 drinks, admissions what not.

All told these could be worth like $100 in cash and food.

Decided to play something non-volatile and 'safe' - 50 cent Jacks or Better. Dumped $40 in three minutes.

Because of the schlepping of the luggage, we needed to apply some muscle relaxants, so we hit the bar - at this point I was down $300 on the day. Borrowed a 20. Lost it. Took the walk of shame and cashed $400 in traveller's cheques.

Hammered back the Absoluts, while Mrs. F tossed back a bunch of shots of Jameson's. She was rewarded with (222)2 with a 3 kicker for $205. Meanwhile I plugged away.


After some time broke the ice with quad 5s for $62 and Mrs. Flusher matched with quad Queens.

We were pretty well lubricated and grabbed lunch at Magnolia's (Dirty Room 2-4-1!). Mrs. F had the Philly Cheese which I didn't recommend and now she doesn't recommend. I had my usual Country Fried Steak and Eggs with Country Throw-up Gravy on.

Hit the 'safe' Jacks or Better again and managed one $32 quad to Mrs. Flushers three $62 quads (she was playing 50 cent).

I really get tired of losing streaks. We headed over to the Fremont so I could shoot some dice, while the Fremont Filly found funding for Pick'em. I bought in for a hundy and the table was choppy. Dropped half my buy-in and then had a decent roll for myself, making a few points. I think the turning point was when a good-looking young woman at the end of the table smiled at me after I made a point. I smiled back and promptly threw the dice off the table and pretty much out the door onto Fremont St. I'm just that smooth.

Dice worked their way around the table, things were up and down. The exotic tall young thing had a nice roll, and the next guy dumped.

I was down to about $30 and figured I was finished. I'd been betting $5 on the line with $10 back, and either placing the 6 and 8 or making one to two consecutive come bets, both with double odds.

The next shooter got going and made some numbers. His roll counter started to climb and he was making points, and shooting sevens only on the come-out. Around roll 12 he made a 10 point and things really started to get interesting. The chips were coming back, all my come bets were coming in and the row of reds in my rack was growing.

I placed numbers, pressed some of them, they still came in. Guy rolled me four or five sixes which I had placed. He got up to 30 rolls before he sevened out. At that point I had about $45 or $50 on the table, and colored up with $203 in my rack. The guy took me from $30 to $250. Too bad he sevened out or I could have tripled my stake, as it was I was over double and that's good enough for me on a losing day.

Nice roll, Mr. Nick!

Mrs. Flusher meanwhile hit a Pick'em Quad for $150. We headed over to the Smug Nugget to give them a bit of play, hoping to generate some offers. Mrs. F. hit quad 2s for $50 and I got diddly, dumping back $40.

We took a rest and I assessed my losing situation. I needed to flim flam around and generate a stake without going too much more in the hole.

Match plays, and maybe $10 freeplay at the Fitz came to mind.

We headed down to do battle. I wanted to do both matchplays together on the same bet, all or nothing. I picked red on roulette. Gave Mrs. F her $10 and we both put $10 and our coupons on Red. Ball spun around and came in on... 5, red. Won them both!!!! That was a quick $40 profit, and some playing money.

We headed over to the Fitz through the hot Vegas night, out the side of the Four Queens and in the back. Turns out there was no freeplay so I hit the free meat machine and slipped in a 20. Played for a bit and was dealt four 10s! $32 and FREE MEAT. Maybe I'll have the chicken with it. Had a good run on that machine and cashed out with $40 in profit. Were things turning around?

Went back to the Fremont for Pick'em but the machines were occupied. We sat down at DDB and first hand, Mrs. F hits quad jacks for $62. How does she do that???

I lost 20 or 40, had a few drinks. Got on the Pick'em and lost 20. Tried Bonus Deluxe and got (AAA)A for $100. Am I back? Pocketed the win and put a fresh 20 in.

Mrs. Flusher hit ANOTHER Pick'em Quad for $150, and I hit 8s on SDDB for $62. I AM back. We sat and played for over an hour, I played out that win and packed it in for the day.

I ended up down -$296 for the day. Could have been a LOT worse if not for the craps win, matchplays, and quad Aces.

Mrs. Flusher ended up with a profit of $270 on the day. That's what happens when you get almost four times the number of quads I did. She is now down $626 on the trip, which is nothing, considering she's been her like 10 days now.


Mess with their heads

Yes, I finally got one, quad sixes for $32. Nothing fancy, but the ice is broken.

Mrs. Flusher followed up my inaugural trip quad by pulling one of her own - four Aces again for $100. Later on she got 5555 - on the redeal. What is up with that, a second quad on the redeal. That's why she's the Quad Queen, I guess.

We went up to the Royal Pavillion and did the slot tournament. My favorite feisty octagenarian from my last trip was there - the one that wanted to 'implode every dump downtown'. She remembered me and remembered where I'm from and introduced herself as Bess. I hope I have half her feist when I'm her age.

We did the slot tournament. I'd asked what a good score was and the cutie running it said about 5,000 pernts. It's only a five minute deal so that's good. And I scored just under 4,000 pernts. Mrs. F didn't do well - only 2,400. If I have a stellar round tomorrow, I might finish in the money. And first prize is like $4,500. As well, one person in 12 gets a $50 spot prize in tomorrow's rounds.

We got in the elevator with a few other folks and I remarked loudly "I doubt anyone is going to best my 9,000 pernts". I like to mess with the enemy's heads
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Hit the bar at Four Queens for some libations and some Double Double B.



We worked our way back to MSS playing a machine here and there and not doing much but lose. Lunch was at the 777 brewpub - excellent Chicken Phillys with onion rings and a cold High Roller Gold lager.

Gambling wise, things aren't good - Mrs. Flusher has lost her $540 stake, plus $20 more. She took the walk of shame and cashed $600 in traveller's cheques. I'm down $160 on the day - $-480 on the trip. Not great for less than 24 hours in Vegas.

After lunch we went at it again. I sat down at Bonus Poker and on the second hand nailed (QQQ)Q for $31 (ATUTDS). Played Loose Deuces for half an hour solid, which was kinda great. And of course got quad 3s, which was not kinda great. $5 instead of megabucks on other games.

I got my ATUTDS anyway - I can always use another $2 'jackpot'. For those of you that haven't been paying attention to previous posts - And The Usual Two Dollar Scratchcard = ATUTDS.

After a while and a few more 20s in I switched to DDB and got (999)9 for $62. ATUTDS. At least it seemed like the quads were starting to come. At this point all the booze, pills, noise and cheap broads were starting to get to me. Went up to the room, curled up with my teddy, and took a nap to try to wash away the losses in sweet dreamy sleep.

I dreamed of massive losses.
Mrs. Flusher wanted to sleep more so I went back down to the casino alone. I felt lucky. Hit Treasure Chest and got a quad for the lowest jackpot - $35, ATUTDS. I'd put in 20 and took out 60, so that was good. Then I decided to take a flyer on the dollar machine.

I fired up Bonus Poker and slipped in a hundo. That's when I held two Aces and hit this beauty.


Being a savvy gamblester is tiring, so I went up and took another rest, and wrote some of this blog. Grabbed a shower and was ready to go.

The MSS showers are great. The light drizzle hits you squarely in the navel. Periodically, without warning, the water turns abruptly burning hot for about 1/4 of a second. By the time you react, it is back to normal. Depending on what you are washing at the time, it can be quite a painful thrill. Like the Cosmo, its just the right amount of wrong scalding burning water on your balls.

I went after it, thinking I was invincible after the $400 win. Played a hundo in dollar Bonus Poker and of course, dumped it. We switched to 50 cent and Mrs. Flusher picked up a nice heart straight flush for $125.

Dinner was at the Cal. I asked about a Western sandwich again - it seems they've never heard of one.

They don't make a Denver sandwich either.

So I ordered an omelette and toast and made my own, Jack Nicholson style. I told the waiter to hold the turkey between his thighs and for a moment I thought I was gonna get punched.

Tried the dollar Treasure Chest and I dumped another 40 beans with nothing to show for it. The Quadus Queenus got a quad and picked the lowball chest for $140.

At this point, still tired from travel and a short night, I gave in and headed up. Mrs. Flusher followed soon after, after having gotten another quad on 50 cent DDB for $125.

Those were the highlights, the gaps are filled with dumping 20s into machines. It really wasn't a good day and for me could have been quite bad.

Here are the stats at the end of the Wednesday: RF: up only $34 after all the nonsense, down -$286 on the trip. MF: down $-556 on the day and -$896 on the trip




Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Let the bells ring and the banners fly

Hit the Smug Nugget to try to sting them for some more winnings. I'm getting pretty down by now, emotionally.

What a way to start the trip, with quad drought.

Anyway, I finally broke the ice with this.


Of course it was dealt to me. It's like the VP Gods said, "Flusher's had enough, let's help the sumbitch out here."