If you've been reading along, you'll know that we have suffered quite a bit of 'negative variance'.
However... while I was stuck in the room on the phone with the Royal Canadian Veeblefetzer plant back in Flusherville, ON, where I spend my days in a soul-crushing grommet production job, spewing out rubber disks to keep The Man off my back, Mrs. Flusher... the Quad Queen.... was busy having one of the most amazing parlay streaks ever seen.
See for yourself!
By now she is up to 605 credits. |
Parlayed to five-play. |
Up to 1630 quarters, parlay to ten-play! |
Over the top with 4020 quarters. |
We had to see the host about some things (get our room rates picked up for the nights that were not comped) and that's when I spotted Hello Kitty. Was this the lucky charm I'd been missing?
"I need to touch Hello Kitty!" I whispered to the Quad Queen.
"You are not going to ask that woman if you can touch her pussy," she replied, savvily.
We took it easy on the play today and in the evening, on what was to be my last session of the trip, my last hundred of the day - I know it sounds too storybook, but that's the way it happened - anyway, I had a moral victory to some degree:
Royal Flush by Royal Flusher |
The day ended with us both having a winning day - first time this trip we'd managed it.
R.F. Up $600 day
Q.Q. Up $600 day
We did a little bit of play this morning with coffee and whatnot and in two hours the only quad I could muster was dealt to me.
That's pretty much it for this time around. We're off to the airport in half an hour and by tonight we will hopefully be home in Flusherville.
We learned a lot this trip with our increased bankroll and it will be interesting to see what happens to the offers.
When we played mostly quarters we usually had a target loss max of $300 a day. We pretty much hit that, around $270 a day. Not that you ever want to do that.
The upside is that we can claim back maybe $2400 in tax for last year, and we got quite a bit in comps and cashback.
We played through $145K at Cal/MSS/Fremont. Well over quarter million coin in for the trip, which is kind of scary. No wonder my fingers are sore!
Here's the comp list:
Comps | $2,461 |
Four Queens room | $300 |
Four Queens Fremont NYE Bracelets | $80 |
Four Queens food | $192 |
Four Queens cash back | $325 |
Wynn freeplay | $200 |
Wynn 1 room night | $200 |
Four Queens Freeplay | $120 |
Cal food vouchers | $40 |
Cal Suite 3 nights | $150 |
MSS Buffet same day comp | $22 |
MSS Buffet same day comp again | $22 |
Fremont Seafood buffet comp | $40 |
Cal prime rib dinner comp | $30 |
Cal/MSS/Fremont cash back (to come) | $250 |
Cal room charges (4 nights, food, internet) | $490 |
*updated - the Cal picked up all of our room charges according to our credit card statement.
There were lots of high points and fun this trip even if it was without a doubt the worst vacation we've ever taken, and one of the most expensive.
I'm grateful for the chance to expose my incredibly bad play to the world on this blog for your entertainment, and grateful that you take time to hopefully laugh along.
Next time will be even better and even savvier!
Royal Flusher
Updated December 2014 - I wish I had had the balls to keep solid records on this. With the perspective of a full year's worth of dollar play behind us, I have a better idea of the swings involved.
Based on a careful financial reconstruction under the guidance of Jimmy Poon and using my somewhat trusty Jonny Quest Big Button calculator, here are what I think the final results are:
Royal Flusher Trip: -$3244
Quad Queen Trip: $-425
Combined: -$3669