Murchison and Bryce Make an Urbanaughtical Splash (Aug 30-2015)

We got our luggage down to the lobby of the Cal exactly at 2:00pm. We figured we'd wait outside on the bench. It was hot. Really hot.

Ten minutes went by. No limo.

I looked around the corner. Nothing. I went and asked the bag guys and they looked on the list. Not on the list. The bag guys called our host. She said it was the Main Street limo, not Bell Trans. They were having a small issue with the battery but would be there right away.

We waited inside.

Another ten minutes. No limo.

I went to see my host. She phoned over and they were still working on the battery. Go wait.

Another ten minutes. No limo.

What. The. Flying. Fuck?

How was it possible? How could it happen? How could not one but two limo transfers go so horribly, painfully wrong.

Our host showed up with hugs, kisses, apologies, and no limo. But someone was coming right away to take us to Wynn.

I know what you're thinking.

Well, at least we had transportation and it wasn't a cab. We had a pleasant uneventful ride to Wynn. Apparently the Main Street limo had an alternator problem. They could smell smoke when they turned it over. It was toast, for now.

Unbelievable. Two limo rides, two security guards driving us in the corporate utility vehicle.

Anyway, we were at Wynn. We checked in and the room wasn't quite ready.

 We sat and had a drink and played a little short pay VP. I hit our first Wynn quad of, hopefully, many.

We upgraded to a panamoron suite for an extra $25 a night, in order to have a better view of any fires or other calamities that might break out in the Las Vegas valley.

The room at Wynn is quite nicely appointed. Attention to detail is evident in the way the faucet handles are skillfully centered.

We admired the view for a while.

We're not sure what happened but we saw the fire from start to finish. Hopefully nobody was hurt.

Then down to the casino!

And let me just say this. There are almost no pictures of any wins to follow.

That's because there weren't any.

We both went on an incredible bad luck streak.

I ran this up to $270 and lost it all back playing dollars. 

We were both down on the day and headed to the buffet for dinner.

Wynn is a fantastic place to bone up on the latest in person fashion expression.

Murchison and Bryce make an urbanaughtical splash at the Wynn Buffet.

International Rescue... calling International Rescue...

Hmmm. Maybe these didn't go out of fashion.

A white suit is always a great choice for a big helping of ravioli in marinara at the buffet.

Things I ate:
- four kinds of cheese cubes
- monsterella and cherry tomatoes in balsamic juice
- capicola
- slam-me
- two street tacos with salsa, hot sauce, sour cream, guac, and fresh cilantro, which were amazing
- Wisconsin cheese sausage (not to be confused with the Trouser sausage)
- crab legs with skank butter
- two more street tacos with salsa, hot sauce, sour cream, guac, and fresh cilantro, which were amazing
- more capicola
- a bite of QQ's prime rib
- creme brulee
- cheesecake shot

As always, it was great.

The gambling that followed, wasn't. We played triple play double double spinners. It was like pouring money into a drain.

There are no pictures. We hit nothing. It was brutal. I had 4 four-to-a-royals today at Wynn. Empty.

I really have to wonder... where my Royal luck is. Actually, where OUR Royal luck is. The trip in January this year we both had maybe 20 attempts from four. And in my two week solo trip I had about 30 or so. And so far this trip I've had 20 attempts and QQ is not far behind. That makes a combined 110 or 120 attempts from four, which should hit, on average, every 47 tries. That doesn't mean you are guaranteed a Royal after 47 tries, but one would have to agree that we are starting to stretch the odds a bit in the Royal department.

RF: Day: -$600 Trip: -$1560
QQ: Day: -$500 Trip: -$1640
Combined: -$3200 - but we did get two free limo rides.

Pointies! (Aug 30-2015)

Another fine night of shuteye at the DTG and I awoke Sunday morning, ready to rock. I repeated the morning ritual, getting a coffee at the bar and testing my luck. Fortunately, I had some. (Luck.)

No kicker, though.

A good way to start the day. They have a promotion at DTG, the hot hand of the day. I think it only applies to Bonus Poker, and the prize is an extra 50 credits. I also think maybe the hot hand of the day is always four sixes, because it never changed while I was there.

I did my blogging for all you wonderful readers and checked the stats.

Las Vegas the Royal Flusher Way has reached a total of one million page views. It's pretty staggering. Way to go, you page viewers!

The Quad Queen came over to visit and we did a mini walkabout, starting with the nearest casino, right downstairs.

Guess what? She hit the hot hand of the day.

Guess what? She hit it on Boner Deluxe. So no extra 50 credits. But who cares, its a 400 credit win instead of 125.

We proceeded down to the El Cortez where I played a twenty on a machine with about the best paytable currently to be found for a quarter deuces game. It's ancient, its a coin dropper, it plays slow as molasses, it has a 12" glass CRT screen, and I love it... except for the fact that it stiffed me on deuces.

In the alcove, we played the 2 machines side by side at the back. I asked QQ which one she wanted and she took the Bonus Poker machine. I took Double Double Bonus. Probably the reason I lost $200 while she won.

 The four Pointies paid $400 plus a $10 gift card. You could also take a freeplay envelope from the drum instead so she opted for that and got... $10 freeplay. Fine by us.

I had some revenge at their bar and left Elco only down $50 or something.

Jackie, we miss ya!

Time for breakfast, so we hit the Fremont buffet. It was ok. I found some fried chicken which was acceptable, and had some salad and melons too. I kind of got into an argument with this woman at the buffet.

I was picking through the pieces trying to find what I wanted.

"I wouldn't mind a leg, or some other dark meat."

"That's a thigh," she said, pointing to the piece I had in the grip of the tongs.

"No, I think that's a back,"

"No, that's a thigh."

"Look at this here, I think this is a back."

"I know my chicken and that's a thigh."

"Ok, it's a thigh. I'll take it," I said. "You know what, I like thighs. I like fried chicken too."

And her husband was standing right behind her.

"Enjoy!" I said cheerfully.

Vegas is Country Throw-up Gravy Central!

After breakfast, I went to DTG to pack up my stuff and cart it to the Cal - because today was moving day. The Quad Queen wanted to do a day's worth of play at the Smug Nugget and pick up $100 free play there. She headed off and that is where her day went in the dumper.

Meanwhile, I stopped off to play in the Downtown Grand and got on a parlay run.

What's more, I got four Pointies!

I parlayed to dollars got to hammer them for a good 45 minutes or so at top speed, and still preserve most of my win. I cashed out $200 - $100 profit.

Meanwhile, I was getting all these grim texts from the Nugget... down this, down that, another 100, still nothing, getting my ass kicked...

Time to hustle my stuff over to the Cal. I checked out of the DTG (no charges) and hauled ass. I'd arranged late check-out and a limo ride to Wynn with my host, for 2:00pm and it was around noon. And the Quad Queen needed rescuing!

Well, when I caught up to her, she was steaming. She was actually on her way out the door. I wanted to give the triple plays that I'd done well on (and that had eaten her alive) a try. I popped $100 into the machine and played one hand. The Quad Queen sat and watched in the seat to my right.

Boom! Four Pointies!!! From one!

A woman to my left said, "Was that your first hand?"

"Yes, yes it was."

"I find that extremely irritating."

We played a few more things, this and that, but Quad Queen was in one of those bad luck spirals. We played the 8/6 dollars, I made a bit, she lost $100. That kind of thing.

We were both kind of thankful that it was time to get back to the Cal and get our gear down to the lobby to catch a comfortable limo ride to the height of short-pay luxury - Wynn.

It was sure strange how we'd had three sets of Pointies, and it was sure strange how her luck had done a serious 180.

Strange as those things were, the day was about to get really, really strange.

Like, turbo strange.

Turbo strange plus.

Turbo Mk. II strange plus 3000 extreme.

Sunday Sneak Peak (30 Aug-2015)

Sunday morning downtown action.

Handpay at the El Cortez! Yes for $400. Coindroppers.

Slutty Times Pay Pays (Aug 29-2015)

We settled in for a long stint at those great multi-play machines at Main Street Station. I played a hundred or so on triple play, but really wasn't getting anywhere, so I switched it up to Double Double Bonus Slutty Times Pay.


Quad Queen got on the board first.

I played for quite a while and was getting low on credits. Again, the quads weren't coming for me.

I got a 5 times spinner, and as usual, hoped and prayed for a decent dealt hand. Nope. A bare Ace. Oh well.

I held the bare Ace and watched the deal come up. And on the second line was absolute magic. Three more Aces. (No kicker, though.) A cool 4000 credits. $1000. I leaped from my seat and ran around singing, "I. AM. SO-SMART! I. AM. SO-SMART! S.M.R.T.!!!!"

That was the big win I've been looking for. As good as a quarter Royal! No taxes!

We hammered away and I did about $6500 coin in, while the Quad Queen graduated to 10-play Bonus Poker and did $10,000 coin in.

I didn't take pictures of all her quads, just the more interesting ones. Here are the goods:

Quad Queen - Aces Twice.

The final itchy card tally.

We grabbed a quick buffet lunch. I managed to assemble something pretty tasty, starting with a base of refried beans and working up from there with all the colors of the buffet rainbow. And cheesecake.

A different pic of CTUG. This one is in a ROUND vat.

Something is wrong with the progressive on this older nickel machine...it pays nothing.

We played a bunch of the Loose Doose, but it wasn't happening. That cost us like $120 or $150 each. I had 3 ducks dealt once and Mrs. F had them three times, but we couldn't close.

We went to Fremont to play the full pay Bonus Spinners there but the seats were all taken. The machines were too. QQ settled on Pick'Em and I wanted to play some craps.

Bought in for $100. Seven winner. Point seven out. Point seven out. Point. Number. Point winner. Point seven out.

I ran outta there. Found a blackjack table with two seats open. Sat. Get outta here, these are taken. Fine.

Sat at another table. Played one hand. Guy next to me got blackjack. 6:5. I made loud noises. "They've lowered the blackjack payout here too? I'm outta here."

Blew the rest of the reds on roulette with nothing coming back.

I joined QQ at Pick'Em and I played for a solid hour on $20. She did really well, getting a quad and making some money.

Next we hit Binion's. We did a little dance. Made a little love. Got down tonight.

Get QQ a new card.
Play new signup free play.
Play 20 points.
Go get $5 freeplay bonus for 20 points on new card.
Play the $5.
Go swipe cards at swipe 'n grope.
RF win $5 free play.
Go to booth, get $5 freeplay.
Back to machines, play $5 free play.

We played the machines that are marked 98% payback. It's so quiet there. There are gentle background machine sounds.

Quad Queen said, "This is like being on a starship!..."

"Welcome to Starship Binions," I replied.

Starship Binions

Please??!!

Denied.

The pictures of people with the million dollars in cash are quite interesting to look at.

Picture with $1,000,000.
Nailed it.

After that, back to the Cal.

I played about an hour of blackjack, and lost $100. QQ played video poker (what else) - nothing significant occurred. Maybe some losing. I joined her and did some losing myself.

We had an 8:00pm reservation for Redwood Grille and it was as terrific as always. Hilario takes great care of us, and the food was perfect.

S Car Go and his new hit 'I wanna Playt Ya, Playt Ya, Puh-puh-puh Playt Ya'

Lamby.

Lobster.

While waiting in line at the slot club to get our cash back, I spent some time perusing a list of names to determine who I would most like to get it on with. (A few glasses of Mark West red at dinner may have fueled this speculation.)

I quickly settled on Marguerita, but then carefully considered the sumptuous curves of another front runner, and loudly announced that I would most like to get it on with Josephine. Somehow I still got my cash back.

$178 for me, and $130 for the Quad Queen. Yay cashback!

(Because we have the Gold card for food, we can cash all our slot points in for cash, instead of using them for food.)

We took care of our Host (in the right way), and she set up a Limo ride for tomorrow morning, and late checkout. Stay tuned on that front...

We finished our day off at Fremont on Super Times Pay, and we both made some money.

Is this the chandelier that came off the S.S. Rex gambling ship?

Scratch that ass baby, ooh yeah, scratch it!

What a great day. Wall to fucking wall gambling, drinking, eating, and blogging. This is one you'll look back on when you are old and feeble and say, "What's all that damn racket? Where are my glasses?"

RF: Day: +$835 Trip: -$960
QQ: Day -$320 Trip: -$1140
Combined trip: -$2100