Circa Canada Vegas At Par

Day 6 and this seems like the perfect day to do a walkabout downtown, check out the Major Multipliers game, and do the Circa Canada - Vegas at Par promotion.

It's a beauty promo! Circa, Golden Gate or the D will take your ravaged $500 in Canadian currency (or maybe that old wad of Canadian Tire money stashed in your sock drawer?) and give you $500 USD in play.

It seems simple but there are a lot of conditions - see the details here.

It was a very late night for yours truly on Day 5 - I was up till 3:30 Eastern time and I was feeling it this morning.

We headed out on a rainy, dreary, cold morning to Magnolia's for breakfast.

The omelettes were good and we brought them with us to the El Cortez, post consumption.

A few people have mentioned this Major Multiplier video poker game. If you get dealt a pair, two pairs, or three of a kind, random multipliers up to 100x appear next to the various possible paying hands.

It was a lot of fun and ate $100.

Once that was done with, we headed to Circa.

I went to the Club One desk and showed my Canadian ID and got a voucher for the promotion.

I took the voucher to the cage and gave the Cage Sheila $500 USD (which seems odd for a CAD at par promo) but the point was that I received, based on the current exchange rate $685 in promo play, which was loaded onto my card.

Roughly, the rules are you can't use them on video poker, you have 72 hours to play them all, you can move from slot machine to slot machine, you can only cash out your winnings (if any) and you can't play on any wide area progressive slots.

And with that, I was off and running! I started with $50 in BUFFFALO!!!! and cashed out $47 or so.

Fair enough, I tried it again. $50 of slot play netted $7 and change.

This was not good. I thought I heard Bobby G whimper a bit on my behalf, and it was not out of place.

Next, I tried a Double Top Dollar machine, and this went a bit better.

That kind of made up for the bum BUFFFFFFALO!!!! sesh.

It was extremely exciting knowing I could play any machine I wanted - and in fact, knowing that I had to play.

I tried out this reel slot, 9 quarters a spin, and hit paydirt.

Holy crap, a win of $271.50???! It was starting to look like this was going to end all right.

Next on the agenda, one of those lucky flaming balls machines (aka Golden Century Lucky Flaming Balls). I played $2.50 a spin.

As I was going through the various games, I was calculating roughly how many spins it would take to play through whatever amount I'd loaded onto the game.

In this case, $100 meant that after 40 spins I could cash out. Great. Or maybe not so great - after 19 spins I had exactly won pretty much nothing. Spin number 20 turned out to be a beauty.

I hit the bonus round (three red flags?) and within that bonus round got the Lucky Flaming Golden Balls of Death round. And within my balls was a MINI jackpot, which a quick look up ascertained was worth... $250?!!!!!!!

We screamed like little girls on the baby ferris wheel set up in the corner of the supermarket parking lot.

By the time the bonus round was over, I knew I was going to at least break even on the promotion.

The total win for the bonus was $414. Sweet!

Bobby G went off to play some video poker and I futzed around on various slots, using up the rest of the $685.

Then it was time for an accounting.

My $500 investment had netted a total of $998. I killed it.

I took a break, grabbed a shower and a nap, and did the blogging. We would reconvene for dinner.

Bobby G had a hankering to hit Jerry's Nugget to do some Freeplay he had there, and we decided to have dinner there as well.

I'd love to rave about the food, but it was only so-so. There was certainly plenty of it.

We played a bit in the casino and I fooled around on some video Keno, and then Boner Deluxe.

Peek-a-Bobby-Boo!

Back at Main Street, we split up. Bobby had some business at the Four Queens and I had business trying to win more money.

The Double Super Slutty Spewing Times Pay was fun for a bit. But then I tried the 10-play version of it. And that did not go well at all.

Roughly $200 went for no good.

Next stop, the Loose Doose, and playing quarters went very nicely, netting me three wild royals in quick succession.

I was up $50 or so, and then I made the major blunder.

I switched up to 50 cents. And of course, the whole thing went crashing down.

And sadly, this turned into a Flying Hundies Death March. I wandered from machine to machine, trying this, trying that, always with no win, and that sick feeling growing in my stomach as I could see my wonderful day going off the rails.

Bobby G came back and he was suffering the same fate. The machines at Main Street simply would not pay.

By 9:00 pm I'd had enough - I'd burned through $600 or so.

We had an early start planned - Bobby G's flight was at 6:00 am and I was going to get up at 3:30 am to drive him to the airport at 4:00 am.

I went to bed frustrated, down $200 on the day and now $1000 on the trip. Still, we had had a ton of fun all day long, even if the result wasn't what we hoped for.