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April 3-7 Reno Trip report

No hitches in travel nor accomodations in Reno.
Departed 3PM Thurs, 4/3 returned 10PM Monday 4/7.
I pretty much never left the Silver Legacy
Hotel/Casino from 5:15PM Thurs until 7PM Mon.

I got in 52 hours of video poker in 100 hours in Reno,
including About:

25 hrs at the $0.25 level (FPdeuces wild, DDB & jokers wild);

25 hrs at the $1.00 level (all DDB this time) &

2 hrs at the $5.00 level (9/6 Jacks or Better JoB).

Jackpots over $200:
0.25:
       1-$200 Quad A's DDB
       3-$250 Quad wild deuces
       2-$500 Quad A w/2,3,4 kicker

1.00:
       14-$250 Quad 5-K
        2-$400 Quad 2,3 or 4
        6-$800 Quad A or Quad 2,3,4 w/A,2,3,4
       1- $2000 Quad A w/2,3,4
   
5.00:
        4-$225 full houses
        1-$625 Quads

Oh yeah,...

I hit the Royal.

On a dollar DDB machine...

*****$4263.00*********

I hit it about 3:30 Sunday afternoon. Having the cashier/
attendant count out 42-$100's into your palm is fairly thrilling,
I got to admit. I TRIED to be cool.

Six hours of "not-hittin'-much" at $1 DDB cost me about $1700 after
the Royal. And it only took about twenty minutes to lose $500 at
the $5 percoin JoB's, post-Royal. (Note to self: next time I hit a
Royal, retreat fully to the quarter level).
So, I "only" came home with a $900 profit this trip.
Here's my daily hours, (daily net results) and day-end Tour tallies:

Day 1 - 7 hrs - +$2600
       2 - 16 hr ! - (-550) = +$2050
       3 - 12 hr - (-2350) = -$300
       4 - 12 hr - (+2500) = +$2200
       5 - 7 hrs - (-1100) = +$1100
                minus 200 tips = +$900 TRIP total

The most I had to dip into my own funds was about $600 after the
first 2 hrs of gaming and then again I was $600 IN when I hit
the Royal. <Whew>

Too Much Info, I know, but if you're still reading, you might enjoy
it: Royal, held 3, in clubs QJA_ _ drew T K.
For the trip, after "about" a dozen times, I started counting: I had
34 4-part- Royals, maybe 8 of them on the deal.
I also never hit a natural straight flush, other than the 1 Royal.

I spent about two hours playing 0.25 FP Joker Poker
on a great bank of machines: multi-game slant-tops near the
Keno area. . Nice game, I may add it to my growing "repertoire".

I'll make a separate note to add the info to the vpfree database.

Oh yeah - POINTS - it takes $20 "coin-in" to earn 1point. I earned
about 5500 points this trip. The readout on the machine only gives
you your daily total - they changed it, you used to get your overall
total also.

R/T airfare from Seattle was $170 on SouthWest. I enjoyed Comped
room & board for the 4 nights/ 5 days.

Cheers, I got more info if you want it, e-mail me.

  ~Mark Time
         in Seattle

"Six hours of "not-hittin'-much" at $1 DDB cost me about $1700 after the Royal. And it only took about twenty minutes to lose $500 at the $5 percoin JoB's, post-Royal. (Note to self: next time I hit a Royal, retreat fully to the quarter level). So, I "only" came home with a $900 profit this trip."

Mark: Excellent trip report. Something for everybody in it. Your 'note to self' however, is probably fit for a majority of players. How many people say they'll only play a lower denomination after feeling invincible from hitting a big Royal, when they still have hours of playing time ahead? But a profit's a profit, and it was a good trip.

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a note to Tom:
please add this info to the vpfree database:
RENO/ Silver Legacy:

···

**********************************************
25c FPJW

(8) slant top (multi-games) near main floor Keno

*********************************************

if I've betrayed some local secret, sorry.
These are 1-1-2-3-5-7-20-50-100-200-(800 for 5 credit play) = 100.65% Payback

  ( tackily replying to his own post: )
    ~Mark

--- Mark P. reported: -----
(snip)

I spent about two hours playing 0.25 FP Joker Poker
on a great bank of machines: multi-game slant-tops near the
Keno area. . Nice game, I may add it to my growing "repertoire".

I'll make a separate note to add the info to the vpfree database.

(snip)

Cheers, I got more info if you want it, e-mail me.

  ~Mark Time
         in Seattle