I just took a trip to Las Vegas January 19-23. I got two hotel rooms.
One was for my friends at Harrah's (two nights comped, $80 Saturday)
and one was at Fitzgeralds (two nights comped, two nights at $32). I
stayed at Fitzgeralds myself, not because it's nicer, but because I
like to stay downtown near where good video poker is and to keep a
short distance between my friends and I, because I've found trying to
coordinate a group that large is like trying to herd cats. I also
like to play table games with lower limits in case I want $100 to last
a longer time and actually get 3:2 for my blackjacks. I flew from San
Diego on a DING! fare for $32 each way. All room charges and meals
were comped on this trip for me after using club points from Harrahs
and Fitzgeralds.
No royal flushes on this trip in probably about 19,000 hands. I keep
a log of any hand 4OAK or better. I got 37 4OAKs which means one
4OAK every 513 hands. I played BP and DB.
I held the following number of cards to get a 4OAK:
0 0 (No 4OAK on complete redraws)
1 1
2 20
3 13
4 3 (Dealt 4OAK)
I received the following number of 4OAK for each rank of card (notice
no tens and six quad aces !! - including three sets within an hour of
each other):
2: 2
3: 4
4: 2
5: 4
6: 2
7: 5
8: 3
9: 4
10: 0
J: 2
Q: 2
K: 1
On average, I received a 4OAK every 23 minutes within sessions (I
don't keep exact length of session information, only from first 4OAK
to last 4OAK in a session).
My 37 4OAKs totaled $5,097.50 in a variety of .25, .50, and $1 denominations.
When I found the $1 9/6 JOB and $1 BP machines at Harrah's, I decided
to use those for Diamond in a Day and actually was up about $500 when
finished with 2008 base RC. I received $103 in comps at Harrah's on
about 2200 ($22,000 coin-in) base credits overall, so that's about 4
to 5 bonus RC for each base RC for a comp value of .4 - .5%
(whoopeee!)
Largest hit in money value = $400 (Aces in $1 BP)
Largest hit in coins = 3200 on 20-coin (Aces in .05 DB)
DB in SD
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A: 6
