Forgot to mention my favorite part of the debacle:
Down to my last few bills, despondent and ill-tempered, on the last machine on the left. Floorperson empties the trash can right next to me. Busily chatting with his co-worker, he places the trash can's collar/lid on my foot, with it leaning on my knee. I resist my first impulse (which involved a variation of the old "ring toss" game) and decided to leave the lid where it was and wait for him make eye contact and be suitably embarrassed. No dice - the conversation with his co-worker had gotten animated and he had ceased emptying the can entirely. So, I'm sitting their with a trash can lid in my lap. Finally, my temper gets the better of me and I kick the filthy thing (the lid, not the attendant) off me. At that exact moment, he turned to see me kick the lid a couple of feet away. I then am chastised for in broken English for my rudeness.
Ah, the thrill of high-rollin' in Vegas!!!!
---- John Kelly <lodestone@cox.net> wrote:
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JD:
Misery loves company, so I'm enjoying trading horror stories. Bear in mind that I'm a $1 player, so $5 is at the bare edge of my comfort zone. The coupon was good on Thursday and Friday. Thursday: blew through $2700 in about an hour before throwing in the towel. Gathered up my courage and remaining scraps of loose cash and tried again Friday (after getting torched for $1700 at the Suncoast, no less), and fed another $1200 into beasts before deciding that my odds of actually cashing this thing were getting pretty slim, and my ATMs had hit their daily limit. So, I switched to $1 JoB and, of course, got dealt the quad with about $60 left, thus reducing my $4000 gift to the LVH to a mere $3875.
As Tomski likes to say, "I beat the odds".---- John Douglass <john.douglass@yahoo.com> wrote:
> JK,
>
> You too?!? I played about an hour on the 9/7 DB triple play and ended up with a grand total of 4-of-a-kinds of........zilch. Zero. Not a single one. Not a good session, needless to say.
>
> Meanwhile, the guy a few machines down was playing single-line $25 9/6 DDB for maybe 10 minutes and (of course!) hit 4 aces with the kicker for a mere $50k, plus the $3,125 quad bonus. Go figure.
>
> All within the realm of probability, but unpleasant nonetheless. It's tough being the one who evens things out for the house.....
>
> JD
>
> John Kelly <lodestone@cox.net> wrote:
> A database update: The LVH has a bank of 4 $1/$5 9/6 JoB located opposite the buffet west of the sportsbook bar. They are evil and I hate them, but they are there.
>
> John (who just had a very, very bad experience with a 125-coin quad bonus coupon)
>
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