Hey hey hey -
Thurs Sept 29 -thru Mon Oct 3. 4 nights, 5 days, all at Peppermill.
Solo visit.
The usual smoooth travel: flights on Southwest ($184 R/T from
Seattle), limo, near-
top-floor suite, meals. Full-time VP, no live poker in the poker
room. No side
visit to Silver Legacy to grab cash bonus there. About ten minutes of
slot play for
+$30. 97 hours on the ground in Reno.
I kinda went overboard figuring all the stats during my return flight
and
last night after I got home, rather than write-up this trip report. I
noticed from my
index card notes that I seemed to have shorter machine-sessions this
trip - 20-40
min. long typically. Meaning I'm up to my old switch games often
mode. Also means
they have a great selection of games at Peppermill, which I verified!
So, I played these games(- hrs):
FP Deuces wild-9,
18/7 Joker wild-9,
Jacks or better-4,
Bonus poker-7,
10/6/40 Dbl Dbl Bonus-15 and
Multistrike-4.
3-play and 5-play for about 5 hrs
(SuperAces, DDB and NSU Deuces Wild),
but about 90% of my total VP time, 53 hrs, was single line.
Denoms: I played 5c on Multistrike- which was 5-play version,
Bonus poker, @ $5 a pop - 4 hrs.
25c -17 hrs,
50c -17 hrs,
$1 coin for 9 hrs and
$2 coin for 1 hr.
No $5 coin.
I played 25c 3-play and 5-play for 5 hrs.
Jackpots by denom:
25c: 6x100, 2x200 and 4x250 (quad wild deuces, yeah!).
$1 : 3x 250 and 2x400
MS: 1x125 dealt quad 8s on line 3
3-play: 1 dealt quad of 3x62 for 187. others included in 25c above
50c: 1x100, 9x125, 4x200, 6x400 and 3 glorious $1000 scores -
quad Aces with kicker, all on DDB. One of these was a DEALT hand
(!), which I took a photo of.
Jackpots by day:
day 1: 3 for 900
day 2: 7 for 2200
day 3: 11 for 2800
day 4: 11 for 2950
day 5: 8 for 1700
Hours, bankroll results & tips by day:
day 1: 8 hrs, +400, 35 tips
day 2: 13 hrs, -300, 40 tips
day 3: 13 hrs, +700, 100 tips
day 4: 12 hrs, -450, 40 tips
day 5: 7 hrs, -600, 55 tips
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Totals: 53 hrs, down 250 @ VP, 270 tips (& sundries)
I figure about 90K of "coin-in" from about 35,000 dealt hands. I'm
counting 3 or 5-play deals as 1. Add about 5,000 to count
multi-lines as 3 or 5 dealt hands. So, I should've got one Royal
- a Royal cycle being approx 40,000 hands. I got zero. Oh, well.
I DID keep count of my 4-part Royals and had 74 of them. About
15 were dealt and it's quite a thrill, albeit non-paying.
OK, a few more stats: Profit/Loss by game:
Deuces: -500
Joker: -1750
JoB: -250
Bonus: -350
DDB: +3500
SuperA: -200
3/5play: -800
Multistrike: -50
FreePlay: +325
Profit/Loss, by denom:
5c MultiStrike: -50
25c: -450
50c: +3450
$1: -2250
$2: -450
3/5play: -800
FreePlay: +325
whew, lotta stats to assimilate.
A few vignettes:
I ordered room-service breakfast Saturday. comped $20, plus a $5
tip. Nice start to the day, I'll do that again, even tho' I had
to pick a delivery time and I hate having to schedule anything,
it goes against that "timeless" mode I cherish on vacations.
I don't usually play on the bar-top machines, as they typically
have lower paytables and are generally worse ergonomics for
seeing the cards. But there was 50c JoB with progressive
jackpots on the Royal, SFs and any quad at the cabaret bar at
Peppermill, so I played 4 roughly 1/2 hour sessions there. I
have always been impressed watching a good bartender in action,
the smoooth way he establishes some sort of rapport with each
patron whilst keeping their drinks fresh and, at a casino, he is
filling orders for a steady stream of waitresses at the same
time. She rattles off her drink orders in categories, and he
remembers them all. A thing of beauty, performance art.
Plus, some saps like me tip a little more for "the show".
Meals: day 1: Thurs, arrived 6:45PM and was gaming by 7:30.
Stayed up until 3:30AM and didn't break for dinner. I had
brought in an extra tub of chicken & noodles from home to eat at
work before I left, so, I was OK. Day 2: early dinner at the
food court, I had a great plate of pork chow mein. Day 3:
breakfast in room, dinner at 8:30 at the Steak House. Appetizer
is 3 great, cold Thai spring rolls- delicate, light wrappers
that remind me of the soft pot sticker flour wrappers. The sweet
brown sauce dip is great. Shoulda ordered 3 or four of these and
made a meal of them. For the main course, I order that something
different on the menu: Jambalaya. This one is spicy hot, over
soft noodles (not rice nor stew) lobster chunks, Huge shrimps
and chopped up sausage. It's good, but I can't finish and my
mouth (and probably stomach) are on fire. I get a dish of
vanilla ice cream to quench. Day 4: Romanza Italian. Appetizer:
baked polenta. main course: filet mignon. caesar salad with real
anchovies and stale flat cheese slices (they're supposed to be
stale!) and great bread. Day 5: a mid-day salmon caesar salad
plus Yoshi roll sushi at Oceano. So, I made the rounds and
never over-ate.
Overheard Quotes:
"Neither a borrower, nor a lender be... that's in the bible." ~
guy next to me bothering his buddies while they play deuces
wild.
"Wait 'til you see me tomorrow...it'll be like shooting fish in
a barrel." ~big shot poker player to his pal, walking thru
sports book toward the poker room
"Can I have 50 cents?" ~ lady who sat down near me, right after
complimenting me on my $200 quad 3s w/kicker on a 5-play
machine. (Sorry , no, I'm coin-less, like the machines!)
I was enjoyin' a post-dinner stogie when this old geezer
shuffles up with a walker and sloooowly finds his way to a
machine near me. I see an oxygen tank contraption on his walker,
so, that's one cigar that didn't get finished right away.
Also, one evening, they wheeled some guy out of the Fireside bar
on a gurney. Never heard what happened, but one of his family
or friends was talking about "losing some other relative.."
which I figured was pretty tacky.
So, I came back $400 poorer, and $200 of that loss was at the
airport on the way out, but I had a great time.
Got some more to add, but got to sign off tonite.
~MARK