I was there at the same time. Sounds like I was standing on your toes during the Sunday drawing!!My 500 pts of play (16 hours of 25c):
DB 6hr +$345 (7 quads & a SF in one 4 hr session)
DW 4hr -$5
JOB 9/6/90 100-play (5c & 10c) +$8 (dealt quad playing 10 hands for $100)
AA (98.5% ugh!) 20 min +$480 ( two SF )
coupon for 300 pts of play +$125
Total +$953
Yes, I can confirm the (1) FP AA was downgraded. I when back and played it only because
of the four (4) RF's for $5000 I had on my 2 previous trips (12 hours of play!!).
Day 1: travel good on Southwest. Limo to Silver Legacy. Corner suite,floor 34, great view. I grabbed my $500 bonus cash, up $500 to here. First surprise: the south mezzanine is now NON-SMOKING! Metal floorsigns greet the gamers between Rum Bullions and the Circus-Circus"green-line". Includes the main aisle! No ash-trays! Enforced!Non-smokers happy, smokers unhappy. As I like a stogie every couplehours, I had no long sessions on the multi-line DDBs.Next change: the $1 DDB progs on the main floor have been re-arranged.Was one group of 4 on a linked prog meter and a group of 16 on alinked meter. There are now two groups of 10 with each group on aseparate meter, perpendicular to the previous set-up. One prog was acouple hundred less than the other during my stay. The one I played abit (and my friends played a LOT) got up to $4555. Another change: the SW quadrant Bonus poker coin-dropper prog bank isMIA. Also gone: the NE quadrant BP progs. Gamed from 7PM- 2:15AM, skipped dinner, but I woofed a nice rich chunk of filet mignon & king salmon, a doggie bag gift from myfriends (M & L). I hit a quad A for $200 on 25c DDB 5-play (`DDBx5') about 9:30. Hitdealt quad 2's on $1 BP for 200. Got quad 8s playing $2 coin DDB latenight for 500. While I was playin in the high limit area, an olderlady walks up and asks how am I doin? I don't say much and she blurtsout " I just won $50,000 !!!" She hit the top slot prize on a $5 coinmachine and hadn't got paid yet. Wild.Summary of day 1: 7 hrs, down 200. Day 2: I got gaming before 10AM amazingly. Felt great from a goodsleep. Today I got in about 14 hrs gamin. I stayed in plus-territorythanks to Quad ducks for 250 on the 25c DW and quad 3s for 400 on the$1 DDB. The 4RF count is up to 14 already, I'm starting to note theirfrequency. About 3PM I had a down session on the $1 DDB progs whichtriggered a visit to high limit to play $2 coin BP and DDB. Down $1Kin there. I pulled out of that tailspin to play 9/6/90 JoB 100-play.A sweet dealt FH for 225 made for a profitable session. I switched to50c SDDB near the south wall mens room. Got a dealt quad 2s and drewthe 4 kicker for $400. About 4:45 I start noticing many banks of dark machines and I noticethe slot card readers aren't working. Players are confused and theattendants are in turmoil. I know something major is going on, and Idecide not to stick around for the chaos. I take a good 45 min roombreak. Order is restored when I return to the mezz for some 50c 10/6DDB multi-line. A couple of bonus quads for 400 make for an up session. 7:30, I'm down 1000 on the day, but it's dinnertime at Sterling withM&L. The place is packed, 20 min til we get seated, but I enjoy myporterhouse steak & do my share to finish a bottle of Ferrari-CaranoCabernet Sauvignon. 9:15 and we head back to multi-lines on the mezz.I drop 400 there, and 200 more on a $2 coin spurt on ACE$BP. No Royals. Yet. Lots of 4-part RFs, I'm up to about 20 of them. A fewhappen while I'm playin' a short spell of $2 coin- one 4RF there wasdealt and I flashed to my $8K RF from last June. I'm up til 1:30AM, roughly even the rest of the sessions, doing 20 minstints on all my favorite VP games all over the casino. My mood isstill good despite my depleted bankroll.Day 3Sunday - up & gamin about noon. I enjoy a stogie on the southmezzanine - where it's quiet and smoking is still allowed. There's 25cindividual progs there: one BP and two DDB's. I find M&L at the $1DDB- M. scored a 50c RF ($2K + w-2G) on the DDB 3-play earlier in themorning. They stay happy most of the day, up a little for the trip.Nothin' exciting for me until right at 3PM, when the big Sundaydrawing is held. Silver Legacy has gone electronic for the big Sunday3PM drawing, no more tickets, a computer screen ruffles thru the"tickets" to pick a name. Bizarre. I had maybe 130 `entries'. You`redeem them at the kiosks. Also at the kiosk you can view your compaccount details (charges). So, I head for this bank near the drawing area, so I canhear my name if/when called. I play 50c DDB, (or 50c BP), sort of atradition I've developed. I usually drop a couple hundred and ofcourse, never get called. Well, I've had a dearth of bonus quads thistrip, and in about 20 hands I get quad 3's with a 2 kicker for $400,TWICE!. Yay. Then in another 20 hands I skank Quad As with a kickerfor $1000. Machine freezes for hand pay (stupid). So,there I am,stuck. M&L stayed at the $1 DDB prog bank, where they parked a lot ofthe day. No one to watch my machine when my name doesn't get called.But, I'm not called and the attendant shows up. I take my new stashover to show off to M&L, as I had been gettin a tad grumpy as mybankroll was dwindling. I sure turned that around, all smiles, nowI'm Mr. Wonderful.A dribble down 400 or so, even with an odd $300 quad 3 playin 50cTriple Bonus Plus (TB+), then dinner about 6:15 with M&L atFairchilds. Fish & Chips (greasy but tasty) and a great jumbo shrimpCaesar salad for me. M. had the Oyster Soup, it was packed withmonster oysters, he could barely finish it. Plus he picked up the tabafter a struggle- both of us were maxed out on our compaccounts,($600), so our play wasn't earning more comps. Down another $700 or so and it's 10PM. I decide to taxiover to Peppermill to collect $200 freeplay. I print mySouthwest group A boarding pass near the Pepps bell desk at the handyself-serve computer & printer kiosk. VP goes smoothly, I grab $150after playin out the freeplay hands on 25c Bonus poker. I hit a quadplayin 7/5 Super Aces bonus triple play 25c for $62. I piddle away $30of my $200 on the way out payin an absolutely stupid video poker gamecalled pick-a-pair. I taxi back & am gamin at Silver at 11PM. Myfriends have disappeared to sleep.The $200 from Pepps gives me a 25 minute run on the $1 DDB with theprog at $4500. I stay even thanks to a $250 quad. Then in a 10 minsession of $2 ACE$BP I blow the $200. May I say the 4-part RF's havebeen frequent and taunting. Many more dealt 4RF's today than usual,at least 6, on all denoms.Down a couple more 100's at 1:15. I drop $400 on a long $1 DDB runwith 3 exciting yet annoying 4 RFs on the draw. I close out the niteon the mezzanine 3-play 50c DDB, with only some nourishment quads totake me to 3AM. One more dealt 4RF maybe 50 hands from the end of mylast session on $1 ACE$BP. Wallet empty. Ugh and Ugly. Down $3K on thetrip.I'll have to visit the ATM tomorrow, probably sleep in past noon, Ialways get a late checkout of 2PM.Day 4:Up about 11:30, and a leisurely pot of coffee later I'm all packedwith bag to bell desk, limo reso made, checked out and casino-boundabout 12:45. As you'll recall from last night, my wallet is empty,save a $20 and a few $5's. So, I stop by the ATM to get some gamingtender. $500 ain't much even if I stick to quarters, but I'm 'due' tohit something, right? It takes me 3 1/2 hours to lose the $500. Highlight hands: 25c DDB x3: quad 2, no kicker dammit, for $100. On 50c Super DDB I hit quad Tfor $125. On 25c DDB I am dealt KQT hearts and draw the 9J for a $62SF. Big whoop, but I am actually enjoying exhibiting such patience.I am again tortured by a plague of 4 part Royals, a few on the dealtoday, many more after the draw. I'm sure my count if over 40 4RF'sfor the trip. Sooooo close. I need one to come in. When I first see M&L, I learn L. hit a dealt quad 2's with a kicker onthe 50c DDB 3-play for $1200 earlier in the morning. She says she wasdown to $100 in her purse. Good thing for her. I use my $500 emergency account. I work it up a $100 on 25c DDB. Noteasy, but I hit a couple $62 quads. I "up denom" to 50c, play DDBand lose that 100. Then, down $100 on the mens room DDB bank, with the RF progthere at $1169. At the same Multi-game machine, I 'up' to 50c denomand play ACE$BP. I score dealt Quad 9s for $62, nice nourishment,which is important when you are 'bumping bottom', to use a fishingterm. Ten minutes later, I'm dealt a mess of spades and the dang machinefreezes up! HEY! There's a lot of paint in that poker hand, and acryptic message: Call attendant.Hey! I think I hit a Royal! At first I figure it's the $1169 prog onthe quarters, then I notice the jackpot is $2000. And I remember Iswitched to 50c denom. Awright! THEN, I realize that I got thisRoyal ON THE DEAL. Holy crap! That never happens! Never before forme, anyhow. The machine automagically held all five cards. No photo, as my friends with the pocket digital camera are nowherenearby, too bad- it's such a pretty hand. I get my handpay, cash outand head over to the $1 DDB bank with the $4550 prog RF which we haveall been playing, I think M & L sat at two seats in particular; theirbutt-prints are probably still there. I drop $300 chasing that Royal(of course I get a few more 4RFs). I head upstairs and see M&L sittingat the cafe. I amble up, make a bid for the half of a steak sandwichon M's plate (he was just going to get it wrapped for me!) and I jointhem and rehash the dealt royal story a few times.I drop a few more hundred playing DDBx3 for 50c and ACE$BP for $2 (onthe same machine I got my 'Hiatus' $8000 RF on last June.). M&L and Iare all on the same flight, so we make comp- buy-down shopping runs atthe liquor store (the clerk bubble-wraps them bottles for travelers)and gift shop for tobacco. The limo ride features my CD of the BeatFarmers singing 'Happy Boy'. I guess we're happy to not be totallybroke, because we were all down money for the trip. I had a little excitement at the airport with the TSA guy, who thinkshe's x-rayed an image of a verboten item- a lighter! In my carry-onbriefcase. No way! I always stash my lighters in my checked bag. After a LONG search, almost totally emptying my bag (to my amusementand his consternation), he finally says,"There it is." He finds amini-Bic lighter somewhere in the bowels of my soft briefcase. I hadno idea it was in there, otherwise I would have pocketed it, as thewalk-thru machines do not detect the minis. So, he confiscates it,did not wand me as punishment (altho' I'm sure he wanted to) and therest of the travel was smooth. Stats follow:1) 7 hrs, -2002) 14 hrs, -16503) 13 hrs, -10004) 7 hrs, +700total 40 hrs, -2200Jackpots(day 1) 7, (2) 29, (3) 14 and (4) 33 x 10022 x 12510 x 2008 x 2501 x 3006 x 4001 x 5001 x 10001 x 2000---53 for $13,250by denom: +/-$ hrs, coin-in est.5c x 50 even 1 25005c x 100 -300 1.5 750025c -250 11.5 14,40050c +2950 6 15,0001.00 -2250 9.5 38,0002.00 -1450 3 24,00025c x 3 +150 0.5 150025c x 5 -600 2 10,00050c x 3 -1300 3.5 21,00050c x 5 +300 1 10,000Slots -50 0.5 100Bonus cash +650 - -===================-2200 40 144,000The coin-in amounts to 7200 promo pts, that's 1800 pts per day for this trip. My EV overall is (141800/144000) 98.5%. I'll get those calc'ed coin-in & pts from my host to see how close I was. Plus, as I'm the monitor for Silver, I owe a big update to the vpFreeSilver Legacy database page. I'll be adding FP TB+ and OEJ 25c/50c/$1(on MG/MD bank in SE quadrant, between the DW and the mens room) andperhaps other FP games (after I look them up) that I've found atSilver on the multi-games. Thanks for the trickle of updates fromy'all over the last few months.Cheers, ~MARK
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To: vpFREE_Reno@yahoogroups.comFrom: mark_my_words_again@yahoo.comDate: Tue, 22 May 2007 19:23:03 +0000Subject: [vpFREE_Reno] Silver Legacy T/R - May 2007
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