TR SNIPPET ODD BITS OF GAMBLING

The bulk of my gambling downtown would be playing live low limit 2-4 poker at the Golden Nugget when the tables contained some poor players and the progressive bonus hand payouts were doubled.

Downtown over Halloween I did that. However, I did play 10/7 DB at Main Street Station to use my 250 points gets a free buffet American Casino Guide coupon. It took forever, but I left with $120 profit to eat the buffet.

At Red Rock I was drawn to play just a little bit one night and then stayed longer because there was a drawing for those playing. Again 10/7 DB paid me as it did another night. Just for fun I played a single zero roulette machine another night using 50 cent bets and a progressive pattern. In all those cases I quit ahead, but my play was ot enough to seed for room offers.

In fact, I played the 100 per cent payback machines that paid very little in points ($12 for one point) so that when I used mine up at the buffet, I had just seven cents to spend. They took it, however. I laughed.

I had come to Red Rock having recklessly lost for the trip $4 and I left with a trip profit of $176. It was the beginning of my trip, and that was the highest positive gambling score I was to get.

I also left with intense experiences at Red Rock Canyon, fine winter swimming in the pool and jacuzzi, a wonderful early morning visit to the spa and some great cheap visits to the buffet. The food is really wonderful for the cheap prices there and I even cut the cost of the one supper buffet in half (less than $8) using my 35 year old worn and aged DD214 to show Veteran status for a Monday November promotion.

While downtown, Wild Bill and I did go out to Sam's Town for a day of poker tournaments and video poker.

This was a disaster.

Neither of us cashed in the tournaments and the Deuces (full pay dimes) were very, very bad to me.

However, this was a low roller day because the tournaments cost just $21 and $45 and provided some fine poker. The Deuces were in dimes (nickles with a maximum bet of 10).

So that day fit with my rollback and bankroll protection. The same losses in higher priced tournaments or quarter play would have cost me much more.

However, I won on a matchplay at Eastside Cannery ( from their Webpass program) and one at Longhorn and I used $5 freeplay at Eastside, so walking up to those places for a quick play on my way to stock up at Walmarts gained $31 on bets that were all hugely in my favor.

And I used my 250 point American Casino Guide Sam's Town coupon for a supper buffet and so ate that day for free.