mebedaman
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Hello everyone. Since I love all of your trip reports, I feel obligated to write one myself. Shouldn't be too long....but I guess we'll see!
Well, I had been planning this trip for quite a while and finally booked in March, so needless to say I was ready to go. A little background -- I went with Bill, a long-time friend from high school and college. We have also been planning to move to Vegas around the first of September. Yeah, we're nuts... It was definitely a low roller trip, but I love doing the research in order to find good deals and love to use coupons (when I remember!). Using "Ding" through Southwest, I was able to score roundtrip tickets from Chicago to Vegas for $106 per person with taxes and fees included. For hotels, I paid $43 for Sunday night, $43 for Monday and Tuesday nights together, and then $43 for Wednesday and Thursday nights. Sunday-Tuesday was at the Vegas Club and Wednesday and Thursday was at the Plaza. I used the Buy One Get One Free coupons in the ACG to get Tuesday and Thursday nights free. So, split 2 ways, lodging cost me about $13/night tax included -- I love Vegas!! (There is a trend forming...)
Got to the airport with plenty of time to spare on Sunday....flight was smooth....blah blah.....used CLS (??) to shuttle from the airport to Downtown. I don't know how other shuttles do it, but my advice would be to AVOID using these people. It said "downtown" but we were one of TWO people that were actually staying downtown. They stopped at Sahara, LVH, New Frontier, as well as 4-5 other places NOT downtown before arriving at LVC. But since I had never been to the city before, I didn't bitch too much.
I love Vegas.
From reading hour after hour, I knew Bill and I would be "downtown people," whatever that means. But, in a nutshell, the place fit us perfectly. A la Mikey, we hit the Golden Gate first thing for a 99¢ shrimp cocktail and a sandwich -- I was STARVING! It hit the spot, and we were off. The night gets a little blurry, but from what Bill tells me, I spent the last 6 hours playing blackjack at the Plaza. I remember before playing there, that I was REALLY tired and was about to go to bed. I left a message on Bill's phone (which he saved so I could hear it the next day) around 10am Vegas time -- that's 1pm Michigan time -- before I finally headed back to the hotel. Halfway through my message, I stopped mid-sentence and said something like, "Holy shit...sweet...I've got two $25 chips in my pocket....how the hell did those get there??"
Got up around 2:30pm...don't ask me how or why....except my body knew I was in Vegas and it was time to GO! Call up Bill and find out that he never slept! He was probably at El Cortez playing poker, I don't remember -- this became a trend. Although I lost there, I love that place....it's just so....great. We gambled and hung out.....I remember eating at MSS buffet, but my stomach was still a little shakey from the night before. I had a massive headache and said I needed to go back to the hotel for a "nap" around 9pm. Bill was tired too....of course he hadn't slept for 36 hours or so I guess. So my "nap" lasted about 7.5 hours and I got up around 4:30am -- guess it's time to gamble!
I hit the Lady Luck, Four Queens, Binions, and maybe one other -- took them each for $100-$150 playing hit-and-run craps. I was setting the dice and having some success....another trend. I've never gotten any heat for setting the dice here at my local riverboat in Michigan and was very surprised at some of the comments I received once I started to win at some of these downtown casinos. If one of the dice wouldn't hit the back wall, they would almost yell at me, instead of politely asking, "Sir, please make sure the dice hit the back wall." The a$$hole pit critter at Binions really did yell at me and said they must come off the back wall "this far" and held out his hands showing about a 2 foot gap. I said, "Oh, we're measuring now?" I rolled again and the dice did hit the wall, and I made the point. But, sweating the $5 action like they do, he made some other rude comment, and I calmly followed up with, "Take down my 6, 8, the odds on the 9..." I took down my passline bet as well, stacked up my row of nickels and said, "Color that." The players were bummed because I was having a good roll...making two points...and he said, "Well, he didn't want to hit the back wall..." I didn't say it at the time, but it had nothing to do with my rolls not hitting the wall -- that jackoff wasn't going to talk to me like he talked to the dealers working for him. It's too bad that place has fallen off like I've heard. Got some heat from Four Queens and the b!tch at Fitzgeralds the night before was just downright rude as well. I guess these guys are just used to seeing the dice ricochet off the back wall at Mach 3 speed that I kinda threw em off. The Rady Ruck didn't have a problem with anything I did -- had a lot of fun with the foreign break-in dealers too. Good times in the early morning when there's no one else at the table....went back up to the room around 8am and Bill and I went to the Upper Deck and had some breakfast.
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Well, I had been planning this trip for quite a while and finally booked in March, so needless to say I was ready to go. A little background -- I went with Bill, a long-time friend from high school and college. We have also been planning to move to Vegas around the first of September. Yeah, we're nuts... It was definitely a low roller trip, but I love doing the research in order to find good deals and love to use coupons (when I remember!). Using "Ding" through Southwest, I was able to score roundtrip tickets from Chicago to Vegas for $106 per person with taxes and fees included. For hotels, I paid $43 for Sunday night, $43 for Monday and Tuesday nights together, and then $43 for Wednesday and Thursday nights. Sunday-Tuesday was at the Vegas Club and Wednesday and Thursday was at the Plaza. I used the Buy One Get One Free coupons in the ACG to get Tuesday and Thursday nights free. So, split 2 ways, lodging cost me about $13/night tax included -- I love Vegas!! (There is a trend forming...)
Got to the airport with plenty of time to spare on Sunday....flight was smooth....blah blah.....used CLS (??) to shuttle from the airport to Downtown. I don't know how other shuttles do it, but my advice would be to AVOID using these people. It said "downtown" but we were one of TWO people that were actually staying downtown. They stopped at Sahara, LVH, New Frontier, as well as 4-5 other places NOT downtown before arriving at LVC. But since I had never been to the city before, I didn't bitch too much.
I love Vegas.From reading hour after hour, I knew Bill and I would be "downtown people," whatever that means. But, in a nutshell, the place fit us perfectly. A la Mikey, we hit the Golden Gate first thing for a 99¢ shrimp cocktail and a sandwich -- I was STARVING! It hit the spot, and we were off. The night gets a little blurry, but from what Bill tells me, I spent the last 6 hours playing blackjack at the Plaza. I remember before playing there, that I was REALLY tired and was about to go to bed. I left a message on Bill's phone (which he saved so I could hear it the next day) around 10am Vegas time -- that's 1pm Michigan time -- before I finally headed back to the hotel. Halfway through my message, I stopped mid-sentence and said something like, "Holy shit...sweet...I've got two $25 chips in my pocket....how the hell did those get there??"
Got up around 2:30pm...don't ask me how or why....except my body knew I was in Vegas and it was time to GO! Call up Bill and find out that he never slept! He was probably at El Cortez playing poker, I don't remember -- this became a trend. Although I lost there, I love that place....it's just so....great. We gambled and hung out.....I remember eating at MSS buffet, but my stomach was still a little shakey from the night before. I had a massive headache and said I needed to go back to the hotel for a "nap" around 9pm. Bill was tired too....of course he hadn't slept for 36 hours or so I guess. So my "nap" lasted about 7.5 hours and I got up around 4:30am -- guess it's time to gamble!
I hit the Lady Luck, Four Queens, Binions, and maybe one other -- took them each for $100-$150 playing hit-and-run craps. I was setting the dice and having some success....another trend. I've never gotten any heat for setting the dice here at my local riverboat in Michigan and was very surprised at some of the comments I received once I started to win at some of these downtown casinos. If one of the dice wouldn't hit the back wall, they would almost yell at me, instead of politely asking, "Sir, please make sure the dice hit the back wall." The a$$hole pit critter at Binions really did yell at me and said they must come off the back wall "this far" and held out his hands showing about a 2 foot gap. I said, "Oh, we're measuring now?" I rolled again and the dice did hit the wall, and I made the point. But, sweating the $5 action like they do, he made some other rude comment, and I calmly followed up with, "Take down my 6, 8, the odds on the 9..." I took down my passline bet as well, stacked up my row of nickels and said, "Color that." The players were bummed because I was having a good roll...making two points...and he said, "Well, he didn't want to hit the back wall..." I didn't say it at the time, but it had nothing to do with my rolls not hitting the wall -- that jackoff wasn't going to talk to me like he talked to the dealers working for him. It's too bad that place has fallen off like I've heard. Got some heat from Four Queens and the b!tch at Fitzgeralds the night before was just downright rude as well. I guess these guys are just used to seeing the dice ricochet off the back wall at Mach 3 speed that I kinda threw em off. The Rady Ruck didn't have a problem with anything I did -- had a lot of fun with the foreign break-in dealers too. Good times in the early morning when there's no one else at the table....went back up to the room around 8am and Bill and I went to the Upper Deck and had some breakfast.
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