Had another successful low-roller trip to Vegas.
My daughter and son-in-law wanted to come so my wife booked a room at Fitz for them & I got a room at 4 Queens for us. I had selfishly bought my daughter the Winpoker app for her iPad (which is great) and told her to learn bonus poker because they have plenty at Fitz, it's easy to learn, and you can win a free steak dinner with every quad on a certain machine. I figured that would save me money or comps by not paying for all of their meals and sure enough, she won 5 dinners the first day.
My wife & I played the coin-in DB at Fitz Monday morning and I hit 12 quads including the aces once, which put us up by $1000 on day one. I don't think I've ever hit that many quads in such a short period before so it was pretty fun. I'm used to playing TITO now, so I forgot how much fun it was to see the coins spill out and what a pain it is to wait for the hopper to be filled & carry the buckets to the cashier.
My daughter had enough steak dinners so he moved up to the TITO machines next to our DB and hit a royal right off the bat. I couldn't have planned her week any better. I think she's hooked on vp now.
I mainly played the DB at 4 Queens the rest of the week and did pretty well but my wife could not hit anything there.
On Wednesday, we drove out to Rampart because my wife loves the casino and the 10-play nickel super aces. She put $20 in, got dealt 3 aces and hit the quad on one line. Then she was dealt the AK of clubs and hit a royal. She cashed out at $250 and I came out $50 ahead after finally hitting the aces once.
My wife & I came out a few hundred ahead for the week, but never hit a royal other than the nickel one. My daughter kept hitting quads on all the bonus poker at Fitz and came home with a lot more money than she took.
I complain about how the vp benefits are so much less than they used to be, but I just have a hard time going anywhere else for vacation when we get free rooms, free food, free play, and cash back. And, of course, for some reason I just love playing vp too. As soon as I got home I was playing on my iPad.
