Sweet Hot Vegas

[Darlene]

We're here. Stupid phone won't upload. I'll try and update later.

[Luckylinda123]

Good luck and have fun

[Jen Jen]

Excited for you! Have fun and good luck!!

[TheSaltyBaker]

Have a fantastic time, don't melt and good luck!

Amber

[zeus]

Good luck and have a great time, Darlene! I hope you get the phone to upload because I sure would love to see some win pics and others of Vegas!

[Hawkeye]

Have a great time and hope you have a winning trip.

[emmas]

Have fun and good luck.

[FL Mary]

Darlene, have a fun time and hit some jackpots!

[RiverSong]

How hot is it?

[SoCalRob]

Good Luck Darlene!!!

[Nhcris]

She's off and running! Hope the Venetian is very, very good to you!

[bluesfan]

Good luck! Win BIG!

[Georgiagambler]

Wow it's time already? That's great! I already know you will love Venetian/Palazzo, hope you have some big wins. I will be there next week so I look forward to hearing about your trip. Good luck


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[Evoni]

Have lots of fun and wins. Check out the daily free tournament that Grazie offers, details at players club. :)

[Mauretania]

I know you'll have fun Darlene! Good luck and I would like to see some great wins please:)

[goldengreeke]

Have fun at my Happy Place, Darlene. :)

[treyster]

Hope you get lots of hits and lots of points!

[Laurie]

Have a great time and lots of luck!!


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[Darlene]

No gambling yet, unheard of but trying to stretch the bankroll, do since out daddy started at 2:30 AM, we grabbed lunch and came to the room for a nap, going to see Mystere this evening and then hut the slots after. At TI tonight and moving to Venetian tomorrow. I love TI, $1.50 on slots earns 1 point but it takes $4.50 on VP to earn 1 point per the boothling at the players club.

[Darlene]

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I think I might have figured it out. It's 103 outside right now, so in the room getting ready to head down. It was raining when we left home, had been training every day for the lady 2 weeks, turn the need on and they are showing the flooding in Tampa, LOL.

[zeus]

Yep, you got it, Darlene! Now we will get to see all those wins. Grsat job!

[tee2green]

unheard of but trying to stretch the bankroll, do since out daddy started at 2:30 AM,

going to see Mystere this evening and then hut the slots after. .



It was raining when we left home, had been training every day for the lady 2 weeks, turn the need on and they are showing the flooding in Tampa, LOL.


Are you sure you're not QHLover in disguise? [emoji39]

Good luck Darlene, hope you have some super wins to report for us!



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[Darlene]

Trying to walk the strip but it is wall to wall people. Stopped in subway for am quick bite. Starting to feel the itch real bad.

[twinslotaddicts]

Darlene Hope you are scratching that itch and you're kicking some slot ass!!! Have a great time and good luck!!

Ang

[Darlene]

Calling it a night. It's brutal. Biggest win of the night was $20. No pics, it was that bad. Send me tbose winning vibes.

[goldengreeke]

Hope you can get a comeback today Darlene. You're due for some BIG wins!

[treyster]

Calling it a night. It's brutal. Biggest win of the night was $20. No pics, it was that bad. Send me tbose winning vibes.

Was that at TI?

[Georgiagambler]

Good luck Darlene - hope you have a better gambling day today


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[foamy]

Good luck today but at least I know you're having fun

[Darlene]

Was that at TI?
Yes, moving over to Venetian today so will be concentrating my play there the next few days.

[treyster]

Yes, moving over to Venetian today so will be concentrating my play there the next few days.

Not even Pelican Pete?

Anyone win at TI recently?

[sassycat]

Good luck today!!

[dwwright12]

Best of luck at V!!! HP coming your way!!!


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[winner01]

Have fun stay cool and win

[Darlene]

Sorry for the lack of updates, but the wins are small. Here are a few from last night

[Darlene]

Signal is not strong enough to post pics. Will try later.

[Luckylinda123]

Thanks Darlene I was thinking of you. Last month I did not win anything on my V/P day. If you have any interest in Cosmo with a small amount of play I got an e mail while in Vegas to return and got 25$ free play. Then got the 2 night offer later. 2 free week nights. I don't plan to use the nights and I did get the offer a couple of years ago but didn't use it.

If you try this be sure to check your e mails I don't always look if I am not home. It was only good for a couple of days.

[Darlene]

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[Darlene]

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Still waiting on the wins to get excited about to show up. Chilling in the room now, heading to Fremont later.

[Darlene]

Not even Pelican Pete?

Anyone win at TI recently?
Pelican Pete is not in a giving mood at TI.

[zeus]

Thanks for the pics and update. I hope you have some luck while at Fremont!

[Evoni]

Hoping for lots of wins for you at Venetian and Palazzo!

[Darlene]

2849 time for some wins

[Darlene]

Leaving Fremont with $2 more than I took down there to play with. It's not much, but maybe the tide had turned. Got my money on SOA which I wasn't going to play after heading about the terrible pays.

[zeus]

At least you didn't lose while at Fremont. Like you said, maybe your luck has turned. Continued good luck to you!

[emmas]

Darlene, hopefully the tide has turned and the best is coming. Good luck today.

[Darlene]

My great niece picked this show, she's 7. Not sure what to expect. 2863

[Luckylinda123]

It's not bad he has been doing an afternoon show for years look for free or free with a drink purchase tickets

[treyster]

I wonder how the trip ended up?

[Darlene]

Just a few highlights of my Vegas trip 8/2-8/6. This was a family trip that I had invited my sister and her husband to join us on. She is a teacher in Colorado and this woud be her last chance for a vacation before school starts back. Her grown children decided to come also, so I used my room comps at TI for all of them and then DH and I would be staying at the Venetian since I was in a slot tourney 8/3-8/4. Hubby, nephew and I would be sharing a room at TI on 8/2 as everyone else would not be arriving until 8/3. I'm the only gambler in the group, so my gambling time would be after family time.
I had always heard that Vegas was not as crowded in August as other times of the year so did not expect big crowds. Just my luck to pick the week that there were 3 major conventions in town. I think it literally was more crowded than Halloween. Trying to walk the strip in the evenings was like being in the middle of a wall of people, everything moved as a mass. Way too crowded for me.
Even with all the crowds, the machines were not crowded. which might have something to do with the fact that I couldn't get a decent hit no matter how hard I tried. By decent hit, I mean anything $100 or above.
Bullet point rundown:
August 2, 2015 - Left our house at 3:30AM eastern time and arrived in Vegas 9:50AM pacific time. Picked up the checked bag and grabbed the shuttle and made it to TI and checked into our strip view room overlooking the pool on the 31st floor by 10:45AM. Tried to take a picture but the window had the Mystere graphic on the outside, so the picture had lots of dots. Went down to find some food, no food porn pics this trip. Then back to the room to relax and grab a nap. I know, who naps first thing in Vegas, but I wanted to preserve my BR as much as possible and not blow it all the first morning.
DH and I saw Mystere for the first time and loved it. This was our first Cirque show.
My nephew was due in at 11, but I get a text from him at 11 saying he was delayed and not sure when he would arrive, seems they couldn't find the plane that was supposed to make the Vegas flight from Houston, how do you lose a plane??? Finally, 2 hours later he's in the air and on the way. I slotted until he arrived and only lost a few hundred waiting on him. Gave him a key to the room. Cashed out and went to bed around 3AM.

August 3, 2015 - Had breakfast at Dennys, checked into Venetian where I was given a beautiful suite on the 6th floor with a horrible view of the rooftops and concrete below. Not a really big deal, as we weren't in the room much. Then we walked all the way down past the closed Riveria to kill time until the others arrived. Stupid move on my part as I had gotten a mani/pedi the day before we left and since I had beautiful smooth feet, ended up with a quarter sized blister on the bottom of my left foot that had me hobbling for the rest of the trip.
Sister and BIL arrived and we got them settled in the room and then down to check-in for room #2 at TI as their daughter and 7 year old granddaughter would be arriving later.
Once everyone had finally arrived and were settled into their respective rooms. We had a quick meal and went our separate ways for the rest of the evening, they wanted to walk the strip and with my blister I had no interest and was ready to hit the slots. I gambled for about 4 hours at Venetian with not a win over $25 the entire time! Finally gave up and went to bed.

August 4, 2015 - My first session of the tourney was at 9AM and I scored mid 7500s, not good. Oh well, I had another session at 1PM and did a little better with 8600s. Saw quite a few scores in the 12000s. One more session on 8/5 to go. Spent the day with family. Left my sister and her family on their own for the evening. Vernon and I went to Fremont for a couple hours, where I actually left with $2 more than I took down there to pay with. Then back to the stip and proceeded to try my luck at Venetian/Palazzo which was dismal. Sister's family had a blow-up at dinner and we never saw my nephew again this trip.

August 5, 2015 - Final session at 9 of the tourney scored 9600s. My scores were too low and when I checked later I had ended up in 208th place. Top 100 received $$ or free play. If was fun and I'd do it again. The free rooms at Venetian that came with the slot tourney offer, more than made up for not placing in the tourney.
Tasty breakfast at Grand Lux, then hubby, sister, niece and great-niece and I went to see Mac King's magic show. Very entertaining, if you haven't seen it, try it you might like it. Walked around a bit, then left family back at TI. I wanted to try playing craps as we had taken the free lesson at Venetian so wanderd down to Casino Royale in search of a $5 table (only place we had seen them- all others were $10). CR only had 1 table open and it was full. So gave up on that idea. Went back to V and organized the room and packed all but the essentials as we had a 6AM flight home. Dinner at Gilley's with the family then back to V/P for the last night of gambling. I tried tons of games, both old and new along with the high limit room and nothing was paying. I only saw 2 handpays the entire time and both were in the HL room at V. One for $1500 on Wheel of Fortune and one for $5000 on Double Diamond.
Finally, realized this was not fun, so quit and went to bed. Brought home some wonderful memories and 1/4 of my bankroll. Put 5900 points on my Grazie card.
Photo dump below.

[Darlene]

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Sorry for the sideways pictures.

[Georgiagambler]

Thanks for the TR Darlene, I'm sorry the slots were not kind to you - I hope they are in a better mood next week when I get there. Most of my play will be focused at Palazzo this trip so I won't have to deal with walking outside too much I hope.

It was nice that you got to spend time with the family too.


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[Darlene]

Thanks GG, I hope the slots are in a better mood for you. I liked the slot selection at Palazzo better than Venetian. It's definitely hot out there, so remember to stay hydrated.

[Mauretania]

Thank you for the trip report and photo's Darlene! Sorry to hear the slots at the Venetian wouldn't cooperate - I hate that when you try everything and nothing seems to work.

Nice to see Popeye is still holding his own at Wynn HHH! (Always thought that was strange art and with security guards!)

[treyster]

Thank you for the trip report and photo's Darlene! Sorry to hear the slots at the Venetian wouldn't cooperate - I hate that when you try everything and nothing seems to work.

Nice to see Popeye is still holding his own at Wynn HHH! (Always thought that was strange art and with security guards!)

I wonder if Steve is wondering why he paid $25M or whatever for that Popeye thing nowadays?

Big conventions seem to be the kiss of death for slot payouts. Hard to believe you couldn't get anything going at V/P.

[Evoni]

I'll give you a lot of credit walking the strip in the August heat. While I love walking certain sections of the strip when the weather is cool, I can hardly stand the summer heat when I'm just waiting for a taxi!

Sorry you couldn't get anything going at V/P, sounds like my trip last month when I was staying at Cosmo. Never fun when we are just giving them money and not getting any play.

That's too bad about your sister's family blow up, hope things are better between them and their son now.

Glad you enjoyed Mystere!

[Nhcris]

Glad you liked your room at Venetian. I have had that view and it was disappointing, but as you say the room itself makes up for it :)

It sucks that the slots weren't better to you. I usually do better in palazzo than Venetian, but I don't think I have ever come out ahead after staying until I factor in what i would have spent on room & food. I keep going back anyway because the property is so nice & I am a sucker - HHH!

[seemoreroyals]

Thanks Darlene for the wonderful pictures and trip report. We also like to walk the strip but we do it early in the morning while all the masses are still asleep or in some cases just going to bed. We have tried walking it in the evening but like you experienced it is just way too crowded. Glad to hear you had a great time.