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Good luck to your husband. I'm supposed to play in Tunica in July but not 100% sure if I'm going yet.
In 2013, I won $500 in Tunica, $250 in Biloxi. Got the invitation to go to the finals in Vegas in November. I went to the finals but score was so bad I didn't have a chance lol but I still love Vegas so it wasn't bad to go.
So, my VP.com friend seemoreroyals encouraged me to post about our tournament in Joliet. Here's what I wrote to him:
"We went to the Joliet Millionaire Maker contest Saturday and stayed over for the 7-star event on Sunday. Husband placed 12th in Saturday contest and won $250 in free play. My host got a last-minute entry for me but I didn't win anything. Sunday, husband won $25 in free play, but we didn't stick around to the end of the contest to collect. We were afraid of losing too much money to collect a measly little prize like that. Saturday we won -- ready? $3,000!!! Lots of hits, no handpays -- we had a great time!! Sunday we lost a few hundred back, so we decided to get out of there and go home more than $2400 to the good!!...enough to help finance our Biloxi trip. By the way, we got another invitation to another Millionaire Maker contest in Biloxi in July -- how do they get so many contests?? I doubt if we will go to that one, but if we come home with money then who knows???"
Then, since I wrote that to him, we received an invitation to the Millionaire Maker Tournament in Vegas in August. As luck would have it, we had previously signed up for the Reno Signature event at the end of August and were planning to drive out there. Then, we were going to drive down to Vegas for a few days and then go and stay with my brother for a few more -- he lives near Mesquite. But, when that invite from Vegas game, my husband lost his mind and went hopping and dancing aroung the room shouting that we could go to Vegas first for the tournament and then on to Reno. Groan...... But, I called and made the reservations. Will any of you be going to either of these events? Perhaps we could have our own mini Meet and Greet. The Vegas tournament is awarding finalist positions to the top 25 contestants!!! Lots of chances to vie for becoming a Millionaire!!
Seemoreroyals asked me to post photos of our wins the other day -- I didn't take pics of every win, and I have not transferred the photos to my computer. I will now do that and if anything looks good, I will post. My favorite win was when I played my beloved Super Double Bonus (not Super Double Double, just Super Double). I hit Q's for $600 and about 5 hands later hit the A's for another $800. Fun, fun, fun!!! I think I have a photo of the four A's I hit in Deluxe for $400 -- my husband gets mad about getting A's in that game, but I am always thrilled for any 4 OAK.
Congrats on all the wins!! Glad James talked you in to posting the report and hope to see the pics :photo:
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Shalgal, I am afraid we will just me missing each other. We are going to be in Vegas Aug 13 -16th. What days will you and your husband be in Vegas? If we miss each other maybe you can make it to the Couchatta meet and greet in November. There is a separate thread with details but I believe that it is Nov 10-12th. That will be the next meet and greet Sassycat and I will attend. It's not a CET property but the host there, Warren, is very accommodating. We have never played there before but I am hearing that they have some outstanding video poker there.
I received an invite to the Las Vegas tournament- I don't believe I have ever in the past- usually only get one to my local one at Ak-Chin.
I'm assuming that since the Vegas one awards the top 25 to the finalists that this one is the best one to be invited to?
Anyone know how many get invited- just curious with 750 prizes- are there about 750 spots- or are there thousands and the chance of winning anything minuscule? The fine print says 750 spots, but then says they can adjust it.
I'm tempted to go this year, but if the chances are small, and with their slots being as tight as they are there it might not be worth it? They added a whole $40 in freeplay just to get me to show up.
Congrats on your wins shalgal. You hade an awesome trip. Good luck on your upcoming Reno trip,
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Must....Get....New....Phone....With....Easier...Ph oto...Transfer. I'm trying to transfer my photos with my little $15 dumb phone and it isn't working very well.
So close!!! The tournament early registration is on August 21, and we might be there a day or two before at most. If we get there a couple of days early, we plan to stay -- probably -- at Sam's Town for a couple of nights. We want to scout out Henderson again as a potential retirement place (we thought it would be Reno, but housing is ridiculously expensive there). Also, I have a friend who lives about a mile from Sam's and I'd like to spend a considerable amount of time visiting her. I am not familiar with Couchatta, but I'll look into it and I'll check the thread for that meet & greet.....Thanks!!!Quote:
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Make your husband get you a new phone. A couple of months ago Karen and I finally broke down and got new i-phones and have no regrets. We are very frugal and hate spending money but have really enjoyed our new phones. Until we got them neither one of us had ever texted or even tried to do trip reports. We would use our cheap phones or try to sneak a camera into the casino to take pictures then try to download. Well we would try to do trip reports but it was so awkward and frustrating at times.I know what you are going through but in our case we switched from VZ to ATT and both have state of the art phones, unlimited talk and text, and more data than we had at VZ for not much more than we were paying before.Quote:
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I think you are right that this might be the best one. Joliet only had 3 finalists. Biloxi has 5, but as I said in my first post, we just received another invite from them (Biloxi) for another tournament in July so there will be more finalists for that. We thought 25 was a fantastic number for Vegas, but the invitation didn't say anything about airfare being part of the prize, whereas both Joliet and Biloxi say airfare is included. So the one in Vegas might really be more for locals -- since we were going to be out that way anyway, it worked out for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by kdk