Take a Bite out this!

Friday, 6:00pm

It’s all coming together.

Weather is great - mid to high 80's. Same as tomorrow. Great for Yard Sales!

Rented the car from Alamo (pains to deal with, but better prices). $130 through Monday. Glad to have it. A Dodge Avenger

I ate at the buffet again. For $13.00 dollars it was worth it. Unless I wanted to go fast food, it was going to cost me that much. Things are picking up as the weekend hits. I think I’m going to have problems finding $5.00 tables. I did play some after breakfast. I sat down with $50, got up with $80.

I stopped at the ticket place and got a ticket for the show Bite. It’s at 10:30pm and was $30.00. The Stratosphere seems like a cool place. They got an observation deck & roller coaster that may be better than the one at NY, NY. So, I’ll check those out before the show. I’m not sure, but the guy at the ticket place may have scammed me $20. I gave $100 plus some change. He then gave me the change and rushed though their ticket policies & promotions. When I next checked my wallet, there was $50 next to some ones. No $20 bill was next to it. No way to prove it.

I went into my wallet, because I was at Luxor and decide to play some BLACKJACK!
Very good time. It was at a $10 table. One guy was betting $25 and if it was only the two of us, he would play two spots. I plunked my $50 down, and walked away with…wait for it…$180.00. Nice hour indeed.

So with my $20 bet on tonight’s Red Sox, I’m up $160. Not to bad. Let see how I do tonight.

Good 1st Day

Thursday, 6:00am

Good first night.

Went to the sports book and placed two $20 bets on the Red Game
Over 5.5 runs after 5 innings @-105 (Meaning, I would win $19.05 on the bet)
Red Sox to win @+130

Red Sox had men on 2nd & 3rd in the 5th trailing 4-1. I lost my first bet
Of course, they also lost 6-4. 2nd bet goes down the tubes.
I did debate on the full over/under of 9.5 runs, but I want ‘something different’. Plus after I played Black Jack, I watched some the game (till the 5th).

I played Black Jack at $5.00 table. At first, I sat alone. That is bad thing to do. The game goes very fast and you can lose very fast. I was down $50 before I knew it. They were bad beats, too. One hand I was dealt 20. The dealer had 14. Of course, she drew a 7. A pregnant woman then sat down next to me, and my luck changed.

I have a system of betting. I start with minimum bets. Stay with that for a while. If I’m over my buy in (in this case $100), when I win I’ll increase my bets. At first I up it to $10, and then to $15. When I lose a single bet, it’s back to $5. But as long I’m over the base $100, I’ll again increase on the bets. I don’t always go straight from $10 to $15. I’ll play the $10 for a while, but on wins, I always go from $5 to $10.

I played for about 2 hours (goes by fast) and left the table with $254. I gave $11 that to dealers. (On a $5 Black Jack, you get a pay out of $7.50). I had 6 one dollar chips plus the table minimum of $5 = $11.

I came away the game $103 up.

After that, I was planning on heading out the Hilton to check out the Star Trek prep. I really went out side for the 1st time. IT WAS HOT. Though the wind was blowing. I didn’t really know where I was going, so spent time walking around things to get where I wanted to go. I stopped at the Coke store & M&M’s Store.
Went though the MGM Grand. They have a lion exhibit, kind of cool. I decided to stop at the Hooter’s Casino next door for $100 free slots play to sign up. As I expected it was a bit a ploy. Up played promotional machines and the minimum bet was $10.00. You only one cash if hit the top two jackpots. Though, I did OK enough to spend about ½ hour playing. That cured me of any desire to play slots. I was about 8:00pm & I was hungry. Hooter’s has a Dan Marino’s in it. I had dinner there. OK BBQ beef brisket. Nothing to right home about (Oh, wait a minute.). Dinner was $14.00 w/tip.

Note to all: I don’t drink, and with food I mostly have water. I don’t do it not spend the money, but that is the way I like.

Plans for today include brunch and checking out the monorail and Trek convention. I thinking I may spend two days there