Here I am waiting for my flight home again. Just finishing up my 3rd Vegas trip in a couple months.
Some stories/funny moments:
Gentleman at monorail I overheard musing on the merits of a 3 day pass vs 3 one day passes: "I ain't gonna buy a 3 day pass for $28. You save two whole dollars big deal."
Note that one day passes cost $12.
Had a nice finish to a blackjack shoe. Won $2000 over the last couple decks. Cash out 2512.50. Dealer gives me 5 purps and the 12.50. I say "thank you" and toke the 12.50. Dealer with heavy sarcasm: "oh thank you so much very helpful." Me: "was that sarcasm?" Dealer "oh yeah maybe so." Me "so maybe I should take it back?" Dealer (with attitude) "oh I don't know." Me: "well if that's how you feel about it ill leave you this" (take back the $12 and leave the silver.
*note that I know 12.50 on 2000 is small. I tipped $430 this trip and only ended up winning 4000.
Also met the funniest side bet advocates I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of them. Wish I could explain it better, but the gist of it was he was using big words somewhat incorrectly to incorrectly conclude that the bets I was making were house bets and the side bet was the good one.
Lessons, and the many ways I am disaappointed in myself:
I played some pretty strong games early in the trip and was very happy with my play/results. Was up quite a bit. I had thoughts of hanging out at the pool the last day, maybe playing some $5 craps to pass the time or better yet $1-2 nl poker (which is probably just slightly +ev for me.) I was pretty disappointed in myself for even having these thoughts. One lifeitme session, keep playing is the way to go.
The last day went poorly. Lost most of what I played. I lost at blackjack which was fine. I am very confident with my counting at this point. Lost some more waiting on an ace. Thought there was a good chance it was coming, had my table max bet ready but it didn't work out, never even got to place the bet. That was also fine, a good game. What I am really questioning is some other marginal games I played. I guess that is what I am upset with myself about. I made some mistakes, and shouldn't have been betting so much when I wasn't sure I had the best of it. I may have been better off at the pool! But I think I learned my lesson. Next time ill keep hitting it hard when its good, and leave it alone when its marginal.
Thanks for reading. Feels good to talk through it. Now I think I am ready for the next trip!
Some stories/funny moments:
Gentleman at monorail I overheard musing on the merits of a 3 day pass vs 3 one day passes: "I ain't gonna buy a 3 day pass for $28. You save two whole dollars big deal."
Note that one day passes cost $12.
Had a nice finish to a blackjack shoe. Won $2000 over the last couple decks. Cash out 2512.50. Dealer gives me 5 purps and the 12.50. I say "thank you" and toke the 12.50. Dealer with heavy sarcasm: "oh thank you so much very helpful." Me: "was that sarcasm?" Dealer "oh yeah maybe so." Me "so maybe I should take it back?" Dealer (with attitude) "oh I don't know." Me: "well if that's how you feel about it ill leave you this" (take back the $12 and leave the silver.
*note that I know 12.50 on 2000 is small. I tipped $430 this trip and only ended up winning 4000.
Also met the funniest side bet advocates I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of them. Wish I could explain it better, but the gist of it was he was using big words somewhat incorrectly to incorrectly conclude that the bets I was making were house bets and the side bet was the good one.
Lessons, and the many ways I am disaappointed in myself:
I played some pretty strong games early in the trip and was very happy with my play/results. Was up quite a bit. I had thoughts of hanging out at the pool the last day, maybe playing some $5 craps to pass the time or better yet $1-2 nl poker (which is probably just slightly +ev for me.) I was pretty disappointed in myself for even having these thoughts. One lifeitme session, keep playing is the way to go.
The last day went poorly. Lost most of what I played. I lost at blackjack which was fine. I am very confident with my counting at this point. Lost some more waiting on an ace. Thought there was a good chance it was coming, had my table max bet ready but it didn't work out, never even got to place the bet. That was also fine, a good game. What I am really questioning is some other marginal games I played. I guess that is what I am upset with myself about. I made some mistakes, and shouldn't have been betting so much when I wasn't sure I had the best of it. I may have been better off at the pool! But I think I learned my lesson. Next time ill keep hitting it hard when its good, and leave it alone when its marginal.
Thanks for reading. Feels good to talk through it. Now I think I am ready for the next trip!