Dec 2021 Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Vegas

It is now December, and normally a trip to Vegas would be out of the question. Let alone, a trip to Vegas the week of Christmas.

And yet, here we are. How did I con my way into this one? Well, I was of so close to hitting Gold with Cosmo. And my points were set to expire with Mlife, and I was just 50,000 Tier Credits away from being Platinum.

With so little vacationing the past 2 years, stupid Pandemic, I can actually afford one more trip to cash in on some great offers. And run enough coin through, to keep my status up. Yes, card color matters. It makes me feel fancy, and I enjoy the benefits.

Wife and kids in tow, and off we go!

Saturday

Flight out of Chicago is via Spirit, and yes, they completely suck. And that is made clear once we get to the gate, and are told there will be a weather delay of at least an hour for our flight. How is the weather on Spirit you may ask? Because they are full of shit! The skies are clear, we are watching other airlines board and once we do get on the plane, over an hour later, the Captain announces "We are unsure why your original pilots didn't show up today" "But, we are happy to fill in, and apologize for the delay".

Those fuckers. Not only are we late taking off, that means our gate will be screwed up when we land. Which it was. On the bright side, I had the Lucky Seat on the flight! My prize? Nothing. They are not running the lucky seat promo right now, due to the pandemic. At least that is what they said. Another F for Spirit!

Luckily, my limo driver knew to check our flight status. And was waiting for us at the gate. Awesome guy, and had a lot to say about the pending MGM takeover. I sure hope MGM Corporate sees that the assets at Cosmo goes beyond the building. The staff is what has really made the place so awesome to visit.

Check in at the VIP office, and the staff there wastes no time offering all of us cookies, donuts and drinks. Just what a pair of cranky kids needed to start their vacation. Some hot chocolate for the kids, waters for the room and a plate full of pastries.

My host had early check in all set up. And both rooms were ready as soon as we got there in the afternoon. Pretty much the exact same setup as my last trip report. Fantastic, as always.

We had 2 separate bedrooms. 2 livings rooms, 3 shitters and a dining room. Plus back to back balconies.

The wife and I took over the main suite, leaving the girls their own clubhouse to fuck around in.

As much as I would have liked to hang around in the room, and just soak in Vegas. My money isn't going to lose itself!

I needed to check in at the players club desk, to get my free play loaded, and give them our room number for the resort credit that came with my offer. $700 in free play + $300 dining credit. Not too shabby!

After fucking up, and spinning on quarters, I finally get my head out of my ass, and start converting that free play into real money, playing my typical Deuces Wild.

I turned $700 of their money, into $732 of my money. Less the $20 I started with to load, made for a positive conversion of $712. Everything is going as planned.

I have the girls meet me at the elevators, and we walk into the food court to see what there is to eat. The wife has some rules in place, due to COVID, and one of them is no eating around the other animals. That means, our room will also be our dining hall.

For once in my life, at around 2:30 PM, no line at all at Egg Slut. Quick, easy, and a fan favorite, it was a slam dunk decision.

After eating, I leave them in the room, while I run down to the casino to start earning my keep. The very first slot I play, I take for $400!

I have only been in town for about 3 hours. I already have a tummy full of delicious Fairfax Sandwich from Egg Slut. A Baller suite and now I am up over a Grand!

In typical fashion, I donk those winnings off pretty fast. Not to worry says Cosmo, here is an $837 bonus game for you. And just like that, I'm back to good.

I ride that once $446 TITO down to $135. Back up to $1072, on the below. Before finally cashing out $800 to stop myself from being too much of a fuck up.

Some small luck on the above, and I crank up the heat with $10 bets on the below James Bond. Sadly, by the time I got to Double Easy Money, this once $425 ticket was down to $203.

But that's OK! I made the 2,000 points I needed to jump to Gold. While not the gambling night I usually produce, I did make a promise to spend more time with the family this trip. My past rated play should be enough to keep my host from getting cross with me.

$2.50 earns 1 Tier Point here. That puts today's play at $5,440. And thanks to some solid luck, and their $700 in free play, I have $600 more than I started with. And that includes tips to the host and limo driver.

I scoop up the Fam, and we head over to Cosmo's Winter Wonderland.

Its pretty neat, but jam packed with people. Ice Skating is $30 each, and no discount for hotel guests, like they have done in years past. Sorry kids, I am not about to pay $120 for 20 minutes of skating, just so you can watch your old man fall on his fat ass.

Outside of the skating, they have a chalet set up, for food and fire pits. You can order stuff to make smores. But if you want to use one of their fire pits, it is a $400 reservation. Just like at the pool, if you want a cabana. You don't actually have to pay $400, but you do have to spend $400. And with just us, that would be impossible to do. Its not like my kids drink fancy shots of booze.

They had a bunch of fire pits set up, but we only saw maybe 3 of them being used. Come on Cosmo, $400 is just silly. $100 is doable. Maybe make the fire pits in the back discounted ones, for cheap asses with kids like me.

They did have some fake snow that would go off every 30 minutes or so. And that was fun! But the real star was the view. The rink sits on top the Boulevard Pool. And that gives you commanding views of the Strip. And points to Cosmo, it is free to come up here and explore. And on certain nights, they show Christmas movies for free as well.

While we didn't skate, we did order the kids some specialty kids cocktails. And we ordered some food from here, to take up for dinner. Chicken Strips and Irish Nachos were both good, and a fair price of like $11 each for decent proportions.

After all that, I was spent. We all were. I would have gone back down and gambled more. But after waking up so early, sitting in the airport for so long. That 4 hour flight in and just the general dizziness of being in Vegas, I feel no shame turning in at 11PM "my time". Even if that is just 9PM Vegas time.

Sunday

A new day is upon us, and there really is no words for when you wake up in Vegas, flush with cash, and the whole trip stll in front of you.

Everyone still fast asleep, I end up in the casino around 6:30 in the morning.

I start chasing a progressive on Super Money Storm. I know it can be a fools errand, and I have been plenty fucked in the past chasing these things. But it will haunt me if I let some stranger win "my" progressive, just as it is ready to tip.

This one must hit by $300, and its sitting around $285 right now.

I manage a good mini bonus game hit of 3,750 nickles. That's $187.50. I played that $275 ticket all the way through, and that progressive didn't hit. I started with $100, so in my mind I was only down $100. Even though we all know I had $275 at one time.

I put another hundo in. Nope. Then another hundo, and another until she popped. I spent $400 to eventually cash out $400. It is the little things in life.

The girls finally wake up, and are hungry. I had loaded breakfast buffets on my card the night before, but if there are too many people there, the wife will bail on it.

I was down about $500 by then, and the very last game I was sitting on, when I got the text, ended up being a $500 bonus game. Back to good! Cosmo fixes everything!

Well, except our hunger. There were more people waiting for the Cosmo buffet to open at 9AM, then folks waiting to ride Space Mountain at Disneyland. It was crazy.

We walked over to Egg Slut, knowing full well there would be a line there too. But, stranger things have happened. And, yeah, no fucking way we are waiting there either.

Wife pulls an audible, and we order room service for breakfast. What you see below, is 1 waffle. 1 3 egg breakfast (with 2 horrible sausage patties, a weird lump of hash browns and some white toast) and 1 bowl of cereal. Add in an OJ, and it cost over $100 with mandatory tip. That is some excessive shit right there!

Not that any room service is a good deal. But my god!

Anyway, I pointed out the mandatory tip, not because I am cheap. But because you don't have the option of not paying it, and just handing cash to the person that brought you the food. And that tip does not get covered by your resort credit.

No one was really full, but we still have to cab it over to the Adventuredome at Circus Circus.

For what it is, its a solid deal. It was $60 total for all day ride passes for both kids. No tax, no fees, just $60, which I paid in cash. After all, Daddy was up!

If anyone was wondering, a cab from Cosmo to C2 was $14. I gave Dude $25, as he didn't dick around and take the Strip of I15. Dean Martin to Sammy Davis and you are there.

We spent a good 3 hours here, and the place really started to fill with people after 12PM. Not that the lines got crazy long, but none of us wanted to be in a sea of humanity with this Omicron Variant running rampant.

While masks are required, I'd put compliance in the Adventuredome at about 75%. 50, if I took out the people that wore theirs as a chinstrap, and not actually covering their nose.

The ride below, was a big ride for my little 8 year old. She had the guts to go on it alone, where as I sure as hell wouldn't have. Her little Sister was there for a congratulatory hug, once she survived.

Rides, rides and more rides. Again, its a good value. And if the place didn't get so packed, we would have spent another hour or two here.

They did add a brand new food court in the main casino, but it really looks out of place. Just a white wash of "Any Mall USA". Come on Circus Circus, own your image! Slap some bright colors, clowns and balloons on the joint.

While the entire resort was a crush of humanity, the casino itself did not have many takers. It seems the one thing people do not come to do here, is to gamble.

We did get sucked into this Asian Import store though. They had a ton of these stupid pop-its the kids seem to like these days. Me? I don't see the appeal. Its not like popping bubble wrap, when you get the fun "Pop!" noise. And only one side of these stupid things work well.

Oh, and as for the casino lacking gamblers. The only area that was packed, and I mean packed, was the old fashion coin droppers. You would think other casinos would bring some of these back on the Strip, if just for nostalgia. They seemed really popular, and folks were actually waiting in line to take their turn.

We end up stopping at McDonald's right next to Slots-of-Fun, and the kids ate their burgers outside and away from strangers.

After that, we wander into Resorts World to see why there isn't much fuss about the place. Normally, any new mega casino would be a must see attraction on its own. And yet this behemoth is not doing all that good.

First impressions from outside, boring. Literally nothing to draw you in, just some green space and what looks like a typical shopping mall.

Maybe I am a bit jaded. As I have watched the renderings of what could have been, pour through various news outlets for years now. Ancient China? Gone. Mythical Dragons? Never happened. Great Wall of China Replica? Nope. Live Panda Exhibit? Didn't make the cut.

So what did they end up with? A Strip facing shopping mall, devoid of many tenants. The entire second floor was just boarded up walls. With the same boarded up walls on most of the first floor as well.

I know, its a work in progress. But really no draw, from what I saw.

They did have the giant LED Space Ball. So I guess that is something.

The casino itself, is nice. New, shiny, clean and what you would expect. But also zero theme here either. At the end of construction, we were told it would be "Modern China Inspired". But I didn't get that vibe.

Photo gallery below, but the quick sum was hardly anyone gambling, at 2PM on the weekend. The Food Court had some action to it, so they seemed to have done that right. To no ones surprise, it was mostly Asian people eating in there.

Oh, and they had a Santa Claus in the casino! You could sit on his lap, and get your picture taken. We would have done it, but Santa was not wearing a mask. Come on, if for nothing more than to be PC right now. Throw a red mask on the fat fuck, so you don't look clueless to everyone who is taking the Pandemic seriously.

Grab a cab from here, and head back to Cosmo.

The girls head back up to the suite, and I get back to work. Up and down, but I was landing some good hits.

All in all, by the end of the night, I was down about a grand for the trip. That included me giving back all the money I was up as well. I took some swings, and landed some decent bonuses. But variance was catching up to me fast.

I do meet up with the gang for dinner, which was Holsteins takeout (it was just OK) as well as some Momofuku to burn up our dining credits.

I ended up back in the casino after we ate, but it was more of the same. Lose a little more than win.

With the Adventuredome, and Resort World side trip, I didn't get as much play as I wanted in. I still managed 2,677 tier points, but that is still only $6,700 of coin in.

Monday

Wake up before the rest, per the usual, and head down into an empty casino once more. I still have more than half my bankroll, and I do feel bad only running $12,000 through the slots. Knowing I am rated on a per trip basis, I take one final swing in the casino, before we switch of to New York New York.

I do OK, but I really did not gain much ground. I was playing lower variance slots, in an attempt to stock pile points. But I only managed another 928 before I had to bring breakfast up.

All in all, I did $15,000 of coin in over this 2 night stay. Not typical for me, but still solid. It ended up costing me about $1,500 out of pocket. Which is a very respectable outing, with just 10% seepage on my coin in.

Lines out the door everywhere. And even with Vegas back to being packed, the restaurants are still on limited hours here.

I end up grabbing some sandwich and yogurt from the cafe in the casino, since it was the only place with a manageable line. It was OK, and will tide us over until lunch.

Overall, another great Cosmopolitan stay. The slots were fair, we ate our fill and the room was great as always.

Next stop, New York New York! The resort so nice, they named it twice. It is so hard to fly all the way to Vegas, and limit yourself to just one casino. While I love me some Cosmo, I do like that I can casino hop when I stay at an MGM property.

And this go round, they are giving me a Players Suite, with a connector (thanks to my host), $400 in free play, and $400 in dining credits.

Since we are right next door to the Bellagio, the plan is to see their atrium display, and grab the free monorail over to Park MGM.

Great display, as almost always. My pictures are cropped, but trust me when I say at 11AM on a Monday, it was packed with people.

Just to make something clear, I am not afraid of the virus. I do not live in a bubble, and the world is not ending. That doesn't mean I want to catch COVID-19. Ill wear my mask when I am out. If I want to smoke while gambling, I'll clean my hands and sit where I can be alone. All of us are fully vaccinated to boot.

Just stating the above, since whenever I mention masks and avoiding crowded places, I often get a message saying "You don't believe all this shit, do you?".

Yes, I believe the pandemic is real. No, I don't think two different Presidents colluded to kill over 800,000 Americans just to ruin our own economy, all in an attempt to put microchips into the vaccines, so they can see how many times a day I take a shit, and what ads I'll likely click on while googling something. After all, they can figure all that out from my cellphone.

If you want to wear your tinfoil hat, no sweat. Merica! I'm just doing what I can do, to make sure my family and I stay safe.

Chickenpox wasn't debated. Not sure why this has to be. I've had people message me, after posting a picture of myself doing something in a mask, with them stating "I can see who you voted for". WTF? Anyway...

We head out of there, and over to the tram to get us to Park MGM.

Park MGM was packed with people. The casino was sort of empty, but a lot of folks walking through.

A quick stop at the Haus Of Gaga...

And we cross the street to the final resort of the trip.

Yes, I am a bit bummed that the coolest food court in the world is pretty much off limits. I have $400 to spend, and I can certainly order food to go from here. But I cant bask in its greatness, while munching away as I'd like to.

I have the MGM App, and with that, I checked in with my phone. That is how I knew my room was ready, and why we were able to head over right away from Cosmo.

You simply walk up to a kiosk, scan the code they send you on your phone, drop a key into the machine and have it coded. No need to talk to any human. Nice and easy. Well, for me anyway. More on that shortly.

The room was a good space, but trapped in the 90s. Which is OK. I think it had its own charm, and 1990's Vegas was my favorite!

A big ass spa right in the middle of the room. And lets just say my view was slightly different that what we had at Cosmo.

I was supposed to have a connector, so the kids have their own space. But my key didn't open up the room next door.

I went down to the desk to see whats up, but there is no more check-in desks here! I mean, the desks are physically there. But no one is there to man them.

Instead of typical lines, people are herded to a bunch of stand up tables, and directed to download the fucking app, before they can check into their rooms. If they refuse to download the app, they are left to figure shit out on their own.

I had to stand with the heard, to talk to the lone worker there. I told her I was checked in, but I do not have my connector. I was sent off to a person at the far end of the room, who actually had a PC to help me.

Turns out, only the main suite was ready. And they promised to text me when the connector is done being cleaned. Fair enough.

By now, it is 1PM, and even though you have a dozen places to eat here. Only 2 of them are actually open. What the fuck Vegas. You have all these crowds, now service them. I don't care if its hard to find labor. Pay more, and more people will apply. There is not a labor shortage. There are just too many cheap fucks running things.

Greenberg Deli it is. Sandwiches, some soup and bagels will tide us over.

I go to get my $400 in free play loaded, and I completely shit the bed. Never have I ever had a worse conversion rate, than what I just did. Playing Deuces Wild for dollars, I managed to turn $200 of it into $110. Which is almost impossible. I just couldn't land shit. Frustrated, I took the last $200 over to $5.00 Denom Top Dollar. That is enough for 20 spins. And, I got like Cherries twice.

I managed to turn $400 of their money, into $130 of my money. And I just pissed that straight through the same Top Dollar, and ended up with nothing. Zilch. Nada. In my face!

The plan of action now, is to use our free Shark Reef passes. Except, MGM doesn't run the monorail on this end of the Strip during the week. Cheap Fucks once more!

So, we walk. From NY NY, to Excal, over through Luxor and eventually out into the sad and slot barren Mandalay Bay.

The entrance below used to be packed with slots and lights, tempting you to come inside and try your luck. Now, its just empty space.

From our last visit here in June, they finally have the floors in their restaurant area done. Looks good. But now they are working on the floors in the convention area, which you have to walk through to get to Shark Reef.

That means we got redirected to the ground floor and had to maze our way over there.

Ive covered Shark Reef before. Its a good way to kill an hour. The kids like it, and the cost is right for us (Free).

They had some Christmas displays up. And even though we didn't get to see him. They have a Scuba Santa that makes his rounds inside one of the tanks.

The 5 year old can pretty much read anything by now. And since reading is new to her, she wants to read everything. And I mean everything. Every billboard we pass, every sign in every store window. Its cute, but it is nonstop. Like when your friend learns a new language, and they want to impress you by translating shit, that you don't need a translation for.

We killed our hour, and only had one meltdown. A bit random, but the 5 year old started crying because she had to have her last Birthday in our garage. She is a winter baby, and with the pandemic raging before the vaccine, we held a party in our garage for her. Not ideal, but better than nothing.

Her sister is a summer baby, and got to have her party outdoors. And that unfairness seemed to trigger the little one, a good 6 months later.

Tears dried, I dumped them back in the room, while I go scan my phone for the connector, that is finally ready.

Well, who goes straight to the desk? I made a pit stop at this slot machine first. That was a solid $232 bonus game! Finally a win here!

And that connector? Every bit as dated as the "suite". Again, its fine. I knew what I was getting into. I'm not sure if NY NY actually has real suites here any way.

I let the kids into their new cage, while we try to figure out dinner.

We opt for room service, and I'll just eat the tip. We keep hitting the deli for pops, juice, water and snacks. Looks like all of that is counting towards to room credit.

I give MGM props, you can see real time action online. Like how many points you earned, or how much you charged to the room

Everyone is pleasantly surprised by the food. I ordered a Philly Cheese-steak. While it was about 50% peppers, what meat was in there was good. The fries were fantastic. We had more food than we could eat. And while the suite did come with a mini fridge, there was no microwave to heat anything up later.

Stuffed, I bid them farewell and head off to gamble. It goes OK in the high limit room. $100 line hit on Cleo, and then a $231 bonus game. Not the best, on a $9.00 bet. But the action was frequent enough to consider it a win.

But I start watching my points on the machine, and they are hardly moving at all. I know Mlife, the players club here, switched things up a few months ago. And they said the new way to earn points would be easier.

I can attest, that slots they previously tagged as "specialty" now earn points at a full rate. That is to say, what was once $10 of coin to get 1 point )which is worth 10 tier credits). Are now the same $3.00 per point, that base slots used to be. That is certainly a win! As I have avoided most of these slots in the past, as they were not "full points".

But here is the twist, since points are now theo based (theoretical losses), the good games that dont hold as much, like my Cleo above, have had the script flipped on them. Those are now $10 = 1 point, and not $3 = 1 like it used to be.

Fuck me, all the games that I can sit on and grind points, since the holds are not too bad, not only give me a third of the points they used to.

Fucking MGM. I step forward, and two steps back for me. The vast majority of players will do better with the change. As the Specialty slots always seemed to be the latest and most popular ones. But that isn't how I gamble.

Back to the script. I needed about 50,000 more tier credits to be Platinum once more. And at this rate, it will never happen. That would be 5,000 base points, and you get 1 point for every $10.00 played. IE $50,000 coin in, with the way my older slots now earn. Or, just $15,000 coin in on the newer slots.

I guess I know which way to chase, and with the below hits, it worked out pretty OK!

I found this Tiger game, that I was enamored with. Full points, and nice long sessions on them. That helped to earn some points. $130 line hits nearly back to back.

I kept grinding away on this fucker, trying to get the bonus game. I held my own though, but no bonus to be had.

Still, I am doing OK here. I dropped maybe a couple hundred bucks, and got in some decent play. Embolden by the hot below, I'm making a decision on what to do next.

I decided to walk over to my factory of sadness, MGM Grand.

I have a hate hate relationship with MGM Grand. I hate that I never got to see it all Wizard of Oz'ed up. I hate that by the time I got to Vegas, the amusement park in back was gone. But I mostly hate it, because I just cant win here.

Much like hitting on the girl, that just ignores you. I like a challenge. Hell, I got my hot wife by slowly breaking her down. The same has to be true of MGM, right? I mean, I cant lose for 20 years in a row, right?

Out and over I go!

A quick check in, and with today's play, I now only need 40K tier credits to move to Platinum. it is now 5:26PM, based on my time stamp. And I still have almost half my money to chase with. What can go wrong?

I load $60 into one of the last Instant Spins on the Strip. First game, first spin and I get the bonus for $90. And just like that, I am up!

Next game, $9.00 bet. I get the bonus, but 8 free spins only gets me $12. Not a typo, just $12.00 on a $9.00 bet. I solider on, as this is paying full points. And I get a line hit good for $88.

I am now up almost $200, and I am only about 20' into the casino. Today is the day!

Today was not the day! When I say I lost from there out, I mean I lost! Nothing. No play. If I would have set my money on fire, and watched it burn, that would have taken longer than the time I had on their slots.

It didn't matter what I played, I lost. And I lost fast. I take the sad walk back to home base.

How bad was it? $1600 coin in, and $900 lost. That isn't even a 50% return, which is unheard of. A rare true beating. And one that I have taken from MGM too many times to count. Fuck me!

Tuesday

We fly out at 6PM, which means we have to leave the hotel by 4PM. I have the room booked for the entire day, but the clock is ticking if I'm going to make my points.

I head down, but don't get much play in before the wife tells me order from Tom;s Urban, and bring up breakfast.

I manage a nice $100.00 hit on Spin and Win, and wander my way over to get the food.

You can order take out from the bartender, which is exactly what I did. He tells me it will take about 20 minutes, and I took that to mean I have 20 minutes to gamble.

Not a soul in the place at 9AM by the way.

I settle in on this older WMS game right outside the restaurant. I manage a good bonus of $106, on just a $2.40 max bet.

Grab the food, 20 minutes on the dot, and head up. It was OK. $85 for breakfast, and just mediocre at best. Good bacon though.

I ditch them, and even though I wasn't getting shit for points. I start playing my $5.00 Quick Hits. I drive up my $100 seed money, into almost $400. I take the win and play on.

Nothing much else to report in the casino, as far as gambling. I won a little more than I lost, so that's good. Just no $100+ wins to show off.

The kids want to do something, so we head out to the Hello Kitty Cafe right outside NY NY.

While you CAN room charge California Pizza Kitchen out here. You can NOT room charge Hello Kitty. Instead of a Kitty Feat, to burn up these comps. They each get to pick one $6.00 cookie.

A little Windy, but about 50 degrees outside. Which isn't bad. We are from Chicago. We know wind and cold!

We head over to the World of Coke, only to find the soda counter closed. Lack of staffing. Its only open for a few hours out of the day. Fuckers.

Over to M&M World, and they did have some good deals with 50% off Holiday shit. The check out lines were crazy. By the time we got out of here, empty handed, there was a long line of people waiting to get in.

We did pass, what I assume is a blind man and his dog. My 5 year old sees the harness, and asks if that is so you can ride on him. I guess when you weigh 30 pounds, a lot of things can act like a horse for you.

After not riding on the dog, we end up in the last World of the tour. Hershey World. We actually buy something from in here.

I explain the point situation to the wife, and that I need to get back to gambling. Tick Tock. The only plans we have left for today, is to pack up and take the kids to the arcade. And the NY NY arcade doesn't open until 1PM. That gives me a good hour to gamble.

And gamble I did! Right after I left them, I played this Fortune Cash game below. $551 win, on just a $4.50 bet. That helps!

Cash that out, and nearly double up on the next game. I'm chipping away at points, and I am actually winning.

Dick around on some more slots, and do a quick point check. 12:56PM, and just 14,664 Tier Credits away from good.

I text the wife, and see if we HAVE to do the arcade at 1PM. Maybe 2PM would work better? She agrees, and I keep going.

While not earning many points, and I still chasing the 3 quick hits on my old, once grinder.

Up and down. Up and down. If only these were $3.00 per point, I'd have hit my mark hours ago.

Point chasing once more, on new and flashy stuff. I finally got the bonus game on my lion game. $312 win! The bonus is 8 free spins, which each spin a winner. Huge potential in this one. And even though I probably ran a couple grand through it this trip, I only got that bonus just once.

I thought I had a hand pay on the next one, with 2X wilds all the way across. On the 5th line no less, which is usually how you get the top amount. Nope. $440 is still good, and I have almost gotten all my money back from MGM by now.

Point Check, 9,709 needed. Time stamp, 1:35PM. I text the wife, that I am going to Excal. And she can meet me there after 2PM, and we will just do the Fun Dungeon arcade. She agrees once more.

$6.00 bet on Milk Money, and a $91.50 bonus. I played Texas Tea for nickles. And that was a fucking debacle. When I cashed out, my ticket was blank! I had over a hundred bucks on there. I found a worker, and he wrote down the machine and walked me to the cage.

It had some kind of numbers on there, and they were able to figure it out. Still, that was precious gambling time lost!

I knocked off this Kenny Rogers win right after. 5400 nickles! But on a $7.50 bet.

I bet this machine once more. Had I gotten the same hit in the bonus, it would have been worth over a grand. Still, Ill take $141.

Point check, 2PM and 8,000 points to go!

The wife is on her way over, and I went on a tear with Little Shop. Big win after Big Win. Lots of full points in between.

Turns out, the Fun Dungeon was closed. They walked over here for nothing.

Excalibur was a success though! Almost $3K of coin in, and I won $135!

We end up at the Big Apple Arcade. But I keep pacing knowing the clock is ticking. I have to decide if I want to be a good day, or a true degenerate.

Good Dad!

But only for 30 minutes. I got points to earn!

Lion is once again the right call!

Point check, 2:45 and just 3,300 TC's to go!

I end up on playing the shit out of this Squirrel game the whole trip. I didnt get a pic of it, so you will have to take my word. When the furry fucker is in the last spot, all wins that touch him are worth 5X and hes wild. I ended up with a bunch of fountains, for like $400. He then moves to the next tree, and it threw off my picture game.

3:57, and zero points to go!

All said and done, I did very well at NY NY. Almost $13,000 coin in, and I won $24.61! If not for the fucking MGM debacle, I would have done great. Still, I go home with a good chunk of my money, and a great time had by all.