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I tried to change my reservation from Thur & Fri to Wed & Thur, but after I canceled and went to rebook, Thursday was "sold out" and I settled for one night only. I survived the Sure-Kill and arrived around 1400 hours (44.7mpg on regular gas). Checked in to 4th floor Laguna, stashed my stuff and descended to the floor. I swiped for the 10X TC multiplier (TC balance 10) and bucked the 1-in-5 odds to double my free play to $170 (good omen?) The masses of people seemed greater than what the parking lot suggested and I could not immediately get an open seat. I feared the possibility of marathon players locking up the preferred Five Star units until deep into the night. Fortunately (or maybe not), I spied a vacancy and slid into an empty seat, where I hoped to squat until...deep into the night.
In an attempt to rack up max tier credits before the risk of ruin became reality, I had convinced myself to step down from dollars to fifty cents. Loaded $100 of the free play and was able to turn into $82.50 extractable. Lost that and another $1000 in an hour, missing out on trip Aces:
An hour or so later I managed to get back on the machine I started on and fed another ten Bens into the hungry hippo. Finally hit my first quad and a good one at that:
A shower and coffee later I was back at it, lost another grand and an extra $100 from converted Rewards credits (2:1). Two more measly quads. Decided to get some grub with my noTV comps and had sub par eggs Benedict at the Coastal Craft. Grabbed two beers from the gift shop to use up the balance (only later finding out that the gift shop doesn't qualify for room deduction). Had to do the Cove dance on the dollar machines and lost $500 (no quads). Scraped together my last $500 and went back to fifty cents on the upright Five Star I had hit on yesterday. Had some decent hits- four quads including Aces, but couldn't last and tapped out an hour or so later with only 1500 TC for the day. I noticed that two of the Wild! Wild! Wild! machines were changed out leaving one in the carousel area. I guess they aren't that popular based on what I saw in previous visits.
So I did manage to maximize the 10X multiplier of 4k base credits, but only got 6k in daily bonuses which should put me at 48k YTD. I had hoped to have 66k but lack of luck cost me that and much much more. Being that I missed the February multiplier, I'm not too optimistic of achieving Seven Star status since I doubt I will make it back before the next one in August(?). And only one more likely in December (my worst calendar month) does not bode well. However, as olds says "You never know", so we'll see...I hope the rest of you had better outcomes for the multiplier event.
