Tunica...It's More Exciting when You Win!

[olds442jetaway]

Nice job. Keem them coming.

[faygo]

Sounds like an enjoyable trip along with the VP wins as icing on the cake.    

[Vman96]

Vman96, That was quite a report,(long)(lol) and always nice to leave up, Good hits! My eye sight not so good is that a raccoon in picture? Again good hits! Sam

Yeah, my g/f couldn't snap a great pic as it was on the move. It's an armadillo.   That's why I played the Texas Tea slot and added that picture in.   


PS - fitz buffet is the worst buffet i have ever encountered in a casino...

Did you eat it at lunch? That might help explain it. Dinner seems to usually be better. We've swore it off for lunch. But the stir-fry station is pretty solid, which is only available at dinner. It's definitely worth $7 for a Monday night dinner for us.

Nice job. Keem them coming.

Will do!

Went to Hollywood St. Louis tonight to try to "play for comps" a bit. Missed two 4 to a Royal draws...   Starting with the "worst" hand in poker for the 2nd time tonight (75432) and got another diamond "steel wheel"! That makes 5 Straight Flushes in my last 5 gaming days as I hit one more SF right before going to Tunica.

Wow...now I just need the Royal!!

[spxChrome]

This would never happened if you were playing at the $1 or above level

[farc]

In what games is it correct to break up 2 pair; both low and go for 4 of a kind on 2 3 or 4?

[Vman96]

In what games is it correct to break up 2 pair; both low and go for 4 of a kind on 2 3 or 4?

Not sure why you asked that here but anyway...

The only time you would break low 2 pair is in Deuces Wild if the full house pays 15 coins or lower. You'd never break a low two pair in a non-wild game because breaking it loses a guaranteed payback of 5 or 10 coins.   

[Vman96]

Went back to Tunica this past weekend, and had a whirlwind of a 4-day trip.

Friday:

On the way down, there were multiple cars/SUVs that had "tiger tails" on their vehicles since Mizzou (my alma mater) was playing at Mississippi that weekend. We didn't have tickets to the game, and my jealousy built while driving down.

We first stopped at Isle of Capri Cape Girardeau to check it out. Nice place, but unsurprisingly tiny. Most VP sucked, but they did have 2c Ultimate X with 6/5 Bonus, so I diddled around on that for a bit. Getting the first quad of the trip in the process.

Get to Tunica, check-in at Harrah's and then go to Hollywood to eat at the snackbar on our points. Food was decent, and afterward, we briefly played bubble craps. $1 minimum there, so that was great for us. My g/f "pushed the button" maybe 10 times before she sevened out. :(

We were still a bit hungry though, so we decided to go to Resorts to get some popcorn and play a bit. Nothing special on the play, but the damn ticket printer failed, and it took them 30 minutes to pay me. :grrr:

I wanted to go to Sam's Town to do a promo where you got a kiosk prize for 1,000 points, and play 9/6 JoB at the bar, but it was 10pm when we got there, and said promo ended at 10. Oops. My luck with Sam's Town that weekend; it was probably a good thing.

Saturday:
Tickets are still available for the game, and we keep an eye on Stubhub as we go to Southaven to eat/shop and was prepared to go to Oxford from there. They were $85/ea, and then the dude jumped them to $125... :grrr:.

Eventually he dropped them down again to $75/ea (face value), and I snapped them up. I should have waited longer though as I could have saved even more. :nono:

A not so warm welcome. Seriously, it was near freezing.


Biggest Tailgate I have ever seen.


Mizzou flag crew. Truman the Tiger is a a blur because I am a newb with texting gloves.


Mississippi state flag. Tradition or racist past? You be the judge.


Mizzou PAT with less blur!


Also this local dad was with his ~four year old son watching the game. Early on the 4-yr old apparently greeted me with an Ole Miss greeting of "Hotty Toddy" and I just smiled because I didn't know what it meant. Later in the game, a happy Mizzou drunk was gradually trying to convert the kid to be a Mizzou fan. But in the middle of the 3rd Qtr. the kid had enough and yelled "I LIKE OLE MISS" at him. My g/f and I got a good laugh out of that one. We left after Mizzou was up 14 with 5 minutes left. Defense was great!

Leaving early helped us not get stuck after the game, and we head to Fitz to get a Philly Cheesesteak. My g/f left her purse in the car on accident, and of course she gets carded. She was not pleased. She grabbed her ID, we ate, and got back to the room around 2am.

Sunday:
Check out of Harrah's. Gamble at Harrah's to earn 20 Tier points, so we could get a "free" buffet which railroaded Paula Deen. We work on her card first. I scan video poker, and it's mostly a wasteland unless you want to play dollars. There are two old banks left with FP games, and one old Ultimate X unit left. The rest of the casino is a bunch of new, crap machines. I decide on 5c Ult X since they had 8/5 JoB. Hit these.


Even with these hits, I'm down $5 after about earning 15 points. My g/f is down $20.   :-

Go to Sam's Town for the tail-end of the Rams/Bears game and to play a free kiosk game. G/f gets crap; I get a t-shirt, meh. I play 9/6 JoB slowwwwwwwly while watching the game, I get nowhere fast.

Checkin to the Roadhouse and play free slot tourney. We both brick. Go back to Harrah's to play 20 more points and lost about $10 more between us, meh. One more hit:


As for the buffet, I thought it was passable, but it's definitely no Paula Deen. My g/f really didn't like it. She struggled to find things she actually wanted to eat! We won't be going back anytime soon.

Get back to the Roadhouse, and decide to start gambling about 10:30pm. My g/f conks out real early, and I make this my "binge night". I was also curious this whole trip about what they did to the machines at Roadhouse. Like I feared, they trashed most of them. No games above 9/6 JoB anymore! And no 9/6 DDB w/STP for quarters! :( They also tinkered with my beloved 2c Double STP game, changing the paytables, and getting rid the 2c option. DDB went from 9/5 to 7/5 now, but they added some other games.

Most paytables sucked, but they did have 6/5 Bonus, and 9/6/5 DB. Ugh, I hate DB, but that game is only 0.07% lower than 9/5 DDB, so c'est la vie. I learned to hold onto Ace-low straight draws pretty quickly I guess. :-
Play for about 90 minutes with total garbage (I don't think I had even a boat yet), and then I hit this:

Note the kicker, of course. :grrr: So this keeps me afloat, and I get two more quads in about 2 more hours of play. Even with the Aces, still was down $20 that night, but I was nice and toasty. :drunk: Double STP is definitely a fickle temptress.

Monday:
Wake up about 9:30 and it's cold and drizzling. We begrudgingly drag ourselves to Resorts because if you show up before noon, you can get a free spin of 3 credits on a Double Diamond dollar slot. Whatever you hit, you win in freeplay. I say if she doesn't want to walk out in the cold rain, we could just go to Sam's Town, which has a garage. She still wants to go to Resorts first. So we do, watch someone hit a cherry for $6, so there is some hope. She picks the other machine than him. She gets a Bar...okay...Double Diamond...better...and another Double Diamond to highlight the trip!! I obviously got nothing.



So in a much better mood, we go to Sam's Town to eat the buffet (decent for $10), and play at "Penny Lane". These are a set of penny machines that give you extra bonus games for playing. Well, the problem was it took about $100 coin-in to get one of these. Took us $40 (me -$25) and over an hour to complete. Never do this. Our reward 500 points ($0.50 comps...fml).

So now we go back to Resorts to play off the $120 of freeplay. And we mostly pick random slots to play since she likes slots more than VP. We got off to a good start, but later on, tailed off. She gave me $20 to devote to VP, and I immediately play the best quarter game there (15/10 Double Deuces w/prog 98.86%+). The progressive was at $1340 (99.48%), not bad since it was about $1020 on Fri. night when we first got to town. I can't do any better than a Straight. :( $20 in. $7.50 out. By the time it was all said and done, we got $70 of $120 back, g/f was majorly bummed. :grrr:

Take a quick break, go over to the $7 Fitz buffet on Mondays. The stir-fry station was good as usual, and we run off to the Memphis Grizzlies game. We make a wrong turn on a detour and end up seeing tons of cops. One of them shine a light in our car. Sorry bud, your fugitive isn't in our car. :Þ Fortunately, we don't get shot, go to the game, nothing exciting, and drove home along I-55 instead.

Go to the Shoe to play a little because they had a 10X Slot/5X VP multiplier. Play a little slots, have small wins. Get bored, move over to STP. Play best game available, 6/5 Bonus. Hit this:


Where were you 8 hours ago when hitting that would be worth $500?!?!? :grrr: Play a little bit at Roadhouse, lose what I won at Horseshoe. Call it an early night.

Tuesday: Wake up early, can't fall back asleep. So I go down and play for a bit at 730am. Didn't hit much, $20 in the hole at Double STP. Only decent hit:


Take $15 over to the 100-penny progressive unit and take a chance. Wanted to play Bonus Deluxe for a bit this trip and settled for 8/6 since they got rid of 9/6 on the floor. :( Nothing good, so switch to 9/6 JoB, more losing, so now down $35 by 9am.

So all in all for the trip I lost about $100 playing mostly nickels...meh. With the free play win, my g/f came home about a $30 winner. Not as good luck this time, but still had a good time.

Had better luck at Hollywood on Thanksgiving up about $90.




Hit this one when the Village People were singing "YMCA". Four Queens! LOL


Up about $40, and wanted to slow down my play while waiting around for others. A discussion on here earlier this week about Double Bonus Deuces Wild made me want to play the game. Glad I did.
One of these days, I'll hit one of these on quarters...



And almostttt the Royal:


Definitely a welcome rebound!

[Tedlark]

  Nice informative report Vman. I was thinking the one picture was a shot of the table cloth's used in Paula Deans place until I read where you said it was a flag, my bad. Go get some more winners.