Amazing and long overdue luck at Mohegan Sun

[olds442jetaway]

     I had an overnight trip to Mohegan Sun last evening. I did play more hours than I can count including during the day today. It was just one of those days where the longer I waited, the more I was rewarded. Those days are few and far between and usually end in one giving back all of their early winnings and then some.
      I had intended this to be a real low key session just playing nickels, watch some sports on the big screen at or near the bar, and watch a big chunk of the US Open while playing a bit today. I only brought 200 bucks with me. I ran into a friend who had fallen on hard times due to family health issues. He wasn't playing and had just stopped there to grab a to go meal with some of his points. He didn't ask, but I gave him 80 bucks of my 200 of course never expecting to get any of it back. The tears in his eyes when I gave him the money said it all.
      Moving on, I only had 120 left so I decided to play just nickels on the Multi Strike machine and a little on the quarter spin poker machine. A couple of hours later that was nearly gone until I hit 5 Aces 3 times on Double Bonus Deuces Wild on the upper lines of the nickel machine leaving me ahead so far a nice amount of 143 bucks.
     Never knowing when to quit, I put my original 120 away, 100 away, 3 bucks for waitress tips away, and headed to the other end of the casino for my favorite dollar spin poker machine that pays 800 for bet one for the Royal. I put in the 40 and so I won't bore the readers to death any further, shorten my story and just state my results, again only starting with 40 bucks on the dollar machine.
     I varied my bets between one and 3 lines with no particular pattern. While playing just the center line, with 5 bucks bet, I was dealt 4 to the Royal in spades. I drew the King I needed good for 4,000 bucks.   I hit 4 deuces with just the center line bet and a bet of 6 bucks. Good for another 1200 bucks. In the interim, I hit 5 Aces several times playing Bonus Deuces Wild. After almost no sleep and a brief and fairly healthy lunch, I played the same machine an hour more and hit 4 deuces again at bet 5 bucks good for anther thousand bucks. I ended up over 6 grand for the session. Not counting the earlier nickel play, the 6 grand all resulted from just putting 40 bucks in that dollar machine.

[Tedlark]

Congrats and great story olds. Just remember that from little acorns do mighty oaks grow.

Maybe it was karma for helping your friend out? Hmm.....

[EDC1977]

Congratulations Olds. Your luck and fortune was a reward for your unselfish act of kindness towards your buddy. Thankful that you can post a positive report. Again, congratulations.

[jetermacaw]

Nice story 😎

[FloridaPhil]

When you do good things for people out of kindness, it always comes back to you.   Great story!  

[Come Back Kid]

What a great story Olds! Thanks for sharing, congratulations!

[wildman49]

Nice hits there Olds, sounds like time for sleep!

[pokerforme]

Congratulations olds, awesome trip.

[FAA]

Congratulations. $200 bankroll not a typo! I finished +$24 today thanks to a lucky roll of the dice. Trying to stay positive.

[olds442jetaway]

I was able to complete the Mohegan Sun promotion and be able to maintain my Soar status through next March. I knew it would be expensive running at least 50k through the machine to earn 100 status points which was required, but I got lucky on a couple of hands and kept the damage to a little better than the math would dictate. I had to play dollars or I never would have made it in the 4 days. I also knew if I was unlucky I would lose 5 percent even on a 99 machine. I was hoping to lose just 2 percent. Usually, on these promotions I never get a Royal and this trip was no exception.
    What saved me was hitting quad deuces on the regular deuces wild game twice for a thousand bucks each. Had I not hit those and not hit the Royals, I could have lost 7 grand or more. Turns out, I lost just under 1800 bucks which translates into a 98.2 percent return. The machine was a 98.91 machine long term with hitting Royals and quad deuces, but only around 93 percent if you don't hit Royals or quad deuces. I beat the math a bit on my return considering I didn't hit any Royals. So the bottom line is I get all of my free stuff for another 6 months beyond my current expiration of the status at the end of September. Considering that I will be staying over there about 75 nights for that 6 month period, that's not a bad deal as it works out to be 24 bucks a night. I'm not counting other free stuff like free play, food, shows, gifts etc.