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VIDEO POKER
THE D
After days of terrible results at Double Bonus at the Four Queens, I started with $100 in the Bonus game at the Vue
Bar in the D. In spite of the fact that the royal had gone to over $1200 and would generate tax paperwork. I went down to about $50 and stayed in that place a long while, up or down ten dollars. Then I had four Aces dealt to me. I played longer and caught four nines and then I had four tens dealt to me. When I caught four Aces for the second time, I decided to quit and wait for the quad bonus to fill up again.
Had I hit the Aces on Double Bonus I would have earned another $200 just on those hits as well as more on the other quads. Strange.
It did put me back up for the trip, however.
I liked playing at the D. It is quieter than the Four Queens. The music is oldies and they have large bottled of Perrier and a decent merlot. That all makes me happy.
The Deuces Wild nickel machine is still there as well. One woman was on it and stayed on it for the hour or so, but other times I had time to play it. I made no money on it.
My first quarter bet on the Sigma Derby snagged a winning exacta that paid 61 to 1. I had not other wins, but cashed out up about $15.
ROYAL AT THE D
I went up the escalator to the D to head for bed because I was exhausted, but decided just to put in $20 at the Vue Bar because the quad progressive was up to over $50.
In a few hands, I hit quad 3's and then another quad. Trips came regularly. I was thinking of quitting at $60, but decided to play down to $40. More good hands put me above $100 and I decided to play down to $100, figuring an $80 profit was better than the average session.
I was dealt K-KQT7 of diamonds. I held the 3 Royal cards and up popped the A and Jack for a royal flush which was worth $1087 on the progressive meter. Very nice.
This was not the right play. The kings outranked the three to the royal and the penalty 7 added weight to not playing the royal draw.
Still, I played the long shot.
So in a trip where I have been up or down each day, hovering around $300 or less each way, I went for a few days over $900 up. I tipped the bartender a ten and the hand pay person a five. In one way that annoys me. At the Four Queens all the money just goes into the machine electronically. No fussing about hand pays. But still I tend to tip a little, and this was a progressive hit, so the added money more than covered the tip.
Another way to look at it is that my new diet of low drinking saved me bartender tips. I drank just one merlot and they brought me another when I hit and tipped.
ORLEANS
Bill likes the senior Tuesday deals, and so we played our favorite triple play nickel progressive DB and earned chances to play the free video poker tournament.
I play an all or nothing tournament strategy on the Double Double Bonus they use as a pay table.
All pairs are split.
I often pick just one Ace, Two, Three, Four and hope for more quads.
It is not like a cash game because the score is all or nothing.
We had earned two sessions each. On the first my four Aces and one other Quad put me in the lower winners, so the next day I had $50 of freeplay.
I played It off and for a while afterwards, but left with $30 profit and I earned enough points for the Halloween bag of money. Most got $2; I got $5.
On the triple nickel play I caught 9 different quads. You would think that would give me a good profit, but it did not. Bill caught just one or two and then hit a royal. He was farther ahead than I was. He just missed a $400 plus royal as that line was hit just before he hit. Too bad.
SAM'S TOWN
I started with full pay dime deuces (nickel with 10 for full pay) and was up $30 in the morning and then down $15 by the time of the show. After the show, the nickel machines were full, so I decided to give quarters a shot and that was a good decision. Often in video poker the mid paying hands will be good, but no jackpot hands will come, or jackpots will come and the middle paying hands will drain profits. I stayed even with midpaying hands, hitting quads time and time again. Then, all of a sudden, there was a king and four deuces.
My first thought was, "Oh, good.... five of a kind," and then I realized...duh...... that I had hit much better than five of a kind. I left up over $200.
Sam's Town and some of the Station Casinos offer a promotion on certain days that gives a free buffet for play. It requires no coupon. American Casino Guide offers this deal at Sam's Town and at Gold Coast, but only once a year.
If you play a certain number of points at Sam's Town, you get a free buffet or on other days, you get a free movie with no points deducted.
I played on movie day and managed two free movies. They give movie passes, good at any Cinemark movie for the month.
There was nothing that caught my interest on the day I was there, but when Bill and I went to the next Toast of the Town, we saw
Bad Grandpa afterwards, and I loved it. It is filmed like Candid Camera with real people in many of the scenes. The Grandpa is outrageous and very funny. This is not a show to bring any grandchildren to see. In fact, I'm not sure Grandmother's would appreciate it.
Afterward I took another $30 from the nickel deuces. I did not hit even one wild royal, but ground out a little profit with 5 and 4 of a kind.
I like the game.
I don't really know the Deuces game and I should have spent more time on the Dancer's tutor in practice before I went. I did some practice there in the room; while playing, I often took time to check plays on a strategy sheet and see what to do.
EASTSIDE CANNERY
Sometimes I play video poker just to keep points current and use freeplay. It took me forever to figure out how to load my $3 of freeplay. It turns out that when one gets to the place where it shows the $3, we have to pick a box marked "other" and that will load it.
Totally counterintuitive, but then I've found the Eastside promotions are, as a rule, counter intuitive.
That being said, they have a new system where you swipe at a kiosk and get deals. It takes a long while, but at least for locals who can collect game pieces over many visits, it might be a good deal.
On some of my trips, however, the kiosks were broken.
I played their 9/6/90 JOB and lost my first $20 and free play fairly quickly. My second $20 was to be my last at risk and it played up and down forever before I hit $40.50 to cash out with a 50 cent profit and went for my free buffet courtesy of the Webpass program.
My first visit to the Eastside Cannery scored: One nice hat (they have some of the classiest casino logo hats) One free buffet eaten and enjoyed. Vouchers for 2 for 1 buffet and three free drinks. And 50 cent profit. Also I did enjoy the JOB.
On my next visit I dropped $100 in the same JOB, so I guess they got their promotion's worth out of me. That time they had sent me $12 of freeplay for November. However, like all counterintuitive promotions, I could not play it until the 3rd of November.
How stupid is that!
So I have a love/hate relationship with the Eastside Cannery. Some of it is just great; some of it is pretty lame.
I tried to see a standard room and get the idea of the size of the standard bathtub, but they would not show me a room.
Strange.
I expect to stay all downtown next trip with maybe one brief trip out to Boulder, perhaps a Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. I want to be able to see Claudine Castro late Monday night and the Toast of the Town on Thursday. And I hope to make those days a window for my local relatives to come out and meet up with me. Maybe I'll just spring for the big bucks and get a corner room. I know those bathtubs are deep and wide and would be great for these psoriasis soaks that seem to do so much good for my skin.
THE D
After days of terrible results at Double Bonus at the Four Queens, I started with $100 in the Bonus game at the Vue
Bar in the D. In spite of the fact that the royal had gone to over $1200 and would generate tax paperwork. I went down to about $50 and stayed in that place a long while, up or down ten dollars. Then I had four Aces dealt to me. I played longer and caught four nines and then I had four tens dealt to me. When I caught four Aces for the second time, I decided to quit and wait for the quad bonus to fill up again.
Had I hit the Aces on Double Bonus I would have earned another $200 just on those hits as well as more on the other quads. Strange.
It did put me back up for the trip, however.
I liked playing at the D. It is quieter than the Four Queens. The music is oldies and they have large bottled of Perrier and a decent merlot. That all makes me happy.
The Deuces Wild nickel machine is still there as well. One woman was on it and stayed on it for the hour or so, but other times I had time to play it. I made no money on it.
My first quarter bet on the Sigma Derby snagged a winning exacta that paid 61 to 1. I had not other wins, but cashed out up about $15.
ROYAL AT THE D
I went up the escalator to the D to head for bed because I was exhausted, but decided just to put in $20 at the Vue Bar because the quad progressive was up to over $50.
In a few hands, I hit quad 3's and then another quad. Trips came regularly. I was thinking of quitting at $60, but decided to play down to $40. More good hands put me above $100 and I decided to play down to $100, figuring an $80 profit was better than the average session.
I was dealt K-KQT7 of diamonds. I held the 3 Royal cards and up popped the A and Jack for a royal flush which was worth $1087 on the progressive meter. Very nice.
This was not the right play. The kings outranked the three to the royal and the penalty 7 added weight to not playing the royal draw.
Still, I played the long shot.
So in a trip where I have been up or down each day, hovering around $300 or less each way, I went for a few days over $900 up. I tipped the bartender a ten and the hand pay person a five. In one way that annoys me. At the Four Queens all the money just goes into the machine electronically. No fussing about hand pays. But still I tend to tip a little, and this was a progressive hit, so the added money more than covered the tip.
Another way to look at it is that my new diet of low drinking saved me bartender tips. I drank just one merlot and they brought me another when I hit and tipped.
ORLEANS
Bill likes the senior Tuesday deals, and so we played our favorite triple play nickel progressive DB and earned chances to play the free video poker tournament.
I play an all or nothing tournament strategy on the Double Double Bonus they use as a pay table.
All pairs are split.
I often pick just one Ace, Two, Three, Four and hope for more quads.
It is not like a cash game because the score is all or nothing.
We had earned two sessions each. On the first my four Aces and one other Quad put me in the lower winners, so the next day I had $50 of freeplay.
I played It off and for a while afterwards, but left with $30 profit and I earned enough points for the Halloween bag of money. Most got $2; I got $5.
On the triple nickel play I caught 9 different quads. You would think that would give me a good profit, but it did not. Bill caught just one or two and then hit a royal. He was farther ahead than I was. He just missed a $400 plus royal as that line was hit just before he hit. Too bad.
SAM'S TOWN
I started with full pay dime deuces (nickel with 10 for full pay) and was up $30 in the morning and then down $15 by the time of the show. After the show, the nickel machines were full, so I decided to give quarters a shot and that was a good decision. Often in video poker the mid paying hands will be good, but no jackpot hands will come, or jackpots will come and the middle paying hands will drain profits. I stayed even with midpaying hands, hitting quads time and time again. Then, all of a sudden, there was a king and four deuces.
My first thought was, "Oh, good.... five of a kind," and then I realized...duh...... that I had hit much better than five of a kind. I left up over $200.
Sam's Town and some of the Station Casinos offer a promotion on certain days that gives a free buffet for play. It requires no coupon. American Casino Guide offers this deal at Sam's Town and at Gold Coast, but only once a year.
If you play a certain number of points at Sam's Town, you get a free buffet or on other days, you get a free movie with no points deducted.
I played on movie day and managed two free movies. They give movie passes, good at any Cinemark movie for the month.
There was nothing that caught my interest on the day I was there, but when Bill and I went to the next Toast of the Town, we saw
Bad Grandpa afterwards, and I loved it. It is filmed like Candid Camera with real people in many of the scenes. The Grandpa is outrageous and very funny. This is not a show to bring any grandchildren to see. In fact, I'm not sure Grandmother's would appreciate it.
Afterward I took another $30 from the nickel deuces. I did not hit even one wild royal, but ground out a little profit with 5 and 4 of a kind.
I like the game.
I don't really know the Deuces game and I should have spent more time on the Dancer's tutor in practice before I went. I did some practice there in the room; while playing, I often took time to check plays on a strategy sheet and see what to do.
EASTSIDE CANNERY
Sometimes I play video poker just to keep points current and use freeplay. It took me forever to figure out how to load my $3 of freeplay. It turns out that when one gets to the place where it shows the $3, we have to pick a box marked "other" and that will load it.
Totally counterintuitive, but then I've found the Eastside promotions are, as a rule, counter intuitive.
That being said, they have a new system where you swipe at a kiosk and get deals. It takes a long while, but at least for locals who can collect game pieces over many visits, it might be a good deal.
On some of my trips, however, the kiosks were broken.
I played their 9/6/90 JOB and lost my first $20 and free play fairly quickly. My second $20 was to be my last at risk and it played up and down forever before I hit $40.50 to cash out with a 50 cent profit and went for my free buffet courtesy of the Webpass program.
My first visit to the Eastside Cannery scored: One nice hat (they have some of the classiest casino logo hats) One free buffet eaten and enjoyed. Vouchers for 2 for 1 buffet and three free drinks. And 50 cent profit. Also I did enjoy the JOB.
On my next visit I dropped $100 in the same JOB, so I guess they got their promotion's worth out of me. That time they had sent me $12 of freeplay for November. However, like all counterintuitive promotions, I could not play it until the 3rd of November.
How stupid is that!
So I have a love/hate relationship with the Eastside Cannery. Some of it is just great; some of it is pretty lame.
I tried to see a standard room and get the idea of the size of the standard bathtub, but they would not show me a room.
Strange.
I expect to stay all downtown next trip with maybe one brief trip out to Boulder, perhaps a Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday. I want to be able to see Claudine Castro late Monday night and the Toast of the Town on Thursday. And I hope to make those days a window for my local relatives to come out and meet up with me. Maybe I'll just spring for the big bucks and get a corner room. I know those bathtubs are deep and wide and would be great for these psoriasis soaks that seem to do so much good for my skin.