If you remember, I said I wasn't going to play vp again until this month or later. The reason was because I ran into a bunch of hot machines a month or so ago (Spock, please check the exact number of days so you can claim I'm fibbing about this statement too ) and I was as hot as a pistol. But the apparent lack of a challenge bored me to tears at the end, and just the thought of sitting at a machine too soon turned my stomach.
But today I thought I'd give it a short try. I decided to drive to casinos that sent me some freeplay, and of course, because of my discipline never to play it thru more than once, I knew I'd make a few bucks for the effort. It was in the mid-70's today--the nicest day here so far--and Cindy was volunteering in the kitchen of a local nursing home, so off I went.
My first stop was $25 at the Carson Valley Inn. Not one, but two SF's on quarters BP. +$133. Then I zipped up Hwy. 50 to the Hyatt @ Incline Village to play my $50. No quads or anything special--and none of their single-line machines have BP on them--but I somehow still left with $36 playing 25c SDBP. I chose to save Casino Fandango for last, so I drove over to Reno to play my $45 at the Peppermill. Nothing special on this one, only got $21 out of it, but I did manage to snag a baker's dozen of yummy Einstein's Bagels on the way out of town, after a nice Imperial Stout at Great Basin Brewery. Then it was finally onto Fandango, where I'm very surprised they've kept sending me multiple free nights at the Marriott next door, which we always use of course, along with freeplay. Well, in my $80 of free play on 50c BP, I hit them Aces again along with 3's, and left with a nice $337 profit.
Anyone add it up yet, because I haven't. But one thing's for sure--I won't play again until May. And we're even spending a couple nights at the Peppermill in a few weeks with some friends from Mass.