Arrived in AC - staying at Taj tonight then Revel rest of the weekend. Walked over to the Showboat - played 2 shoes - nothing eventful - Trip is +500
Session 2 (Bally's): Played 3/4 of a shoe. It was up and down, back and forth the whole shoe - no real chance to press. Dealer continually had 11 and only one time got 21 - end of the shoe had me up 400. Trip is +900
Session 3 (Showboat):
Shoe #1 was a double down and split nightmare for the entire table...lost the 900 I was up in one shoe
Shoe #2 was the exact opposite...got the 900 I was upTrip is still +900 I am still up 900 but just had 2 shoes from hell - highlights (or lowlights): I was dealt 6,6 versus dealer 3Split - 6, 10; 6,10dealer has 3, turns over 2, 3, 4, 2, A, A, A (a 7 card 17 to beat my 16's LOL). Also, dealer pulled 21 5 times versus my 20's. I magically hit a nice run so still +900
I just played a 5 minute session in the Revel Ultra Lounge and made 650- Trip is +1550
Heading over to Showboat for, of all things, a slot tournament:
slot tourn at Showboat: I should get a prize for low score lol - In 3 minutes I got 1,086 points - so far the high was over 5k. After the Showboat slot tournament, I headed down the boardwalk to Big Bally's and had a woman following me from table to table not getting the hint that I would rather not play with her - she kept telling me stories of people she claimed did not know basic strategy - meanwhile she would announce that her "gut" was telling her how to play a certain hand lol. and her gut was very inconsistent - I lost 1900 during the Bally's excursion then back at Revel got 1200 back - Trip is once again +900 — Sweet dreams.
Played a couple of shoes this morning - made one chip lol — Trip is +1k
OK had a mini session pre-pig roast at Amada when a dealer I am friendly with motioned for me to play - so I took a chance, picked up 500 in the first 8 hands — Trip is +1500
Just hit a session at Ultra Lounge:
The usual back and forth and ended up plus 500
The real story was the guy at next table playing 10k a hand who won ten hands in a row then was up and down. I know it is all relative but 100k in 5 minutes sure sounds nice. It seems as if they are completing a separate smoking boutique casino near the Ultra Lounge with its own air system. Dealers will not be forced to work therein so I would assume they would have to incentivize that option. It is supposed to open sometime in May.
Well the trip ended up being +2kIt was a good trip but only brings me to +5600 for the year(and, having lost about 20k in December (which left me even for 2012), I would like to climb back to that level of +20k