MrV's travels

Wife and I stayed last night at the hotel at Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City, Oregon and then spent time enroute back to stumptown at Spirit Mtn. casino in Grand Ronde, Oregon.

This thread will compare and contrast the two casinos based on what I observed.

Both require patrons to wear masks at all times unless eating or drinking.

Of the two, Spirit Mtn. seemed to be quite lax in enforcing covid-19 protocols.

For example the craps table there has zero plexiglass between players; Chinook Winds has quite a bit of plexiglass between players and also for the stick.

When entering Chinook Winds I was told to lower my mask while they remotely checked me out as to temperature and to see if I was an unwanted person; I talked to the operator and he confirmed that they do this using facial recognition to weed out the bad guys.

It was so fast, a second or two then he cleared me.

In contrast, while Spirit Mtn. has a similar set up it was unmanned when we entered today, so we just walked right in, as did many others.

Both have their buffets running and sit down dining, with social distancing observed.

Neither casino had a lot of action at their craps tables which was unusual: are people playing less and less?

As usual the heavy action was on the slots, which I think is the norm everywhere in the USA.

Comps from each seem fair for my level of play.

Dinner buffet at Chinook Winds was good, especially the fried shrimp; alas, my lunchtime meal at Spirit Mtn. today was spoiled by a piece of meat as tough or grisly as shoe leather.

Both are "go to" casinos for me; frankly I really dislike the casino which is closest to stumptown, Ilani: Mohegan Sun partnered with them and while it is quite busy it simply doesn't work for me: too bright, no older slots, no buffet and a weird vibe, sort of a combination of hicks, nail technicians and crackheads all being driven by staff to their doom.

Chinook Winds is my favorite, I really enjoy the town and the laid back attitude of the casino and they're the only casino that offers the slots I prefer to play.

Quote: MrV

my lunchtime meal at Spirit Mtn. today was spoiled by a piece of meat as tough or grisly as shoe leather.

If I go to a big Casino buffet now, I never eat the cooked food. Buffets overcook the food, especially the meat, to protect themselves from liability from food poisoning. Most people have no idea what good food is so they don't even notice. What they get at home 90% of the time is already cooked frozen entrees so they assume everything in the restaurant is top-notch. Typically buffets order the cheapest cuts of meat they can get and quite often when they advertise prime rib what you're really getting is a lesser cut because the average person doesn't know the difference. I only eat at the salad bar now, especially if they have smoked salmon. I can eat my weight in smoked salmon. I know a guy who's almost 40 who considers himself a good home cook. What is his specialty? Making avocado toast, I kid you not. He thinks spreading mashed avocado on a piece of toast is 'cooking'. This is the America we live in now.

Quote: EvenBob

What they get at home 90% of the time is already cooked frozen entrees so they assume everything in the restaurant is top-notch.

I'm just curious about where you get these statistics from.

You quote 90%, how do you know it's 90%?

Quote: Marcusclark66

I'm just curious about where you get these statistics from.

You quote 90%, how do you know it's 90%?

I'm probably not exaggerating by much. Next time you're in the grocery store checkout what people have in their carts. Check out the frozen food aisles o, you can get everything under the sun pre-made and frozen. Who do you think is buying that stuff.

Quote: EvenBob

I'm probably not exaggerating by much. Next time you're in the grocery store checkout what people have in their carts. Check out the frozen food aisles o, you can get everything under the sun pre-made and frozen. Who do you think is buying that stuff.

So let me get this straight Bob. You spend a considerable amount of time in supermarkets namely in the frozen food aisles and you take note who has what in their carts, that's how you compiled the statistics. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Hoover Dam, that did not take long to hijack!

Quote: DeMango

Hoover Dam, that did not take long to hijack!

LOL.

Let it veer where it may go ...

EB, FWIW the tough cut of meat did not come from a buffet; wife and I ate in the bar restaurant at Spirit Mtn..

It was a poor cut of meat in a chicken fried steak, cooked to order.

Avacado toast is for sissies: real men cook Campbell's Chunky Soup, and they like it.

Quote: MrV

LOL.

EB, FWIW the tough cut of meat did not come from a buffet;

So you think buffets are the only ones who buy cheap cuts of meat? Not hardly..

Quote: EvenBob

I'm probably not exaggerating by much. Next time you're in the grocery store checkout what people have in their carts. Check out the frozen food aisles o, you can get everything under the sun pre-made and frozen. Who do you think is buying that stuff.

It is me. The only things I actually cook are things I can throw on the BBQ grill or in the smoker.

Quote: EvenBob

So you think buffets are the only ones who buy cheap cuts of meat?

Don't be ridiculous, that's not what I said or implied, please don't attribute false statements to me.

My comment came in response to your post where you opened up by focusing on buffets.

I clarified that no, the lousy meat came from a restaurant, not a buffet.

I'd had that meal at that restaurant before with never an issue: hello, variance!

If your travels don't contain super unlikely events and some extra added spicy BS, they won't be very popular.

Quote: AxelWolf

If your travels don't contain super unlikely events and some extra added spicy BS, they won't be very popular.

Hmmm .... you're right .... let's see ...

OK, how's this?

I was a bit bored so I drove to Chinook Winds in the Rolls Royce that my dad had given to me before he went to prison for bank fraud; it had been raining heavily before I'd left but upon opening the massive garage doors of my Lake Oswego lakefront island estate the rain stopped, the clouds parted and the roads immediately dried.

As always I only brought a one dollar bill for my bankroll 'cause hey, I never, and I do mean never lose.

Although their valet service is closed due to covid-19 the manager herself saw me arrive with my entourage; she graciously offered to valet the Rolls, and as usual she gave me a Franklin just for showing up.

Entering the high limit room I saw Becky, the cute little cocktail waitress that always has had a major crush on me; she sashayed over and whispered "Hey MrV, I get off at four. Meet me then and we'll get in your Rolls and I'll give you a Rolls Willie."

I glanced at my Roger Dubuis Excalibur RDDBEX0299 Skeleton Double Flying Tourbillon 45mm Watch and saw that was an hour away.

I smiled and said "OK darlin', but what's in it for me?"

...to be continued ...

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Quote: AxelWolf

If your travels don't contain super unlikely events and some extra added spicy BS, they won't be very popular.

Correct. Make sure you drop a bunch of “REAL” to keep up with the Jones’s!

Quote: MrV

I glanced at my Roger Dubuis Excalibur RDDBEX0299 Skeleton Double Flying Tourbillon 45mm Watch and saw that was an hour away.
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Be more believable if you had a picture of the watch sitting on the front seat of the Rolls with thousands of dollars in hundreds rolled up with rubber bands.

Quote: EvenBob

Be more believable if you had a picture of the watch sitting on the front seat of the Rolls with thousands of dollars in hundreds rolled up with rubber bands.

I'm not going to do your homework for you, get it yourself.

I'm so very happy that you're back. And that this is what you chose to do with your return.

Quote: MrV

I'm not going to do your homework for you, get it yourself.

Get what myself, what the heck are you talking about

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Quote: rdw4potus

I'm so very happy that you're back. And that this is what you chose to do with your return.

Aw, shucks.

I tell you, it's great to be here, man.

That's the same thing Becky mouthed while bouncing my bone in the back on my Rolls; she's a good girl who has her priorities straight.

After giving her the thrill of her life I told my chauffer to return to the main entrance of Chinook Winds: time to play slots!

Of course it's not really play since I never lose; fact is I get a somewhat sadistic rush watching the casino suits cringe in fear as I enter their domain and invariably crush them, exiting with wheelbarrows filled with winnings: happens every time.

Amidst the sound of trumpets blasting a red carpet was unfurled and rolled out; I exited the Silver Ghost; admiring onlookers oohed and ahhed at my magnificence, as well they should: it is my due as the King of the World.

Few of you little people know that the Illuminati elevated me via unanimous vote to that exalted position; it is my due.

My footmen had removed the sedan chair from one of the semi-trucks which always accompany me in my travels; they placed it adjacent to the Rolls as I deigned to exit the car and take my place on my throne-like sedan chair.

Of course the chair is gilded in gold, encrusted in jewels, and was a gift to me from one of my minions, a remarkable flim flam man who now has rebranded himself as "45:" he's of no further use to me as I absolutely cannot abide a loser.

Amidst customary fanfare and a release of white doves I was carried through the maw of the casino: it was time to show these nobodies how a real pro, a gambling god, gets things done.

But I had to relieve myself first.

I summoned the manager with a "Oh, piss boy, come here."

Grateful for the opportunity to serve me the manager bowed in front of me and opened his mouth ...

*to be continued*

Quote: MrV

I summoned the manager with a "Oh, piss boy, come here."

Grateful for the opportunity to serve me the manager bowed in front of me and opened his mouth ...

*to be continued*

This reference goes too far. Three-day suspension.

As good as your writing is, I'm afraid the story will not be continued as it is clearly a parody of Mdawg.