A Boring Trip Report
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That said everything in this trip report is true (how could it not be, it's boring).
Day One (Saturday April 3rd):
I have two comped nights at Encore Boston Harbor. I arrange a family trip since my son-in-law has family in Boston.
My daughter, son-in-law and grandkids live in another state so I hop the Amtrak to Back Bay Boston Harbor.
The plan is they meet me there so I am car mobile but on the train I get text messages detailing a family squabble. They aren't going to travel hours in a car with the argument ongoing. I'm on my own it appears.
At Back Bay I catch a cab to Encore Boston Harbor.
The hotel lobby is amazing with a Faux merry go round. It moves although it's not for riding.
The fancy escalators. Tried not to catch anyone's face!
Checked in. They upgraded me to a suite (I'm certain it's cause I lost money)
The 23rd floor.
The long hallway (echoes of the Shining or the Borgata)
The suite. (Honestly it doesn't look like much to me. Nice but not anymore nice than other casino rooms.)
For a price you can grab sundries inside the room. Besides the usual snacks and drinks there is a charging kit.
And even an intimacy kit so there is no excuses!!!!
It includes two condoms and lube!!!!
It's even water based lube!!!!
I was hungry so decided to check out a restaurant in the casino.
The Red 8 is an Asian restaurant so I ordered the Mongolian Beef.
It was going to take about twenty minutes so I stuck $200 into a slot I never played before. I quickly was down $140 when I got a bonus round.
After the bonus I was up $45. MDawg gives good strategy advice. I am learning! Cashed out with $45 profit.
Will try again tomorrow after 6am, when the casino says it's a new day, new session.
So far
+$45 (slots)
-$150 (Amtrak)
-$20 (cab)
-$2.75 (NYC subway)
Paid for my Mongolian Beef with comp dollars.
+$22
Trip profit total end first day: -$104.25
Back in my room the Mongolian Beef:
And a Coke!
Expensive cutlery was supplied!
The Mongolian Beef was AWESOME!
OMG, DELICIOUS!!!
Cut to:
Day Two (Sunday, April fourth):
Six hours of diarrhea and heavy vomiting as the Mongolian Beef came out in both directions.
To Be Continued:
Quote: rainmanI call BS. surely you would have taken the bus not the train.
If you splurge and pay business class on Amtrak instead of coach you get two free soft drinks.
I couldn't resist.
(That's true BTW)
Quote: darkoz
And even an intimacy kit so there is no excuses!!!!
It includes two condoms and lube!!!!
It's even water based lube!!!!
This is the only WOV post to ever provoke me to google "water-based lube advantages." But UGH, now I dread the Google Ads that I will have to endure in the future because I have done this.
Quote: darkoz
Six hours of diarrhea and heavy vomiting as the Mongolian Beef came out in both directions.
LOL, if you had used the water-based lube, the Mongolian Beef might only have required 3 hours to make the luge run out of your system.
Looking forward to the next installment...
Quote: DRichDarkoz, thank you for not providing pictures of the explosive diarrhrea.
Damn, I hadn't even thought of that one.
Honestly I was so sick trip reports were not on my mind
Use CTRL-SHIFT-N first. (Hit and continue to hold down the CTRL key, then hit and continue to hold down the SHIFT key, then hit N, then release all the keys).Quote: gordonm888This is the only WOV post to ever provoke me to google "water-based lube advantages." But UGH, now I dread the Google Ads that I will have to endure in the future because I have done this.
After reading the title, I kind of thought this was gonna be about the Boring company or "not a flamethrower".
https://www.boringcompany.com/
https://www.boringcompany.com/not-a-flamethrower
Quote: BoSoxNow, this is a good trip report, but why did you order that kind of meal? Have you asked for a host yet?
I actually enjoy Chinese specialty dishes. I usually don't get sick from it.
Host? Lmao.
What else did you eat that day?
I know it was the Mongolian Beef because the food bits, particularly the vegetables and spices (peppers) were in the regurgitation.
The restaurant is named in the post Red 8 inside the Encore
Quote: darkozYes it did not come with rice. Is it supposed to be served with rice?
Food poisoning aside, it's better served on top of rice. Unless you're on an Atkins Diet.
You ordered an entree, which doesn't come with rice. Typically, with other people, you'd order multiple entrees and a side of rice. Or by yourself, you might get a combo platter that includes a smaller entree serving, a side of rice, and maybe a vegetable side.
If I were to order a full entree portion, I'd get a side of rice and split it into two meals: one for now, and the leftovers for later. Unless I got food poisoning.
I was feeling better around 3pm so it was time to get this show on the road. But first a hot shower to feel clean again.
No pics of me in the shower!
But here is my view from the 23rd floor of Encore. You can see me in my supplied robe in the reflection
My family did make it to Boston Harbor sans my daughter, arriving around 6am (just prior to my getting sick). One may enquire why my son-in-law would join me without my daughter. A few reasons
1) He drives, she doesn't so it was him or nothing. And my daughter refused to stay in the car with him because she was still angry.
2) It's his family that lives in Boston
3) He brought along my grandkids so it was still blood family visiting (including my newest addition being three months old baby girl)
4) He owed me money and being my chauffeur for two days was one form of payment!!!!
Here is my grandson sitting by a pillow for scale. Encore has some of the largest pillows I have ever seen. Water and chips are on either side.
Since it's common on WOV to question chips and truthfulness etc, here is a voucher from my $45 win on Saturday. It's after I cashed out (the change which casinos don't hand out anymore). Notice the date!
The rooms at Encore are very bright lit. I find most casino rooms are dim and I like to read under somewhat bright lights. The lights in my room were very adequate for reading.
There were no light switches and no television remote. I assumed they forgot to put them in but my ten years old grandson took five seconds to discover everything is controlled by a room tablet. Technology SMH!
Figure out how to use this tablet or you will be in a quiet room with the lights on all night!
That tablet is on a stand. You can take it all around the room so basically you can control everything even without getting out of bed!
Okay, by four pm the family was loaded into the car and we were on our several hours travel to the real reason for this trip.
A little Advantage Play mission at another not to be named casino!
Day two to be continued:
Flashbacks.
So there we were driving to this other casino. To understand my covert mission a bit of history and flashback is required.
Generally I don't like doing just a few players cards. Not enough profit to justify the trip and you risk casinos catching on before you even hit them hard.
Instead I prefer to smack them real hard, twenty, even thirty cards at once. (One casino I hit for over 100 cards a month)
To maintain a regular schedule you would need to have some cards retiring while others kick in. But that becomes dangerous. If the casino catches on they shut off the current cards and then always searching for patterns identify my future cards. Unsure and unwilling to shutdown a legit player they will flag future cards that fit a certain profile and follow their activities closely.
What is normal return on investment becomes all out war as I try to get back as much as I can before more shut down cards and possibly trespass bans are handed out.
I've been through wars. They aren't pretty.
So I do twenty or thirty cards at one location, then set up another twenty or thirty at a different casino, even a different state in a nice rotation so if an operation shuts down I am quickly moving my people right over.
If the rotation is behind then I may wait to reinvest at the current property I am hitting. (Which is why I make $20,000 a week BUT not every week).
After two years of hitting this same property off and on I assigned two of my people to handle it more permanent which means every month.
Alas it wasn't to be!
In December, one of my two people who has worked for six years for me was surrounded by security and they attempted to backroom him but he stood his ground and refused, agreeing to leave. (My daughter laughed it was about time he had his security cherry popped).
Perhaps angry they couldn't intimidate him security tried to frighten him. (note to security: you only end up giving away too much information this way but thanks anyway).
Security said neither he nor his accomplices were welcome. They knew the five people who made up the team and they knew we were the DarkOz team(he didn't say Darkoz, obviously, he used my real name)
Since I only had two people in there if they identified five that told me it had nothing to do with being observed but identified by an external source (I verified it was OSN and yes I know a means to do that).
Secondly, I was getting texts from my other worker who was observing her partner being escorted out while I was on the other end of the casino waiting to get paid for a Jackpot won on someone else's card. They had my ID to pay me. Was I about to get paid or surrounded by security?
In the end I not only was paid, the slot attendant handed me a copy of my players card and suggested I use it to get points and comps (I was using someone else's card so after removing it had just claimed to be playing unrated).
Apparently they hadn't connected this Darkoz with the one in their computer and now, four months later I still have mail and offers there.
(You start to see why I have little faith in security and surveillance intelligence)
At any rate I now was in a quandary. Naturally the cards my guys were using were shut down but I had 22 new cards now set up.
Go to war?
I decided instead to sit on my investment and wait to see what move the casino would do first.
By March it was apparent. They took the lazy route of not wanting to follow a bunch of suspect cards. Instead they just changed their offer schedule from twice weekly to once per month!
Yes, they are cutting their nose to spite their face as making my operations unprofitable by reducing offers also reduces regular players who won't have the same enticing offers to come in. The casino will have less traffic as a result. (This has also happened before and inevitably the casino realizes they have to reinstall the original offers and guess who's back in business)
Anyway, they made my life easier if not profitable. I had one offer on 22 cards in March and one in April. The March offer ended April fourth (a few days carryover) so I scheduled my trip for playing off the March offers April 4th and the April offers April 5th.
And then I would be done
I would recoup most of my original investment but not all. But not as much of a loss as if I left it alone.
So we were on our way for me to do a quick 22 card session.
22 cards each with $400 Freeplay or $8,800 in freeplay.
And another $8,800 the next day.
I was certain they were not watching the cards. As I said their solution was to be lazy and avoid being taken advantage of by making the operations unprofitable. Still, there was the possibility I was wrong and would not be able to conclude my work before being stopped by security.
The original plan was I babysit in the car while my daughter and son-in-law handle the cards but that got scuttled. Now it was my son-in-law babysitting while I handled the whole 22 cards.
Contemplated going in a mask but really didn't see the need and wearing a mask is never comfortable.
In the end everything went quite smoothly.
My profit for the day once I got back to the hotel (although not the operation in total)
$9,000! Not bad for turnover of $8,800 Freeplay.
If you are wondering how long it took me to turnover $8,800 Freeplay, approximately one hour!
To be continued:
Quote: SOOPOOI think I understand.... but you play on a card with $400 in free play.... say run it through to $370, get a TITO, go to second card, run it through to $420, get a TITO.... do you then cash out 22 of these around $400 things at once? Go one at a time? Anyway.... good luck on day two!
In that situation I cash out about two at a time.
I never cash out all at once. Sometimes not even the same day. And sometimes not even the same person who did the gambling does the cashout
That's only DarkOz in a bathrobe? Man, now I have to cancel my request to the Vatican for a confirmation we were witnessing the 2nd coming of Christ. I guess we will have to settle for the MFSWAPOTEC.Quote: DRichDarkOz, you look much taller in a bathrobe reflection than you do in person. Also, you Grandson has good taste as Funyons are a preferred snack.
Quote: DRichDarkOz, you look much taller in a bathrobe reflection than you do in person. Also, you Grandson has good taste as Funyons are a preferred snack.
Perhaps we have discovered MDawg's chip tricks. His stacks just look taller!
I confess as a non-AP I don't understand how you got your hands on 22 different cards each with $400 free play?
Quote: darkozPerhaps we have discovered MDawg's chip tricks. His stacks just look taller!
Your hands look much smaller and older than MDawg's.
Can you explain that?
How much did you pay for that foot warmer?
Quote: tringlomaneGood stuff so far!
Indeed. Is this story complete DO?
Did you leave a negative yelp review of Red 8?
Quote: KeeneoneIndeed. Is this story complete DO?
Did you leave a negative yelp review of Red 8?
No and no.
Had car problems today. Kind of a nightmare
Should have taken the bus!
Will finish trip report tomorrow
Quote: darkozYou can see me in my supplied robe
Livin large, huh?
Did you prance around in the supplied robe, disposable slippers,
and shower cap, just like George Costanza?
At least act like you been there.
Quote: coachbellyLivin large, huh?
Did you prance around in the supplied robe, disposable slippers,
and shower cap, just like George Costanza?
At least act like you been there.
Wow. This is an obvious troll. Shame on you coach belly.
Quote: MoosetonWow. This is an obvious troll. Shame on you coach belly.
With all due respect, you haven't been keeping up with the conversation.
You have no context to make that assessment.
I can't stop you from writing your misguided posts,
but my ability to reply is under attack, so enjoy my stay.
Quote: coachbellyYour hands look much smaller and older than MDawg's.
Can you explain that?
How much did you pay for that foot warmer?
Yeah I meant this one ☝️
Quote: coachbellyYour hands look much smaller and older than MDawg's.
Can you explain that?
Smaller:
I'm Jewish? But I have a really big nose!
Older? Cause I Am?
Anyway enjoy your WOV vacation
After winning the $9,000 the family schlepped back to the Encore with all speed as my son-in-law family were on the way and most likely going to arrive first and we didn't want to hear their mouth.
I hadn't eaten in almost 24 hours due to the Mongolian Beef poisoning so we stopped for a more safe bite to eat before arriving at the hotel.
The family arrived at almost the same time as us. I went up first with the grandkids. We didn't want any idea that we were now going to have more than four people in the room (and I didn't confirm if a three month old counted).
When checking in the desk greeter advised not to have more than four people or they would invoke the clause I agreed to which was an additional fee of $3,000 and expulsion from the premises.
That seems excessive to me even now and I wonder if A) it's ever been enforced and B) if it would even hold up in court. There is such a legal thing as unjust enrichment!
I warned everyone to be quiet in the room and why. One family member said, for $3,000 they should be giving extra rooms for the extra people, not eviction. I tend to agree!
But everyone did remain quiet and (so far) I haven't been charged. It probably helped we had a three month old baby in the room. Adults act differently (quieter) around infants especially sleeping infants.
Day Three April 5th:
Family left around four AM and we all went to sleep (except infant who woke up. Gave my ten years old grandson $20 for taking care of her)
Here is something to note. Check out (except weekends) is one PM. Latest check out I have ever seen. Since we were up late we slept till 12:45, then hastily got our stuff together.
Actually we checked out at 1:25 but who's clock watching (I didn't see any penalty for late check-out.)
Cootchie Koo. My granddaughter just gave me a "Huh" look
And then jackpot:
Since we do fuzzy math these days I value this jackpot at $3,000 (same cockamamie amount Encore came up with)
We did grab some not complimentary goodies which are arranged to spell collectively "E-N-C-O-R-E".
How cute!
Notice the Giant Cashews box has been pillaged.
After piling into the car I remembered I had $125 Freeplay at the Encore. So I left family in the car while I rushed in to play
$125 isn't crap considering what I am used to so I decided to have fun and pick a machine I never saw before.
Finally chose this variable state machine similar to that pyramid obelisk game where three levels get added before the +EV spin. This one was a mad scientist with beakers getting filled. Sorry can't remember the name!
$125 turned into $60 so not so hot. But the game kept teasing me with a bonus round like a sneeze that never materializes.
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, yeah...no!
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, yeah...no!
.
Over and over. I wanted to see the bonus so ended up giving back the $60.
And then another $100.
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, yeah...no!
Added a second $100
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, yeah...no!
Finally gave up $60 profit and $200 ploppie money plopped down
I wasn't upset over the money but I never got to see the bonus round.
My family was waiting in the car so dilly dally cut short
Profit for day three:
+$3000 (emotional jackpot)
-$200 (disappointed bonus hunt)
-$12 (bag of not complimentary cashews)
The previous night I had a brainstorm (the family visiting was my son-in-law relatives so I kind of drifted during conversation).
There might still be a way for me to turn a profit at the other casino with my 22 cards instead of just a small loss. It was a bit of a risk but I felt it was worth the reward.
So instead of day two of grabbing $8,800 in Freeplay I instructed my son-in-law to just head home
Sorry for being a bit ambiguous but I can't divulge my conceptual ideas here.
Okay, well that's pretty much it. I warned you it was boring!
One last jackpot!
A mini-mart randomly along the highway where we stopped for gas.
I went inside and I was like a kid In a candy store (okay an adult in a candy store).
I walked out with so many snacks I have never encountered before, new (some nasty) flavors.
I will share some with you now. These flavors are not to be found in NYC:
And perhaps the Coup Degrassi:
Quote: ChumpChangeHow much do you have to play to get $400 in free play? Is it mailed to you and that's why you possess so many player's cards? I was under the impression I could only get one player's card at the desk, and maybe a replacement if it's lost or stolen. You just hire team members to obtain player's cards and then you fund them with your big money and they get a slice of the action? Seems you know what it takes to get a mailer with a $400 free play, and you can do it 20 times over with no problem. I wonder what's in it for your team members. Is $400 enough for them to show up?
The way most people do it is to pay other players to sign up for the card and then give it to the player along with the PIN. The purchaser generally does all the play on the cards and collects the rewards. The rewards are usuually stored on the player card so a mailer isn't usually required to collect. I am not saying that is how DarkOz is doing it as I know he has a team of players and collectors.
Quote: DRichThe way most people do it is to pay other players to sign up for the card and then give it to the player along with the PIN. The purchaser generally does all the play on the cards and collects the rewards. The rewards are usuually stored on the player card so a mailer isn't usually required to collect. I am not saying that is how DarkOz is doing it as I know he has a team of players and collectors.
No, that's pretty accurate.
The collectors are higher echelon than the people who go get me cards.
I also have head hunters or recruiters who bring in new people.
Sometimes people hand me their mail. Also I can monitor most offers through player's sign in on the websites.
But generally I know so much about each individual casinos system that I can predict the schedule and offers
Quote: ChumpChangeI've never been on Amtrak. It takes 6 hours to drive to Boston from my place, at least in 55 mph days. I used to take Greyhound but I've lost track of that since the local bus station closed. How much do you have to play to get comped a free hotel room on the same day?
This was not my first visit to Encore but my first overnight comped stay.
Quote: darkozDay two (April 4th) continued again:
After winning the $9,000 the family schlepped back to the Encore with all speed as my son-in-law family were on the way and most likely going to arrive first and we didn't want to hear their mouth.
I hadn't eaten in almost 24 hours due to the Mongolian Beef poisoning so we stopped for a more safe bite to eat before arriving at the hotel.
g]
The family arrived at almost the same time as us. I went up first with the grandkids. We didn't want any idea that we were now going to have more than four people in the room (and I didn't confirm if a three month old counted).
When checking in the desk greeter advised not to have more than four people or they would invoke the clause I agreed to which was an additional fee of $3,000 and expulsion from the premises.
That seems excessive to me even now and I wonder if A) it's ever been enforced and B) if it would even hold up in court. There is such a legal thing as unjust enrichment!
I warned everyone to be quiet in the room and why. One family member said, for $3,000 they should be giving extra rooms for the extra people, not eviction. I tend to agree!
But everyone did remain quiet and (so far) I haven't been charged. It probably helped we had a three month old baby in the room. Adults act differently (quieter) around infants especially sleeping infants.
Day Three April 5th:
Family left around four AM and we all went to sleep (except infant who woke up. Gave my ten years old grandson $20 for taking care of her)
Here is something to note. Check out (except weekends) is one PM. Latest check out I have ever seen. Since we were up late we slept till 12:45, then hastily got our stuff together.
Actually we checked out at 1:25 but who's clock watching (I didn't see any penalty for late check-out.)
Cootchie Koo. My granddaughter just gave me a "Huh" look
g]
And then jackpot:
g]
Since we do fuzzy math these days I value this jackpot at $3,000 (same cockamamie amount Encore came up with)
We did grab some not complimentary goodies which are arranged to spell collectively "E-N-C-O-R-E".
How cute!
Notice the Giant Cashews box has been pillaged.
g]
After piling into the car I remembered I had $125 Freeplay at the Encore. So I left family in the car while I rushed in to play
$125 isn't crap considering what I am used to so I decided to have fun and pick a machine I never saw before.
Finally chose this variable state machine similar to that pyramid obelisk game where three levels get added before the +EV spin. This one was a mad scientist with beakers getting filled. Sorry can't remember the name!
$125 turned into $60 so not so hot. But the game kept teasing me with a bonus round like a sneeze that never materializes.
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, !
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, !
.
Over and over. I wanted to see the bonus so ended up giving back the $60.
And then another $100.
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, !
Added a second $100
Bonus, yeah, yeah, bonus, yeah, yeah, !
Finally gave up $60 profit and $200 ploppie money plopped down
I wasn't upset over the money but I never got to see the bonus round.
My family was waiting in the car so dilly dally cut short
Profit for day three:
+$3000 (emotional jackpot)
-$200 (disappointed bonus hunt)
-$12 (bag of not complimentary cashews)
The previous night I had a brainstorm (the family visiting was my son-in-law relatives so I kind of drifted during conversation).
There might still be a way for me to turn a profit at the other casino with my 22 cards instead of just a small loss. It was a bit of a risk but I felt it was worth the reward.
So instead of day two of grabbing $8,800 in Freeplay I instructed my son-in-law to just head home
Sorry for being a bit ambiguous but I can't divulge my conceptual ideas here.
Okay, well that's pretty much it. I warned you it was boring!
One last jackpot!
A mini-mart randomly along the highway where we stopped for gas.
I went inside and I was like a kid In a candy store (okay an adult in a candy store).
I walked out with so many snacks I have never encountered before, new (some nasty) flavors.
I will share some with you now. These flavors are not to be found in NYC:
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And perhaps the Coup Degrassi:
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All those snacks...and you wonder why you got the runs! Great trip report.
