Profitable Detour

Mark and I decided to run up to Blackhawk yesterday on a whim. The town bills itself as the Las Vegas of the Rockies. There are quite a few casinos but one, maybe two hotels, so the comparison is a little optimistic. We had a spare chunk of change that we wouldn't mind parting with. The first slot I sat down at yielded the second to highest payline (unfortunately, I was only betting one credit per line, so all I won was twenty bucks for it, but the game had been nice to me before then, so I tripled my money). Some wins and losses occupied the next few hours, with Mark doing very well at Black Jack and me feeding the slots to play some fun bonus games. The last slot I sat down to turned my last twenty into eighty. I was happy to stop gambling then. But Mark had one last twenty to spend, so we decided to use it on the dollar Winning for Dummies slot, which had been very kind to us in Canada last summer. We took turns hitting the "spin" button. We weren't doing so bad, winning just enough to keep us from going bust, when I decided to start hitting the "bet max" button to activate the big bonuses. On my third try, we got back $200. This plus my $80 gave us quite a profit for the day - more than double what we went in with. We decided to call it quits and head back down the mountain. On the drive, we agreed to use some of our profit for a fancy Valentine's Day meal.

All in all, I didn't mind losing a day of writing for this little adventure.