We wento to the Mohegan Sun casino yesterday. We didn't leave here until after 3pm, and it's about an hour to get there, so it was a bit of a late start. We didn't leave until around 11pm. I've never been to a casino so it was interesting to go. The place is huge, it has over 6000 slot machines in it, along with the usual table games, and a giant hotel, conference center, arena, shops, etc. One of the reasons we went was because yesterday was free scoop day at Ben and Jerry's icecream stores, and that was the nearest one. We had been talking about going for a few weeks now anyway, so it was a good time to go.
We had alot of fun. There are 2 diffent gaming areas with the shops in the middle, and an upstairs that is mostly just restaurants. We ate at Johnny Rockets, which is like a 50s style hamburger joint. They even give you 2 nickles to put in the little juke-box on the table. It plays overhead, rather than at the table, so it takes a while to get to your song. It was really good though.
We didn't play any of the table games. They're pretty expensive, and there aren't any that we really cared to play. We decided to dedicate $10 to playing slot machines and video-poker though. We ended up doing really well. We signed up for the little player's club card, which gives you bonus points every time you play something that you can redeem for food or whatever else. We didn't build up many points, but that's ok. The first thing we tried was one of the slot machines, and Sabrina won a few pulls in a row, so we had a good start. We did more slots off and on, but never really won anything else. We did do well at video poker though. We played for quite a while, and did well enough to start having more than we started with, so we cashed out with $12 before we went to eat. So from our $10, we made $2 more. Then after dinner we went back to play some more, and did even better. We lost for a while, but started winning again, and put aside $10 in quarters so we would know that we would at least break-even for the day, and used the leftovers to play more. I was on a losing streak for a while, and on my last $0.50 I got a really good hand, and won $12.50 back. After that I did pretty well for a while, and so did Sabrina (she also got a $12.50 hand) and by the time we called it quits, we had $33.25. So we had a profit of $25.25 once we took out the $10 we started with, and included the $2 we won earlier. We were both pretty pleased.
It's pretty unlikely that we would do so well repeatedly, but it's certainly a nice way to start off the first time we try going. The best you can hope for usually is to not-quite break even. We'll probably go again in a month or so, or go to the other casino, which is not far from this one, called Foxwoods.
The only other thing new is that we did manage to catch the stray cat we were after. We got him this afternoon and took him to the vet that the no-kill shelter said to go to. He's very friendly, and obviously likes people. He just rolled around on the ground with us and then went right in the carrier when we put it down with some tuna in it as a lure. We'll probably never know what happens to it, but hopefully he'll find a new home.
Posted by Jesse Walton at April 30, 2003 04:42 PM