58. With Mike Stefanidis - Harrah's, October 29-30, 1994

• This trip was very similar to the previous trip, at least from a mechanical point of view. Mike and I left his house at 12:00 PDT on Saturday night (October 29). We got to Vegas at 3:30 a.m. PST (note the change from Daylight Saving Time to Standard Time) and played at Rio and Harrah's until about 10:00 a.m. Then we got a room and slept till about 1:00 p.m.

• Before we went to sleep, the dice were hot and cold. At one point Mike was down to his last $50.00 out of $3,600.00, but he had a nice comeback.

• After we woke up, it was a different story. We were on fire. Every table we went to we won. Our biggest hit came at the Flamingo. We cashed in for about $1,600.00 and cashed out for about $3,700.00. We had a lot of place and buy bets that kept hitting, especially the fours and tens. By the end of the trip we were each up $3,000.00.

57. With Mike Stefanidis - Harrah's, October 1-2, 1994

• Mike and I left his house at 11:15 on Saturday night (October 1). We got to Vegas at 3:30 a.m. and played at Imperial Palace and Harrah's until about 8:00. Then we slept until 11:15 a.m.

• At Harrah's, Mike had a $5.00 hard four. It hit, and Mike told them to parlay (so the bet became $40.00 on the hard four.) A little while later, it hit again. He was paid $280.00, and he tossed an additional $60.00 onto the hard four so now his bet was $100.00. The very next roll was another hard four; payoff: $700.00.

• It was up and down like crazy until, on our way home, Mike lost a ton at Stateline. He was down about $3,000.00 and ready to leave. I convinced him to come with me to the McDonald's next door and have a burger. He sat there in the restaurant fuming, but it gave him a chance to consider going back to the casino to try to win his money back. He decided to take $300.00 and make two $150.00 place bets, one on the six, one on the eight. Well, Mike parlayed those bets into the $3000.00 he was down. When we left Stateline it was 10:30 Sunday night.

• The table limit on the crap tables in Stateline was only $500.00, and at one point Mike had a $600.00 place bet on the six.