91. With Mike Stefanidis - Wynn Las Vegas, October 1-3, 2009

• Hey! We only stayed in one hotel this time! Mike got a comped room at Wynn Las Vegas. It was the first time either one of us had stayed there.

• This was sort of a last-minute trip. I had an $80.00 credit with Southwest Airlines from our last trip, and it was due to expire on October 11. So, we threw something together on short notice. (With the credit, I only had to pay $37.20 out of pocket for the round-trip airfare.)

• Our flight to Vegas was delayed by five minutes, so we were able to get on the previous flight at no extra cost. (Had our original flight been on-time, they would have charged us to switch.) The change got us to Vegas at least an hour earlier.

• Along with the comped room, Mike got some free slot credit (somewhere around $200). He was able to convert it to around $400 in real money thanks to a straight flush in Jacks-or-Better Video Poker.

• Craps was up and down, mostly down. The only monster roll was one Mike had at Wynn; I turned $300 into $1,300. Unfortunately, after his roll we walked over to Encore, where I dropped $500 and Mike dropped $1,000 when we played at a table where we didn't win a single bet. That's not an exaggeration. No repeat numbers, no naturals on the pass line or come. Nothing.

• The final day was dismal at the tables. We couldn't catch anything.

• Before we left, we played a little more video poker. On one hand, Mike inadvertently held onto a pair of 9s when he should have held four to a flush. His mistake paid off as he drew to quad 9s.