Easter Was Fun!

Because Matt's sister Jen and her kids had come up from Pennsylvania to visit her and Matt's parents, he and I went to see them. Jen and I helped her girls color Easter eggs, using the Paas tablets dissolved in vinegar. My, but that stuff reeks!

On Saturday morning, the adults hid plastic Easter eggs stuffed with candy and a clue to the next egg all over Matt's parents' house. There was a different color assigned to each girl so there would be no confusion, and at the end of the trail was an egg with a $20 bill inside for each of the girls.

In the afternoon, Matt and I headed home, but when we arrived, Matt out of the blue decided that Easter weekend was a perfect time to gamble in Atlantic City. We booked a room at Caesars AC (the Borgata was sold out), and off we went. The drive from Virginia to Atlantic City is about 3.5 hours, and we had a chance to use my cell phone;'s GPS system to help us navigate.

Clerk at Caesars

The front desk clerk was extremely courteous and efficient, and in no time (a lot faster than our Vegas check-ins), we were happily sliding the card key into the door of our room

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The room was on the small side, but we've been spoiled by our stays at the Venetian and New York New York in Vegas. On the other hand, the view from our room was phenomenal.

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Matt spent his time playing on the only full-pay 9/6 video poker machine in the entire casino. We looked for quite a while for decent video poker, but every jacks or Better machine we looked at was a lousy 6/5. We finally found one machine hidden in a slot pit that had 9/6, so I left Matt to play there while I went to the poker room to play the real game. 

Matt at Caesars

I played a tight and aggressive game, and when Matt and I took a break to eat, I was up by $80. However, I had an unfortunate hand when my 10s over 8s full house was crushed by a villain catching a jack on the river, giving him jacks full. I had raised heavily in that hand, so I lost about $100 bucks on that hand alone. I caught some hands successfully after that, so I finsihed the session only down $30 or so.

It's only a small  loss, and I'll find plenty of poker room donors to recoup my  cash when we head to Vegas in May.

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