Ka and myVegas.

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Booked Ka at MGM for free with my myVegas points. I loved Beatles Love at Mirage and Ka is supposed to be amazing too so I'm in with a free ticket for Sunday night of the July trip.

myVegas has clearly changed their win algorithm of late, it's becoming impossible to rack up chips the way you could in the past. At the height of my chip count I was near 3 million on mobile, it's now down to less than 50K, in about 3 months time. They are obviously trying to force players into BUYING chips to keep playing the game, which to me is fucking ridiculous. If you want to buy a million chips it's damn near $100. Why would I buy chips to play a time sucking game to earn rewards when I could just BUY the fucking reward?

I've cashed in some good rewards in the past, free drinks and bar credit and the Love ticket but it's not worth the bother any more. I'm going to rack up Loyalty Points in the next month and a half until I either run out of chips or go on the trip, then likely delete the game from laptop and mobile. The time wasted getting enough points for a reward are not worth the effort.

So, with the Ka ticket my first two nights are now pretty well booked. AiC on Saturday and Cirque on Sunday. After not being wowed by any of the restaurants at MGM, I've made a reservation at the vaunted Gallagher's at NYNY again. Major steaks and not a stuffy environment.

Probably will leave Monday open to just do whatever comes up. Depending on how my direct deposit works out I may have to hit Sahara road on Monday to pull some cash out of the bank, so that might be my "get downtown" day, which I've been meaning to have as I've never been up there in 12 previous trips. Several interesting looking dive bars up there.

UPDATE:

Nope, see above.

Less than 2 months now.


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