Easter Casino Trip

Once again it's been a while. It seems my poker playing days are getting farther and farther apart. Last weekend for Easter I went to Milacs to use my free room and buffet coupons from the CMPPA charity event. I remember why I don't go there very often. I really like the people that run the poker room  and most of the dealers, but it's just difficult to go there and play. Here an insight to my weekend. I arrive at Casino a little later then I had planned and My Daughter and Son in-law had already checked in. Happened to meet Kenny in parking lot so we walked in together. Went to get on elevator and guard stopped and asked for our room key. Kenny took his out and shows him and then he asked for mine and my wife's. I said that we had just gotten there and that Kenny had checked us in and had our room keys up in the room. He wasn't going to let us in. Here we are with suitcase in hand and he wouldn't let us up to our room. Finally he says I will let it go this time and off to room we go. I play the $30 buy-in tournament in the afternoon. 8 full tables. I get to my seat and look at my table and realize I am the youngest player at the table, Great! I win a couple of early hands and things are looking ok, but blinds are 15 minutes and it painfully obvious that this going to an all in fest quickly. I survive to 1st break and through rebuy period and have about 5000 in chips. Not very good but at least I didn't rebuy. Early in next blind level I raise in mid position with KQ. I get several callers. Flop is KKJ. I bet about a little more then half my stack expecting everyone to fold. I get reraised by an all in for about half of what I have left. I call and he turns over KJ. A few hands later I am button with one caller ahead of me, so I push in with 88 and get reraised by big blind with AA. So ends my tournament. Later I sat down at a 3-6 kill table and it was pure hell as always at Milacs. No one ever folds. After an hour and $35 down I surrender and go to blackjack tables. I did make a little back later on a slot but not the best gambling weekend. But, it's not over yet. Milacs is a dry casino so if you want a beer you have to sneak it in. Funny, that they have a fridge in each room! We had a few beers in the room and watch NCAA games and played some cribbage, probably the highlight of the weekend. Everyone else gambles late but I decide to go to bed early, so I'm up early and everyone else is sleeping. I decide to go to pool and hit the hot tub. Get me suit on, grab a soda and head to pool only to get stopped by another guard because I can't have a drink in the pool area. I look at him and say "you really going to make me go back to room to get rid of soda". Yes, he made me go back to room. I'm a little irritated by now. Go back to room and go back to pool only to find out heater was turned off in hot tub and it's going to take 3 hours to heat up. Back to room! Later we check out and go to buffet. We have 3 free ones, so it's only going to cost us $18. Not bad for 4 people. I seriously wanted to ask for my money back. Food was poor. We talked to manager because we had taken some peal and eat shrimp and you could smell that it was bad. He didn't say much and they never even removed the bad seafood. It will defiantly be my last visit to Milacs. Hinkley is much better and only a 10 minute farther drive. My only question is why can't MN have a nice Casino? I have been to many casinos in many states and ours are some of the worse run ones and what happened to customer service and MN nice. I that also doesn't apply to the local Indian tribes. It's time for state run competition!