If you get a high hand or lose with AA at Excalibur, they let you spin a The Price is Right type wheel. The wheel at Imperial Palace (which comes into play differently) has mugs, t-shirts, hats, and other crap mixed in with the cash, but the wheel at Excalibur is all cash, ranging from $20 to $100. I was dealt JJ, flopped a set, and rivered quads to win a fair amount of money from a guy over-playing his QQ on a board showing an Ace. Plus my hand qualified for a wheel spin! Naturally I spun $20, with the flipper getting infinitesimally close to 85$ before giving up and settling on the lowest amount possible. Also notable is that this is only the second high hand I’ve hit since coming to Vegas (the other being the second day I played) and I managed to do it the one time I played at a casino that doesn’t have automatic progressive jackpot bonuses. At imperial palace you are guaranteed $40 and it can get much higher if no one hits the hand for a while. At Bally’s the jackpot starts at $60. I’ve played at those two places 25 out of 31 sessiosn, but managed to hit the high hand elsewhere. Doh. If I had spun $100 I’d probably have been better off being at Excalibur though, so that’s just fine. What was less fine is the rest of the poker for the night; I’d have needed quad jacks a couple more times to get back out of the red.
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