Apparently my lucky time to go to the casino is around Thanksgiving time. I made my way back from a quick though long drive from Detroit back home. Weatherwise there was lake effect snow in several cities along I-94 that I usually take to travel. To get around the potential delays on 1-94, I wound up taking the expensive I-80/I-90 tollway or the Indiana/Ohio Turnpike.
There is another major snow system that will be hitting most of Indiana sometime on Saturday. So I found myself heading back home earlier today to avoid it. Going back I traveled north of I-94 on I-696 and I-96.
Since taking the detours, I didn't make it to Firekeeper's casino this year where I won my first handpay last year. Instead I stopped at another casino that's closer to home that I visit semi-regularly, the Four Winds in New Buffalo, MI.
I started out with a $20 on an Aristocrat classic game called Pompeii. Sadly I played it down to 5 cents and then wound up getting the bonus on 3 cents. It even retriggered once. The 5 button was broken so couldn't play all of it. The bonus wound up paying $5.80, which is an excellent return on 3 cents. But that was very embarrassing since it was such a small bet and I couldn't skip the celebration music that was playing when I hit $1.50 on a spin...but again at 3 cents, winning a $1.50 is an excellent return on investment even if ultimately it's peanuts.
That bonus kept me alive for a little longer before I lost it all. I played my next $20 on another slot called Prost Deluxe which is a game that's another version of Octoberfest beer game. I wound up getting a $200 bonus on the game where whenever the beer lands on a space it doubles the current value and apparently it caps at a certain point where it stops doubling and was set to MAX (which is a shame since the beer seemed to keep hitting the same spots after they maxxed out). That was my first time getting a really nice bonus on it and reaching capacity on not one but two squares. I got briefly excited because I wound up getting a full screen of credits and was wondering if I would get the Grand jackpot. But that's not the case. The grand jackpot could just randomly drop on any spin. Here's a shot of my winning bonus.
That's not where the winning ends. I wound up playing the same Dollar Storm game (different machine obviously) that I won my first handpay on last year. Wouldn't you know that this time I achieved another first. I wound up landing the Major ball in my bonus which netted me $523 dollars. The button to the game was broken so I was distracted and didn't fully realize what had happened. There was a lady that sat next to me who decided to bring it to my attention. The bonus ended up being over $650 in total. It wasn't a handpay but still a milestone as I've never gotten the Major ball before where it counted.
Pretty much after that I didn't get any other wins. I forced myself to stop at $500 and called it a win. I will say it's still pretty shocking to me. I will have to play again next Thanksgiving and see what else happens.
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