Low roller trip report

Plaza
Nice DD game, dealer stays on soft 17, lots of DD $5 min games open at all time. Minimal heat when you're top bet is in the $40-50 range. Wouldn't you know most of my losses would come here.
Las Vegas Club
Used to be my favorite place for SD, but now all they have is mediocre crowded DD game along with a bunch of carnival games. Hard to justify spending much time here w/ S17 right next door.
El Cortez
I wasn't backed off this time, but I was too paranoid to spread much at all. Kind of sleazy, but you got to give these guys credit for dealing 5 or 6 nice SD games at all time.
Western
Can get head to head action on nice SD game anytime. Sound too good to be true. Well consider this:
1.If you bet $20 on occasion you are guaranteed to be the biggest bettor in the joint and will have the privilege of a pit boss watching you're every move.
2.You have to pass 3 bums and 2 crack dealers to walk there from Fremont. Once there a homeless carrying his sleeping bag on his back came and played the slots next to the tables and a crazy asian lady kept walking around commenting on the play at the tables.
Fitz
Decent DD game with no heat. Had nice run here.
Lost around $200 on the trip. Defer to CBJN for pen details.
Good cards to ya.
KO Kid

... please describe penetration, as your report, by necessity, is most current and table conditions are radically changeable. Also, I assume that you found DAS on no games downtown.

Wouldn't trust the accuracy of my pen asessment given that I use unbalanced count and don't think much about pen except when picking games from CBJN. I do check to see that CBJN is not way off--which it was not. As for DAS, Plaza has it and perhaps some others, but I don't recall offhand.