Rageotones takes Vegas by storm...(1/4-1/7 TR)
 

i plan on making this pretty long, but i'll separate it out for you guys. if you don't like the first part, stop reading....or keep reading and bitch about it.

part 1 cliff's notes below
so it all starts with a letter from harrah's telling me i've been invited to their 75k freeroll that starts on friday 1/5. i guess they sent these to 1 gazillion people, b/c i'm not a high roller by any means. i don't have a lot of cash to spare right now, but i'm not giving up a free shot at 30k(first prize) and a free room in vegas for the weekend, so i immediately book a spot at bally's and get a plane ticket. i ask my parents for a ticket for Christmas, and they say ok, so i'm in for a totally free trip to vegas. ship it.

i only have a few friends who like to gamble, but none of them seem interested in going this particular weekend. oh well, i have no problem spending a weekend in vegas solo. also, i have one buddy who is going to be there that weekend for work, so i'll have someone to go out with at night. that works for me.

fasforward to thursday 1/4. i'm not really getting a lot of work done since i'm leaving work at noon. i have about $500 in my pocket, and my plane leaves at 4 from DFW, so i'm pretty much just thinking about how i'm going to lose my money in vegas this time.

i head home at noon, go to get a haircut, then come back home and start packing(i don't like to do anything before it absolutely has to be done). against my better judgement, i figure i'll save a few $$ on parking, so i have someone coming to take me to the airport around 1:30 or so. i'll spend no money on parking this trip...great decision for me.

i get to the airport with plenty of time to spare. i check in at the little computer for american, and it asks if i want to spend $135 to upgrade to firt class one way. hmmm, my trip was totally free....yep, i think i'll do it. this will be my one time to feel like a balla on the trip before i get to vegas where the real ballas roll.

we start to board, and i take my seat in first class(FC). i make sure to get an isle seat, since i have to piss a lot when i drink, and definitely plan on taking advantage of the drinks on the way to vegas(it's about 2:45 to vegas from dallas fyi). after everyone is on board, i get a crown and coke from the flight attendent(FA) and decide i'm really going to like this FC thing.

i learned one very important thing about flying on this trip. the whole "make sure your seats are in the upright position" thing is total b.s. my seat was leaned back the entire trip from boarding to deboarding, and they didn't say anything about it. i guess just one more way that they screw the non-FC passengers(which is usually me, since this is the first time i've flown FC). i finish drink 1 while we taxi to the runway, and we're off to vegas.

we get in the air, and i decide that scotch will be the way to go from here on out. i order a glenlivit, and start chatting it up with the guy next to me for a minute or two before he goes to his cd-player, and i go to my dvd player for some Thank You for Smoking action. a great way to start the trip.

not too long goes by before they bring by the food for us FC folk. i go with the veggie pizza, salad, and this little thing of brie and crackers. as the FA is pouring my chardonay, i ask for another scotch. she obliges, and i dig into my food. it was actually really good, but much better considering that i had already felt a little bit warmer than usual from the first two drinks.

i finish up everything, get one more scotch, and finish up my movie. i start listening to my mp3 player for a short while before i can feel my ears starting to tell me that we're beginning our decent into fabulous LV. i start talking to the guy next to me some more about poker and what not (he told me earlier that he played poker in puerto rico...where he's from). he's just a casual player, but enjoys the game. we then start talking a little about work, and i come to find out that he's some sort of badass(BA) originally from Trinidad and Tobago. we exchange cards, and decide to share a cab to the strip. i hear the FA tell a guy in front of me to be sure to finish quickly as she's handing him one last drink. hmmmm... i immediately get her attention, ask for one more crown and coke, and suck it down before we get ready for landing.

after getting our luggage, we take a cab that stops first at his hotel. he hands me a 20, and i try to give him change, but he refuses. really nice guy, and i tell him i'll e-mail him sometime and let him know how the poker trip went. ship it...almost free cab to the hotel.

i finally get to bally's, and go to check in. a cute girl(7) helps me get checked in. i ask if i can switch to one king bed instead of two queens since no one ended up coming with me for the trip. she says that she can do 1 queen in the north tower which is nicer, and i say ok. i drop her a 5 after it's all done, say thank you, and head to my room.

the room is really nice. has the little vanity mirror place with a chair by the bathroom. has 1 queen bed, and the rest of the room has a sofa, a little coffee table. then it has a full dining room table with chairs. one more nice chair, and 2 more dining room style chair. it's probably 40% bigger than a regular room, plus only has 1 bed making it feel 100% bigger than a normal room. this is going to be nice.

i just drop my stuff off because i have to get over to harrah's to register for their freeroll.

cliff's notes
take first class to vegas, get drunk on the plane, meet an important guy from puerto rico, and get upgraded to a nicer room at bally's

going to get some food...more to come on my first drunken night later on.

after preview...it looks like this might end up being the longest trip report ever. i guess it'll make up for me not writing one last time.

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these take a little while. is anyone interested in me continuing?

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keep it coming

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if you are gonna be a balla, understand that f/c doesn't need to put their seats in the upright position cuz the guy behind you can get out if he needs to without the seat upright...

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part 2

i head over to harrah's, which is only a mildly annoying walk from ballys. it's kind of cold outside, but i'm doing pretty good from my 5 or 6 drinks on the plane.

i do all that i can to avoid stopping along the way to gamble(i think i might have been asian in my former life. as of this life, i'm 24 y/o, 1/4 mexican and the rest some mixture of whities, and on my 5th trip to vegas).

...and then i see it....that siren that is o'sheas. o'sheas is my first love since i've been coming to vegas. my first trip, the day i turned 21, i enjoyed this place b/c you could gamble for relatively cheap. i think it's the only place that i've ever had a good run at craps in vegas. i stroll in, but come to find out that most of the tables are 10 and up. i finally see a $5 bj table, but i'm too impatient to wait on a seat, or to squish in between 2 rather large people. i only have about 15 mins to make it to harrah's to register, so i just head over there.

i get up to registration and see a huge gathering of people. there are free drink places set up, a buffet, and a huge line of people waiting to register. i'm surprised at how nice harrah's has made this thing. i register and find out that i'm not playing until the 4 o'clock round the next day; this makes me pretty happy. i decide that it'd be kind of smart to just get water this go 'round(maybe the last good decision i make this night), grab a couple of egg rolls, and finally feel the itch hit me. i decide i need to find the fastest way to get into a poker game.

i head downstairs to harrah's poker room, and the place is packed. virtually every table in the room is going (maybe 15 or so), and there is a decent wait. screw that. there are 100's of games running all over this town, and i'm not about to wait so that i can play at harrah's.

moving along, the next place i see is imperial palace(IP). i played there once a few trips back and swore i'd never play there again(this was back when it was upstairs). it was just kind of this depressing place, and i decided that i just didn't get a good vibe from this room. oh well, i really want to play, and any room will do at this point.

i see that they have their new room in a lot better spot, but only have 2 or 3 tables running. i ask if i can get into a 1/2 game, and the guy tells me that they'll put me on a list and see if they can't get another game rolling. i tell him i'm going to go over to the craps table for a few minutes while i wait.

i get to the craps table and drop a quick 40. i want to say that i had 200 in cash on me along with 2 $50 gift traveler check things to start the night. nothing interested happens at craps. pass line with double odds, placing the 6 and 8 for $6, yadda yadda.

i go back to the IP "poker room" (i.e. roped off section of casino floor), and see that my name has not moved up the list. i again decide that i'm not waiting to play somewhere that isn't even that nice or special, and move on to the next stop.

...coming up in part 3...caesar's palace and late night bally's action.

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if you are gonna be a balla, understand that f/c doesn't need to put their seats in the upright position cuz the guy behind you can get out if he needs to without the seat upright...

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a. i'll probably never be a huge balla
b. i never thought of that...it makes sense
c. nice 1st post

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That get-your-drink-at-the-gate thing is one of the best things about FC. The schmoes in coach have to wait 20 minutes until they get up to altitude.

Man, stopping at IP when Venetian is only a couple hundred feet away had to be a bad call.

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lets get to the meat and potatoes already

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Man, stopping at IP when Venetian is only a couple hundred feet away had to be a bad call.

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true, but i wanted to go back towards bally's knowing i could just play where i was staying. i dunno, i was approaching drunkenness at this poing...starting part 3 now...

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part 3

so i leave IP and head across the street to caesar's(CP). i get into the poker room and the room is crazy busy. last time i was in vegas was early during the series '06, and it wasn't nearly as busy. i just want to mess around a little since i'm not really rolled for anything bigger than really small games, so i ask to play 3/6 or 1/2 nl. i buy in for my remaining cash which was about 160 i believe, and get into a game.

i order a drink, and everything starts to get fuzzy. after a few hands, a knew kid sits in the 2 seat(i'm in the 1). he gives the chip runner 100, and gets in the game. after about 5 minutes, he still hasn't gotten his chips which is kind of odd. it starts to be kind of a big deal, and he asks the chip runner(CR) what's going on. this is all annoying me b/c i just want to play, and it is really really slowing down the game. he keeps talking to people while his hand is just sitting there, and although i understand he wants to get his money, let us play while you work that [censored] out with them. anyway, they say they're going to have to review the tape (i've never seen an issue like this), to see who she gave the money to. the kid is taking it quite well, but just wants to get his money obviously, and the girl/CR is getting all freaked out b/c it is "the first time anything like this has happened to her." she's about a 68 in my book fyi.

minor note. my girl rating system consits of ## which gives a rating for face/body. therefore this girl was a 6 in the face and an 8 for the body.

anyway, while they're trying to figure out what's going on from the tape, the kid kind of yells something to his friend about how he'd better not have the money or he'll kick his ass...jokingly obviously. about 10 minutes go by, and all of a sudden the CR is like OH YEAH, i gave the chips to that guy, and he never gave me his money. turns out it WAS his friend, and she accidentally gave the chips to the friend without getting the cash b/c she was doing too many things at once.

wow, i thought this is a pretty douche move. you obviously know if a CR hands you a stack of red, and you didn't give them anything, that it's going to be a problem eventuatlly. oh well. everything gets going, and now i can easily donk off my money as quickly as possible.

the kid registers for the 11pm tourney, and it's about 9 at this point. i say i'll play if i have money by then. i don't really remember any hands until i'm down to about 70.

i open to 8 in ep with A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] (i've moved to the 4 seat). there's 1 caller, and it folds to the kid in the BB. he decides to raise to 20. i'm pretty confident that he's doing this with a marginal hand like AJ or 9's, and decide i should try and get my money in so i can get a decent stack to play with. i reraise all in to 68, and the first caller starts thinking. he thinks long enough that i'm not at all worried about a hand like AA, KK, or AK, and he eventually calls. the kid folds and says he had AT. the caller shows....

AKo....hold on one sec. let me reach into my pocket and make sure my luckbox is turned on...check

flop comes KJT, and i hit broadway. turn is obviously another K so i have to sweat it out, but the river blanks, and i have my first suckout of the trip. i feel kind of bad, and now this guy is like the only guy at the table that's not having fun w/me and laughing and drinking and what not.

another hand i remember is a little after the guy in the 5 seat had showed me his cards after a flop of 75o and says, "i guess i should start playing a little looser" before folding.

after a flop of T73 (i'm not in the hand) the 5 seat guy min-check raises with 3 in the hand. one guy calls, and one folds. the turn is a blank, and the 5 seat bets out. after one guy folds and says something like, "i guess you hit your set" the 5 seat is about to muck his cards. then i chime in with "yeah right, he had T7" and the 5 seat starts laughing. he then turns over the T7 and rakes the pot.

another hand comes along later with a 885 flop all hearts. i don't remember the action exactly, but i think it checked around. a K comes on the turn, and someone bets, and there are 2 callers. the river brings the Q hearts, and the 5 seat bets out on the K88Q5 4-heart board. the 6 seat puts on a bad acting job, even almost mucking his hand, then raises 100. the 7 seat thinks for a while and calls, and then the 5 calls.

seat 5 has K8, 6 has QQ, and 7 has the A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. wow, that's a bummer.

a few hands later, i have a big A...don't remember exactly, and i flop top pair after raising pre-flop with 2 hearts on board. i bet out 30 into a 35 pot, and get one caller (the guy who put on the bad act with QQ). turn pairs the low card on the board, and i check OOP. guy checks behind. the river comes the 3rd heart, and i check. guy bets 50, and i make a bad call. he shows Q3 hearts, and i have 11 left in front of me. i leave a $1 to save my seat, and go to cash my $100 in travelers checks.

after i get my money, i drop a 20 in a nickel slop machine. i figure if i'm going to tilt off some money, it should be as cheap as possible. i play for about 5 minutes, and end up hitting 100 credits. i cash out with my $19 win or whatever, and head back to my seat.

at this point, it's about 10:15 or so, and the tourney starts in 45 mins. i make back about 50 before signing up for the tourney, and take my seat.

i'm basically drunk at this point. the 11 o'clock starts with 2500 or 3000 chips, with 30-min levels. i donk off a few chips before the first hand comes up that i remember.

a note...2 locals sit next to me...a guy in the 5 seat, i'm in the 6, and a chick in the 7. the chick is a 78 or so, and she hits my leg or something on accident. i make a comment about her playing footsies with me, and i don't even know her, and get absolutely nothing. strike one.

in the hand, i have KTo in the SB. 4 or 5 people limp, i complete, and the chick checks her BB. flop comes T45 i beleive, and i check planning on raising if the right person raises. it checks to the button who bets t100 (blinds were 25/50), i raise to t400, and the chick raises it to t1000. uh oh. i'm kind of worried about the check raise raise or whatever. it's intimidating b/c i don't even know what that moves called. it folds around to the button who folds. i think for a minute b/c i only have 3 chips left, 1 1000, a 500, and a 25. as i'm fiddling with my chips for a second contemplating if i should just get it all in here, i accidentally drop the 1k chip and it rolls over the line. i grab it really fast, and luckily the dealer isn't a douche b/c i obviously didn't meant to call. i then show my T, say "i guess you have this beat", and fold. the button says, hell, i had that beat, and says he had JJ. thanks for not raising your J's in a pot with 4 limpers on the button so i can waste 425 chips.

it's at this point that i realize that the 5 seat and the 7 seat are a couple. hmmm, nice job using a bad line on this chick when her boyfriend is on my right.

another hand comes up when i have T8 in the SB. i think the blinds were 50/100, and i complete. flop comes 678 rainbow, and i go all in for my last 1300 or so. the chick goes into the tank, and finally calls having me covered by 100. the guy behind folds, only b/c she called, and she shows 75. she doesn't improve, and i double up. turns out that the guy behind folded T8 also, but luckily, i don't have to split the pot.

for the record, i'm drinking newcastles like they're water at this point, and everyone at the table is having a good time. some guys even start drinking newcastle with me even though they said they weren't drinking earlier b/c they can tell that beer makes life more entertaining.

another hand comes up when i have 33. i limp in LP and the flop comes 659 with 2 clubs. it checks around, and the turn is a 2. an old guy in the 9 seat bets out a decent amount, and i call b/c i put the guy on trying to take the pot with air, plus i have a gutshot draw. i'll reevaluate on the river. the river brings my 4, and the guy opens all-in. i insta-call, and he shows A-high with the missed flush draw, and i have hime covered. i finally have a decent amount of chips at about 6k, and we go on break.


speaking of breaks...i'll be back shortly with the conclusion of the tourney.

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i am very entertained.. seeing as how this BCS championship game is boring me... finish your story FTW

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i am very entertained.. seeing as how this BCS championship game is boring me... finish your story FTW

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lollaments. this is only thursday evening of a trip through sunday. the whole weekend is gonna take me a few days if i'm going to give all the details. i'll finish thursday tonight though

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part 4

a quick note. when i stop by o'sheas before registering for the harrah's freeroll, i'm about to walk out. then, i see two guys throw a $100 bill yo on the casino war table, and hear the dealer yell money plays. this is gonna be good. i've seen it all before, but usually it's at the roulette table. guys throw down a hundo on black or red hoping to go home for the night or enjoy they're newly acquired $100. anyway, here we go...i stop to watch for fun. first guy 7, second guy 6....i start laughing....bam, dealer turns over a 3. ship it. it was amusing none the less.

casino war is the new roulette.

so back to the tourney.

we're back from break, and the blinds jump up to 100/200/25. oh well, at this point, i'm having fun along with the rest of the table. newcastle is flowing like wine, and if bust out, i'm off to the strip where the women flock like the salmon of capistrano.

i don't remember many hands from this point on. one interesting thing that did happen was that two players went all-in later in the tournament, and the shorter stack won. the dealer starts counting out the chips and doing her thing rather quickly. after she pushes the pot, i notice something doesn't seem quite right. the new kid in the 9 seat says something about it not being right, and i agree. then the guy to my left says something, and all of a sudden like 5 people at the table agree that she counted out the chips wrong. unfortunately, she did it so fast that no one could say exactly what happened. i think she just said the wrong number to herself, and then counted out the extra 2400 from the bigger stack when it should have been 3400. well, one of the floor guys comes over and asks what's going on. the dealer insists she did it right, and most of the players disagree. everyone is saying it's wrong, or not saying anything. no one agrees with her. so the first floor guy asks if the bigger stack will agree to just give the extra 1k to the shorter stack. he says that he doesn't know what happened, so he's not just going to give away the 1k. then, the TD comes over and says that since no one can say what happened for sure, he has to go with the dealer. i guess i don't know a better solution, but i thought it was kind of a dick move for the guy to not give away the extra 1k when everyone at the table pretty much said that's what needed to happen to correct it. but that's just me, i try to do the right thing in situations like that.

anyway, the tournament keeps going along, i make a couple of bad plays including knocking someone out by calling an all-in with 92o, my favorite hand. shortly later, a guy comes to the table to my right, and it folds around to him in the sb. as he's thinking, i'm like, "these guys can tell you, i'm not scared to call with 92." then he goes all-in, and i look down at 92s and insta-call. this turned out to be totally retarded at this point. he had enough chips to hurt me, and i maybe i should have laid off the beers......nah, it's ok. i can come back.

anyway, it gets pretty late in the tourney, and we're down to 2 tables of 9. 9 places pay, so i need to get some chips. unfortunately, there's a new big stack at the table that is opening almost every single pot for a raise if not calling, and i don't have enough chips to get him off a hand with a resteal. when we're down to 11, UTG raises, and it folds to me where i have AQs. i really have no way not to push here given my stack size, and just making the money doesn't really interest me. first was a little over 1k, and 9th paid about 100 or so. anyway, i push, and the ep raiser calls w/AK. that's all she wrote, and i'm out in 11th place. time to head back to bally's

well, it's around 2:30 or 3, and i'm thouroughly wasted at this point. i guess that means i should just crash out.

no thanks, i'll buy into the 1/2nl game with the last of my money. i know the math doesn't add up, but at this point i think i had like 120 in cash, and i used it all to buy into the game.

i start playing really terrible poker by calling a lot before the flop with trash hands and hoping to hit something. i end up going down to about 70 and start thinking, man, i need to double up so i have some chips to play with.

well kids, what's the best way to double up at the poker table. maybe i should wait for K's or A's, open push, and hope to get called by J's or Q's.

no thanks. for some reason, i get the idea that it's ok to take my stack off the table all except $1. i quickly do this and walk away before anyone can even say anything, and go to the nearby $15 bj table.

now, it's not like i walked across the casino...that would take too long. i walked from the poker table and sat at a bj table that was literally 5 feet behind the poker table. so as i sit down, the poker dealer is looking at my back sitting down at the bj table.

so i place my first bet of 15. 14...hit...bust. eff this game. let's up it to a $30 bet.

i have 6, and the dealer shows a 2. what does the book say?
...double down for less baby. i put my last 25 down, and draw a 3. dealer turns over a T and draws a face card to bust. ship the 110 please. i break a 5 to tip and gather my chips. i walk the 5 feet back to the poker table and take my seat. the dealer says something about leaving for good if i want to go play bj. i say sorry, and the game goes on.

i somehow acquire some chips. maybe it has something to do with a hand i wrote down. i jotted down a few notes from the day when i got home, but i was in a drunken stupor, and i wrote fast.

my notes say

"27T B
check around
7 turn call 10
river blank call 20 ship it"

let me know if you know what that means.

anyway, i get up to around 200 or so when a big hand occurs.

i limp on the button after a few limpers with K [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]

flop comes 237
sb checks, bb checks, one guy bets 5, 2 callers, i call, sb folds and bb calls.
turn is a K...sweet.
the bb comes out w/30 and it folds to me. i'm like, "wow, you just called 5 and now you bet 30." he kind of chuckles and says, "i flopped the straight, oh wait..." haha, etc.
well, in that case, i better make it 75 b/c the K helped me too. he goes all in for 175 total and i think for a sec. the only hand i think he can have that beats me is K7, and i'm almost positive he didn't flop a set. he had a chance to c/r the flop with 2 of a suit on the board, but just called. anyway, i call and he flips over K2 for a worse two pair.

this puts me up around the $400 mark. a drunk younger guy comes over to fill that guys seat, and we chat a bit. we then decide that it'll be a good idea for the 2 of us along with his 2 other buddies at the next table (2/4) to take a shot of jager.

i must have won a couple of hands b/c i leave shortly after the shot with a little over $500. i decide that i'm tired after getting up at 7:30am tx time. it's almost 5am lv time, so i'm coming up on being awake 24 hours. i go back to my room and get ready for bed.

oh, and i was planning on getting some drunken late-night food before bed, but bally's doesn't have a 24 hour place to eat. doubleyou-tee-eff. what kind of crap is that? what a total beat b/c i'm way too tired to walk anywhere that isn't inside my hotel.

this is where i amaze myself. i'm drunk, horny, tired, and just made some $$$'s. however, i somehow find the logic to not spend $14.95 on a porn in the room b/c i know i'll be asleep after 5 mins. i pass out shortly thereafter.

end of day one....+200

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where the women flock like the salmon of capistrano.

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OMFG, I just peed myself. Genius, hardest I've laughed today.

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newcastle is flowing like wine, and if bust out, i'm off to the strip where the women flock like the salmon of capistrano.

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That was more than just a movie, it's the blueprint for my life.

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no thanks. for some reason, i get the idea that it's ok to take my stack off the table all except $1. i quickly do this and walk away before anyone can even say anything, and go to the nearby $15 bj table.

now, it's not like i walked across the casino...that would take too long. i walked from the poker table and sat at a bj table that was literally 5 feet behind the poker table. so as i sit down, the poker dealer is looking at my back sitting down at the bj table.

so i place my first bet of 15. 14...hit...bust. eff this game. let's up it to a $30 bet.

i have 6, and the dealer shows a 2. what does the book say?
...double down for less baby. i put my last 25 down, and draw a 3. dealer turns over a T and draws a face card to bust. ship the 110 please. i break a 5 to tip and gather my chips. i walk the 5 feet back to the poker table and take my seat. the dealer says something about leaving for good if i want to go play bj. i say sorry, and the game goes on.

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LOL, I'd have paid a quarter to see that.

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oh, and i was planning on getting some drunken late-night food before bed, but bally's doesn't have a 24 hour place to eat. doubleyou-tee-eff. what kind of crap is that? what a total beat b/c i'm way too tired to walk anywhere that isn't inside my hotel.

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Actually they do. It's the coffee shop over by the down escalator. They will even let you pack your food to go so you can eat it in your room (just in case you pass out). They won't even complain if you pour spaghetti sauce all over the table because in your drunken state you placed the take out box upside down on the table and the sauce leaks out of the latch holes.

I'm beginning to rate hotels on the availability of late night take out food. Wynn and Orleans (for their 24 hour Subway) are tops right now.

Good report, amazing you remember that much detail.

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another hand comes along later with a 885 flop all hearts. i don't remember the action exactly,

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My favorite part yet. keep em coming. i dont know how i get so addicted to these trip reports, but i love them.

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Actually they do. It's the coffee shop over by the down escalator. They will even let you pack your food to go so you can eat it in your room (just in case you pass out). They won't even complain if you pour spaghetti sauce all over the table because in your drunken state you placed the take out box upside down on the table and the sauce leaks out of the latch holes.

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BASTARDS!!! i asked the dealer where i could get some food, and he said my only option was a place that sold stuff like chips and candy...convenient store stuff.

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another hand comes along later with a 885 flop all hearts. i don't remember the action exactly,

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My favorite part yet. keep em coming. i dont know how i get so addicted to these trip reports, but i love them.

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haha...i obviously didn't catch that. i just remember that by the river, the board was QK88X with 4 hearts, and the 3 hands at showdown were QQ, K8, and AhX. i couldn't believe the K8 guy didn't raise...i would have gone broke.

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Actually they do. It's the coffee shop over by the down escalator. They will even let you pack your food to go so you can eat it in your room (just in case you pass out). They won't even complain if you pour spaghetti sauce all over the table because in your drunken state you placed the take out box upside down on the table and the sauce leaks out of the latch holes.

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BASTARDS!!! i asked the dealer where i could get some food, and he said my only option was a place that sold stuff like chips and candy...convenient store stuff.

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actually the food at this place was pretty sweet - the nachos were amazing. plus they shipped a big meal up to our room another night at like 3:30am (with huge tip of course)

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Can't wait to read more. Keep it coming.

Re: Rageotones takes Vegas by storm...(1/4-1/7 TR)
 

12 hours since last one?
Get moving slacker!

Re: Rageotones takes Vegas by storm...(1/4-1/7 TR)
 

don't expect any updates until later this evening after work and what not.

Re: Rageotones takes Vegas by storm...(1/4-1/7 TR)
 

But what am I supposed to do at work if I can't continue reading your saga? Just kidding, but I am getting busier. Guess I'll have to visit 2+2 at home. Thanks for writing it.

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"6 in the face and an 8 for the body"...is a butterhead...as in, everything about her was good, butterhead (but her head)...keep going!!

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part 4
my notes say

"27T B
check around
7 turn call 10
river blank call 20 ship it"

let me know if you know what that means.


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For some reason, this made me laugh pretty hard.

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12 hours since last one?
Get moving slacker!

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I'm here to read - get part 5 posted asap!!!

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part 5

so i ended up crashing around 5 a.m.ish hoping to get a good night's sleep since i don't have my tourney until 4. boy was i wrong. i wake up around 10 am feeling like ass. seriously, all i want to do is sleep off this hangover so i can have a good day.

i lay in bed for about an hour failing to fall back to sleep and decide that i'm hungry. and then i get the itch. i told myself i was going to get some good food in this trip. where is it that i decided that i absolutely HAVE to eat? well, somewhere that i can get anywhere i decide. CHIPOTLE bitches. oh man, that barbacoa is like the best thing ever. i hope in the shower, and then head north to the little food court that's just on the other side of harrah's.

so, that little indention type thing that you have to go around in front of harrah's really pisses me off. i dont' know why, but the fact that i can't just walk directly parallel to the strip for that segment is annoying as hell...just a thought.

anyway, for some reason, the place has a ridiculous amount of hot chicks in it. no idea why, but i remember thinking it was an abnormal ratio of hot-chickness. i get my barbacoa burrito, it is awesome like always(make sure to get the corn salsa stuff, or you're missing out), i finish it in about 3 minutes, and i head back to harrah's.

i sit down at a $10 bj table or a few minutes. nothing of interest happens besides the fact that i make a little bit of money(which is unusual), and i head to the poker room.

i decide that i just want to take it easy and relax(i'm still feeling kind of hungover), so i take a seat at a 1/2 nl table after putting my name on the 3/6 list. before i can even play a hand, they ask if i want the 3/6 seat, and i head over. it's about 1 pm at this point, so i have about 2.5 hours before i need to be on the 2nd floor for the tourney.

i start donking off my chips faster than you can imagine. i forgot how unbelievably boring the 3/6 table is. there's nothing more miserable than being at a typically really slow table, but on top of that, like every single person take 1 minute to count out calls and raises. it's also a full kill table, so this only adds to the confusion b/c every once in a while, things are multiplied times 2. not everyone at the table took like 6 semesters of math in college, so i guess i should go easy on them. probably the most annoying is a guy to my right who gets really confused everytime there's a kill pot. but then, when you try to explain, he's like, "no no, just tell me how much money to put in." shortly later, during the next kill pot, "so why does that guy have 6 out in front of him"...."i owe 6 this time?!?!" sighhhhhhhhhh

the first hand that i semi-remember is a hand where i limp KQo in LP in a 3 bazillion way pot. the button raises, and everyone calls. i flop 2nd pair with the Q on a board of AQT. it checks to the button who bets, and everyone calls in front of me, so i take a card. a blank falls on the turn, and again, it checks to the button who bets. 1 caller in front of me, and i'm bored, so i call again. then the K comes on the river giving me 2-pair on a board of AKQTX, and i reluctantly call one last but. button shows J6s for the nuts, and the other guy mucks along with me. you have to raise pre-flop with J6 when you know you're going to end up with the nuts....gotta build that pot up. i just sort of chuckle, and make a note for how i should be playing later.

another hand doesn't involve me, but happens when a guy gets raised on the river, and just calls with the absolute nuts...KQ on a KKQXX board vs. someone else who had a straight or something. i idiotically make some comment about missing a bet.

well, less than an orbit later, i get heads up on the river with the same guy, and raise him when i river 3 of a kind. he re-raises me, and i'm like [censored]. he didn't 3-bet with the nuts, so i'm probably beat here. he of course only had like the 4th nuts this hand, but good enough to beat me. everything is going my way.

i start to super-spew at this point b/c i'm down to about 10 bb's, and for some reason, i come to the conclusion that i'll feel a lot better leaving broke vs. only being down about 110.

the next hand, i raise 7 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] pre-flop, b/c i have the feeling that this is the hand. things start going my way this hand when it ends up getting capped 7 ways for 5 sb's a piece. looks like i'm taking this all the way if i have any chance in hell of winning.

flop comes Q-high, and i end up with 2nd or 3rd pair with my 7 on a pretty uncoordinated board. some guy bets out, i raise, and someone re-raises behind me(was probably the J6 raise preflop guy), i just call this bet, after 2 or 3 guys cold-call, and we go to the turn. an A hits on the turn, and a new guy bets out, originally bettor on the flop calls, i just call, and J6 guy calls. i make a note that i need a miracle card, and the 8 hits on the river. guy to my right says, "well, that wasn't it," as i'm thinking saweeeetness. i puss out and just call a bet on the river fearing a better 2-pair, but i obviously win, and i rake a ginormous pot.

i lose a big pot later when i flop TPTK on a K-high flop with AKs after it was capped pre-flop. i bet out, and the guy who i was raising with pre-flop who is immediately to my left insta-raises me. at this point, i'm fairly confident that he has AA. i just call there, and end up calling 1 bet on the turn and river so that i can see he flopped top set with KK, and i'm just unlucky that i hit the card where i have to pay him off. oh well.

this guy was on one of those sick runs where he was winning 1 or 2 pots every orbit. it helped that he played every single hand that where he had a leg-up no matter what he had in order to "protect his kill button."

well, it somehow gets to 3:45 p.m. or so, and i leave down a few bb's, but no big deal. it's time to head up to the freeroll tournament where the real ballas roll.

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everything is going my way.

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awesome.

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sorry guys, i feel like [censored], and i gotta get some sleep. i'll get back on it tomorrow. thanks for reading so far.

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Still waiting...

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part 6

so i make it up to the tournament a few minutes before 4 and take my seat. it's ridiculously packed in there and looks a lot like a wsop event. same tables, same dealers, etc. keep in mind this is a freeroll, so i'm not too worried about the competition.

the way it works...
the first day is basically a shootout, playing down to 2 of 10 players from each table. after day 1, all the players (20% out of 2800) will combine into a new tournament that will play like a regular mtt. so i'm basically playing a satellite to get to the next day.

i'm not really too worried about anyone at my table except for an asian kid about my age that sits immediately to my left in the 10 seat. we start with t1500 in chips, and blinds are 25/50 for 20 mins. i have a lot of experience w/sng's, so i'm not too worried about the format. i start the tourney in the co, and fold 45o. flop comes 446, turn 5, and i curse myself for making the right play. asian dude steals the pot from the button after it checks around on the flop and all the way to him on the turn. no big deal.

nothing exciting happens until i'm in the bb. a couple of folds, and the 3 seat opens to 150(3xBB). 4 seat calls, button calls, sb calls, so i throw in a 100 chip with A [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img].

flop comes A37 or something like that. i check. 3 seat bets 200, 4 seat calls, 2 folds, and i move all in for 1350 total. 3 seat calls, and 4 seat folds, and i know exactly where i'm at. he flips over AFace which i can't really see, and i turn over my A7. turn is a K!!!!...WTF...oh wait, he has AQ not AK.... river blank, i double up early and knock out the first player.

next hand, i'm in the SB w/J [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img]6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], and a few people limp. i'm about to complete when the button raises to 200(4xBB). i reluctantly fold, and one or two people call. flop comes 66X, i cringe, and action ensues. a guy check raises the button, and button calls, but folds w/only about t450 remaining on the turn. i cry b/c i'm 90% sure i could have knocked out a player or two on this hand.

later i raise a pot w/A [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], and a lady w/about 1500 calls. she checks a small board, and i go all in. she folds. easy money.

nothing important happens until the next level. with a few limpers, the crippled button moves in for t400 or so. i call w/K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]Q [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in the SB, and asian dude calls in the BB. it folds to a limper who moves in over the top for t325 more, i call, and sb calls. i flop a Q, and the asian dude and i check it down. button and asian both had TT, and other all-in had Q6, and i take down a nice pot while eliminating two players.

at this point, i'm cruising along nicely, and i've developed an unspoken mutual respect with the asian dude to my left. i have already decided that it will probably come down to the asian, the 2 seat, and me in the final 3 for the two seats, and the asian guy is 2nd in chips, so i'm playing pretty tight. i'm folding a lot when it's my SB vs. his BB b/c i don't want to get into any messes. this also alows me to pick up a couple of his BB's later b/c he puts me on a hand every time i raise.

fastforward to 4 handed. it's the asian, the 2 seat who looks like bill kowar...we'll call him bill, and a lady in the 7 seat with a saints symbol thing on her shirt...we'll call her saint.

the blinds have gotten pretty big...something like 200/400/50. the next hand i remember is her open limping in the CO/UTG for about 1/3rd of her stack, i fold, SB completes, and BB checks. it checks all the way to the river, and the SB wins with 46, she shows AQ, and BB shows Q7. lollerskates. i feel bad b/c she really doesn't understand at all what she did wrong, but is just kind of bummed that she lost the hand.

anyway, she keeps getting super short stacked in the SB when it's my BB, and i have about 75% of the chips in play. so i keep having to call when she pushes after it's folded to her in the SB. i call the first one w/1 over to her pair, and she wins. i call the second time w/to middle unpaired to her over and under, and lose again. at this point she's gotten enough chips to be kind of annoying.

the third time, i tell her that i'm actually going to have to look this time vs. the last two times. she pushes again, and i look down at T3o. sigh....i'll still have a big stack if i lose, and so i tell bill and the asian dude, "i'm doing this for y'all," and make the call.

she flips over K [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] vs my T [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]3 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]
i whiff the flop as she hits a flush draw....crap this isn't looking good.
the turn is the beautiful 3 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] , but i still have to dodge a gazillion outs, and the river blanks out. that's pretty sick, but oh well, i was bound to win 1 of the 3.

so we're down to 3 handed, and i'm sitting with about 10k out of the 15k in play. i fold once before picking up 99 in the SB. i raise 100 less than the right amount to put bill all-in. he thinks for a minute and decides to call b/c blinds are about to go up anyway. he flips over KX with one over to my 9's.

flop is JT4 or something, turn is an 8....woohoo, open ended, not that it matters, and river is another 8.

i'm about to shake his hand before i realize that he has trip 8's for the runner runner beat. bummer. i didn't even notice. oh well. now they both have a little over 2500 and i'm still in a great spot.

the next hand, the sb pushes, and the bb calls, and i'm thinking hells yeah b/c the sb only has him covered by a bb or so. the asian dude turns over A4 and bill turns over AT. the asian guy sucks out to knock out bill, and karma does her thing once again. too bad we all couldn't advance, b/c both the guys were pretty cool, and we had a good time. i managed to not play a big pot with the asian guy the entire time, not including the one hand that we checked down.

anyway, we both get our tickets to play at 11 the next morning, and all is well.

one funny note. at one point we hear all this ruckus, and i look a couple tables over, and about 4 down, and you see this douche all up in this guys face like "hell yeahs! this ain't no kiddie game!!!" HAAAAAAAAA

ZOMG, i wish i had this on video tape. it was a cheesy freeroll where like 80% of the field was eliminated in a matter of hours. i can't imagine what it's like to play at the wsop. anyway, i'm tired, and don't feel to hot, so i head back to my room to chill for a bit. i decide to stop by subway in o'sheas for a 6" meatball sub which is fantastic as overpriced as it may be (5.70-something), and then head to my room in bally's.

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Great report....can't wait to hear more.

Re: Rageotones takes Vegas by storm...(1/4-1/7 TR)
 

This is a very good read.

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part 7

i make it up to my room and still haven't heard from my buddy. i decide to lay down for a little bit to maybe grab a couple of zzz's before i go out that night. i turn on the tube and 1 vs 100 is on. i've never seen this before, and i can't help but watch for a minute. this chick is the 1 person against the mob and yadda yadda. it's slightly more entertaining b/c bob saggat is the host, and i can't help but think of him boning hookers in entourage. anyway, it's a few questions in when it happens.

"in the popular song 99 bottles of beer on the wall, how many 6-packs would you have to drink to get to 99 bottles."

a. less than 15
b. exactly 15
c. more than 15

hmmm... that's a tough one.

so, she starts talking herself through the problem....
"well, 10 6-packs is 60, and 20 6-packs is 120, so...
you know, i might need some help here b/c i'm not really a beer drinker."

holy [censored] nuggets! are you serious? and everyone is just going with it like this is sound logic for the problem.

anyway, they go through and she ends up getting it right b/c a guy tells her the answer, and bob decides he wants to ask the maxim model who got it wrong what the problem was.

"well, i'm a red wine drinker. i don't drink beer b/c it makes you bloated...(trails off)"

wow

so right before i fall asleep, the phone rings, and my buddy is ready to go drinking. i just wear a t-shirt, jeans, and a hat b/c i don't think we'll be doing anything too exciting, and i head off to his hotel.

it's not really a bad walk at all, but the wind is blowing pretty hard core, so it's pretty cold. anyway, i get there and meet up with him, and a lot of his coworkers. we all decide to get a drink at the bar, and my buddy buys the first round. this is my first drink of the day, and i'm still kind of tired, so i go with the redbull and vodka to get a little pick-me-up.

we finish the round, and i buy a couple more drinks for my buddy and i, and it's like $17 at the bar in the hotel. damnit, this sucks. the bj tables are right there where i could be losing money and drinking for free. why am i standing here paying like $8 a drink? well, i learned my lesson with that one.

so everyone is standing around debating on what to do, and i kind of sneak out of the group over to the bj table. my friend comes along, and we decide to skip dinner and just play and drink.

we both pull out hundos, and start to play whilst drinking excessively for...yeah that's right...$1 a drink. take that crappy bar!

everything is going alright for me, while my friend starts twirling down the spiral of doom. it may have all begun when he splits Ts against a dealer 7 or something. it all happened so fast. i just see him put another green chip out there, and while i'm wondering what's going on, the dealer starts dealing the cards. NOOOOOOOO!

he loses both bets of course, and hundos continue to come out of the pocket. at one point, he's down to his last 50, and gets an 11. i double for him, and he gets the 10. somehow or another, he gets hot, and comes back from down about 350 to only down 50. moral victory.

i end up about one-fitty or so, and am somewhat sauced up at this point. my buddy makes a few calls, and it turns out that he has a few friends out at coyote ugly. now, i want to go to coyote ugly about as bad as i want a swift kick in the nuts, but i'm a team player, so we head over to NYNY.

we get to coyote ugly, and there's a long line. i immediately start bitching about it, to make it known that i'm against this idea, and wait there anyway. i mean, it's like waiting in line to get into hell, or to get an std. i don't even want to be here. he offers to pay my cover, but it's no big deal, so we both pay and go in. once we get into the factory o' sausage, i start to drink more, and everything ends up going ok.

two of his guy buddies, and two girls are there. the girls are a 66 and 77, but like a fine wine, they both get better with beer. i think that's how the saying goes.

there are girls that work up on stage that are dirty, slutty, and hot (their hotness and dirtiness are inversely proportional). so they make it entertaining. they are offset by the female patrons that are dancing up on stage with them.

oh yeah, the first thing we see when we walk in is this 43 dancing up on stage....something no man, or woman for that matter, should ever see.

anyway, we drink a lot, and i end up buying jello shots for everyone. i'm pretty sure they were just jello though. i was kind of suspicious when they were so cheap. we finally decide to get out of there, and head over to mgm grand for the horses.

-note- the 77 is starting to look more like an 88 at this point, and she's being flirty as hell. like the first thing she does when we're introduced is give me a hug where like are faces touch. anyway, i guess she likes the attention. i'm pretty sure that all of us guys are thinking that we can probably score with her at this point if we try.

so, we don't go to play the real horses, but this mechanical horse game where you put quarters in (yes, it only takes quarters, and gives you quarters if you win b/c it's so old), and you have to pick the first 2 finishers in order out of the 5 horses. each run around the track, it gives you different odds for the different combos.

well, this ends up being bust b/c it's really crowded, and we can only get like one spot.

the 66 is sitting there wasted at this poing, and my buddy is talking about going somewhere else. so we sit there doing what people our age do for about 10 minutes which is talk about what to do without actually doing anything. someone suggests karaoke, which i think sounds awesome...i may have been the one who suggested it...i'm drunk at this point, but the 77 says she's not interested.

"what about gambling," seza me
"i don't really gamble," she says

"how the hell do you call yourself an asian?!?! you don't gamble or karake?!?"

everyone gets a laugh and then it happens. she drops the B-bomb on everyone. apparently she has a boyfriend.

welp, my decision is made. i'm bored anyway, so i take off towards the monorail after saying bye, b/c this seems like a better idea than walking at this point.

TERRIBLE IDEA!

i swear, you have to walk like a whole mile to get to the monorail within MGM. luckily, nathan's is on the way, and i get a philly cheesesteak to tide me over. i'm kind of weary of the $8 price on the samich, but what the hell.

it ends up being totally huge and badass. i highly suggest it sometime for some drunken late night food. i couldn't even eat the whole thing.

anyway, i finish the marathon and end up at the monorail stop and spend the $5 for a ticket even though i'm only going one stop. i'm about to go through the little booth before i start arguing with the lady at the gate.

"how late does this run?"
"it's open til 2," in broken english
"no, it says it's open until 3 on friday."
"no, no, until 2 is ok."
"WTF, i just bought this ticket? can i get my money back."
"go ahead and go."

awesome, she's going to let me go anyway.

so i get through the gate and start walking towards the stop when i look at my watch and notice it's only 1:40 a.m. my negotiating skillz pwn.

so this effing sucks. you have to wait outside where it's freaking freezing, which is why i didn't want to walk in the first place, and it takes at least 5 minutes for the train to come.

it finally comes to take me the 30 seconds to bally's, and i'm ready for some drunken poker...

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Great read! I'm leaving for LV a week from today, and this is just getting me more psyched to fish in the pond that is 1/2NL and low-buy tourneys.

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part 8
some drunken late night bally's poker

so after leaving the hotel with about 300, i'm down to a little over 220 at this point (after the bj winnings which i blew at the bar plus some...i think...the math is fuzzy at this point).

i sit in a 1/2 game in the 9 or 8 seat. the second last to the dealer...can't remember if they played 9 or 10 at bally's. i buy in for 160 i think, and start to play.

i immediately donk off a some chips and get down to 130-140 before the first notable hand happens.

this guy bumps it to 20 UTG, and i call w/44 b/c i'm drunk.

flop comes K46 all hearts, and it checks around...again, b/c i'm drunk and have no fear.

the turn brings the 8 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], and UTG bets out 30. i go all-in for about 120 total, and it folds back to him. he INSTAcalls, and i'm like, oh [censored]. i guess he flopped the nuts or something.....nope

he turns over AK no heart and is drawing dead. thanks bud.

he starts talking to his buddy who is railing him, but not really railing and actually sitting in a chair fairly close, and the guy sitting out is like, "easy fold man," yadda yadda.

they start talking and i hear him continue, "i mean, in the right game, that's an ok call, but not hear."

so i chime in..."what game do you normally play?"
to which the guy responds, "2/4 limit." to which his buddy kind of chuckles. then i finally realize that apparently he usually plays higher, and is all but insulted at the joke of a 1/2 nl table.

lollasauras rex! wow, you just donked off your chips and you're too good for this game?

he ends up busting less than an orbit later when he open pushes with AJo for like 70 and gets called in 2 spots.

now, the last seat has opened, so i'm the last before the dealer, and there is this guy in the 1 seat with close to 3 million in chips or so (maybe 800-1000). i'd think he was good, but then something happened that i've never seen before even though i've played quite a bit of live poker.

big stack is in the BB, 5 seat open limps, it folds to BB who mucks, and 5 seat takes it down uncontested pre-flop with the power-limp. wow.

the next big hand comes when i limp 9 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]T [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] in MP

flop comes the beautiful 6 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]7 [img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]8 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]

it checks to the button who bets 10, SB c/raises to 30, and i make it 100 to go. button folds, and the SB calls leaving about 65-70 behind.

the turn is the 3 [img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] and somehow, the money drunkenly gets all-in however it happened.

he shows 67 for two pair, and the river is an offsuit 9 keeping my straight in tact.

lucky me, the button says he folded TT.

sometime later, i limp 56o in mp, and something like 378 w/two spades. i bet out 6, big stack raises to 15, there's one cold call, and i call.

the turn is a 9 giving 2 clubs 2 spades, and i check to the bettor, who bets 25. coldcaller folds, and i raise to 200. he folds.

i was really hoping that would be a big hand b/c he had my covered, and i'm at about 550 after this hand is over.

the last hand i play, i open to 8 with AJo, and the flop comes J86 two spades after 2 callers.

i bet out 16, and both guys call.

the turn is a blank, and i bet out 40, and again they both call.

the river is some meaningless spade, and the first 2 of us check, where the last guy bets 50. i'm a station, so i call, and the big stack folds.

guy turns over 7 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]2 [img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] for the nizzuts.

i steam a little, and tell myself that i'm going to play until i stack the guy, but then think better of it and leave after 2 or 3 more hands. i leave with a little over 400, and i'm ok with that. no need to lose any more doing something tilty and stupid.

i make it up to my room at about 6 or so, and crash out b/c i have to play day 2 of the tourney, and am supposed to be there by 10:45. total beat.

i pass out almost instantaneously....

day 2 +200 (+400 for trip so far)

fyi the #'s are total $$$ in pocket and not a record of how much i made at poker or gambling, but net gains for the trip.

day 3 to come tomorrow...stay tuned

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we finish the round, and i buy a couple more drinks for my buddy and i, and it's like $17 at the bar in the hotel. damnit, this sucks. the bj tables are right there where i could be losing money and drinking for free. why am i standing here paying like $8 a drink? well, i learned my lesson with that one.

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I hear ya. I was there with a bunch of my buddy's friends, sitting in a bar, shooting the breeze, and coughing up like $70 a round. I kept telling them we should just get a 2/4 table and do the same thing and get free drinks. They wouldn't listen.

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oh yeah, the first thing we see when we walk in is this 43 dancing up on stage....something no man, or woman for that matter, should ever see.

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What is up with that stuff anyway? I was at a strip club and there was a group of about 6 people that were collectively about 43, but the ugliest and fattest one was dancing to the strip music. Ugh. The club should put a stop to that crap immediately, because it removes any inclination to want to look at a female, much less cough up 20 bucks to grope one.

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so, we don't go to play the real horses, but this mechanical horse game where you put quarters in (yes, it only takes quarters, and gives you quarters if you win b/c it's so old), and you have to pick the first 2 finishers in order out of the 5 horses. each run around the track, it gives you different odds for the different combos.

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LOL, Stardust used to have one of those things. MGM might have bought it in the auction.

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i steam a little, and tell myself that i'm going to play until i stack the guy, but then think better of it and leave after 2 or 3 more hands. i leave with a little over 400, and i'm ok with that. no need to lose any more doing something tilty and stupid.

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I bow in your direction. This is something I need to learn to do. I have trouble with it even when sober.

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there are girls that work up on stage that are dirty, slutty, and hot (their hotness and dirtiness are inversely proportional). so they make it entertaining. they are offset by the female patrons that are dancing up on stage with them.

[/ QUOTE ] --Only an engineer/mathematician could use such prose to describe some beat women.

FYI the Barbary Coast serves breakfast 24/7. I'm shocked and awed you aren't aware of this goldmine of grease.

I'm with you on the drink prices in Vegas. I went 2x in the past month and one was with my non-gambling friends and one time by myself. I had so much more fun just playing poker because you can get drunk (and play butter poker) while getting your $8 drinks comped. We went to Scores and I dropped $200 basically to get my leg felt up and have 4 drinks that ended up making me sick the next day anyway.

FYI the tables were a little soft this past weekend due to the CES people. It was a glorious thing.

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part 4

flock like the salmon of capistrano.



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That would be the Swallows (a bird) to Capistrano :-)

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reading these posts by rage highlight my day.. keep the reports coming... its the equalivalent of reading a good book...