AP story about the Stardust closing

[Iplayragstoo]

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I will that place very much. I just spent 3 nights out there for a pool turny (At the Riv) and spent many hours at the dust. Frist night there(on a monday) ended up playing heads up NLHE with some guy who kept telling me he did this for a living...just kept telling me over and over. So its about 5am tuesday morning, and its just me and him and 3 dealers in the whole place. We decided to up the blinds to 10/20, and end up playing for about an hour like that. the whole room, all 5 of them, were watching us play. I ended up stacking him twice for 2k as he kept speeding at the wrong times. After I took his second 1k, I told him it may be time to look for a second job. I statrted that trip with 770$, and ended the first night up about 3K...I will miss the joint. On another note, they gave us comps for almost every meal...I think I ate 5 out of 7 meals there.

RIP - Stardust [img]/images/graemlins/mad.gif[/img]

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Was this player kind of big, bald (sahved) and have a few piercings?

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No, medium sized guy, maybe 30. Southern accent. After I was beating him he said he wanted to go play some pool for cash...I am a very solid 7 handicap in the APA, and would have loved that..except for being up 28 hrs, being drunk, and having to sleep and wake for a match 5 hrs later.. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[pig4bill]

I will really miss that place. Back when they had the motel section they would mail me $15 room offers. I first stayed there in the late 70's. It was the most comfortable place in Vegas for me. I could get a quick hot dog or sandwich at the sports book snack bar without waiting in the perpetual Vegas restaurant lines. Or I'd get a room service pizza. The newer hotels make it such a pain in the butt just to get lunch.

[mr giles]

I know this guy. When he likes his hand he'll say, "I bet that much" and splash out a handful of chips. Lucky you to get him HU - I had to work through about 4 others when I played him.

[NutzyClutz]

[img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] Sportsbook was the best, then came MGM.