Like a Twinkie….
The middle was the best part….
The trip was chalk full of crazy poker action, poker attitude and poker idiocy! And I like it! Got off to a bad start on Friday night at Caesar’s palace Jim later reminded me that I banned Caesars a long time ago and that it used to be that every time I used to go by the place that I would flip the building the bird… I guess they recognized that and took advantage of me coming back into their building. That night was rough and my bankroll took a hit After losing my second buy in by flopping a straight and another guy flopping a higher straight it was time to go.
The next morning the plan was for Jim and the other PDC members and wives to go traipsing around the desert at red rock…. “Ohhh I heard someone got married out there once and that it must have been cool” … whatever it’s the fucking desert and fucking hot how much sand can you look at? …instead I made an executive decision that my fat ass is going to sit inside the confines of a casino where the ac is pumping at full force. So I got to Bellagio around 8am. Players still going at it from the night before and me fresh from a 4 hour nap. I got a blow job from a Asian hottie in the lobby, right next to the pretty flowers. Mark that. I went in the poker room and put my name on the SNG list , a satellite to get into the $1000 weekly tournament. Cost me $240 bucks. I am like 10 times better than the avg donk out there playing SNG’s , unfortunately I got raped on the bubble . Fuck you I have kings! Need I say more?
From there I met up with forum member rebelraider at the Venetian.
Phone conversation: “Hey Tom whats up?” …. “not much man, where you want to play some cards?”…”how bout the venetian?”… “sure where is it in relation to Bellagio?”… “ohh its right next door!, go out front and hook a left.”
First let me say it aint right next door. Second let me say I am fat. Third let me say that was how I got in my last workout of the week, for the Bigstack Exercise Survivor Competition. It took me like 35-40 minutes to get from the Bellagio poker room to the entrance of the Venetian. Seriously freaking 40 minutes, yes I am fat, handicap and slow, but that aint “right next door”. And it was well over 100 degrees. I felt like sitting down in the shade and buying a bottle of ice cold water from the immigrant families that line the people bridges, and begging for change while I cooled off. Maybe hold up a sign that read “I aint gonna lie this money is going straight to the rake!”
I got to the Venetian and things were going well. I was playing great poker and blowing bitches up. Sucked out on a one dude runner runner style! Sorry dude get more chips to make me fold next time. Got to pop a boner at the poker table as this milf was sitting next to me and her milf friends came by and then to top things off this milf gets a massage from what had to of been the hottest asian chic in Vegas, Damn. This milf was moaning as this hottie leaned into her . Ohhhhh that feels good… ummmmm…. Jesus fucking Christ how can I play with this shit going on… every man at the table was having to be reminded that it was his turn to act. The massage girl left and I was left with 2 options go and jerk it in the bathroom or just let the hard on die off… The milf announced she was leaving soon after , and then after a few hands announced her last hand. I got 44 and it was limped in. The flop was 3-5-Q, it checks around to the milf and she bets 15 I call for some stupid reason and everyone else folds… she then doesn’t realize that I am in the hand and she turns her cards face up. The dealer says she can still play the hand face up, the turn is a K and I say “well I have you beat now”. She asks if she folds will I show and I say yes. I bet 25 and she folded I turned over my 44, told her I lied. She called me a tease. And I responded “well it’s only fair you having been teasing me for the last 30 minutes or so with that hottie giving you a massage!” , she laughed hit me in the shoulder and then leaned over and kissed my cheek. This shocked me and I said “ well that will give me enough fantasies to last a month!” … everyone laughed and she left.
Me and rebelraider left the Venetian and met up with Jim, Alan(drove in from LA), and Heather for dinner at redrobin then went and played pool at a place near their place. At this point I had only slept like 3 hours on the trip and I was starting to doze off with a full belly of burger meat and queso. Got a few beers in me and I was done.
Woke up on Sunday morning to find that itsoverjonny was playing in a MTT on stars … I railed him for a while, at the same time playing some cash games on FTP. He got down to the final table .. .but I believe while he was at two tables he fell asleep , cause it was auto folding or well it looked like it was autofolding… along with jonny not responding to chat messages… I pulled out the cell phone and placed an emergency wake up text. He came back to the game apparently and replied to my text message with “wake these fucking cards up!” He went out 6th I believe shortly after.
Went to the Wynn on Sunday and played well enough and made some decent money. But I will say them playing with $1 and $3 chips is a pain in the ass. This table was also the worst collection of donkeys I have ever seen. I sit down and the guy to my right says “welcome, you just sat down at a dream table, the guys at the other end are just giving it away.”…. after 30 minutes of play I decided that everyone including that guy that talked to me was giving it away just as much if not more than the guys at the far end of the table. I love it when people think they know everything about poker, but they don’t. Makes me smile.
We left and went to the mirage and made a few more bucks. Nothing really to report here. Besides a reminiscent moment of when me, easytiger and Jim were walking through the mirage doors on the last trip to Vegas and this escort was telling this middle age man how to get her up to his room etc… ahhh Vegas.
Monday morning we went downtown and were going to play at the Golden Nugget. Unfortunately the Golden Nugget didn’t want us to play there. We put ourselves on the list only to see a new comer go and directly sit down at a chair were someone had just gotten up from. Jim saw this and quickly went over to the manager after the manager had taken that new guy chips. Jim asked him why wasn’t someone called off the list? The manager replied “ oh I forgot we had a list”….really? you are running one table of NL and you forgot you had a list? Man I can just imagine the stress you are under…. So we left and went to the Venetian where I was consistently sucked out on. And or just made bad plays myself and ended the trip on a losing note instead of a winning note.
All in All it was a good trip, I made money and I will make more trips knowing that I can at least make enough to pay for the trip.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Again, it was fun having you out. I will say that Red Rock was probably the highlight of my weekend. lol.
August 26th, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Well, maybe the highlight was the pool hall. I sure do miss “my” pool table.