Vegas Vacation Trip Report
I just woke up from a 16 hour coma after pulling the last 48 hours of vegas without sleep. The total amount of money eaten is $1500 for the trip. Kinda sad in retrospect, since this is the first vegas trip I haven’t paid for the trip and then made like $1500. Oh well I guess it has to end at some point. I actually ended up doing alot of ‘real’ gambling this trip. I played a very decent amount of blackjack as well as some craps. Obviously, I had never put in any serious volume on these games before this trip so i’d reckon that would explain why I did sooooo bad. My friends that I went down with were not poker players so I basically had to go out on my own if i wanted to play poker, and I really wanted to have fun in vegas so I rarely did that til Vizer and Undugu got out there.
The first day we get there and we all sit down at a $10 blackjack table and kill it. We walked over the Excalibur because it was close to our hotel and had cheap blackjack. One of my friends makes $250 in 30 minutes betting the minimum and I actually ended up making around $120. This was the only good thing that happened on the trip as far as real gambling goes. I walked over to the poker room and noticed that they had all ‘pokerpro’ machine tables. Pretty crazy I thought (obviously I would be back to try them out). My friend RJ who had been flip-flopping on the subject of going out the a new club called ‘XS’ with me and pdonk, finally decided that he didn’t want to go. He was all about gambling since it was the first night. I tried to explain that he would regret not going out clubbing. Pdonk came and picked me up, and I left my friends. We went to this club which was stellar. I’ve never really been to a vegas club before but I’m not sure if I can ever do another club after this one. Wow. It was built around an awesome courtyard at the encore. There was a pool and tables surrounding it. As well as a dancefloor and tables on the inside portion of the club. We managed to get a table on the side of the pool and it was ridiculous. It had a 50in TV in it with bottles of bellevedre just chilling. It was like the homebase for the rest of the night, as it was quiet and just like our own little piece of paradise. I met a few other poker players who were real chill and proceeded to blackout. From what I understand, we left the club at 4 to 5 am and went and grabbed breakfast (my drunk ass ordered chicken and waffles). I was described as a ‘walking blackout’ by one of the guys haha. That sounds about right. I spent about $350 on the night, but I apparently turned into a balla and started telling people not to worry about money so much while buying more bottles.
Sunday is complete destruction. I woke up at around 2pm on pdonk’s couch with a massive hangover. I managed to get up grab some water and went back to bed til around 4pm. I went with Pdonk to get some ‘in and out burger’. Its a west coast fast food chain that Pdonk said was the best hangover food ever. She wasn’t kidding around. It was bomb ass hangover food. I was starting to feel good again, but still doing the walk of shame since my bag was back in the MGM hotel room. So I was walking around in nice ass dress clothes. I met up with the guys who I went on the trip with, and began to drink and play more blackjack. I think I actually won money at blackjack but it starts to get fuzzy. We were ordering shots and the other guys were trying to impress the girls at the table. My friend RJ was drunker than I’ve ever seen him, as he was slurring gibbish from drinking all day. I managed to convince the drunk asses that we should go play that video poker over at the Excalibur and we could play some 2/4 limit poker. They are pumped about drinks for $4 bets. We walk over, and I am half-cocked at this point. I am probably around 10 beers deep so I’m getting very toasty. We get them to fire up a new 2/4 table, which they did with ease because there’s no dealers and they just click a button to turn it on. I sit down at the table, and instantly get bored with it. I thought I could just F around and get free drinks but I immediately start thinking about playing the 1/2 game next to me. I get up and move over there. The table is super soft. There’s a canadian chick to my left who is clearly pissed i’m drunk and next to her. I start off creating a phenomenal image, and breaking about even in the process. I am raising alot in position and basically playing my online game. The one thing I loved about the pokerpro tables is that for some reason, people actually respected pot sized opens. The stardard open on the table was $7, and never went above $10. It was GREAT. I was clearly the favorite to kill the thing. I manage to start talking in poker terms, and after I lose a sizable pot on a river bluff, the winner of the pot announces to the table while looking at me ‘there’s more to poker than just what you see on TV son’. I obviously LOL and say ’so it would appear sir’. I manage to get in a few ugly spots. The only one I remember goes like this: I picked up AdQx in the cutoff after winning the pot before with a pre-flop raise from MP. I get 2 callers, both of whom are fish. Its the button and the SB who call. The flop comes down 5d54d. Canadian lady checks to me, and I c-bet for around $20. I get pretty snap-called by the button and canadian lady calls. I am putting him on a mid-pair or draw trying to take advantage of my aggressive play. Turn comes Kd. Perfect card to 2 barrel as the K is very unlikely to help the fish and definitely hits my range pretty hard. I bet $42. Fishy thinks for awhile and finally decides to call. Well I’m not too happy about that but i’m still putting him on something like 88. I figure he’s either got a flush draw with 88 or just doesn’t believe me yet. River is the 2d. Perfect card, I make the nuts and its sneaky as hell. I start putting on an act like I really had that 4-flush made and I bet $10. Fishy announces that he is allin which is another $120. I snap-call while announcing that I have the nuts. He gets a discouraged look on his face, and I know I have him. I tables the AdQx for the nut flush, and he just says ‘oh I have kings full’. He flips up the KK and I’m in shock. I never even saw that one coming and he clearly didn’t know how strong his hand was or how perfect the board is. The table then proceeds to cheer for the fish, while I rebuy. It was kinda hilarious actually. Canadian bitch lady literally high-fives him and I can feel myself tilting. Just then I hear over the intercom “anyone interested in a .5/1 PLO game please come to the front desk”. I fistpump while screaming ‘hell yeah i’m interesting in a 100plo game’. I managed to lose around $400 at the table with fish, but I wasn’t upset with how I played. I thought I did a dandy job of playing the fish and just got unlucky.
The 100plo game was awesome. The guys were drunk as well and were internet players. They were holdem players however, so I managed to completely tear them up. I finished that table up around $300 and had a blast with a ton of 3 betting and shoving draws. The pokerpro tables were perfect for PLO. It was dealt really fast, the pot size was in front of me, and just generally it got rid of all the awkwardness of a live plo game. It was a damn good time, and finally the table broke and I started to walk back to the MGM to sleep.
On the way I called my friend RJ just in the offchance his drunk ass was still awake and he picks up the phone screaming that ‘I have to come back to the trop’. I just laugh cause its 5am and this only happens in vegas that your friends are awake and shitfaced then. I managed to get solicited for sex 3 times on the way back to the Trop, one of whom was a black lady in a car telling me “to just hop in and we’ll have a good time”. I simply told her “I would like to wake up with my kidneys tomorrow while walking into the trop. I sit down with RJ at a blackjack table and proceed to donate around $150 to the table. I was really drunk at this point and kinda tilty. I was betting like $30 a hand and basically breaking all my own blackjack rules. We left around 6am and got breakfast at the ’studio cafe’ in the MGM. We then went and passed out. What a day.
Monday was a complete mess. Me and RJ wake up with just massive hangovers. His friends were saying lets go eat, and I was not interesting. Keep in mind it was 1pm. I manage to get convinced to eat and RJ is really really struggling at this point. We go down to ‘emeril’s restaurant’ in the MGM. As the lady is seating us she says that she’s giving us the big table so make sure we eat alot. I just think “i’ll be lucky to eat anything”. That’s exactly what happened as soon as I sit down I feel sick. RJ announces he’s going to the bathroom, and is gone for 30 minutes. He comes back and says he can’t eat. I agree with him and go walk around with him. We walk over to Walgreens and actually it makes me feel alot better to walk around outside. I decide I need to go back to the room and shower. To my surprsise another of our friends is in there, just feeling sick in the bathroom. Apparently he left emerils without ordering either. LOL, I just thought about what that lady said and then her seeing that her party of 5. After my shower, I lay down and watch PTI which comes on a 2:30 in vegas (west coast for the fail). I pass out. I wake up around 6:30pm and all my friends are gone. Well that was nice of them to tell me they were leaving. It was actually for the better though. I wanted to play poker in the MGM poker room. I also have a text from Vizer and Undugu. They get in today. I had forgot about that. I give vizer a call, and he was about to leave for the gym. I tell him to just come to the MGM when he’s done. I text undugu back and tell him the same thing. I then go down and hop on the 1/2nl tables (i was close to getting on a 2/5 table but I felt kinda shitty). My table actually is reasonably competent. I find myself actually playing scared. First hand of notice is as follows: aggro player in the cutoff raises to $7 and button calls. I wake up with AKdd in the bb. I 3-bomb him to $32. He snaps calls and other player folds. Flop comes 9hTd4h. I lead $42. He thinks for a sec and calls. turn comes a 9d. Great card for my hand. I decide i’ll just go with it. I bet $90 (but my hands start shaking as my bet goes in). I’ve never had a nervous problem at the tables but for some reason today, I didn’t have my mojo, and I guess I didn’t wanna lose anymore cash at the tables. He thinks for a sec and says ‘I have Q high, I guess i should fold’. He mucks and I win the pot with A high. The next 3 hours I proceed to run my flushes into full houses, my top pairs into a sets and my A9’s into KK on a T98hhh board (that’s right, that last one was a horrible play by me as I didn’t have the Ah). By the time, Vizer and Undugu show up i’m stuck around 700 and don’t want to play anymore at the MGM.
I tell them and they agree to walk over to the Excalibur to play. We all sit down and play there and its a great time. I was wondering if Undugu was gonna be a total dork like one would expect from a poker player, but he was actually real cool. Like would probably be a ‘real life friend who i’d go to the bar with all the time if we lived in the same place’ cool. We all end up running this 1/2nl table with all of us having over $500 in front of us at one point. There were a few hands of notice, Undugu got in a $600 flip with his AK vs. a fish’s QQ. He binks the K on the flop and ships the pot. Vizer just raped bitches. I was doing the same and got bad beated a few times in the process. I can’t remember the big pot i lost to a bad beat but I do know that I lost a hand with 55 allin against AK on a AA5 board. The river binked off a K. That was only for a $200 pot tho, so no big deal. We all made around $300 each, and went our separate ways for the night after the game broke. Vizer is hilarious, as he was drunk after about 4 beers. Me and undugu were just slamming them however. Vizer needs to get his tolerance up, or else he will have a bad time this summer.
Tuesday was the final day, the day which we would go to the rhino. I woke up at around 2pm again to an empty room. The other guys had passed out early so they woke up and were out the door gambling. I decided to just chill for a bit, and watch some CSI in the room. I did that and then walked downstairs to get some food. I decided to go to the Excalibur again to play cards. There was a .5/1 game running and I offered to start a shorthanded 1/2 table, but one of the guys from the night before came over and blew up my spot against a fish who was down. Just says ‘look out this kid is like a pro’. The two guys who wanted to play 1/2 decided that they didn’t want to play shorthanded with me. Well shit I thought. They knocked the table down to a .5/1nl table and I said ‘ok i’ll give it a go’. I managed to win $200 while I was waiting for vizer to come over. Vizer sat down just as I was getting ready to go. We walked over to the MGM to meet up with my friends and grab a beer before we headed out the door for dinner. We all decided we wanted to do a Hibachi Dinner. Undugu knew a pretty good play at Caesars so we started walking. The best part about vegas, you can drink outside. We pounded 2 beers on the way over to the place and put our name on the list. We played blackjack while waiting and everyone but RJ and his boy won money. We then went back to get our table. To our disarray apparently our chef had gotten sick, and had to go home. They offered us a table out at the sushi bar and said they’d pay for a round of drinks. This is the part of the show where Undugu blows this whole thing out of the water. He tells the lady that we think it would be more fair to have a round of drinks plus some appetizers. Hats off to Undugu, he got us $100 off the dinner. We got a japanese beer, a round of saki, and 2 $30 appetizers for free. We ordered the food and it was really dank. I love dinners in vegas cause there’s never a place with shitty food. Undugu also managed to convince me to try ’spider rolls’ which were cooked sushi. It was actually pretty good. I’ve always stayed away from sushi but I think I might be cool with it now after that experience. We finish eating tip our waitress who called us all by ’sir’, and left for old vegas.
We get to old vegas and there’s no cheap blackjack to be found. We were wanting to play $3 blackjack but it wasn’t happened. We ended up playing at the 4 queens til around 12:30. The 4 queens raped the shit out of us. We all lost around $200 except undugu who killed the games. We then took a cab to the Spearmint Rhino. We get there, and pay the $30 cover. God I love the Rhino. The place actually wasn’t that busy but that didn’t keep the girls from flocking to us. I slipped the front bouncer $50, and said ‘we’d like to have a seat’. He proceeds to take us to a table, while kicking other guys off the table in the process. It was hilarious. The power of $50. The girls are licking their chops as we sit down. We order a round of $8 bud lights and strippers start pummeling us. I turned into table captain as well ordering drinks and girls for the table. RJ and his friends are clearly in heaven. They wanted to go to another club and now they were glad I convinced them to go to the rhino. There were around 100 girls just lining the walls. Everyone was just picking the girls they liked. I managed to get a few dances and the girls that gave us dances would just sit on our laps. At one point in the club, we had a girl on each person’s lap and they weren’t getting a dance. Like I bought 1 dance from a girl and she sat on my lap for what had to have been an hour. It was overall completely ridiculous. At around 5am, I decide its time to call the rhino quits. I announce to everyone that we are leaving. The strippers sigh and the guys are more than ready to go. That was probably the best $150 I spent on the trip. We probably spent close to the perfect amount of cash/time there.
Me, Vizer and Undugu decide that its time to stay up all night and play cards. We get a cab to take us to the wynn. Me and vizer were hungry and Undugu went and put our names on the list. He ended up sitting down and by the time we got over to the table he had already managed to lose a buyin to a big fish. There were no seats either. We decided that we should go to the venetian. We walk over there, and I go find an ATM and vizer and undugu sit down. By the time, I get back from the ATM, Undugu is allin with a guy for a $600 pot. The board is 678 and the villain had 67 tabled. Undugu just mucks his hand, and says ‘i’m done for the night’. HAHA. that’s pretty ridiculous. Me and vizer play til around 8am. We both broke about even. I then proceeded to go back to the hotel room, pack and head to the airport.
The trip was fun, but spending $1500 is rarely fun. I lost most of it playing tables games and about $600 playing poker. Either way it was a good ass time, and now i’m tired of typing and don’t feel like proofreading. So deal with all the errors.