Vegas Road Trip

Just returned from four nights in Las Vegas. We stayed at Bill's Gambling Hall. Cheap, great location, small casino with the same previleges as the guest at the Flamingo. Speaking of the Flamingo, from Bill's door to Flamingo's door is just 25 steps away.

I got to play some poker, not at much as I would have liked but still a great time. Monday we arrived around 1pm and so I just went down to Bill's poker room. It's not really a poker room, just three tables, right at front door to the right of the casino and about 10 steps from the Strip. There were about 7 people at the table and the game was $.50/$1.00 No Limit. I have never seen in a casino a No Limit game so cheap. At first this interested me as it's like playing in the home game. Buy-In was $20 min - $200 max so I bought in for $60. Game was CRAZY. Crazy in a bad way because no one would fold pre-flop thus playing all kinds of cards and getting lucky. I played until I lost $40 then left and went over to the Flamingo.

Once at the Flamingo, there was a waiting list for $1/$2 NL so I started out at the $2/$4 Limit game. Game was pretty good and in about an hour I was up $60. My name finally got called for the NL game and I moved.

Once at the NL, the table has four drunk young guys one one end, 2 senior citizens on the other end that couldn't hear anything anyone side, one guy who lived in Vegas and training of the UFC and another modest middle aged guy. I sad in seat 6 right smack in the middle of all the drama.

I sat back and just watched and listened for about the first 30 minutes. I had pocket K's and win a pretty decent pot, I had pocket A's that got cracked by a crack head and I folded AJ with a board that had KQ and a flush draw to a drunk kid who showed A - 10... I would have won that pot but didn't feel like it was the right call.

After that I played a couple more times here or there, had a good time and came away from the poker table up.

The highlight of my trip was on Thursday when we decided to head to Fremont Street. I had not been feeling to good, had some kind of stomach flu but Dana really wanted to go downtown. We headed that way early and after walking around in the heat I had to take a rest. I HATE slots. Never EVER win at any slots. They have new EBAY machines and we seen a penny machine. Penny is my mind of machine. I put $4 in the machine, and one the first spin a total of $2.50 I win BIG for $180. Cash OUT!!!

We were in Vegas from Monday - Friday (left at 7:30am) and being during the week, I would have thought it would have been slow. I have read how no one is going to Vegas anymore due to the economy, completely understand but honestly it seemed VERY busy to me. Streets were packed, caps were full, hotels were sold out. WOW. Good for Vegas.

I guess the next time I go back will be next July when I win our home league and I head to the WSOP. (wishful thinking)

Tomorrow night Erick is having a home game, deep stack, should be a good time.

PEACE!