Vegas Trip Report 11/3-11/7

[TStoneMBD]

I'd like to introduce this report by first saying that Vegas was as fun as a barrel of monkeys and that I was very sloshed during most of the cool parts so if I left someone out or [censored] up the details I didn't mean it.

--THURSDAY--

I arrive in Vegas on Thursday evening and call Deathdonkey and Jason_t as soon as my plane lands. I check in my bags at the bellagio bell desk and walk down the strip to meet up with a bulk of internet celebrities. Among the group is Entity, Shillx, Jasont, Deathdonkey, Bottomset, PITTM, Dids and someone else I can't remember. They just finished playing some craps at Casino Royale and eating at Chipotle, so we head over to the Wynn to meet up with PJN (Cnfzzd), rmarrotti and rt.

We get the Wynn to spread us a new 4/8 holdem game so that we can have the first of many twoplustwo donkfests. In the first orbit, PJN is playing good poker. He took advantage of our weaktight styles by playing every preflop for 4bets, but runs bad and gets stuck for 13 racks by the end of the night. Bottomset is sitting in seat 1, Entity in seat 2 and me in seat 3. A couple of orbits go around and Bottomset straddles UTG, Entity blind 3bets it and I blind 4bet. Someone else behind me 5bets and when the action gets back to Bottomset he FOLDS! Jasont immediately jumps out of his chair and reaches across the table to point in Bottomset's face while screaming at the top of his lungs in a very serious and vicious tone, "IF YOU'RE GONNA STRADDLE LIKE THAT, I WILL [censored] END YOU." Everyone at the table starts laughing and we all turn our heads over to Jason expecting him to burst a smile but his face turns red as an apple. Jason has been known to get really angry when he goes on tilt and it turns out that the rumors are true. Fortunately for him though, he's really funny when he's angry. There was another hand where I blind 4bet preflop (everyone knows this) and I look down to see aces to win an absolutely gigantic pot against Dids where he calls me down with a pair of 6s.

At this point I've been chugging down as many drinks as I can possibly get my hands on and am getting pretty [censored] up. Entity, PJN and I had been keeping the action going at the table but I'm stuck 400 while PJN lost all of his cocaine money. He still has enough money to buy us all free rounds of shots though. Entity however is up god-only-knows how many racks and is playing his hands blind until the river. Despite not knowing what cards he's holding, he is still playing really well postflop extracting maximum value every time he outflops someone's overpair. The Wynn's floor comes over to us hassling us about the noise, which is absolutely absurd considering they are running a dead cardroom and we are giving their casino more action than they've ever had and are tipping the dealers enough to pay for their children's education. Everyone eventually decides to leave and I'm the first one to go to sleep at 2am as I'm still on eastern time. Deathdonkey, Entity, Klepton, Shillx, Jasont and I are all sharing the same Bellagio room and almost all of the other twoplustwoers are at other Bellagio rooms as well.

--FRIDAY--

When I wake up sometime in the afternoon I make my way down to the cardroom and lean over the shoulders of CDC (Chris Daddy Cool) and Josh. (Sthief09) at their 30/60 game to see if I can pick up any tricks of the trade. First hand I watch CDC straddles UTG and takes a gigantic pot off of Josh. after catching a straight flush with 57s. My name got called for another 30/60 table so I didn't see many other hands, but I later found out that CDC took 6 racks off that game (100BBs) by catching infinite amounts of wheels by playing any 2 unsuited wheel cards for raises. CDC is playing every hand preflop but was playing well postflop. Josh. was piss drunk and was also donking around but was unfortunately stuck.

The evening sets in and we all walk down to the MGM grand to meet our party of 14 dinner reservations at Craft Steak which is apparently a top of the line restaurant in Vegas. GoT (GuyOnTilt) was throwing a steak dinner birthday party for bakkubakku and the dinner bill came to about $150 per person. For some reason everyone there designates me as the guy in charge of wine even though I'm the only underage guy at the table. The waiter comes over and I ask him if he has any recommendations for bottled wine in the $80 price range. He says he has the perfect bottle of merlot and I ask if I can taste it before we order more and he pours a little into my glass. I nod my head and say "it's good" as if I even knew what I was talking about. Entity tastes the cabernet and we order 4 bottles altogether.

As we're waiting for appetizers, Josh. starts yelling to Jason_t through 4 other people at the table saying "You're pretty. You're a pretty guy." Josh. is a funny drunk but his voice is a little loud for the caliber of restaurant we're in. "You're pretty, but you still like the dick! "What?" says Jason. "YOU LIKE-THE DICK." Everyone is laughing but we remedy the problem by having Josh. switch seats with PITTM to be closer to Jason so he won't have to shout over everyone to talk to him. The steak finally arrives and everything is absolutely amazing. There are alot of different cuts of meat on the table ranging from kobebeef, porterhouse, veal and pretty much every other good type of steak there is. That was probably the best steak I've ever had. This might be the only chance I ever get at ElDiablo envying an evening of mine. The portions of servings were so plentiful as well. I was completely stuffed and there was still food left on the table after everyone had unbuckled their belts.

After dinner we all head over to the MGM craps tables where the casino proceeds to tear us all new assholes. It turns out that the night before, GoT and CDC were gambling it all up trying to make a score in blackjack. They decided that they were either going to win a thousand dollars or lose a thousand dollars. So they start betting a hundred dollars a hand or so and catch a down streak. They go up and down for a long time and almost make it over their 1000 mark, but immediately go on a huge downswing right after. They finally say the hell with it and bet $300 on every square on the blackjack table. The dealer shows a ten and they double down on 3 elevens. they catch a bunch of 20s on some other hands and don't bust on any. The dealer busts on his ten and GoT and CDC sweep every bet and all 3 doubledowns putting them way over the 1000 mark. God it's good to be asian.

We head up to GoT's room to play some 10 handed 1/2 mixed games with bellagio chips and decks. Uw_madtown makes his introduction to the group by playing in the game as well. The game is of course out of control and every pot is literally 40BBs. We're playing crazyfox, quadruple flop holdem and a bunch of other crazy games. DeathDonkey comes up with a pretty cool game for those that are interested in this sort of thing. It's 4 card double draw with a community river. Bakkubakku is absolutely tearing this game apart and is up 150BBs in short order. GoT is actually putting out $5 for everyone preflop to make them cap preflop blind even though every preflop is already capped blind every hand and has at least 5 players to the flop. Entity is totally hammered off his hard liquor and GoT offers to stake him for craps. At this point it's like 6am so I go to sleep early but Entity says he doesn't remember what happened after that.

--SATURDAY--

After grinding the 30/60 for a few hours, I meet themetetron for the first time and find out that he's really a good guy. I say this because he comes off pretty bad on the forums and gets a bad wrap but he's a good guy in person. Whenever we both turn 21 I'll gladly buy him a drink if he's ever in town. I round up everybody to go over to the legendary magoofest and there is a large pack of us. I think the group consists of me, themetetron, rt, klepton, PJN, shant, bottomset, and Shillx. I round up a limo to take us over and we all hop in except for PJN and 2 other guys who want to stick stuff up their noses before heading over.

Magoofest is pretty much donking at its finest. There were 3 or 4 tables of games. My table consisted of me, rt, metetron, bottomset, Sossman, GoblinMasonCraig, Bugstud, Cowboyhatguy?? and a few other twoplustwoers whos names I didn't know. Cowboyhat was a friend of GoblinMason who posts on twoplustwo but not very frequently. I don't remember his posting name. He was a great guy and bought me a drink or two at a club later on. Bugstud, the true playa that he is buys in for about a million racks of white and has stacks of 25s, 5s and 100s for this 2/4 game. It's a good thing though because the dealers were literally getting tipped between $100-$300 a down and they couldn't fit all their white chips in their shirt pocket. Bugstud had to keep coloring them up with his greens. Alot of people were tipping the dealers entire pots and we eventually got to the point where we decided to make a $2 ante and that ante went straight to the dealer. This went on for hours and each dealer was literally getting $20 a hand in tips plus whatever tips they got from the winner of the pot.

We were playing anything but normal games. The dealers were dealing anything we told them to. Every hand was capped preflop and had like 9 players to the flop. The game was so crazy that in most hands everybody at the table was playing with their hands face up and everyone was still capping every street. The only street that wouldn't get bet would be the river after everyone knew they couldn't win! One game that I recall us playing off the top of my head is quintuplet flop holdem where the best hand out of all 5 flops takes down the pot. I don't remember too many other games because I was drinking alot and we were all doing shots together. I think it was Bugstud who ordered everyone a round of Kettle vodka but some of the others copped out on that one. Cowboyhatguy ordered everyone had a Redbull and vodka as well.

Eventually we ran out of cool games and I came up with one that everyone really liked so I figured I'd share it here. The dealer deals a game of razz but whenever he deals a queen or a king upcard to a player, that player gets to eliminate somebody from the pot. Another game I came up with that was popular but I'm not personally fond of is we played 7cardstud but you don't get your hole cards until the end. Believe it or not this game actually worked and the pots had the most ridiculous action. On first street the ace up would bet his hand and the jack high would raise. the 3s and 4s would coldcall, the ace would reraise, the jack would 4bet it and the ace would cap it for like 7 way action! Never have I played holdem as awesome as this.

When magoofest started to get boring and everyone started to realize just how much money they dumped we took a Hummer limo over to the Wynn. The crew as I recall it looked like me, ggbman, Soiler (NlSoldier), GoblinMason, Cowboyhatguy, Josh., Alobar, and rt. We met up with a bunch of guys and started playing 4/8 pineapple with a kill. Ggbman got carded immediately and walked out so klepton took his seat and chips to the right of me. I was so drunk during this game since I was pounding down the gin and tonics and was already toasted from the magoofest. I had no idea what was going on and klepton kept stealing chips from me (jokingly) and gave them back. He helped me play my hands though. I think the rest of the table looked like gonores, Bugstud, DeathDonkey, GoblinMason, Alobar, Entity, Soiler and Cowboyhatguy. This game of course was also out of control crazy with caps on every street. The dealers were making at least $100 per down, probably much more.

Then all of the sudden for no reason, the stupid floor manager came over and asked to see everyone's ID. I played a really convincing role explaining to her that I am in fact a 24 year old but that I left my ID in my room. I was so believable that afterwards some of the guys asked me if I was really 24 or not. Josh. actually did in fact leave his ID in his room. Everyone decided that the Wynn sucks for pulling this crap and they broke up the game and klepton cashed out my chips for me. Seriously, the Wynn must not like money. You have young guys coming in and playing the most wild poker having a great time jollying it up and tipping everyone with no care for money and they break up the game. The floor costed the upcoming dealers a huge sum of tips. The room was dead too so it's not like our antics were bothering the other players.

After the game broke up, me, Alobar, Josh., Soiler, GoblinMasonCraig, Cowboyhatguy, klepton and Bugstud all went down to the Dejavue, a local nude strip club to have some fun. We were all having a good time when these stupid strippers kept coming up to me wanting to give me lapdances. It soon became a game to see how many I could tell off. Klepton felt bad for this one stripper that came up to me 3 times so he got a lapdance from her for $30. He said it was terrible though. She was so short that when she tried to grind her feet couldn't reach the floor. Other than her height, she really was impressively attractive. I was really [censored] up at the time though and wasn't seeing too clearly. Everyone wanted me to get a lapdance, but I wanted them to buy me it. Shortly after Alobar, GoblinMason, klepton and Cowboy head out and it's just the 4 of us. Josh. and I have been talking about life and poker for a while. One of the other 2 behind me interrupts our conversation by asking me a question and when I look back at Josh. hes gone. What a funny guy. Soiler goes in the back to get a lapdance and I tell Bugstud I'll pay for half of his. The stripper gave Soiler a free handjob and he says he has the fingernail marks on his dick to prove it. ouch. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

We get back to the Bellagio and Soiler tells me that someone just told him about how shant was yelling over one of the tables in the poker room and they kicked him out. He then stands over the rail from the outside and heckles the table that bakkubakku and GoT are playing at and they floor tells him to leave the vicinity of the room altogether.

While Soiler is telling me this, shant starts walking passed us being escorted by 3 floormen up to his room. Apparently when shant was told to leave the vicinity of the poker room, he went over to the sportsbook about 30 feet away and then a few minutes later bakkubakku jumps out of his chair and screams something. The floor comes over and one of the random guys at the table points to shant at the sportsbook and neither bakkubakku or GoT say anything.

--SUNDAY--

Unfortunately Sunday was pretty uneventful but worth telling. I make my way down to the poker room and get called over to the 30/60 game where Josh., GoblinMason and Cowboyhat are all playing. The fish that were there all get up shortly after and leave and there is no board. They are immediately replaced by Klepton, CDC and Hobbs along with 2 unknowns. Everyone starts out playing really tight how they are supposed to and then all hell breaks loose when CDC decides he wants to play the 100VPIP. An interesting hand that came up was the following:

Josh. limps UTG1, klepton limps UTG2, 2 unknowns limp, CDC raises on the button, blinds fold, Josh. calls, klepton limpreraises, (dont remember what the unknowns did), CDC calls, Josh reraises, klepton reraises to 5bets and CDC calls.

Flop is 53Jr

Josh. checks, klepton bets, CDC calls, Josh. calls/folds.

Turn is a 5

klepton bets, CDC calls HU

River is a 4

klepton bets, CDC calls

klepton shows 98s for nothing, CDC shows 47o and HHIG.

After a little while everyone leaves and it's only me and Hobbs along with a bunch of unknowns. I start ordering drinks and hit a good rush of cards. I'm on my 8th drink when the waitress comes over and asks to see my ID. WTF? I tell her that I left it in my room and try to tip her a 10. She says she can't help me and so I basically rack up and Josh. cashes out for me. The guys tell me to go up to my room and when they are ready to go out they'll come and get me, but they end up grinding poker all night at Bellagio instead so I end up watching the first and second Matrix on TBS.

Noone can believe that I got carded twice. For those that haven't met me which is alot of you, I look exceptionally old for my age and all the twoplustwoers thought I easily passed for 25+.

To wrap things up ggbman was playing 30/60 at the Bellagio all through Sunday night and legend has it that he had 37 drinks over a long period of time. Apparently he was unconcious up in his room and never even threw up. Bicyclekick took care of him, hopefully he's OK.

--MONDAY--

Noone was around so I played some poker, walked around and departed at 8pm. I went from Vegas to LA to Chicago to Hartford and arrived in Hartford at 11am. Don't ask.

[bobbyi]

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To wrap things up ggbman was playing 30/60 at the Bellagio all through Sunday night and legend has it that he had 37 drinks over a long period of time. Apparently he was unconcious up in his room and never even threw up. Bicyclekick took care of him, hopefully he's OK.

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[ggbman]

Sweet, lets refer people to this, it's totally how i want to be remembered /images/graemlins/smile.gif

Anyway, nice trip report, it was very cool to meet you, and we'll definitly have to meet up at foxwoods sometime.

[istewart]

Brilliant!

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

Nice report. I enjoyed meeting you, especially drunk you.

I can't believe I table changed from that 30 game before cdc came and started going nutso though.

[Alex/Mugaaz]

nice story

[kenberman]

great report, but
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Deathdonkey, Entity, Klepton, Shillx, Jasont and I are all sharing the same Bellagio room

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I hope this was a giant suite of some kind.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

great report. it was nice seeing and playing with you and i absolutely destroyed every 30/60 table i touched that weekend it was ridiculous.

my stats were probably something like 65/18 that weekend with a 90bb/100 winrate. starting with 2 racks and leaving with 7 is fun times. so is hitting an infinite amount of straights with off suit gappers and straddling and hitting straight flushes. if only me and got didn't gamb000l so much. /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[sfer]

Josh. told me he's never playing live again.

[nolanfan34]

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Josh. told me he's never playing live again.

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Methinks that statement will change come April most likely.

TstoneMBD, great report. Fun to read up on the trip reports, although it's clear now that I no longer have the appropriate bankroll to sit in any sort of 2+2 game.

[jakethebake]

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although it's clear now that I no longer have the appropriate bankroll to sit in any sort of 2+2 game.

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I believe Magoo is some kind of wrinkle in the space-time continuum in which bankroll limitations cease to exist.

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I believe Magoo is some kind of wrinkle in the space-time continuum in which bankroll limitations cease to exist.

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LOL

Also, from what I've read, most good poker-playing sense/knowledge is checked at the desk!

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[toss]

Great report. I LOL'd at this part.

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The dealer busts on his ten and GoT and CDC sweep every bet and all 3 doubledowns putting them way over the 1000 mark. God it's good to be asian.


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[Yeti]

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Deathdonkey, Entity, Klepton, Shillx, Jasont and I are all sharing the same Bellagio room

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I have never understood this.

Why don't you big high-rollers stop tipping the dealers so much and shell out for your own rooms? That way should you happen to meet a young lady you can invite her back for a quiet night of passion, without the risk of going flaccid at the sight of daryn's chest hair.

[KaneKungFu123]

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That way should you happen to pick up a hooker you can invite her back for a quiet night of passion, without the risk of going flaccid at the sight of daryn's chest hair.

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Although, I guess you could meet a regular chick at a hotel disco or something.

[B Dids]

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Great report. I LOL'd at this part.

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The dealer busts on his ten and GoT and CDC sweep every bet and all 3 doubledowns putting them way over the 1000 mark. God it's good to be asian.


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Saddly- this doesn't come close to explaining the experience.

I think there was only one double down though...

It was pretty [censored] awesome.

[shant]

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Josh. told me he's never playing live again.

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Josh is awesome.

[Entity]

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Deathdonkey, Entity, Klepton, Shillx, Jasont and I are all sharing the same Bellagio room

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I have never understood this.

Why don't you big high-rollers stop tipping the dealers so much and shell out for your own rooms? That way should you happen to meet a young lady you can invite her back for a quiet night of passion, without the risk of going flaccid at the sight of daryn's chest hair.

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Well, speaking for myself, spending anything more than $40 a night or so is ridiculous when I'm sleeping at most a few hours from 9am to 2pm anyway. Given that I've got a long-time g/f I have no plans on getting any action on the side, so I'd rather crash with a ton of people and spend as little cash on the room as possible.

Rob

[B Dids]

Once I realized that I could have fit like 8 people in the room at the Wynn, I was torn between doing that next time, or just getting a room by myself.

When you're dealing with like a group of 15 people constantly- having your own fortress of solitude is a nice thing.

[ggbman]

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Deathdonkey, Entity, Klepton, Shillx, Jasont and I are all sharing the same Bellagio room

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I have never understood this.

Why don't you big high-rollers stop tipping the dealers so much and shell out for your own rooms? That way should you happen to meet a young lady you can invite her back for a quiet night of passion, without the risk of going flaccid at the sight of daryn's chest hair.

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I assume that if this became an issue, they would just get an additional room for the night.

[icepick]

http://www.netfamine.com/images/tripleflop.jpg

[Victor]

it was great to meet all you guys and was a fun weekend.

[Klepton]

you should have told me it was a game of rejection.

you know 'dancers' have feelings too.

[hobbsmann]

I'm suprised you didn't see me getting carded when I was ordering drinks at the other end of the table. At least after you left I got to drink the Jaeger shot I ordered for you.

[sfer]

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Whatever. The last time I played in Vegas I had that whole table covered playing 4/8.

[toss]

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Great report. I LOL'd at this part.

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The dealer busts on his ten and GoT and CDC sweep every bet and all 3 doubledowns putting them way over the 1000 mark. God it's good to be asian.


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Saddly- this doesn't come close to explaining the experience.

I think there was only one double down though...

It was pretty [censored] awesome.

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Man I've got to go next year.

[sthief09]

a few of my memories:

1. while I'm playing 30/60, I learn that shant was thrown out of the poker room for throwing a $1 chip on the table and betting jason the flop could come all black. then the same guy slow rolls the [censored] out of jason on another hand. so we rack up and as we're about to leave I start yelling across the room "you beat your wife! no, you don't even have a wife to beat!" then as we're outside the room along the rail I yell it again and this time a woman maybe 30 years younger than him says "I'm his wife so watch what you're saying" so I respond with "no you're not. you're a whore. hahahaha and he beats you. hahahaa you beat your whore. yeah you love to beat your whore"

2. (this was all told me as I don't remember any of it) we were at a bar in bally's and as per usual I somehow wander off from everyone else and make my way home. I talk to someone on the phone while I try to figure out what I'm doing. I go up and down the elevator a bunch of times and can't figure out why the rooms are between 2100 and 2150 and why I can't find my room which is 21630. so finally I go to the concierge desk to ask but I fall asleep. when she wakes me up I ask her to help me find my room. I give her my room key and she says "um this is Bally's. you might want to try the bellagio across the street." then I go there and about an hour later I find my room for a total of 2 hours of looking.

3. 3 hands that I liked that tstone didn't mention:
a. I raise utg with AJo. cdc 3-bets (he hadn't been 3-betting me that lightly to this point) and a tight local pro calls in the sb. flop is J72. cdc bets, I call, cdc calls. turn 4. pro bets, I call, cdc calls. river 6. pro bets, I call, cdc raises, I call, cdc shows 53o

b. I bet the turn one hand, get called, and muck my hand as soon as he calls

c. I lose a massive pot on a T/images/graemlins/heart.gif 9/images/graemlins/heart.gif 9/images/graemlins/spade.gif Q/images/graemlins/heart.gif 8/images/graemlins/spade.gif with QQ with 5 people sweating me and I can't even call it a bad beat because she had 15 outs on the flop and had me dead on the turn

[uw_madtown]

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a few of my memories:

1. while I'm playing 30/60, I learn that shant was thrown out of the poker room for throwing a $1 chip on the table and betting jason the flop could come all black. then the same guy slow rolls the [censored] out of jason on another hand. so we rack up and as we're about to leave I start yelling across the room "you beat your wife! no, you don't even have a wife to beat!" then as we're outside the room along the rail I yell it again and this time a woman maybe 30 years younger than him says "I'm his wife so watch what you're saying" so I respond with "no you're not. you're a whore. hahahaha and he beats you. hahahaa you beat your whore. yeah you love to beat your whore"

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I sat down at a 4/8 table that was ultra tight next to jason's. After one orbit I decide to leave and ask for a table change to pretty much any other 4/8 table. Apparently jason was looking for a table change--of course, I didn't know why (yet). After witnessing the beautiful display that was Josh drunkenly yelling "I BET YOU BEAT YOUR WIFE! YOU BEAT YOUR WIFE!" across the Bellagio poker room, I get the story from someone and realize that I'm now sitting with the 4/8 pro who's got a stick up his ass.

Anyway, my addition to the story is that after you guys left, I sat for awhile because the douchebag and the black chick were spewing chips and I figured I'd meet up with you guys back at the Wynn in an hour or so. Eventually I find out she's a former porn star married to a rich white guy (not the 4/8 douche, although he was hitting on her unsuccessfully). She also mentioned her porn name, and I realized that I had thought she was somewhat familiar, as I'd seen her pictures at some point.

Say hello to Mocha, aka "beaten whore":

http://www.topbloke.com/girls/mocha_cream.jpg

[Chris Daddy Cool]

i would also like to add that lots of people in vegas are real assholes and nitty bastards.

at a 15/30 game with me, bakkubakku and GoT, someone literally wanted to kill GoT after he flopped the nuts vs his AA. he tries to hit him with his cards as he folded the river, all the meanwhile he yells and screams and curses. deep down inside i am giggling like a little school girl while at the same time afraid this guy will jump across the table and strangle GoT.

another hand GoT is playing my hand for me at NL while I am multitabling live and I come back to my NL table to find out we have trips and the biggest fucktard ever bets out and I say "gamble gamble" and push in for GoT. he immediately throws a fit and wants our hand dead and complains like a little school girl when it is obvious that he made a bad bet and got caught.

this guy also makes a minraise on another hand and a quiet guy pushes all in, but then this guy is all like "i didn't hear him say all in. he can't do that" (even though everybody also heard him say all in)

and not only that, but this guy was the slooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowest player in the history of the planet. every decision he makes he has to put on his sunglasses, literally stare a guy into his eyes to try to get a read. hollywood forever and then finally make his decision. it literally takes two minutes per decision.

and then one hand i sit and think for a while and he has the nerve to tell me to hurry up, so i slow way down and think even longer. stand up. walk around a little bit. sit back down. stare him in the eyes. ask him to count his chips (even though he has me covered). i ask him does he want me to call? then i ask him "do you want action?" and then i ask him "do you have a set?" and then he finally calls a clock on me. and then i wait until 2 seconds left and then i flip over the nut low and say, "i can't belive I'm laying this down to you."

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

[newhizzle]

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Cowboyhat was a friend of GoblinMason who posts on twoplustwo but not very frequently. I don't remember his posting name.

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superyob?

also im going to try and make the april trip

[bakku]

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and then one hand i sit and think for a while and he has the nerve to tell me to hurry up, so i slow way down and think even longer. stand up. walk around a little bit. sit back down. stare him in the eyes. ask him to count his chips (even though he has me covered). i ask him does he want me to call? then i ask him "do you want action?" and then i ask him "do you have a set?" and then he finally calls a clock on me. and then i wait until 2 seconds left and then i flip over the nut low and say, "i can't belive I'm laying this down to you."

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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best. story. ever.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

i also want to add hot insanely hot i ran at pokerz.

i won about 8 racks at 30/60 with about a 40 vpip the whole trip hitting a never ending run of straights and successful bluffs and winning 30bb pots with a rivered pair of 4's.

and i also crushed the 80/160 mixed game despite not even really being able to play stud8.

i also ran super hot in flop prop betting with GoT. i won lots of $$ off of him.

[shant]

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and then one hand i sit and think for a while and he has the nerve to tell me to hurry up, so i slow way down and think even longer. stand up. walk around a little bit. sit back down. stare him in the eyes. ask him to count his chips (even though he has me covered). i ask him does he want me to call? then i ask him "do you want action?" and then i ask him "do you have a set?" and then he finally calls a clock on me. and then i wait until 2 seconds left and then i flip over the nut low and say, "i can't belive I'm laying this down to you."

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

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best. story. ever.

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I really wish I could've seen this.

[Victor]

what was your old name?

[B Dids]

This backs up what I thought I was hearing. Every time somebody referenced you the words "up 3 racks" were involved.

What I learned this week is that the best thing about online poker is that there are no locals (although I did re-learn that live poker is fun, whereas AC taught me that live poker is horrible).

It was really awesome meeting everybody. Everybody was just so damn awesome. I'm really not feeling being stuck back up here in boring gray Seattle.

[sthief09]

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what was your old name?

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cdc

[sthief09]

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It was really awesome meeting everybody. Everybody was just so damn awesome. I'm really not feeling being stuck back up here in boring gray Seattle.

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the #1 thing that everyone learned is i give the best hugs when im drunk

[Victor]

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what was your old name?

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cdc

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i hate cdc.

[B Dids]

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what was your old name?

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The hands he played didn't give you enough context?

Also, I will use this thread to share who won my "who looked the least like I expected" awards.

Just generally not like I expected:

1- rmarotti
2- rt
3- Alobar
4- Schneids (who I'm not sure realized he met me)

Taller than I expected:

1- Soiler
2- Shant

I always thought like Soiler seemed like a short poster.

Shorter than I expected:

1- bk
2- bottomset (seemed like a tall poster)

Drunker than I expected:

Josh (who kept 1- hugging me 2- telling me how much Diablo loved me 3- sticking his hand out as if to either give me a high five or shake my hand, but was too drunk to execute either move properly)

Exactly like I expected:

PJN. The fact that as somebody (bugstug?) pointed out, he's a dead ringer for John Belushi only makes sense.

[Chris Daddy Cool]

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what was your old name?

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cdc

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i hate cdc.

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but you love homiehomie.

[lighterjobs]

is the wynn's room always so dead?

[Chris Daddy Cool]

drunken josh is my favorite jew ever.

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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Cowboyhat was a friend of GoblinMason who posts on twoplustwo but not very frequently. I don't remember his posting name.

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superyob?

also im going to try and make the april trip

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No superyob is silkyslim. The guy in the cowboy hat is RyGreen18 who is going to change is name to the cowboy or something like that.

When are people going in april? I'm very likely in. Also Silky, Reprocess, Stacysmom and I, probably cowboy too are all going over winter break in mid jan.

[TStoneMBD]

oh sweet craig. i think im going back to vegas midjanuary myself. my birthday is january 16th and someone invited me out there during that time but my date might conflict with his school schedule. let me know if youll be out there around that date.

[DeathDonkey]

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drunken josh is my favorite jew ever.

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Don't forget at Craftsteak we had a toast for the birthdays and thanking GoT for setting everything up and Josh jumps up and yells "TO JUDAISM!".

-DeathDonkey

[Shilly]

Nice report. I can't believe you got carded, though.

And who are the posters in that picture?

[TStoneMBD]

http://img279.imageshack.us/img279/451/magoo3vm.jpg

im right to the left of rt so im not in the picture, im not the guy with the flannel shirt whos hand is sticking out though. sossman is sitting to the left of the flannel guy.

btw notice how there are 3 flops, there is only a turn out there, the pot is huge and everyone has their hands face up. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

[Schneids]

goblin mason looks a lot like evan

[TStoneMBD]

btw here is a terrible picture that we have of us eating the $150 steak dinner. the waiter who took it didnt use the flash.

http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9964/vegasdinner7np.jpg

[Ulysses]

No wonder jason_t gets all the ladies!

Edited to add: Are those mslif's boobies next to jason?

[Luv2DriveTT]

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goblin mason looks a lot like evan

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Or Evan & nolanfan's illegitimate child.

TT /images/graemlins/club.gif

[peachy]

could someone post clear pictures?? these are death

[TStoneMBD]

noone brought a camera sept for pittm but he didnt use it. youre gonna have to use your imagination. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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could someone post clear pictures?? these are death

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http://www.ducktherake.com/poker/images/limp.jpg

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

Left to right: Cowboyhat, Silkyslim, Reprocess

http://www.ducktherake.com/poker/images/Picture%20139.jpg

[bugstud]

oh [censored]

[bottomset]

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We get the Wynn to spread us a new 4/8 holdem game so that we can have the first of many twoplustwo donkfests. In the first orbit, PJN is playing good poker. He took advantage of our weaktight styles by playing every preflop for 4bets, but runs bad and gets stuck for 13 racks by the end of the night. Bottomset is sitting in seat 1, Entity in seat 2 and me in seat 3. A couple of orbits go around and Bottomset straddles UTG, Entity blind 3bets it and I blind 4bet. Someone else behind me 5bets and when the action gets back to Bottomset he FOLDS! Jasont immediately jumps out of his chair and reaches across the table to point in Bottomset's face while screaming at the top of his lungs in a very serious and vicious tone, "IF YOU'RE GONNA STRADDLE LIKE THAT, I WILL [censored] END YOU."

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that was PITTM, i was on jason t's left, in the 6seat


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and then one hand i sit and think for a while and he has the nerve to tell me to hurry up, so i slow way down and think even longer. stand up. walk around a little bit. sit back down. stare him in the eyes. ask him to count his chips (even though he has me covered). i ask him does he want me to call? then i ask him "do you want action?" and then i ask him "do you have a set?" and then he finally calls a clock on me. and then i wait until 2 seconds left and then i flip over the nut low and say, "i can't belive I'm laying this down to you."

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

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I really wish I saw this

[2+2 wannabe]

lol this picture is going to be all over 2+2 in a week

[jakethebake]

Damn I was drunk! I think that was alobar next to me. This piucture could have been much worse. At least it doesn't look like we're replacing the hot tub.

[ggbman]

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could someone post clear pictures?? these are death

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http://www.ducktherake.com/poker/images/limp.jpg

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I never realized how funny i look staring off into space drunk with redeye. Sunday night/Monday morning must have been hilarious.

[pokerdirty]

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Left to right: Cowboyhat, Silkyslim, Reprocess

http://www.ducktherake.com/poker/images/Picture%20139.jpg

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http://images.zap2it.com/20040618/carsonkressley_queereyestraightguy_240_006.jpg

silkyslim=guy from queer eye???

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

Link to the original for all your PS'ing needs. (https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/cmason/www/Picture%20146.jpg)


And yeah, that was alobar, sorry.

[B Dids]

An additional fact:

I run hot at beer races.

Dids 1 DeathDonkey 0

Dids 1 PJN 0

I would have done better, but Shant got the bad idea to put his brothers natty lite on ice during the home game, and once that stuff is cold you can't drink it as fast and the taste makes it undrinkable.

[istewart]

HOLY CRAP SILKYSLIM!!

LOLOL!

[uw_madtown]

Cross posted from SS

PRE-VEGAS

I wake up Friday at 7 AM Central to do all sorts of random errands that need to be taken care of before Vegas. Get to Dane Co Airport 2 hours before flight departure and realize that the place is a hole. Have 2 beers (Spotted Cow, a Wisconsin favorite) to console myself. Flight to O'Hare is roughly 3 minutes long. Make note to self: flight direct from Madison to Vegas next time as the hassle of a layover in Chicago is not worth it. See elephants in a parking lot somewhere during the landing, which is the first time the passenger next to me looked up from her magazine.

All the internet terminals in O'Hare are packed, which sucks since I have stuff I was supposed to e-mail out before I left for business back home. After spending 20 minutes wandering around looking for those, I get a sandwich and another drink. Try using my laptop to watch some Arrested Development only to discover it sucks ass and won't run without shutting down a few minutes in. Get on the flight to Vegas and have a couple more drinks while watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory which I'd already seen. Meh. Cute flight attendant hooks me up with extra booze though. /images/graemlins/heart.gif



VEGAS, FRIDAY NIGHT

Get into Vegas and realize my phone battery is low, so I stop at one of the airport bars and plug it in to charge while getting yet another drink (I can already tell that most of my money this weekend won't be lost at the poker table). Call Dids, decide to cab to the Wynn and check my bag and then call back to find out where they're at by then. Get in, check my bag and check out the poker room, then call Dids back. Can't hear him too well but I hear something about them heading to Bellagio. I start walking up the strip and by the time I get to Bellagio I realize I'm going to want to take cabs the rest of the weekend. Check out the Bellagio for the first time and realize how much nicer the Wynn is IMO. Get my name on the list for 4/8 and check out the sportsbook, and then Dids calls back--they're going to the MGM for either craps or poker.

Get to the MGM and see no sign of anyone at the poker room, so I wander around the craps area (and miss everyone the first time through). Finally spot Dids and start getting introduced to people. Ask how everyone's doing at craps and the universal answer is "stuck." Rumor has it that GoT and CDC were stuck like $2k and I'm /images/graemlins/heart.gifing Vegas already. They head over to blackjack to either drop more or end up ahead for the night, which apparently was their strategy the night before. They of course get about fifty-seven 20s against a dealer bust and I realize, as TStone put it, "It's good to be asian."

We head back to Bellagio for a 1/2 mixed game in GoT et al's room. On the way, a black guy approaches Dids holding out a CD and talking about how he's a rapper from Milwaukee. Dids realizes he should pawn the guy off on me since I'm from Wisconsin and am the editor of the Arts section of UW's student paper. I grab one and look at it, figuring it'd make a good joke souvenir for one of my rap writers who knows I'm here. Guy says how he wants me to buy it to help him get started. I figure it's a demo and falsely promise I'll buy the album once I get back home. He repeats that he wants me to buy it. I repeat, yeah, of course, I will, and keep walking. After about five times of this exchange, TStone figures out that I don't realize this IS the album and I feel like a jackass. Buy the album anyway because it's $10 and like I said, knew someone who'd get a kick out of it.

After a lot of running around, we eventually get about 15 racks of blue up to the room and start playing. Shant and Klepton (Carlo) bring in two 24 packs of Natty Light and after the required bitching and moaning, we all start drinking. Entity (Rob) shows up with a bottle of Ketel One and buys in to my left. I plan on stealing his cards and/or his alcohol but fail miserably. As TStone said in his report, the game was out of control and pots were 40 BBs from the start. Games included Crazy Fox, double/triple/quadruple flop hold'em, razz, Death Donkey (Chris) 4 Card Double Draw with a community river, something I think called Mississippi holdem (individual down rivers instead of a community river). Some of these games were played hi/lo but I don't remember which. At some point I decide to cap with 69s for value and a flop comes 99x. bakkubakku bets, I raise, he 3-bets, I 4-bet and he screams "YOU PLAYED SOME GARBAGE LIKE 69s DIDN'T YOU, FISH!" I think we still cap the turn and he calls a river bet. I show my 69s and bakku cries while Rob starts screaming about how much he loves playing Big Lick.

It's at this point we realize that Rob is drinking straight Ketel and is as drunk as bisonbison apparently was last trip. His response to our heckling is to give us the finger--yet another sign he's the second coming of bison. I point this out to him and he lays back on the bed and screams "I AM AN INTERNET CELEBRITY!" He then realizes he's dropped a rack and needs more chips. I offer him $15 for his glass of vodka. After putting in his blind, he promptly takes the glass back and I realize I made a bad investment. Also, at this point, GoT is putting out everyone's blind straddle, blind 3-bets, blind 4-bets, and blind caps. I think bottomset folded his straddle somewhere in here and we all declare him to be a nit. The game eventually breaks as the asians want to go play more craps and blackjack, Rob's plastered and may or may not be getting staked for the craps game, and others are tired. We head downstairs and I realize despite Rob's constant thieving of my stack I still ended up like $17. I believe bakku trucked out 17 racks.

Dids and bottomset, both of whom I'm staying with at the Wynn, decide to go watch the gamb000lers. I get a room key and head to the poker room to play some 4/8. Game is largely uneventful and boring, but I've told the waitress to keep jack&cokes coming at as rapid a clip as possible (this is standard during all poker play the rest of the trip). Bottomset eventually sits at my table on the other side and humiliates me in the following hand (details are fuzzy, so bottomset can correct me if I'm wrong). I may be the only person on the trip who can say he accidentally 7-bet:

bottomset is the BB, I'm in middle-late position. Everyone folds to me, I raise with QQ, folded to bottomset who 3-bets, I 4-bet, he calls. Flop comes QJ8. BS checks, I bet, he raises, I 3-bet, he 4-bets, I 5-bet, he 6-bets. I realize he just 3-bet me preflop with T9 and call him a fish while intending to call. In my drunkeness, I accidentally end up putting out too many chips and end up being forced to 7-bet. He 8-bets, and I call down without filling up and he shows T9o. They weren't even soooooted. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Before leaving we go check in with the other people still playing. I also meet PITTM, and he says he's flying out pretty soon. We never even got to make massive 4/8 towers. /images/graemlins/frown.gif /images/graemlins/frown.gif /images/graemlins/frown.gif /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Bottomset and I walk back to the Wynn at like 5:30 AM. Dids is already back and asleep, and bottomset decides he's going to crash too. I call the desk to get my bag brought up and then head down to the poker room to keep playing, because there's a $110 tourney at the Aladdin at noon that I want to play in for fun and if I sleep now I'm not sure I'd make it there.



SATURDAY

First I grab breakfast at the Terrace Cafe. 3 eggs over easy, toast, a ham steak, and hashbrowns. Good food but definitely overpriced. Play some early morning drunken 4/8 at the Wynn. This is the first time I meet a LAG who looks like a cross between a hair metal band reject and Weird Al Yankovic. I also see him every other time I'm in the Wynn poker room, so I think he played for 48 hours straight at the 4/8. Nothing particularly interesting happens in this game, and I don't remember any hands.

Go upstairs to shower and change before the tournament. Get to Aladdin at 10:30 and play 3/6 for an hour and drop a rack. FU to the podium guy who said it was silly to buy in for $300, I run bad. The tourney gets going and I get shortstacked early on but manage to survive with a double up at one point. Start with 2k in chips, blinds were 25/50 and doubled every 20 minutes I think. People could rebuy through the first hour, something I was not informed of or I'd have played much differently. Oh well. Around the 1:40 mark I get all in with JJ against 3 callers and MHIG, yay. At some point I'm probably in the top 3 stacks but I drop a bit later when I call all-ins from people with 3BB and lose. Big hand is with the blinds 1k/2k, UTG (new to the table) makes it 4k, MP (played with him the whole time, he's solid and I think he's a floor at Aladdin who knows Al Capone Jr) calls, folded to me in the BB. I have AKo and push in for my last 13k to make it 15k total. EP calls, MP folds (wtf?). EP shows 33 and I don't improve, and I'm out in 14th, 5 people out of the money. Sigh.

I go back to the Wynn to crash for a few hours before at least showing up to say Hi to people at Magoofest (which I never did /images/graemlins/frown.gif ). Sleep for 3 hours, wake up and call Dids. Turns out he's down in the Wynn poker room, so we meet up and walk up to the Mirage to check out their buffet. Good food, but I wimp out on a second plate of meat and instead get a plate of fruit and then dessert. We both observe that they have some sort of yellow dessert surprise that looks like shredded cheesey potatoes... wtf again? We walk to Bellagio to meet up with people there.

Get to Bellagio and finally meet PJN, rmarotti, rt, and jason_t. Get on the list for 4/8 and get seated at a table next to Jason's. One orbit in and I already hate this table -- 2 chops, 3 uncalled PFRs, 3 hands where BB calls PFR and then check-folds the flop. No hands to showdown. I demand a drink and a table change. Turns out Jason's looking to change tables so I swap seats with him. I sit down and an obvious 4/8 local with a stick up his ass tells me "You guys are punks. Your friends are punks. I'm getting your asses thrown out of here." /images/graemlins/confused.gif

I tell the dealer I'm waiting for my blind and go talk to shant, who's now standing outside the poker room. Apparently a few of them were sweating jason's hand placing prop bets on the flop color and this guy complained to the floor, getting shant kicked out of the poker room. He then turns around and heads back in to talk to sthief (Josh) and other people playing the 15 and 30 games. I laugh and go sit back down. 4/8 local hates me and I haven't said a word. I just shrug and keep playing. At this point, Shant, Carlo, Josh and a few other people start sweating Jason on his new table and make some more color prop bets. 4/8 local starts pointing and them and calling for the floor. Someone yells "What's your problem?!" and he stutters something I don't remember, to which Josh replies "YOU BEAT YOUR WIFE! You beat your wife... no, you probably don't even have a wife to beat!" Needless to say, all of them get tossed except myself and I think Moozh was also playing somewhere to the side. I go back to the entrance and Jason says they're going to go get something to eat and head back to the Wynn. I plan to meet them there and head back to the table.

As soon as I get back to the table, the group leaves by walking along the rail, giving Josh another chance to yell about 4/8 local beating his wife. A black chick to his right turns around and tells Josh to watch his mouth because SHE'S his wife, to which Josh replies, "No you're not. You're a whore. AND HE BEATS YOU! YOU BEAT YOUR WHORE!" I have to leave the table so I don't bust out laughing right in the guy's face. Shortly after everyone leaves, the black chick stops looking at her hands and just calls everyone down blind, and the local is on uber-tilt. He also gives me a dirty look when I raise his post with AA. Yes, even after I showed it down, he still looked at me like I'd killed his firstborn. He was an [censored].

Also, through their conversation, it comes out that the black chick is a former porn star named Mocha (Photo Link (http://www.topbloke.com/girls/mocha_cream.jpg)) who's now married to a rich, older white guy (not the 4/8 local). She seemed familiar but I couldn't remember what from. Weird. She also later tells me I'm a nice guy -- mostly because I've been quiet the whole game. Which is mostly my way of avoiding saying something that might get me punched in the face.

Cash out and see bicycklekick in the high stakes area. Let him know the early events and all he can do is shake his head and laugh. I head back to the Wynn and meet up with everyone again. Watch the 4/8 crazy pineapple game, which was insane. Also sit in a fantastic 4/8 game where there were three middle-aged brothers and their elderly father to my left. All four would regularly call 3-bets cold preflop and I'm in /images/graemlins/heart.gif, until the father accidentally cuts his finger on a rack and starts bleeding on the table (he didn't notice because he'd lost most of the use of that hand to a stroke). It's roughly at that time that the pineapple game breaks. Dids tells me that a bunch of them are going to Lure, the club in the Wynn. I decide to keep playing and meet up with them after (I hear Lure was a blast, this was a major mistake).



SUNDAY

After playing til about 4 (?) I call Dids and find out they're just on their way out of the Wynn, so I meet up with them. Shant, PJN, Dids, RT and I get a cab and head back to Bellagio.

In the process, we have the best cab ride ever. Apparently in the last cab, Shant found out that the cabbie had taken "blaowww-blaowww" for cab fare from girls a few times. We ask Mike, our cabbie, if he would ever accept blaow blaow for cab fare, and he says "No, you don't know where she's been if she's willing to do that for $10." Shant tips him $3 for being an upstanding man of fine moral fiber. We then start to wonder if this was actually the answer Shant wanted, or whether maybe he was trying to offer up PJN's services for a free ride. We then ask the cabbie what if it was a top-flight escort and not some street hooker -- would he then accept the blaow-blaow? His reply "No, but I'd definitely think about it" earns him another $3 tip. He also honks at two flipped-collar douchebags that are blocking the Bellagio cab entrance to work his way up to $8 in tips before we even pay the fare.

Get to the Bellagio and we start sweating GoT, CDC, bakku and maybe Rob (?). Shant starts fanning out his $1 bills and yelling for color prop bets. He takes black against half the table, except for the black guy in the game because obviously if he's going to bet on the flop color, he should bet black and not red. PJN also starts betting against GoT, hoping for an all-paint flop so he can score an entire rack. It never happens.

Eventually we have like 7 people sweating the game and cheering for prop bets, but this time no one's complaining. Nonetheless, this floor has a stick up his ass and makes us go to the rail. We do, and still make just as much noise and continue the prop bets. After awhile, we're all told that we can't stay at the rail and we have to leave. Most of us retreat to the bar, now officially not in /images/graemlins/heart.gif with the Bellagio. Shant yells towards the room "NO HAVING FUN" when GoT stands to yell "AIYA" at a flop. Eventually Shant can't resist himself and he tries to slink back to the rail. PJN goes up as well and they talk while the rest of us continuing drinking. PJN returns after a few minutes and says, "Anyone want to make a prop bet that security comes down here for Shant?" I ask for odds, he offers 100-1. I say "I'll take that for $5." As soon as the words leave my mouth, two guys in red security coats come around the corner and start talking to Shant. I throw a $5 bill at PJN and tell him to [censored] off.

After awhile Shant chills them out and they leave and he stays at the bar. I head to the bathroom and run into NLSoldier and TStone, who apparently went to a strip club with other people, including a now-lost Josh. I introduce myself to NLSoldier, doubting he'll recognize my screenname because I don't post much. He tells me I'm an internet legend and I laugh because either he's drunk and being sarcastic, or he remembers me for something stupid like ADHOC or whatever. Either one is hilarious, but it was cool meeting him, particularly during later breakfast events. Anyway, I tell them about all of us getting tossed from the Bellagio poker room for the second time in like 12 hours, and then we talk about the Wynn pineapple game getting carded. Both of them, being underage, get very secretive any time a Bellagio worker walks by. At one point, two or three people in red coats walk through from different directions. About five minutes later, Shant comes back through being escorted to his room. We all wish him a fine evening and laugh our asses off, although I hear the best part of the entire thing was when he got into the elevator, he asked the other passengers where their security was. /images/graemlins/laugh.gif

TStone calls it a night and NLSoldier and I go back to meet up with the group of about 10 that's gathered at the bar outside the poker room. We decide to head to the Bellagio Cafe and get more drinks and breakfast. PJN orders a round of kamikaze shots for everyone and a shot of tequila for he and Victor who we met up with back at the bar. He also whips out his status as an internet celebrity to try and buy drinks for four chicks celebrating someone's birthday, but gets no response because they're uptight bitches. After the shots, we order another few drinks and 5 or 6 shots of "liquid cocaine," also I'm not sure what RT described the shot as is ACTUALLY a true shot of "liquid cocaine." Anyway, he orders them and describes them as 1/3 Jaeger, 1/3 Goldschlager, and 1/3 Bacardi 151 on top. We also order food. While waiting for food, PJN informs Dids that he's willing to stake him, either for the 15/30 game or the hooker game. Dids refuses, PJN insists, and it eventually results in PJN throwing a stack of rubber-banded 100s at Dids across the table. Also, at some point, NLSoldier gets Josh and Peachy (not in Vegas) on a 3-way conference call. We still don't know where Josh is at this point. This is probably around the time he was trying to find his Bellagio room in Bally's. This call also allowed PJN to rail off a line of obscenities, including "[censored] YOU PEACHY!" when handed the phone.

Shots of LC come and we pass them around to the appropriate people who don't know what's in them. Waitress says chasers will be out shortly, but no one listens. This results in NLSoldier trying to chase with french fries and bottomset looking like he was about ready to vomit in his breakfast. PJN and Victor order a shot of tequila each again, and we get talking poker for awhile until the manager says we're being too loud and since we're done with our meal, we have to leave. Bellagio hates fun, apparently.

At this point, Victor and NL Soldier call it a night and the rest of us head back to Wynn, either to crash or play there. PJN drunkenly buys into the 15 game with a pool of red chips and I can't tell if he's winning or losing at any point in the night. Anyway, I meet thirddan for the first time I think, and he, RT, Moozh and I play some drunken 4/8 which includes the hair metal band reject I mentioned previously. Really fun game and had a great time meeting you guys. Also, the Wynn rocks as they allowed color flop prop bets on the condition they were "for fun," wink, wink. I proceed to tilt off $20 or so by running bad at color flops.

Also, we figure out that RT is a huge fish at playing KK. Two hands against me:

First hand, I'm the SB and RT is in the BB. We get an EP limper and it's folded to me. Failing to notice the limper, I raise my J5o. RT says, "You know we have a limper, right?" In fine form, I deadpan, "Of course I do." He laughs and calls, limper calls as well. Flop comes ATx, two suited. RT swears it contained a Q but this is one of few hands I remember fairly well. Anyway, I check, RT checks, limper checks. The turn is a J, and I bet out. RT thinks for a long while and folds, and the limper calls. River brick, and I bet and don't get called. I take the pot and ask RT what he had. He says KK and both Moozh and I are in shock that he folded to my turn bet. He defends it by saying I raised into a limper, and the flop was A high, and blah blah blah. He's just a big fish.

This is later proven when I straddle. I straddle and start making flop color prop bets, RT cold calls UTG with KK, Moozh cold calls with ?? in UTG+1, we get 2 or 3 more cold-callers. It gets around to me and I'm so excited to see the flop color (I'm so stuck at the prop bets) that I check my straddle option. RT goes NUTS and the flop comes God knows what. I check, RT bets, other people do things and I fold my 43o. He swears and then starts declaring that he "angry-bets." He later defends cold calling there because I'm supposed to raise my straddle so he can 4-bet. I tell him he's a major fish, and I spend the next hour or so declaring that I "lovingly bet" everytime I bet into him. thirddan makes a /images/graemlins/heart.gif out of his chips to comemmorate the occasion.

It's like 11 AM by now, so Moozh wimps out and goes to sleep. Jason calls and wants to meet up with lunch, so RT and I go hang out at the deli thing waiting for him. We have lunch and I mostly just complain about not taking the Begals, who were only favored 3.5 against Baltimore. Stupid stupid stupid. Had a burger there, and that was pretty solid. After that the group of us wander back to the poker room and try calling around but no one's answering, so we all disperse for awhile. I head up to the room and find Dids and bottomset watching football, so I gladly join in. After they've both showered I take a bath and start watching highlights on the bathroom TV. Somehow I manage not to pass out in the tub. I change and go back into the room and apparently everyone's just going to meet for dinner at the Aladdin buffet later. I tell them to wake me up before we go and I fall asleep for 2 hours, grand totalling 5 hours for the entire trip.

Rest of Sunday was pretty tame, as we just met up with people at Bellagio and then went to Aladdin. Food was pretty good there as well, but I'm really disappointed that I didn't find time to go hit Bellagio or Wynn's... next time I guess. Afterwards Dids and I just head back to the Wynn and I pack up to leave for my flight.



POST-VEGAS

Short notes include that I almost missed my flight from O'Hare to Madison because they boarded early and I didn't hear first or second calls, and barely heard final call when I was heading to the bathroom. Also, I had classes and work at the paper on Monday after getting in at 8 AM and getting no sleep on the return flight, so I ended up not getting to sleep until 9 PM on Monday. And then I woke up at 10 PM on Tuesday. OMG best sleep ever.


All in all, had an amazing time. Everyone was as awesome as I expected, particularly the regulars of SS and HUSH and #sstakes that I've talked to most. Next trip, definitely going to need 4 full days. April, right? /images/graemlins/heart.gif

Dids' comments upon reading this a minute ago:
<BDids> I approve of this trip report
<BDids> although it seems like we're dating /images/graemlins/smile.gif
<madtown> !!!
<madtown> we aren't?
<BDids> hmmm
<BDids> there wasn't much physical going on
<madtown> I did sleep on your bed while you watched primetime
<BDids> valid point!

[miajag81]

Jakethebake looks absolutely nothing like how i pictured him.

[silkyslim]

HOLY CRAP WHAT????? CANT A GUY GRAB TWO GUYS CROTCHES WITH A PERVERTED LOOK ON HIS FACE IN VEGAS WITHOUT GETTING BERATED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[B Dids]

My experiences with Slim:

Him and Cowboyhatguy showing up at the buffet and being so drunk that nobody could understand their names after like three tries.

Him announcing: "I'm berating the fish because I'm drunk and leaving soon" and the fish not caring... and just generally being amusing as hell in 4/8.

[silkyslim]

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My experiences with Slim:

Him and Cowboyhatguy showing up at the buffet and being so drunk that nobody could understand their names after like three tries.

Him announcing: "I'm berating the fish because I'm drunk and leaving soon" and the fish not caring... and just generally being amusing as hell in 4/8.

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all i remember is that you like ordered symmetry. and yeah, i am amusing as hell. o, and I was berating pyramid local that was forcing me to take shots because he cracked my AA with his uber QTo that he cold called.

[NLSoldier]

Nice report madtown. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

You remembered a lot more about my saturday night than I do. I definately didnt know we did shots of liquid cocaine. I hope chasing with french fries worked out well for me. Maybe the 151 had something to do with the fact that I was coughing up bloody flegm on sunday?

[billyjex]

haha jakethebake looks creepier than i imagined

[B Dids]

We all didn't get shots of the LC. I didn't, and I'm bitter, because I wouldn't have preformanced like some nancy boy after taking the shot.

I did have to finish Brad's kamikazi after he could only drink half. Kids these days and their lousy drinking skills.

[sthief09]

none of you seem to know who cowboyhat is. I'm pretty sure he's gregory18

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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none of you seem to know who cowboyhat is. I'm pretty sure he's gregory18

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He used to be RyGreen18, he recently changed his name to cowboyhat after the trip.

[icepick]

I finally got around to labeling who I recall at my table.

http://www.netfamine.com/images/labeled%20pic.jpg

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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oh sweet craig. i think im going back to vegas midjanuary myself. my birthday is january 16th and someone invited me out there during that time but my date might conflict with his school schedule. let me know if youll be out there around that date.

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Sadly, school starts a week earlier than I thought...

I'll be getting back from another vacation on the 11th and school starts on the 17th... /images/graemlins/confused.gif I might have to go anyway though as I really don't think I can wait for late april for the next Magoo. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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goblin mason looks a lot like evan sitting on a dictionary.

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<font color="white"> Sorry, couldn't resist </font> /images/graemlins/blush.gif

[bugstud]

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oh sweet craig. i think im going back to vegas midjanuary myself. my birthday is january 16th and someone invited me out there during that time but my date might conflict with his school schedule. let me know if youll be out there around that date.

[/ QUOTE ]

Sadly, school starts a week earlier than I thought...

I'll be getting back from another vacation on the 11th and school starts on the 17th... /images/graemlins/confused.gif I might have to go anyway though as I really don't think I can wait for late april for the next Magoo. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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awwww you're katz's date for atlantis. how cute.

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

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oh sweet craig. i think im going back to vegas midjanuary myself. my birthday is january 16th and someone invited me out there during that time but my date might conflict with his school schedule. let me know if youll be out there around that date.

[/ QUOTE ]

Sadly, school starts a week earlier than I thought...

I'll be getting back from another vacation on the 11th and school starts on the 17th... /images/graemlins/confused.gif I might have to go anyway though as I really don't think I can wait for late april for the next Magoo. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

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awwww you're katz's date for atlantis. how cute.

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Hey, it's not my fault he can't find any tail hotter than me... /images/graemlins/blush.gif

I've also already broke the news to him that there will be no spooning.

[GoblinMason (Craig)]

One more trip report:

I arrived at Silky's in the AM and the first thing he tells me is that I have to drive from Champaign to O'Hare because he's only on 3 hours sleep. I was only on 3 myself, so we agree to split it. I shotgun not driving first, knowing full well there will be no switch. We get on the road behind schedule of course, luckily I planned for this and made us plan to leave early. We then start the day off right with the breakfast of champions, Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwiches. Three hours later we arrive at Silky's house and hang out with his grandpa and dogs. Silky leaves me there for a while, while he runs an errand. (Read: Buys some blow) Silky's stepmom gets home and gives us a ride to the airport. We find our gate and the spicy chicken is no longer holding me at which point I pay $2.40 for 2 bananas and feel very dirty about doing so.

The flight itself is fairly uneventful, other than silky getting restless and going over my PT hands on my laptop and meeting two 2+2 lurkers in the process. We wish them well and head into the airport. After waiting through the cab line, we get in and the cab driver says in his Eastern European accent, “What's it going to be tonight guys? gambling or [censored]?” We respond w/ “drinking.” He proceeds to lecture us about being careful when gambling and lets us know if we need hooks, he's the guy to call.

We get to the Boardwalk, and to our surprise the room is clean with no urine like we were told to expect. Silky wants to shower so I head down to the casino for some craps. Apparently the Boardwalk cant afford real craps tables so it has “mini craps.” This means that I'm obligated to throw the dice right off the table on my first roll in disapproval of such nonsense. Reprocess meets me there and cash out up $3 and one Carona.

We meet back up w/silky and decide we are all hungry and go out in search of food. Since none of us have been to Vegas before, we don't know where the hell we're going and wander around. Reprocess and Silky are nits, so we look for something cheap and cant find it. We end up wandering off the strip into some horrible convenience store attached to a casino and bar with a room temperature of about 80 degrees. We ask about good cheap eats and the clerk tells us to go to Ellis Island which isn't too far. We get there, order 2 giant breakfasts for me and silky and chicken fingers for Reprocess. The food is decent and the bill came to $15 flat after tip.

After making the trek back to the Bellagio for poker, I get seated in a 30 game and R&amp;S get in a 4/8. I think I run approximately break even like I do at every session at the 30. I eventually find out that Hobbes is sitting at my table and W.Deranged is behind me at another game. Hobbes makes me fold a winner on account of me being weak tight. We also meet cowboyhat sometime during this session, who we hung out w/the rest of the weekend and is a really cool guy. I met a bunch of other trouts when I hear someone introduce themselves behind me as NLSoldier. I turn around in my seat and jump into the conversation. It shocks Soiler a bit and then I met several other 2+2ers.

Eventually we all start drinking, and decide it's time for the strip club. Silky, Reprocess, Cowboy, and I secure a taxi and head to Sapphire. It's good times, but drunk silky decided it was too expensive. To remedy this he steals $8 from a stripper when a guy throws a bunch of ones in the air. He got berated by the stripper, and we decided it was time to leave. Silky, Cowboy, and I go outside and don't know where Reprocess is. We wait for 10 minutes and Cowboy goes back in to get him. It turns out a stripper tried to make Reprocess pay for a dance twice and he wasn't having it. I think he refuted by saying “Ya know, that's an interesting theory, but I'm not paying.” After a while of this back and forth, Cowboy being the baller that he is, pays her and we're off.

We head to the Wynn for some drunken early morning 4/8. I decide that a proper buyin is 12 racks and make a large pyramid. Silky and Reprocess keep drinking and I switch to waters. The Wynn put up with our antics pretty patiently, even when Silky was calling Micheal the dealer “Michelle.” Although he did refuse a tip from Silky. We also felt the need to yell “ONE TIME DEALER!” on any sort of a draw, every hand. We annoyed a nit or two, but not much. We finally get the one nit women sitting to my right to say “One time dealer” and her flush draw comes in! I eventually decide I'm sober enough to sit in the 5 handed 15 game that I had been eyeing for the last 2 hours. Within 5 minutes of me sitting, it fills. I proceeded to run well for the next 2 orbits I played in a very good game and end up 20BBs or so. (after dropping several racks at 4/8) I see if Reprocess and Silky are ready to go, and reprocess is more than ready and is practically passing out at the table after being on basically no sleep for 2 days. We decide it's not that far to walk back to the boardwalk (which it was) and Reprocess almost falls asleep on an escalator on the way back. We finally make it and pass out, sleeping right through the craps fest. /images/graemlins/frown.gif

Luckily, I awake in time for the Magoofest and try to roust Reprocess to no avail. I also found silky outside the room talking to his gf for the last 5 hours (and what will be the next 2) trying to calm her down from the traumatic experience of her boyfriend going to a strip club. /images/graemlins/blush.gif Since he hasn't slept yet, I head to the magoofest by myself which was a blast. It's already been covered in detail so I won't go into it, but knockout razz is the best game ever. When it ends, I'm 3 racks lighter. My best play of the night was not doing that round of Kettle vodka. The looks on the other magoos' faces confirmed that it was not delicious.

Reprocess finally wanders over to the MGM and bugstud, TstoneMBD, Reprocess and I head over to the Bellagio to meet up w/lots of the others. When we get there we find out that apparently the Wynn is the place to be and take a hummer limo (see pic), after much debate, to the Wynn to meet up with more 2+2ers. When we get there, we realize that everyone isn't drunk enough and they start a crazy pineapple game for us. Cowboy and I didn't play that but instead played 8/16 and got thoroughly wasted along side the pineapple players. I lock up a seat to cowboy's left and isolate with whatever above average hand I'm dealt. He drops a lot and I drop an SB.

Somehow we get a lot of us (Tstone, Bugstud, Alobar, Josh., NLSoldier, Cowboy, Meep and others I'm forgetting) to Dejavu, a strip club with no booze, unless your name is Soiler. This is all pretty hazy since I was out of it, but I remember listening to Josh and Tstone argue over who is better at poker for a while, each of them saying the other one is better and how it means so much that they're saying that. It was a special moment. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

Some of us leave and go back to the Bellagio, I say I'm going to bed and leave, but then see a blackjack table with cute girls sitting there and decide it's sounds like more fun than sleep. I end up $11.50 but not up any phone #s, cuz like I said...weak tight. I then see a group of 2p2ers that are going to get breakfast at the cafe and I'm really hungry and say I'll go. When we get there, I realize how insanely tired I am and excuse myself to go crash instead of eating. I tell rt1 that it was nice meeting him and goodbye for the second time and go home.

When I wake up, Cowboy, Reprocess (who has finally gotten some sleep) and I head to the bellagio for poker. I break even and cowboy is up some whole number of racks like he is every session. It's also during this session that a local that looks like the matador from Tilt tells the cowboy and Josh that I will never be a winning player after I make a standard call on the turn with a gutshot in a big pot to the nuts and hit. I talk to a nice lady sitting next to me who claims to be psychic and puts on a pretty good front telling me lots of things about myself that were true. As someone else noted in their report, the fish get up from the 30 game we were sitting in and are replaced by 2+2ers. The game gets really bad and I get at the top of the list for a table change which I get shortly. This was also before CDC sat down and all hell broke loose. Worst table change ever, but I ran good in the other game for what I was previously stuck even though it didn't have any gambooling asians in it.

After a while, cowboy, silky and I decide we wanna go party instead of playing poker on our last night. I'm already a few drinks in by the time I leave the 30, and I decide that I need a nice shirt if we are going to go to some club. We walk around Ceasars in the shops and walk into some ungodly expensive place where the average shirt price was $2-300 with some in the $800 range. Then I find one that really catches my eye and it's a bargain at only $105 and happened to be exactly 15.5 34/35 which is my shirt size. The sales lady seals the deal by offering to take $20 off, and since I'd been drinking this offer seems to good to pass and I'm now the owner of a $85 shirt.

We stop by a convenience store on the way back to pick up a case of MGD which we make short work of back at the fabulous boardwalk. Well, it was more like cowboy and I playing chugabeer while silky talked to his gf for another hour. Eventually we get him off the phone and drinking and head over to the Bellagio, which I have no idea why now that I think about it. We sit down at a bar and the bartender informs us of the best way to bonus whore the bar for drinks by playing video poker. Silky finds out that he can get hennesey and drinks a lot of that. Cowboy and I see two girls sitting at the bar that don't appear to be hookers so we go talk to them. We find out that they just moved here and are going to go to school in the spring. We talk w/them about random [censored] and convince them that I knocked out Jesus in this year's WSOP. (complete lie of course) We also tell them that we're ballers and have 10k in cash on us (I know, smart). This was about 45 minutes into our conversation at which point they tell us “We're working girls.” I'm more surprised than anything and proceed so inquire about the “hook lifestyle” which seems to be very much like the professional poker lifestyle minus the sex for money part.

I go back to talk to silky who has made some friends in the form or random old dude and other hooker. Silky decides that berating the hooker would be fun and does just that. For some reason she doesn't leave even though she knows Silky isn't going to buy her and is just saying very vulgar things. This is a good laugh, but when I look back for the cowboy...it's too late...he's been hooked. /images/graemlins/blush.gif

Silky and I go find Reprocess in the poker room and tell him it's time to go to the Wynn. We cab it over along with another friend Silky has made from England (Dave from Nottingham). Before leaving the Bellagio, Dave asks us, “Do you blokes like drugs?” Silky is excited and they go to Dave's room to get some yayo which will be done in the bathroom of the Wynn throughout the morning.

When we get there, I see 4 handed 15 going with rt1 and 2 randoms. I'm sober enough to play so I do. RT leaves shortly and I say bye and nice meeting you for a third time. The game is really good and it goes 3-4 handed for a while until one uberfish leaves to catch his flight. It was not only good, but friendly and all of us were having a good time. It gets down to me and one other guy who isn't good, but I'm extremely tired by now and decide to go sit with Dids (who has arrived at some point) thirddan, Silky, Reprocess and English Dave at 4/8. When I arrived I found silky in worse shape then I left him. Details on this are reported by dids somewhere else so I won't elaborate other than Dids playing perfect poker and me building an awesome chip fortress. We needed to check out of our hotel and decide to go, at which point I see rt one more time and say goodbye to him for the fourth and final time.

We check out of the Boardwalk and leave our stuff with the bellman and go to the Paris buffet to eat which came highly recommended from many 2p2ers and is very very good. After which, we go back to the Bellagio and collect cowboy's roomkey for a nap. When we get up, it's practically time to go to the airport which was very sad. We got to the airport said goodbye to Reprocess and agree that Vegas is insane and we need to get back ASAP. April magoofest at the latest.

On the plane, Silky and I both got individual beratings over the intercom from the flight attendants for delaying the takeoff of the plane because we suck at travel.

The whole trip was nonstop fun and I can't wait to go back...I've been looking forward to Vegas for years and it was 5x as fun as I expected.

-Craig

[TStoneMBD]

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He proceeds to lecture us about being careful when gambling and lets us know if we need hooks, he's the guy to call.

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lol a taxi driving pimp daddy! /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[ClaytonN]

gabe looks like another daryn clone. totally different than I anticipated, but I should have known that you need a bigger frame to hold 31 drinks

[ggbman]

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gabe looks like another daryn clone. totally different than I anticipated, but I should have known that you need a bigger frame to hold 31 drinks

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Haha, how did you picture me?

[TylerD]

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gabe looks like another daryn clone.

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I know, did daryn's dad get around or what?



(i kid, i kid)

[ClaytonN]

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Haha, how did you picture me?

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I picture any highly successful 18 yr old to either look like Erik123 or Bruiser. ie skinny w tassled hair, or whatever

[TheMetetron]

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After grinding the 30/60 for a few hours, I meet themetetron for the first time and find out that he's really a good guy. I say this because he comes off pretty bad on the forums and gets a bad wrap but he's a good guy in person. Whenever we both turn 21 I'll gladly buy him a drink if he's ever in town.

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Umm, thanks. I think?

I'm usually just doing 1001 other thing while posting on here, so I have very little patience for idiots or just people in general it seems. I should work on becoming less of an [censored], but frankly I don't care.

If I meet people, then I can start to give a [censored] about them and we can have a good time. But I'm not going to make the online 2+2 world anything to care much about.

Also, I'm moving to Vegas in Jan, so let me know next time you come out and we can grab a drink or a stripper.