Las Vegas Trip Report I Tried to Be Brief (aka not the longest ever)

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Trip Reports are too long. Mine included.

DO go to Las Vegas when you can deduct it.

DON'T stay at the Imperial Palace if you can avoid it. It was the conference hotel and we had a very good rate. But it sucked. It has a different bad smell at every turn. It has so many elevators and escalators and dead ends that you feel like you are in a habitrail. The room was OK tho. There just aren't enough elevators, so it takes a long time to get up to the room or down to the casino, and you have to pack into the elevators with people who stay at the IP. Then you have to catch more broken escalators and elevators to get anywhere in the habitrail. Feh.

The PETA special at Delmonico was outstanding of course. Medium rare dead stuff is great there. Great place to go w/ friends.

If you are playing terrible make sure your good hands hold up and your draws get there or you will get killed. [img]/images/graemlins/ooo.gif[/img]

Saw two nasty confrontations in the short walk back from the mirage to the IP with HDPW at 400 am. One little guy who looked somehow disabled was getting his ass kicked by his own friends. He appeared to be drunk and seemed developmentally disabled or something on top of that. He had no shirt. He'd get in a friend's face who was like 3 times bigger trying to pick a fight. His friend would let him talk smack for a minute while the other friends tried to calm things down, then drop the little guy. The little guy'd hit the pavement with a kind of weird sound.


Then get up and the big guy would drop him again with a really hard punch to the face. I mean the guy getting hit was like 4' 10" 80 pounds and the guy doing the hitting appeared to be an experienced fighter. Freaking bizarre, but there were like 6 of them and they seemed like they knew each other, so I wasn't going to be a hero or decent person or anything. Mighta been foreplay for all I know. Didn't seem like a real fight since the big guy would only hit him once per confrontation and didn't go put the boots to him or beat his skull into the pavement or anything. It was mostly surreal and the guy getting his ass kicked didn't seem too bothered by the whole affair. Then there was a confrontation between a lady who was about to kick a guy's ass. I think she may make her living on the street but I am not sure. We were just trying to get out of the way before guns or knives came out. Much unpleasantness in a 50 yard stretch of the strip on a fine sunday morning.


BTW the guy with no arms and legs who has his IP slot bucket for donations has been on that segment of the strip for over 20 years in all weather. Makes losing seem a little less important.