5 Days in Vegas: Trip Report (low content)

[DrCool]

Arrived in Vegas on Monday around noon and checked into the Luxor. Stayed in the West Tower and the room was decent and the price was right. Met up with a few friends for lunch at the fabulous Hilton buffet. Pretty mediocre food that reminded me of Golden Corral or Old Country Buffet but I was starving so it was OK.

Headed down to the MGM to play some 1-2 NL. Grind away for a few hours with mediocre but never make any real profit. A Danish friend of mine sits at the table and he takes me on a few hands and I leave down $200. I head to Mandalay Bay to play some Black Jack and hit a nice streak and finish the day ahead of the game.

Tuesday I wake up around 1 PM and head down to play some Black Jack at the Luxor with some decent results. Decide to wander over to Mandalay to see if my luck is still holding and I win again. This trip is starting out well. I grab a quick bite to eat and hit the tables again and unfortunatly my luck decides to leave town and I drop some. It is now time to head over to PURE at Caesers Palace for a free party put on by a big client of mine. I rub elbows with a bunch of people in what turns out to be a big sausage fest and score a few free drinks and head back to the Luxor to meet up with a friend who just flew into town.

We head to Mandalay Bay for some 4-8 limit with a 1/2 kill and play for a while. Have a couple bad beats that cost me a bit but end up around $60 after my friend busts out. We head to bed around 4 AM.

Wednesday we head to Wynn and I play some 8-16 while my friend sits in the 1-3 game. I really like the 8-16 game and do well over the next few hours. My high pairs hold up and when I stab at pots I get people to fold to me. Up $380 after about 4 hours.

It is now time to get a free meal thanks to another client. We go to Red Square at Mandalay with about 16 people. Decent food, good service. We do a vodka tasting in their vodka locker which is pretty sweet. Overall had a great time and a good meal.

My friend wants to play some 4-8 and I decide to hit the black jack tables again. He plays with some of the worst players ever. Every hand someone asks "how much can I raise?", "what is the bet", and one hillbilly lady from the Ozarks (her son came up to her while they were playing and said 'Hey Ma! I'm having a ball!' (not sure why I find that so funny)) acts out of turn on about 80% of the hands. He gets frustrated and can never get a good hand with any of them and ends up losing. I, meanwhile, help the Mandalay Bay build a new wing on their hotel. When you see the DrCool Towers you will now know where they came from.

Thursday we decide to head over to MGM for some more 1-2. I hit someone with a sweet suckout and get the favor returned a couple hands later. Play for a few hours and end up down $100. Get a call from a friend who wants to buy me dinner so we go to the seafood buffet at the Rio and I pound about 15 crab legs and 7 plates full of mussels. Pretty good food and since I wasn't paying I didn't care about the price.

Time to head over to Bally's for some late night 1-2 NL. The game was loose and juicy as advertised and most pots got above $50 with quite a few in the $100 plus range. The table was full of people who had played before and were OK players for the most part and overall it was a fun, joking table. A couple exeptions though. The guy on my right was stiff as a board and raised nearly every pot. He was raising on a lot of flush draws and hitting most of them. Unfortunatly he took his money and ran so we couldn't get it back. Decided at about 6 AM to leave and on my last hand the new girl at the table decided to go all in in the dark (trying to bust an old crochety guy who sat down a few hands earlier and was being a jerk) and I have AK suited. I call her all in and end up hitting an Ace on the flop. Turns out she had KK. Doubled up and ended up with $1 profit for the night. Good enough for me.

Friday I wake up and check out. A couple friends are at the rooftop bar at Margaritaville so I head over for a couple drinks and realize I hate margaritas. After that it is time to hit the Wynn again. Play the 8-16 game again and get crappy cards for a few hours. I get a few good hands here and there but nothing ever hits. When I do get a good hand to hit it hits someone better (example: pocket 5s. Flop is 4, 5, 7 and an old guy on my right has a 3-6 offsuit for the straight). I rebuy a couple times waiting for my luck to change but to no avail. On the positive side I am making a couple guys much more comfortable in their retirement. Down $700.

Catch a cab to the airport and get there to find our flight has been cancelled due to weather. I call the Luxor and they give me a discounted rate for another night so we head back to the Luxor and find our room right above the night club. Can't think about sleep with that music pumping so I decide to dump some more money at the black jack tables.

Starts out bad at Luxor so I head to Mandalay and start bad as well but hit a few good cards and am up a couple hundred and then the magic hands hit. I have one hand where I split 4 times and double down on two of them (7 bets on the table) and the dealer busts. Nice. A couple hands later the same situation happens (7 bets on the table) but this time my bet has doubled. Dealer busts. Hopefully they haven't found a contractor for the new wing just yet. End up leaving with a good chunk of cash.

Overall I lost but had a good time and got some free meals. The nice run at the end helped make the losses a bit more bearable. Hopefully I will be back in a couple months to lose some more.

Nice trip report, I enjoyed it. What business are you in that gets you these comps?

[DrCool]

Hotel was comped due to me dumping too much playing blackjack on my last trip and the meals and partys were paid for by some companies I do some advertising with.

[Spook]

Where was the flight going to that was cancelled?
And was it on that end or this end?

I just moved here, and am flying home for Thanksgiving. When I tried to fly out last time my flight was cancelled because of rain here in Vegas (and in Phoenix)

[DrCool]

Flight was going to Spokane. Supposedly there was fog up here that cancelled the flight.