LV trip report
by AlienBoy

Ok, well I recently finished a film (I am a feature film editor and visual effects supervisor) with a lot of time off before my next gig. Also. my "main" girlfriend is an adult actress, and she decided to go work at the Bunny Ranch for a few weeks to make some extra dough (this fact will play later in the story). And as a member of Costco, I received an email from Costco travel - I got 5 days in vegas at Bally's, roundtrip airfare from LAX all included for $230 plus tax ($253 in total) which I think is a good deal. So with the GF away, I wanted to go play.

Many tournaments in LV are much better structured than those in Los Angeles, IMO. in particular, I like the Venetian nightly $120 buy-in tournament. My plan was to spend most of my time playing tournaments, and maybe some cash in between.

Last TR I didn't mention many hands - I discuss many more hands this time.

-- MONDAY --

Getting To Vegas

I pretty much am done with driving to LV. I'd much rather plan ahead and fly. I prefer to leave from Burbank Airport as that is close to me, but this special deal required leaving from LAX.

There's a Red Line subway stop near my home in Hollywood, so I took the Red Line to Union station, and from there, the "Flyaway" bus to LAX. The Flyaway Bus is a reasonably comfortable Greyhound type bus that goes non stop from Union Station to LAX for $7, in about 30 minutes. It beats the hell out of driving or that jerkoff SuperShuttle service, IMO. It's cheaper and faster.

The special deal was roundtrip flight on USeless Airways - yikes! They fly Airbus A320 - aircraft that seem to fall out of the skies at random moments. Had I known, I would have thought twice, I much prefer flying on Boeing aircraft. Airbuses rattle so much they seem to be falling apart all the time. I HATE them!

More to the point, Useless Airways now charges $20 a bag for checked bags, and they reduced their carryon size from 25x16x10 down to 22x14x9. Jackasses! I refused to spend $20 to check a bag so i shoved everything into my smallest carryon.

At the airport, I asked if I could get an exit row seat with extra leg room (I'm 6'5" tall, so coach seats kinda suck for me). The lady said sure, but the seat she gave me actually had LESS legroom than a typical seat, and it didn't recline. Well, that sucked. (It's the new layout where the is one window exit seat with lots of leg room, and then two regular seats net to it. Fortunately, the stewardess was able to hook me up with a bulkhead seat at the front, and that was much more comfortable.

Other than that, an uneventful journey to my hotel. Checked into Bally's around 4PM, then headed off to the Venetian.

Getting Around Vegas

As I didn't drive, I had to get around somehow - I tend to hate cabs in LV - cabbies are by and large rude scam artists, intent to take the longest route possible. So I thought I'd try the Monorail, and bought a 3 day pass ($30).

Okay, the monorail is a total joke. Seriously.

1) It's over priced.

2) The stops are so far from the strip, it is actually shorter to just walk to your final destination, rather than walk all the way to the monorail, take the short trip, then walk back to you final destination.

3) the Wynn is no longer offering a shuttle to a Monorail stop, so to get to Wynn or venetian, you fist have to get off at Harrah's, then walk.

Pointless, really. Cabs really are better, and as long as you specify "take the strip" so you don't get the extra long scenic route, it works out fine. And far less walking.

I suppose if you are at the MGM, and need to get to the Sahara, the Monorail is okay. Otherwise, LAME.

At the Venetian

Bought an entry to the 7pm tourney - $120 for 7500 in starting chips. 20 minute levels, blinds starting at 25/50. A nice tournament IMO. It was still early so had a late lunch at the Grand Lux Cafe. My server noticed my tournament entry card, and asked how I was doing in poker - I said I just got into town, and he went on to suggest I play the cash games at Bally's - he stated he was a waiter for 22 hours a week to get health benefits, but played poker the rest of the time, and mentioned that Bally's had the softest cash games. He also suggested the Sahara tournaments.

After lunch I went back to the Venetian poker room, and I have to mention: What the F*** is that SMELL? The perfume they run through the air conditioning is really foul, and as I have mild asthma, it is very irritating to my lungs!

At any rate, I played some 4/8 before the tournament - fairly uneventful hour, ending up 1.5 BB only.

Then into the tournament. Overall, I think I played very well, kept my M up through aggression, and was table chip leader much of the time. Toward the end, though, I lost a coin flip with a shorter stack and then I had an average stack. Then this hand came up:

Effective stacks: $5500
Blinds 1600/800 200 ante

Blinds soon to go up to 2000/1000/300

Hero is dealt JJ in the SB (YAY!) Now, this is the 7th time I've been dealt JJ this tourney. It has held up all other times, but I have a sinking feeling. But I can't fold, eh?

UTG is a loose asian guy that has been limping in a lot.

UTG limps, all fold to button who limps. HERO in SB RAISES ALL IN. BB folds, Asian guy goes all in (slightly covers hero). Button folds.

Asian guy tables A7o. Hero tables JJ and is a good favorite to double up and coast into the money. Except that the turn brings an A, and hero is knocked out in 12th place, 2 off the bubble.

Bleh.

Hero has a filet minion at Grand Lux, with a nice class of wine and heads off to bed.

-- TUESDAY --

Ceasars

I crawled out of bed and made my way to Ceasars by 11:30 am, just in time for a quick omelet at the cafe near the registration desk, and then off to the poker room for the 12 noon tournament.

Unfortunately, I didn't know it was a re-entry tournament, and I folded a good draw to an all-in rather than gamble with a good chance to double up or rebuy. The hand left me with an M of 20 or so at level 2, and I figured I could still have a good chance to continue. I found myself card dead and ended up busting out at the very end of level 4 before the break.

Looked at my spreadsheet of LV tournaments (see attachment) and saw the next tourny was a 2PM at treasure Island.

Treasure Island

Left Ceasars and wandered down the strip to TI, and saw they had quite a small room - one cash game going, and a few people hanging around for the 2pm tourney. We ended up having 2 tables, and as this was a re-entry tournament, a total of 30 entries when all was said and done. $70 entry with add on.

Small tournament, passive players for the most part. Fat girl on my left was laggy. Was doing okay until I got out of control with the wrong hand. My M is getting too low for my liking (about 6) and the blinds are rising soon. I believe my image is tight, as I haven't played a hand in a while. Mid position limps, then everyone limps to me. (like I said, mostly passive timid players) I shove with AK on the button, SB folds, but BB over shoves. Everyone else folds, and BB tables KK.

Oops.

BB has me covered, so I rebuy and interestingly, I am given my choice of seats. I choose a new seat that is better positioned, in particular against the laggy fat girl, who I later stack.

I get enough of a toe hold now that I can build up a big stack, and after stacking a few more people, I am chip leader. After I stack two people at once, we are down to the final 10 (3 places pay) and we combine to the final table. I can't think of any particularly remarkable hands here, but as my stack grew, everyone else's M dwindled, till they could only push or fold. At that point it was a simple matter to steal and/or take people out, by picking the right spots.

I finished in 1st, a $432 win.

Wynn

Headed over to the Wynn for lunch and to play some 4/8 to kill time before the venetian 7pm.

The room wasn't too busy, and I was seated right away. Ordered food (turkey sandwich), which nicely they comped and served at the table.

The game was okay. there was a big fat LAGtarded goombah with sunglasses to my left, who was annoyingly drawing out on me in several hands (with garbage of course). Finally a seat opened up to his left and I took position on him.

Then this hand came up:

7 handed, Hero is dealt KQo in MP1.

Lagtard bets, hero RAISES, folds to Dorkus Maximus on the button who CALLS, Calling Stations from Hell in the blinds both call.

5BB - 5 to flop

A J 4 rainbow

Blinds check, hero RAISES (free card play), Dorkus Maximus calls, Calling Stations from Hell both call, Lagtard calls.

10BB

TURN: T (rainbow)

Woohoo!

Check to hero, hero bets, Dorkus Maximus on button RAISES, ALL CALL to hero, hero 3 bets, ALL CALL

25BB

RIVER: A

Check to hero who stupidly bets. Dorkus Maximus now looks like a puppy dog that's so happy to see his master he pees all over the floor. He can barely contain himself. He raises. Folds to hero, who now has the friggen fur coat dilemma. Hero is not folding for one more bet, even though hero is 95% sure of the button's hand.

Hero calls. Dorkus Maximus tables....

.... Deduct points if you thought Dorkus Maximus had AT. Of course he didn't have AT. He had A4o. Jeesh.

Well, that was annoying, and just about time for hero to leave to go to the Venetian for the nightly, so hero cashes out $77 - a 15 BB loss for the 2 hour session. That was one expensive turkey sandwich.

But dammit! One of these days I'm gonna buy the cocktail waitress a friggen' fur coat!

BTW I am wondering if anyone here is check/calling that river - I have been thinking about that hand quite a bit. I think Bet/call is right (Dorkus could be raising with any ace here, no?), though if I took a moment, I could see a check/call being better (and bet/fold being purely wrong) had I thought about the read a little more carefully. I have another fur coat situation on Friday.

Venetian

Off to the Venetian, and into the 7pm tournament as it was getting underway.

And who is seated to my immediate left? The very guy that busted me out of the tournament the previous night when he called my push with A7o. He happily tells me how he won the previous night. First place, $3000. DONK!!

So here he is again. And I am having troubles tonight. Having a very hard time getting my M up. When I get a hand I can steal with, someone raises in front of me. blinds are going up soon, and I need chips, with an M of 5. I get A7 on the button.

Folds to CO who LIMPS (he is a passive players, and limp folds A LOT). This is my big chance! I SHOVE. LAG Asian in BB then over shoves. OOOPPSS! BB and limper fold.

tonight, the asian guy wakes up with AJo.

Blech. the board comes:

FRLO: 678 rainbow. WEEEE! I flop a pair! Ahhh! what poetic justice that I cripple this guy with A7s. Fantastic!

TURN: 9

Um... wait... no... no no no no NO!!!!

RIVER: 10

AHHHHHHH!

HEEE HAWWW... I guess I'm the donkey tonight.

Luxor

Okay, I see the Luxor has an 8:30 tournament, and I should have just enough time to get there. I hop on the stupid monorail to the MGM, then walk over the bridge to the Excalibur. Hmm. Well, it seems they no longer have a tram from Excal to Luxor.

Why?

Because now there is a long ass stupid walk way with dozens of lame shops, and they want you to walk past all the stupid shops, so no more tram. jerks.

Fine I get to the Luxor poker room about 8:41 pm. I ask for an entry and am told "No, sorry, it's been going for a few minutes now". Huh? No late entries? Even though there are obviously seats in the two tables in the tourney? How lame. He offered me a seat in the 10PM tourney, and I declined.

Bye Luxor, I'll move on.

Ceasars

Instead I went back to Ceasars for the 10PM there.

Buyin with addon was $70, for 4000 chips. Somewhere around level 6 I managed to stack off most of my chips in a coin flip (Doh) leaving me with an M of less than one. From here, I picked a few spots to push, and within two orbits was the table chip leader - nice comeback!

Then in the BB I was dealt TT, and all fold to SB, who RAISED. I had about twice his stack, so - like a donkey - I pushed over. He insta calls and tables QQ.

I AM A DONKEY! HEE HAW!

He takes the pot, and now I am down to an average chip stack. Blech.

A few hands later, I am UTG with 99. I push, folds to the button, who slightly covers me. He hems and haws, and says "I'm tired of you pushing us around", and calls with A9o.

Yippiee! I'm gonna double up!

The board comes:

4 3 Q 7 A

Blech. And I am busto once again.

Hookers and Blow

Shagged out after a long day, I return to Bally's for a free beer ( that cost me $20) at the video poker bar. And here I made my worst mis-read/misplayed had of the trip. No, it had nothing to do with video poker, or poker at all, for that matter.

Sitting next to me at the video poker bar was a hot girl, probably mid 20s. Fake boobies, and pretty.

And friendly. She starts a conversation, and I'm thinking "hot girl talks to 45 year old guy, she's probably working..." My first question to find out if she's working is:

ME: "So... Where are you visiting from?"

HOTTIE: "Oh I'm not visiting - I live here".

Okay, so this is like, 95% she's working. We chat more "blah blah I'm thinking of buying property here, blah blah...Out from LA blah blah blah...""

Also, she has a hot friend of hers kinda hovering around as well - catching my eye with that alluring "you can have me if the price is right" look.

HOTTIE: "What do you do?"

ME: "I play poker... and I work in the film industry..." and now the big one: "What do YOU do for a living?"

HOTTIE: "Oh, I party!"

Uh huh. Now I am like a hundred thousand percent sure she's working. Aren't you? Seriously!

So now, what would you choose as the next response:

1) Probe more, with "Well, what exactly do you like to do?" and a smile, or

2) Get a price quote "Really? Sounds expensive - how much?"

3)Mess with her head with "Real! Cool - you know, my girlfriend is working at the Bunny ranch right now... she mostly is an adult actress in LA, but she went to the ranch for some extra dough... Escorting in LA is kinda slow..."

Of course, my now slightly drunk and twisted Abby Normal brain chose option 3. Doh.

HOTTIE: "Oh... I don't mean anything like THAT... Oh..... That's not what I meant at all..."

ME: (attempting to recover) "Oh no, I didn't mean to imply anything... er..."

Whatever. She said a nice goodbye and took off with her friends. NOTE TO SELF: try not to mistake a bar slut for a hooker.

So, how badly did I play this hand? What was the real read?

1) She was a coke ho, looking for a blow and go?

2) She really was just a bar slut looking to play with a long haired guy (long hair seems rare in Vegas... guess I'm an oddity).

3) She really WAS a working girl, realized I was messing with her, and decided to mess with me back.

4) Doesn't matter/well played, because I didn't catch any STDs.

5) Pointless without pictures.

-- WEDNESDAY --

Planet Hollywood

Crawled out of bed at the crack of 12:30pm, and stumbled over to the Cafe BlahBlah at Paris for my omlete, then off to Planet Hollywood as I saw they had a 2 PM tourney. $80 buyin, and $4000 chips if you have a players card. it's a re-entry tournament as well, and I managed to bust out just before the end of the re-entry period, so I re-bought.

I was in seat 10, and got seat 10 again when I re-bought (actually like TI, they let me reseat anywhere). The rebuy was for the full amount of chips, so I came back in with 4000.

Over in seat 3 was the fish from hell, who during my first buy in *twice* came over the top of my c bet and I had to fold, so now he was set up, and I just needed the hand to stack him with.

That hand came in the form of AQo in the BB.

Effective stacks: Around $3500. Blinds: 100/200 (I think)

Folds to fish in MP1 who limps, folds to TAG on button who limps, SB completes, HERO in BB RAISES to 800. Fish calls, TAG things for a bit then calls. SB folds.

FLOP: A Q 6 rainbow.

Hero makes a weak C bet of 600. As expected Fish pushes all in for about 2K total. TAG tries to isolate by pushing all in, and then of course, hero pushes all in.

TAG has KQs, and thought he was good against the fish. Ooops for him. Fish does not show, and I stack him, nearly tripling up. TAG still has an average stack now, as my hand holds up.

This gives me a solid enough stack, and I make it to the money (7 places pay). After 7th busts, I am not getting hands. with blinds going up to 3000/1500 I need to make a move. I push UTG with KQ, and get called by AQ. Ouch. I have 6500. Into the 3000 BB. TAG pushes, but I only have 63o. Screw it, I'll take one more chance in the SB, and I fold.

I now have 3500 and I am going AI in the SB for certain. Unbelievably it folds to me, I stick in my last chips, and the BB calls the 500 more (obv). I have J3, and jack high holds up and I now have 7000, and M of slightly more than 1 - hey, I've recovered from worse spots. no antes in this game, so I can now coast all the way to UTG and see if I can pick up a hand.

In UTG i am dealt K7o - WOW! The nuts against the BB and of course I push. Sadly thought my comeback is not to be. the Button wakes up and "offers me protection" by pushing all in with AKo, and I bust out at 6th, a $161 win.

Venetian

Kicked back in my room for a bit, then off the venetian for the 7pm.

Found my self having troubles this evening - not connecting with the flop, and then this hand, which I think I misplayed by not c betting the flop:

Effective stacks, $7000.

Blinds 100/200
Hero is dealt KK on the button.

Folds to MP2, a seeming tight and passive player who limps in. Folds to hero who RAISES to 800. Folds back to MP2 who calls.

FLOP: A Q 4 rainbow
MP2 checks. Hero checks behind

TURN: J
MP2 bets 1000. Hero snap calls.

RIVER: 6
MP2 pushes all in. Hero folds.

Later, with blinds soon to go up, and me being now short, I get 44 in the hijack. Folded to me, so I push. Oops, button wakes up and pushes with JJ, then the BB calls our AI with QQ. I don't spike the 4, so off to play 4/8.

The 4/8 game at Venetian was pretty soft - a TAG on my left and a TAG on my right, a decent LAG/TAG across from me and the rest were all pretty bad.

I found an interesting phenomenon in LV limit games: Everyone seems to like to bet the flop in position when checked to. To take advantage of this, I make the following OOP play with air:

Check raise flop and lead the turn. This moves seems to work very well, and very often.

After a while, I'm thinking of leaving, so I order a Remy, neat, and play a bit more. Eventually, both TAGs and the LAG/TAG are gone, and it's jut me and some of the worst players I have ever seen. I get another Remy, and and third, before cashing out $430, a nice return from my $100 buy in.

Bally

I'm a little drunk, but on my way to my room I see a 3/6 game at Bally's, so I figure I might as well sit and get another free cognac (Hennessy). I buy in for $100, and play... and the Hennessy keeps flowing. I do not know how many I drank, but I am quite certain that I did not order the last two, and the waitress brought them of her own volition, seeing I was empty.

I WAS WASTED.

I was also winning. People, seeing me drunk, must have assumed I was playing air, so hands like A high would call me down when I hit my set. Seriously. I had multiple callers to the river.

I was also annoying. I think the only thing more annoying than a drunk poker player is a drunk poker player that wins.

The floor cam e over and cut me off. Well, good! I didn't even order those last two!!

ME; Why? Am I being annoying?

TABLE (in unison): YES!

ME: Well, okay, fine - I'll leave when the blind gets here!

I folded UTG then racked up, slurred an apology to the floor for being a lush, and cashed out $260. lol.

I should have stayed and drank a few bottles of water, but that play did not occur to me. I weaved and stumbled to my room and passed out while the room spun counter clockwise. The clock showed 4:17.

-- THURSDAY --

Fear and Loathing

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggggggggggggg gggg!

I was so F*****G hung over, I could barely move. UGH! The room was still spinning a bit. I was still drunk.

It was 1PM.

I stumbled over to my suitcase and put on my swim trunks, and a Hawaiian shirt (which I was incapable of buttoning) and sandals, grabbed $40, and headed for the pool. I started out with a large Mimosa (Champagne and orange juice), and waded around the pool for an hour. Then dragged a lounge chair under a shady palm tree and lied down.

There I bemoaned my fate. My plan on Thursday HAD been to rent a car and go check out properties. I am thinking of buying real estate in the greater LV area. Well, that was clearly out. I could barely move, much less drive a motor vehicle.

Eventually, the very hot waitress in a silver bikini walked by, and I waved a feeble wave of desperation "cocktails!"

Waitress: What can I get you?

ME: Something for a hangover....

Waitress: Bloody Mary?

ME: YES... Just what I was thinking. I need a very very BIG one.

Waitress: Okay, we have one that come sin a quart sized souvenir cup for $18.

ME: Awesome.

When the drink came, I wasn't quite able to sit up, and the waitress squatted down a bit to be closer to my eye level, or so she could let me know her bikini line was nicely waxed. It was. I gave her a $20 for the drink and a fond "thank you my drink bearing goddess".

I drank the quart of bloody mary and slept under the palm tree for most of the rest of the day. As the sun set in the pool area, I figured I should have some sort of meal.

Les Artists Steakhouse

My room came with a 25% off at Les Artistes Steakhouse at Paris, and I figured a big piece a meat was about what I needed. Nice place, good service. The Filet was good, though a bit undercooked. Had a nice glass of wine, and finished with a glass of port. I think SW a the Wynn is better, but was happy to get a 25% discount here, and headed off to Ceasar's for the 10PM tourny.

Ceasars

Did pretty well to start, my steals were working, and then the deck hit me pretty good starting with this hand:

Hero is chip leader, effective stacks are about 4000. Blinds 50/100. Villain in SB just sat down to hero's immediate left.

Hero is dealt AA on the button.

Fold to CO. CO limps, hero raises to 300, Villain re-raises to 600, CO folds, hero re-re-raises 1200 more to 1800 total. SB calls.

FLOP: Q 6 3

SB pushed all it. it take hero approximately 2.6 milliseconds to finish pushing his stack into the pot to call. SB crys out that donkey cry, "Oh no!" as he hee-haws and tables A K

LOL.

Sadly for him he never makes his 104:1 shot at catching the runner straight JxTx, (or his 989:1 shot at catching running KK ) as a 9 hits the turn.

He rebuys. in fact, he apparently ends up rebuying two more times. God I love rebuy tourneys!

He also regales every table he sits at with the sad story of how he pushed into my aces. Every so often he takes a look at my stack from another table and says" I'm after you!!"

After that I pretty much run over the table. With blinds at 100/200, an older man in a suit limps in, I have AQ on the button and make it 800. He pushes for 1200 more. I put him on a mid to small pocket pair, and call for the flip. He tables AJo, and I have him dominated. He rebuys shortly thereafter.

At this point I am tournament chip leader, and pick my spots to snap off short stacks, at times stacking two at a time.

The donkey from the AA hand managed to make it to the final table (4 places paying), and I stack him again.Once we are down to 5 handed, play slows to a crawl on the bubble. I have more chips than the other 4 players combined, and I do my best to make their lives miserable. I finally snap off the bubble boy who had let his M dwindle down to about 2. Once in the money, the other three players discussed chopping for 2nd, 3rd, 4th (giving me first place money), but before they agreed, they all played a hand, all got AI, and the LAG of the group got lucky, stacking them both.

I cover the LAG, who offers a deal to split down the middle. I'm tired so I think about it, but decline. And then I go totally card dead. i raise on the button/SB with QQ. he pushes, I call and he hits his A3 with an ace on the river. Now I'm the one on the short stack. in the BB I go AI with K3o, and he calls with A3o.

Damn, I end up 2nd. $510 payout.

Bally's

A few hands at the 3/6 to get a free beer. Cashout up 5BB and off to bed.

-- FRIDAY --

Bellagio

I head off to Bellagio to have an omelet at the cafe behind registration. Usually the food here is good, though this day, the omelet is undercooked, and I ordered it with avocado. No, they didn't even bother to slice up the avocado. they just dropped a chunk of avocado on top of the omelet. Wow, they're slipping up.

Went off to the poker room, they didn't have a seat on the 4/8 so I sat in the 15/30 instead. I was expecting a tough game, having read that the Bellagio games are the toughest. I guess that's a relative term. This table had 2 TAGs in addition to myself (I'm more of a LAG/TAG) 2 tight passives, 2 LPs, and two calling stations from HELL. I am in seat 7. There's a TAG in 8, and 2.

An example hand:

A seemingly TAGish guy just sat in seat 3 an orbit ago or so, and is in the BB. Folds to me in MP2 with 77. I open raise. Folds to CO (Calling Station from HELL #1) who calls two cold. Button (Calling Station from HELL #2) calls 2 cold, SB folds, TAG(?) 3 bets. I call, calling stations call (obv).

FLOP: 762

BB Bets, I RAISE, CO calls, Button calls, BB 3 bets, I 4 bet, CO calls, button calls, BB calls. (maybe I should have just called the 3 bet then popped the turn?)

TURN: K

BB Bets, I RAISE, CO calls, button calls. BB looks at me, looks at his cards, and mucks with a grimace.

RIVER: 8

Well, this had to be a safe river, right? hero BETS. CO calls for his last $15, all in. Button RAISES !

ACK! Seriously? 88? K8? 45??? Dammit. I call due to the hugemongous pot for that 3% of the time he raises with K8. But then, I suck. he tables 9T, and CO tables 9T

I'm now down to $250 from my $500 buy in. Dangit.

When do I get the damn fur coat? Oh, apparently the next several hands. About an orbit later, the deck hits me square in the face. Thank the poker gods the calling stations are there to pay me off when I need them. i make 3 flushes, a boat, and two TPTK or overpair hands, all hold, and the calling stations pay dearly.

What a rush - from being down $250 to being UP $550 - an $800 positive swing.

I end the session up 17.5BB and go in search of lunch. Sushi sounds good, and I end up at Sushi Roku, in the Ceasars Forums Shops.

Hookers and Blowfish

At a the bar, and next to a hooker and her trick. I know for a fact this time she was a hooker, because se was chatting to her trick about how much money she makes a year (she claimed $88k), how she's now independent so she doesn't have to pay 30% to a booker, how she likes the overnight calls, is paying down her parents mortgage for them, like to do the "girl friend experience", blah blah blah. She looked cute too... but left with her trick a short time later.

Mirage

Went to play a little 3/6 to kill time before my flight. Pretty tight table, made about 10BB in the hour,

last hand:

Hero gets JJ in the hijack.

UTGs fold, MP1 limps, MP2 limps, fold, hero RAISES, all fold to BB who calls, all call.

FLOP: K 2 8 rainbow. Checks to mp2 who BETS, hero RAISES, all call.

TURN: T

All check, hero checks behind (flop raise was for free card/cheap showdown play)

RIVER: J

BB bets, MP1 folds, MP2 calls, hero RAISES. BB folds, MP2 thinks long and calls. MHIG.

Then picked up my bags at Bally's, hit the airport, and this time was able to get the "good" exit row seat. Unfortunately the greaseball next to me had garlic farts, and that really really sucked.

Back home now, thinking of heading out again in a couple weeks.

AB