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Bambling: (not gambling) and poker with the fish
This is how the tale begins: So my buddy and I had a had a friend working in vegas for the international hospitality show and it was his birthday so we decided to go visit him and stay for nearly a week (As a side note, i have been home for nearly a week and am just recovering, which you will soon hear about).. My liver still hurts... again... more on that later...
So my buddy looks at me on the plane and says: "Hey i have drink coupons..." So our flight was at noon atlanta time... so it's 9am in vegas and the drinking began.... 3 drinks later.. or 4.. i forget..the flight lands... we were immediately going to hit the poker tables (which i might want to add here, we are both decent poker players and felt we can beat the vegas folks even while drunk)... but there was a change of plans. My buddy tells us that he got us "passes" to the hospitality show which we were now obligated to take since he went out on a limb for us. This immediately puts us on tilt... but we went anyway...down by the Hilton..... So after a quick visit there, we start our gambling excusions!...
We won a quick 300 at craps... and went to the wynn to play poker... NO action..super tight... won a few bucks... 100 maybe.
we then headed out to hit the strip and start "bambling"... which is just my definition of drunken gambling...
You see the order of risk is this (from lowest to highest): 1) poker 2) gambling 3) bambling 4) drunken rage at a VIP lounge with hotties everywhere...
More on #4 later....
Day #1) So our hospitality buddy (that put us on tilt) is now off work and hooks up with us..and we hit places like Osheas, harrahs, paris, bill's gambling hall, etc...to suit his lower limit style... which i am not accustomed to..
Our buddy quickly loses ALL of the money he brought and immediately books a flight back home for the next morning... he was livid..... He took a cab back to Hilton and we had a comped place at NYNY so we kept "bambling" up the strip... i was up about 1K at this point... but then the clock struck midnight...i turned into a pumpkin and the wheels fell off... I raised my limits... I hit the WAR table and between midnight and 5 am...i was now down! significantly...
So morning # 2... we wake after about 3 hours of sleep and decide to play poker at bellagio... 2/5.... Over the next few hours..i won a tad (few hundred). But still in the hole.... Stayed sober this night... We then went to Venetian and both me and my buddy got crushed on hands like: QQ vs. KK (with flops like 3 6 J rainbow)... Anyway...
Day #3... WHEELS COME OFF PART 2
So I get my buddy and I both get a good night sleep and are ready to HIT IT HARD my friends... and we did.... Ugghg.. this day hurt me...
We went to play in a poker tournament with a great blind structure at the venetian. the tournament started at noon and I finally got knocked out at 8pm! Played 8 hours... was chip leader with about 13 players left..i went out 12 because of my AQ suited getting crushed when an ace hit.. by a set (KKK). anyway, i cashed in my small winnings (first would have paid me 5K).
We had reservations at N9ine steakhouse atPALMS...and LET THE FUN BEGIN...
They sat us next to Pricella Pressley and when her table left... JAROD from Subway sat at that table!... Hotties on the other side.. (they turned out to be strippers). They wanted to hang out with us if we paid them 1K. I flashed $3,000 in 100's to them and said...girls, it's not about the money, we just wanted to party with you all. they refused, haa and it pissed them off.
We left there to go to VIP hookup at JET nightclub at the Mirage.. They escort us in after skipping the line. We partied hard and dropped 1K at the club..(also almost got thrown out for "stealing" a bottle of grey goose which we didn't steal but someone put it on our table..oh well.
After we left the club... absolutely WRECKED! My buddy Todd (His name has been changed to protect the innocent) was stumbling out of the club. Earlier in the evening he was dancing like a robot in the club. I knew the night was gonna take a nasty turn when i saw this. He also pulled the "watch this" stunt in the VIP club as he put a cigarette in his mouth and waited for the VIP host to light his cigarette for him. So anyway...we now had left the club and decided it was a great idea to BAMBLE some more.. my buddy then proceeds to play blackjack like someone would play AA preflop if they are raised twice in front of them(all in)... He asks the dealer what the table max is... i sighed.. Mind you... the table max was only 12 inches from his face on the little sign that post's the games limits. It happened to be $1,000 table max.. I knew what was about to come..... Oh and it came... He ramped his bets up from 1 green chip (25) to black, purple and yellow chips... ughghgh. He had the chips piled in a huge mess on the table spilling into other players spots. I just knew we were gonna get kicked out of the casino when he bet his first 1,000 dollar bet and hit freaking blackjack. He immediately proceeded to bet $25 in which he of course lost. You would think he had a system or knew what was coming but clearly he was way to hammered to have any clue what he was doing! So we go to bed at 7am! and the night was over... By the way, my buddy made about $2,500 at that table. I lost... haa
Day #4: My entire being is now OFF KILTER:
So we slept until 2pm... and decided to get up and play a little poker.. Too tired to do anything properly..the entire day is now a distant memory and I think I surely lost money but i have no clue because I think I was still drunk most of the day.
Day #5: I am pretty sure I am half dead by now:
I vowed to my buddy that we wouldn't hit TAO the nightclub on our last night cause I couldn't take another night of punishment... So we went to PURE instead...ughghg.. We watched a bit of Heads up action at Ceasars and saw Joe Hachem, Phil Helmuth, Jesus Ferguson, Mike the mouth Matasow and a few others. As my buddy went into PURE to get his groove on, i snuck away to play some poker at the Ceasars poker room. I crushed em... won about $500. They were gonna put me at a table with shannon elizabeth and as i was getting ready to move, she cashed in her chips. Jason Alexander from Seinfeld came in to play as well. Orel Herschiser was playing also there. Pretty cool. I ended up going back to NYNY... My buddy decided that he would then venture out to a local strip club with a girl he was hanging out with from PURE... ridiculously bad decision. (he ended up getting in at 6am). I won another $500 playing blackjack at NYNY and went to bed at about 4:30... my vegas trip was over... Good grief!
sounds like a kickass time man.
great report, nothing beat some debauchery in vegas!!!
Bambling had kicked my a$$ as well, damn you War and Black jack Switch
GREAT read!!!
Only in Vegas.......greatest place on earth....
Do you think your friend could post a trip report concerning the chick he met @ Pure, the strip club, and activities expierenced before his 6am arrival back to the room... Your second hand knowledge would also be appreciated.
I see the word bambling and I think of Emeril playing craps...
"C'mon 8 the hard way..... BAM!"
Great trip report. Good luck in detox.
good stuff
i think i got dirty drunk reading this trip report
Crazy trip- typical for Vegas. Sounds like a great time.
A very good read!
Not my way of hitting Vegas, but I enjoy living vicariously through reports such as these.
Wow, that trip report sounded eerily similar to my trips to Vegas.
WELL PLAYED!
played last nite at a local card room, in michigan. The game is 5-5 NL, played with all of these guys before, the table is pretty aggressive and the money tends to fly around. I have about 300 behind and am one of the short stacks, a few guys have over a grand and 1 guy has over 2 grand on the table when this hand comes up....
UTG raises preflop to 45.00....this is a little higher raise than usual for this table, he is a very good player and could be raising with anything, in fact since he is UTG, I truly think he has a weak hand. by the time it gets to me, there have been 2 callers. I look down at AA and am not sure what to do. normally I would raise here and thin the field, but I am very confident that 1 of the people left to act may do it for me and I cna re-pop it....I just call. My plan back fires when 3 more players also just call and we see the flop 7 handed. I am pretty concerned until I see a beautiful A-K-4 rainbow, flop.....yahtzee......we all check until the last player bets 50.00.....it is folded around to me, I call, as the guy after me.....3 of us see 4th street. ther is about 465.00 in the pot at this point. The turn is a 2, doesn't appear to help anyone. The button again bets 50.00 after we all checked, I decide it is time to push...I move my last 160.00 in the pot hoping to get rid of the third guy......he only has about 60.00 left so he calls, so does the button.....we have a 200 dollar side pot with about a 600 main pot.......I currently have the nuts.....and they are both surprised to see how strong I am, the button turns over A-10 and is drawing dead, the 3rd guy has Q-10 and is dead to a J....of course the river is a J and I lose to his gutter ball straight.......can you say bad beat.
I realize that I could have changed the course of history hear by raising pre flop but at the time I really felt like it was right to just call
I have always raised preflop, I understand it is bettor to thin the field, so I have no one to blame but me, I guess. Any thoughts comments, sympathies, flames, suggestions? feel free.
Hand 2 was earlier in the game. I am on the button with K-Q, I raise to 25 after it is limped around to me. I get 6 callers. I have about 200 left. The flop come J-10-4 rainbow. The first to act make it 50 there is 1 caller when it gets to me....at this point the pot is 250.00 so I am getting 5-1 on my 50 call, I realize that if I call I am probably putting all my chips in before the river so I decide to push...hoping to either take it down right here or at least get heads up and hope I hit....I push ,the only caller is the guy who bet 50.00.....he turns over 2 pr. and I lose the race when I do not hit my draw.....thoughts? I feel like it was the correct play at this point.....I had the right price on the call.....but felt a raise woudl be a bettor move. let me know what you guys think
Dunno why you're posting this on someone else's trip report, incidently a highly entertaining one.
I have some thoughts on hand #1 but quite frankly they are not printable. All I will say is that if you think AA is the nuts on an AK42 board, you might want to get hold of some books.