Day 1
My trip started when I boarded Frontier flight from Denver to Las Vegas back in March, about a 1 ½ hour flight, no biggie. I landed in Vegas ahead of time, got on the shuttle and headed over to the Hooters hotel (cheap!). I checked in, used the $20 trick (which worked!) and headed up to my room. Originally I was slotted for a “bungalow” room, but the $20 upgraded me to the 8th FL with a view of the strip, which would be much nicer than how bad I’ve heard the bungalow rooms to be.

Originally, my plan was to play a few of the tournaments mentioned here and playing cash games at MGM, TI and the Venetian. I had got up that morning at 5am for work, was extremely tired and instead of heading to bed to take a nap I headed down to the Hooters poker room. I figured this was my first night in Vegas and didn’t want to end up sleeping my first night through. I got down to the poker room to ask about their upcoming tournament, found out it was only pretty much a SNG and decided to play cash instead. Extremely tired, strike 1. Drinking heavily, strike 2. Smoking in the poker room, strike 3! I bought in for $100, lost that and bought in for another $100. I won a decent sized pot hitting a flush on the turn vs AA to double up but continued to steadily drop for the next 3 or 4 hours until I was felted. One big hand that I still remember and regret comes to mind. I have KQo in LP, UTG+1 raise to $10, I call and BB calls. UTG+1 seem to be a decent player, nothing special though. BB has been extremely active and using his stack to push players out of pots. Flop comes down Kxx, no straight or flush draws. UTG+1 bet $40, I call and BB pushes. UTG+1 folds and after deliberation, I fold. At this point I had maybe $100 behind and the pot was over $200. BB hadn’t shown many hands down which is a reason I folded. I regretted it because 1. size of the pot and strength of my hand and 2. later BB showed down a miserably weak hand. I head to bed around 4am.

Day 2

I wake up at 10am, grab some food from the Hooters café and walk over to Excalibur to try out their electronic tables. I wanted to try them out for an hour or 2 but instead end up spending all friggin day over there. I end up losing my $100 buy-in at the .5/1 table and enter a tournament they had going. Busted out of that when my KK