Well, I have been to Vegas often and have progressed as a player over the last 3 years, and read many trip reports, but never typed up one myself, so here is goes. My last trip before this one would have been a better story since I got up for work at 6am on Friday, got to Vegas around 10pm, drank all night and played 30/60 at Bellagio, went to bed at 2:30pm on Sat, got up at 7pm, stayed up until 1am on Monday, and then woke up at 8am Monday and couldn't stop shaking all day (I was drinking the whole time after 10pm Fri until about 8pm on Sunday except for the hours of 1pm to 10pm on Sat...)

But here it goes...

I started going to Vegas in 2004, and in 2005 I started playing poker, and my first trip all I played was the 2/4 game at Luxor. The next trips saw me start playing 3/6 and 4/8, tand then 1/2 NL, then 10/20 at Rio during WSOP and then 15/30 and 30/60 at Wynn and Bellagio. I am a semi-pro who plays mainly 20/40 at Casino AZ now with shots at 40/80 and 60/120 from time to time. We get into Vegas with 3 of my friends about 10pm Friday night, and since I have a real job now, I can't take Monday off, so it will be a shortened trip, I usually like staying for 3 nights. I try the $20 trick at IP, but since 4 of us are staying in a room, one King bed upgrade is not for us, so we keep the two twins and go about it. My friends want to play poker and get drunk, but poker sounds boring, so I start out at the table games at IP and lose about $300 while drinking. An hour or so later I decide its time to play some drunken 2/4, and go find my friends in it, but the game is full, so I sit in a 1/2 NL game.

I buy in for $200, and have some random chips in my pocket from the table games. After posting the blinds and folding, I announce I am adding $3 to my stack to get it back up to $200. After doing this a few times, the dealer informs me that their buy-in is up to $300 now, so I instantly add another $100 and go at it. I bluff a few pots, and play rather poorly, and lose another $300 or so before I get bored. I have a manhattan and it sucked, and a red wine that they serve in their mixed drink glass, which looks strange. I had been ordering coronas all night before the wine, and saw the waitress near me, and I started chugging, cause I was sure I had ordered another drink, but then I looked and didn't see a corona on there, so I stopped drinking as franticly, until I realized I had ordered wine, and it that was all that was left on her tray.

At this point, two of my friends are still at the 2/4 game, while my other friend is watching me and getting bored. It is about 3am now, and I have had plenty to drink, and am bored of this. I decide to leave down $300, and convince him to come with me to Bellagio, where he can play 4/8 and I can get in a 30/60 game because I feel like gambling. I bet him $1 he can't find the poker room and I lose that bet. I only brought $3300 in cash on me, and had already withdrawn $600 from the ATM, and I was down $600 at this point, and buy in for the standard $2000. I quickly lose some and have to rebuy for my last $1000, and I start to play invincibly. I have had a ton of experience playing drunk, and as long as I don't get to the point where I can't see straight and just stop folding, I can be quite a force at the table. I start cold calling raises with hands like QTo and 44, which I would normally fold, and play very aggressive after the flop. I am making thin thin value bets with stuff like 3rd pair on the river, since my image is great and people have to call me down with Ace high. There is someone there who is sober who makes me look like a nit, he is trying to give money away, take this hand for example:

I raise KK UTG, he threebets, a guy cold calls, I 4 bet, he 5 bet (cap) and we both call. The flop comes Ten high, I bet, he raises, guy calls, I three bet, he 4 bets, guy calls, I 5 bet, and both call. Turn comes a low card. I am afraid of aces, but not ready to stop yet since this guy is a total maniac. I bet again, he raises, guy calls, and I call. River is another meaningless card, I bet, he raises again, guy calls again, and I am done and somehow hope I randomly win this huge $1700 pot. I call, he shows AQ, cold caller shows QT, and my hand is good!

I run my $1000 up to about $7000 and cash out for a profit of about $3000 for the trip so far. At this point it is 1pm, and I know I should get to bed, and secure this nice win. I walk back to IP to pass out for a few hours.

Get up around 6, and talk my friends into getting some food, my first food since arriving in Vegas, and we go to a wrap place in Caesars they all love. I can only eat half, as my stomach isn't happy at me from all the drinking. One friend goes to play 1/3 NL at Caesars, and my other two want to go play more Craps at IP, so I go back to Bellagio to play more 30/60, this time sober. A few guys are there from earlier that morning when I was the action guy, and they talk to me like long lost friends, and I have trouble even remembering them. I play for about 2 hours, but feel sick, and left up about $200, which is nothing. I go watch my friends play craps and play for a bit, and they are all drinking big time. I know I will have to drive back to Arizona tomorrow, so I decide to try to get back on a sleep schedule, so I go to bed at 11:30pm on a Sat night, and felt like an idiot. I managed some sleep even with Harrah's Carnival Court blasting right below our room. I tried to talk myself to go over to Bellagio at 4am and 5am, but decided to sleep until 6, and then try to get my friends over to Harrah's breakfast buffet before playing more poker. They were playing craps, and said the buffet didn't open until 7, which I thought it opened at 6. So I went and played some table games, and then came to get them at 7, and they still didn't want to leave. One of my friends had been there since last night around 10pm, and probably played craps for about 20 hours during the trip, winning about $800. So since they were being little brats about not going to the buffet, I went myself, didn't eat enough to cover the price, and then went back to Bellagio to hopefully catch some real late night drunks, but alas, I was the only one who did that, so nobody was available. I played for about 3 hours before leaving at 10:30 to go check out of our room.

My one friend always stays up all night the last night of the trip and drinks until about 9:30am, and then decides to try to sleep, and it is a huge pain trying to get him up at 11 to get out of the room. He was smart this time, and packed up his stuff and went and passed out in the car, where he was until we arrived back in Phoenix at 10pm that evening, so he spent about 12 hours in the car.

Since my friends were football fans, we would be staying until about 5pm and the 2nd games finished, so I still had time for a good session at Bellagio. I won another $1500 in the game, and finished with my best Vegas weekend ever, up about $4500.

I hate the 10 handed tables at Bellagio, but they are the only place that spreads the games I need, so I can't do much about it. Normally I play more 2/4 drunken poker, but it just didn't sound appealing this time around like it has in previous trips, where me and my friends do stuff like capping in the dark preflop before cards are even out when we sit all in a row, to put people on tilt, etc. Instead, I now get my kicks trying to win or lose thousands playing higher stakes while drunk...probably not the best idea, but whatever.

Hope this didn't suck, I am not good at story telling.