So I was able to convince my girlfriend to do a vegas trip, as we basically live cross country from each other and take bi monthly to monthly vacations together. I hadn't been to vegas since i was about 8 and all i remember is Circus Circus and the waterpark. So we had 5 nights 2 at MGM and 3 at Aria

I love to play poker and i knew going in my time would be limited, still I really wish we had planned this differently. Anyways I'm able to get the Las Vegas Power Pass with a 20% discount through my job and she pays for a meal ticket which is a pretty good deal. So activities and food are paid for...

We get to MGM Grand I was able to get the celebrity suite for 85 a night for being a new players club member, mi lady is impressed and content which means I get to hear 80% less complaining, and she is my bedroom slave for at least 2 days :-O

So this trip was kind of thrown together and i wasn't coming in with much money until i get paid that friday so i planned on playing the .50/1 game as I knew i would be comfortable with that. I bought in and the game was def a beginners game, I think $3 was the standard raise and about 6 was the average amount of callers, I get K's early and raise to around 10 after somebody does the standard $3.00 call me raise. Got 2 callers and none on the flop when I c-bet. Besides that not much else to talk about, sat next to a hilarious scottish guy and we were ordering drinks avery 5 mins, Was funny because he would always call everybody down, throw his hand away, say what he had and then the whole table would discuss their hands and point out that he's full o shit, He's already sloshed and would call down everybody and "blame it on the alc", There were a couple more scots and englishman including two guys with seats and a buddy in between spectating, whispering between the two which i though was a lil fishy but... aww fuck it
Eventually got called down on a bluff and got busted after about 5 hours playing on a 50 buy in.

The next day me and mi lady get sucked in to a fucking timeshare presentation as we had planned on seeing a cirque show anyways and the guy was offering free tix to kriss angel, so we go and I think I said no about 100 times to 3 different various groups and managers and the corporate who were there offering a special deal for a limited time, was funny how they first offered us 40,000 for a timeshare, then brought it down to 20 k 12 k, then 5 k with the special corporate people, The whole time they were telling me how great it was I swear the room started getting dark or the light was fucking with me or something, later i realized i had been sucked into a great big suckhole of timeshare despair and was causing me to hallucinate and compliment the sales lady on her pants, and she had a nice big but, and even my girl was like damn she need a bigger size pants to go with her cheap wig, and by the way she was doc Gooden's cousin, and was so nice as to offer two buy two weeks from us once we purchased, and I don't even do drugs or anything.

So we do this and get back around 1 or so, pick up our tickets at the Luxor and deicde to buy and all day bus pass, which we only used once by the way because after 2 the busses are so fucking full you can't even get on, we go eat with our meal ticket and walk the strip buying 1.00 maragratias and playing occasional slots, well we get blitzed my lady passes out and im dog tired by the time we get to the room at 5 but the problem is we got tix to the kriss show and game 7 of the finals is coming on so of course I force myself to stay awake and watch the game except I doze off during the last 3 minutes of it, snap up awake and realize we got 20 mins til kriss angel I wake up the lady who is naturally cranky then more so once she realizes were unning late, throw on clothes and commence to speed walk from MGM to Luxor(cab would've been the smart move here, D'oh well) she's fussing at me "How could you let this happen" Aww gawd i hate nagging. Anyways we make the show and it was ok, the support was kind of funny and bizarre at alot of points, I couldn't stop envisioning him dissappearing and reappering 20 different times and yelling "Yeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!"
It was kinf of like he was applauding himself, kinda weird to me i guess, or maybe i'm weird.

Anyways we get back to the room and crash I get paid next day friday so can add to my play money.

We wake up birght and early and head down to Planet Hollywood for breakfast which is where it seems all the restaurants for the meal ticket were. we get back to MGM and lady is still exhausted she takes a nap and i check out the poker room, no beginners game so I buy into the 1-2 game, I sit down and see one middle eastern guy looked like he had about 1,000 in front of him, everybody else is mid stack, I take down a small pot early with top pair, then get AK Off couple hands later raise about the pot and my cbet is called, i slow down then fold when young asian i believe was betting position. Very next hand he gives his whole stack to the monster stack when monster gets a straight vs two pair. young asain rebuys for 200. 2 hands later asian is raising 10 12 or so I see QJ suited Diamonds(QJ suited one of my favorite draing hands) I call 1 in front of the button and button calls. Flop comes K10rag all diamonds, asian raises the pot, I quietly call, guy behind me calls. Asain begs dealer for no more diamonds and I silently agree, turn comes black Q, asian goes all in, I silently put my stack across the line as does guy trailing me, river comes another Q, luckily nobody had a full house and I rake a decent pot. Coincidentally it around 11:30 am at this point and checkout is at 12 and MGM will not budge on check out time(Called Aria and luckily the got a room ready early for us). I ask about the game at Aria as it is my next stop and one guy says there 1 3 plays like a 2 5 which kinda discourages me from that game. Anyways I start chatting the table(it’s been nice guys) I gotta go check out, big stack starts questioning well how am I goin to be able to check in, I explain I call ahead(yes I know you want my chips) and I really wish I could’ve stayed there longer but had to go wake up my sleeping beauty and move over.

So we get to Aria and man the rooms are so fucking tight I’ve never been in a hotel that nice, kinda small but the TV remote controls everything, so really nice, wish I could’ve fenagled a suite, I’ll try next time. Anyways we commence to start using our 3 day power pass which I would never do again as we both felt like slaves to the pass, as in we feel obligated do to everything because we paid for it, we decide to go with monorail passes and work our way down to madamme tussaudes sp? Mind you by this time both of our feet our screaming mad at us from all the walking(will rent car next time). I think at this point I had 3 blisters on my feet. Lady wanted to go to adventuredome at Circus Circus and I’m thinking oh the childhood memories, well we monorail it to sahara and proceed to walk through what looked to me like a developing ghetto down the strip to circus circus. I have to say this place just seems so bizarre. Really tacky looking it was like a flea mall casino, with a bunch of lil bad ass kids(bless their hearts) running around. They should call it bizarro land cuz that’s what it was, we rode a couple rides and cool off. Proceed to walk back to Sahara I happened to wear flip flops which was not the best choice, I think at this point I had 6 blisters on my feet, we work our way back. Check out the Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden with power pass and head back to home base.

Hit the planet hollywood buffet with our meal ticket, get back to the room and crash, I wake up around 2 AM head to Planet Hollywood sit down at 1-2 and proceed to lose pretty much what I won at MGM. In retrospect I probably should have switched tables as there were 2 monster stacks who looked like they knew what they were doing. Another Solid player and a guy to my left who spoke no English but he did speak poker English somehow, he catches a straight with 6 9 suited when I raised preflop with Jacks. He then proceeds to win the next 3 hands and about $350 including the one with me. I go dead for a while then see AK off in late position, mid position raises, me and non English call, flop is A 9 7 rainbow, mid checks, NE checks, I bet the pot with mid calling, and NE folding. Turn comes blank, mid raises the pot and he’s been playing solid, had a feeling I was beat but couldn’t lay it down, river pairs the board, he fires again, I call and he shows the boat with 9’s in his hand, I go cash out down 170. Should have laid it down. Woulda Could Shoulda

I go check out bally’s and there is no game at all, I went by bally’s about 5 or 6 times through the trip and never saw there poker room open. So I head next door to Bill’s and buy in for about 70, played up and down until a maniac comes in said he just made 3,000 over at V which he explains after the show is over. He sits down and straddles first hand I look down at Aces and raise it to around 5, he quickly reraises all in and I call, he shows K 6 and I take the pot. He then proceeds to drink it up rebuys for 100 and is all in every other hand before the cards are dealt, loses 100 then buys for 200, then goes all in predeal for the next 20 or so hands, wasn;t able to catch anything worth calling but I watched him go through about 600 in about an hour, I didn’t make much but I was pretty entertained, stayed out until about 6 am ended up about 40 at bills, I decide I like bill’s late night because around 3 am all the strip’s night clubs are winding down and it seems the only after party around that time is at Bill’s so major eye candy action while playing, good combo to me. I get back to the room around 7 and we have hoover dam tour scheduled through the power pass for 9, so I wake the lady we use a room credit for the champagne brunch at Aria, delicious. And we take the tour which was fascinating, and boring, and time consuming, about 6 hours total from the day, kinda wish I could still get that time back, but hey it one of the 7 wonders of the world right? That’s what the timeshare lady said anyway. Though it was a nice break for my feet, by this time I’m exhausted and major buzzed from bellini’s mimosas and bloody mary’s, too much maybe? At one point I passed out on the bus and the driver hit a sharp turn, I woke up in the walking aisle laying on my side, my sympathetic gf laughing her ass off at me suggests I take the window seat, I oblige. At this point I think i hit my drinking/no sleep limit and my body starts letting me know. We get back and hit the PH buffet again which I exactly the same, thought they would switched it up, get back to the room and my girl finally wants to do some gambling, im all for it but my body was unable to move from the bed, I tell her to have fun and crash, Wake up around 2 again my lady is sleep. I decide to look for a game and head over to Bally’s which is closed down, so I end up at bills again and ended up about 20 bucks in about 6 hours, stayed up all night got back to the room and find my lady is up and running. We proceed to get breakfast then power pass it up with Bellagio art gallery, slightly interesting/boring. NYNY roller coaster which is pretty decent, then head over to MGM as she has a 5 slot tick to cash, and I have 3.5 dollars in comps from the poker room. Big Money!!! We eat at Nathan’s and get krispy kreme donuts with my comps yum.. By the way I have been craving krispy kreme donuts for about 5 years since I moved to Seattle from NC, so my hard earned comps were worth it.

We had back eat the buffet at aria again, we thought we were getting lobster but found out it’s only on fri and sat, oh well, was still damn good, I though was waaaaay better then Planet Hollywood’s. Then my lady decides we have to do the Eiffel tower, I oblige and we head over and find at this point around 8 the wait is an hour, at this point im thinking no fucking way am I standing in line an hour for this and she proceeds to the ticket man and hands him our tickets, I kinda mini blow up like r u fucking serious, I admit I was tripping a lil bit and cranky from pretty much no sleep, I calm down and she gives me an earful like im one of her kindergarten students, I calm down and proceed upstairs to wait in line with my tail between my legs, we wait… for an hour… and my dawgs were howling… ßmeans my feet were killing me…. Think I had 8 or 9 blisters at this point. We get to the top I sanp about 10 quick pics on her cam and we are outta there. While waiting in line she watched people playing ad gets a good feeling about the wheel of fortune slots, she sits down and proceeds to play and we start ordering drinks, I explain that she needs to play all the lines on the machine which ends up about 4.50 a pull. We hit the wheel bonus which we though she actually won like 2.2 mill and were high fiving, then realized she won a wheel spin and about 50 bucks, so glad I didn’t shit my pants like I though I was, oh well, I head over to play some VP lose a quick 30 and drink about 4 bloody mary’s and she’s drinking while watching me. Then we decide to head back to the WOF machine and do a 50/50 endeavor and try and get as fucked up as possible playing all lines we hit 3 across on 2 lines one is a triple pay or something, anyways the pull pays about $280 and we cash out. We go on a wheel of fortune slot joy ride up the strip we hit bally’s and play the “high limit slots” and hit for 50.00 we leave out of there and head to bill’s win 50.00 there then keep it rolling to Paris. At this point my body had to relieve some pressure so we head to the bathroom. She also, I leave the bathroom and wait around for her about 15 mins. Mind you they have a bathroom with two exits, entrances. We came in on the slots side, I came out on the slots side, she went the other way, then proceeds to cuss me out because I didn’t follow the exit sign to the lobby side, I blow up again and im like I came in the same way I went out and ur cussing me out?! She then blamed me for fucking up our mojo?! To her credit she was fucked up, and this was first night she was up late, but im still giving her shit about the bathroom scene 2 weeks later, anyways at this point around 2 am, we decide to call it a night, really wanted to play some poker but am overexhausted as I had been up for about 24 hours straight at this point.
Next day wake up she loses her winnings in slots, I lose mine in 3 card poker at Aria, we check out and head for the airport.

I think I finished around even for the weekend with not really enough poker time, I did end up with a total of around 12 blisters on my feet though. Had a good time and will definitely come back. Probably will come ahead of the lady next time and get some more poker time in, and wish I had played some tourneys, and just sat down at Aria and tried their game out.

Will never ever do the power pass again though it probably wouldn’t have been so bad with a car. Hope u enjoyed, sorry so long. I’ll be back!!!