Vegas #8

It was my Bday yesterday, I'm 25... don't feel old yet!

The night before we went out to see Cirque Du Soleil "O" at the Bellagio. It was fantastic, far and away the best circus/theatre type show I've ever seen. I guess the best description of it is a modern stylish circus/theatre production with a huge stage which transformed between water and land as thhe show was taking place. The acts themselves were top class, the fire and diving stunts were really breathtaking. I'd definately go see more of the Cirque Du Soleil shows.

Checked out Bobbys Room at the Bellagio where all of the high stakes games take place. Minimum buy-in within the room is $50,000, there have been known to be cash games taking place with $2,000/$4,000 blinds! The Bellagio card room was much smaller and congested that I expected it to be, and Bobbys Room itself is actually really small. You can walk up to it and look in through the windows. Spotted a bunch of big players including Sammy Farha, Greenstein, Devilfish, Phil Galfond, Urindangers, etc.

On my bday we went out with a bunch of the guys from Martin/Steve's house to The Gun Store to shoot some guns. We went for a deal where got to fire off a clip with 4 different machine guns, then did a competition at the end. We went for the MP5, Uzi, Grease Gun and Swedish-K machine guns, then 2 shots each with the Desert Eagle.

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Signed a sheet of paper, they had a quick look at our drivers lisences, a couple of minutes of instruction and it's shooting time. Tried some burst firing at first, then with the last couple of guns opted for unload the whole clip in one burst rambo style. Uzi seemed incredibly difficult to control... it was everywhere! Swedish-K was probably my fav to shoot, it had a slower rate than the others and felt more punchy. It was a bit easier to fight against the kickback and drill a bunch of holes in the target.

Desert Eagle challenge was insane. We took 2 shots each one by one, apparently it would be difficult to shoot more than 2 shots as the kickback put so much pressure on your wrist. The kick was huge and really difficult to control, was pretty nerve-wracking before pulling the trigger for the first time! Martin took down the challenge, pretty unbelievably sticking 2 bullets right in the center of his target, pics on Martin's blog. Wear the hat while checking in for the flight home imo.

My only regret was forgetting to fire the RPG, which was only $35 lol. Need to go back.

The Desert Eagle
Tons of gun store pics as this place was sick. MP5 we shotShotguns :PYou can just buy an RPG?!
Sick $5,000 Halo style sniper riflesHeaded out for dinner at N9ne at the Palms. I'd been told beforehand that they served some of the best steaks out there and the steak I had was definately the best I'd ever eaten, delicious. The waiter informed us that they were also serving Kobe steak priced at $32/oz! Vegas wins at eating out. N9ne raised the level on hot hostesses (again) too. Also, David Blaine was sat at a table next to us with a bunch of his friends. Food, service, restaurant all 10/10.

Afterwards we headed to the Stars party at at Rain nightclub. We had VIP tickets so could access all areas of the party and all of the free bars. There were loads of poker faces there, and some random celebrities too, think we got a pic with Chuck Liddell. They put on a few different shows in the club, all burlesque style, stripping/dancing/acrobatics/etc, they were sweet and a lot of them were performed above the dancefloor.

A few of us headed to the Rhino afterwards, place is just awesome, must be one of the best strip clubs in the world if not the best. There must have been 80+ girls, and one of them told us that they had over 2,000 on their roster! 2,000 strippers! I managed to leave (at 5am) spending more money than I took with me which was pretty impressive, but also completely standard for the Rhino.

Overall a great Bday!

Today I slept 'til about 5pm through most of the hangover which was sweet and spent the day just hanging out at the house revering really. Played a bunch of chinese poker tonight and some pool, etc.

Dan's still in the WSOP Main Event, he plays his 2nd day tomorrow and is pretty short with 12k chips. Pete drew the TV table on his first day and was sat next to Mike "The Mouth" Matusow. We headed over to rail him, drinking beers and making a ton of noise whenever he took down a pot. He ended up getting busted (by Matusow) shortly before the end of the day.

Nothing planned for the rest of the week. So will need to plan some stuff to do. Only 4 days left in Vegas. Pretty much stopped playing live poker now so goodbye to the $$$ tracker that was at the left hand side of the page. I'll recap on the $$$ final totals before I leave. Playing a bit online, up around $1k over the last few days.