Vegas #9

My flight back is tomorrow morning so this is my last post from Las Vegas.

Spent the last few days being extremely lazy, eating unheathly (but awesome) american fast food, drinking and hanging out at the house. Speaking of which here are some pics of our pad...

Had a couple of Pete's friends around last night and collectively drunk all of the beer that remained in the house. We got thunder/lightening at about 2am which was pretty bizzare as it was the only time it's ever rained since I've been here. Played a bunch of chinese, pool, blackjack and hung out in the pool. Actually I've probably played chinese more than poker in the last few days, it's completely addictive.

Went out for a meal tonight with some of Dan's family, did some tourism, went up Stratosphere. Although the taxi ride to and from Stratosphere was probably more frightening than the rides I went on at the top! Initially I thought it was pretty cool that the taxi was a Ford Mustang, until he took off breakneck down the strip randomly swerving between busy lanes, frightening stuff. Stratosphere rocked, choppers flew around it at the top which was pretty wierd and I saw some lightening in the distance which was cool also. Oh, and a plane flew over which had an illuminated message on the underside congratulating Dario Mineri for winning his first bracelet!

Not really sure if I'm looking forward to heading home, but I am looking forward to leaving Vegas. Ideally I'd really like to head somewhere else, like California or NY or something. Still, looking forward to getting back and seeing family & friends.

To summarise how poker's went here, one word will do. Shiiiiiiiiiiiiite. I've played poker seriously for around 2-3 years now and I hadn't clocked a losing month until Vegas. I ran terribly live, both in tourneys and cash. Online I was doing pretty well until the last few days where I dropped around $2k. Had a session last night where I lost 5 buy-ins in 45 mins taking cooler after cooler. I misplayed one hand, but other than that played fine. Just ran terrrribly here.

So final totals...
Live cash -$315
Online cash -$800
Live tourneys -$3000
Overall -$4,115

Pretty frustrating to come out here and not book a win, but I don't really mind. Online/live cash is just variance, I'm a large favourite in the games I'm playing. Live tourneys I took shots at and they didn't come off this time despite being big favourites in those spots too. Not much more to say really, I came here to take shots and didn't get lucky this time.

I think my poker bankroll sat at around $13,000 when I left for Vegas. I'll likely revise that when I get home to around $8,000 and move down to $200nl. Will sort all of that out later.


Some random thoughts before I leave...

• Spending money in Vegas is infinitely easy and incredibly fun
• In Vegas it's always 1 hour later than you think it is
• The heat in Vegas isn't too unbearable, I really like it

• The food and fine dining here is fantastic, particularly steak and seafood/sushi
  
• Blue Moon beer is awesome, and Mountain Dew is the best soft drink ever created
  

• There are a huge amount of stunningly attractive women in Vegas
  
• People find the Scottish accent and british phrases amusing to no end
• Overweight people DO actually ride around on motorised karts

• Professional poker stars are either small or big, none of them are medium sized
  
• Live poker is rigged

So for now it's goodbye to the holiday type Vegas updates and back to the poker theory, hand analysis, etc. Less sunny pics and more graphs! Last one... ;)