Early start on my birthday trip 3/27 - 4/2
My birthday trip to Vegas is one month away, but I’m so looking forward to it I thought I’d start early.
We used to go to Vegas four or five times a year, but now it’s only two or three times. We are just too busy with work, and we have a new granddaughter who was born in August. Plus, flights got more expensive, and my husband has his own business so doesn’t travel as much. No more diamond with Delta, which is very sad. Knowing we won’t get upgraded to first class is a little depressing, but he has lots of drink vouchers!
We’ll be staying at our timeshare at the Elara. I love this place. The rooms are beautiful, it has a nice pool, and the location is perfect for us – right across the street from Aria. Of course, in Vegas right across the street is a 15 to 20-minute walk!
We have two dinners planned. My b-day dinner at Sparrow + Wolf and a dinner at Pampas – I’m a foodie and my husband loves meat. Granted, I love meat, too, so I enjoy Pampas. We don’t have a Brazilian meat joint here. I got a pretty good deal on Groupon, and it’s on the way to the Aria.
We are doing the tasting plus wine pairing at S+W, and I cannot wait. It’s a bit extravagant, but you only live once. I spend most of my money on travel, food, and wine, so this fits right in. (I buy my clothes from Goodwill, lol.)
We usually go snowboarding in the spring, but my husband is still recovering from long Covid (doing much better) and a back issue, so that’s definitely not happening.
Other than eating, we’ll be drinking a lot of wine/champagne while playing mainly PLO at Aria. We usually know someone at the table, and the dealers remembered us. I hope it’s the same this time. Should be because we were just there last fall. We did miss our winter trip, though.
I’m going to update this a little with how my poker is going live. So far this year, I’m down $1,700, but $1,000 of that is because of crazy $25 double board PLO bomb pots and a couple of luck boxes.
I have a NLHE game tonight and a PLO game Friday night, so I’ll post about those soon.
Roll and shoe picks will come closer to the date.
i have the kind of autism that sees a scrabble board and immediately looks up all unknown words and checks if the questionable ones are valid
I too thought poofier at first but then that showed up a blank I ran other options and IIRC poopier was the only legal word available
I usually drink beer when playing pool, but I didn't want to drink beer before wine although it's probably fine 😉
My husband was on fire playing pool. It was fun to see. I couldn't focus on my shot. We had a great time though. Windy walk to dinner.
Sparrow+Wolf was very good, but I don't think it was worth the price, unfortunately. Also, it was extremely disappointing to see that they charged $5 for a bottle of tap water when we were spending $500 for dinner. Quite pathetic. Servers were excellen
You can apply that to most things in Vegas.
Could not make a comeback last night. Just couldn't hit and folded the one time I would have. I was very surprised at the hands being played for raises and 3bets. I know most of the players from previous visits, but don't remember their being this bad. Time to adjust.
Spending a lot of today upgrading our Hilton Grand so we can take the family on vacation, etc. Long story, but worth it. Taking forever, though. I am starving.
Heading to lunch soon then Aria.
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Bad beats, big suck outs…. Those don’t bother me. That’s poker, it happens. Eventually, before too long, it’ll happen again.
But NOTHING tilts me worse than folding winners, though.
Bad beats, big suck outs…. Those don’t bother me. That’s poker, it happens. Eventually, before too long, it’ll happen again.
But NOTHING tilts me worse than folding winners, though.
the only time I ever get tilted is when we're in a multiway pot and there's a bet and a raise so I fold my two pair or bottom straight because obviously one of these guys has a monster and then at showdown I see it was pocket 7s that missed vs a pair of kings
still think overall I'm net positive overfolding in those situations than overcalling but it's still super tilting when you underestimate just how much your opponents are just donating and you gave them credit they didn't deserve
the only time I ever get tilted is when we're in a multiway pot and there's a bet and a raise so I fold my two pair or bottom straight because obviously one of these guys has a monster and then at showdown I see it was pocket 7s that missed vs a pair of kings
still think overall I'm net positive overfolding in those situations than overcalling but it's still super tilting when you underestimate just how much your opponents are just donating and you gave them credit they didn't deserve
Yes agreed. 3 way pots where the second to act does something ridiculous and we make the correct fold that turns out not to be because they show themselves to be a total ****wit
Happy birthday-awesome that you get to celebrate it in Vegas! Hope your PLO run good get activated!
Happy Birthday from McMuffin.
Happy BDay.
Thanks everyone. Ended up eating at Ocean's One yesterday. Love that place. We were going to head to the Venetian to buy in late to the PLO tournament, but there was no line when we walked by so we sat at the bar and had a great meal. Tuna tartare, calamari, wings, a cheap piece of steak with fantastic mashed potatoes and good vegetables, four glasses of bad wine, two large Bailey's with 20% tip was $62! I took the bartender another $5, and without asking he poured Us in those huge glass of Bailey's.
Another great deal yesterday was $10 for a giant cup of fresh fruit at the corner of Harman and Las Vegas Boulevard. Delicious.
Headed over to the Aria and proceeded to get my ass kicked once again. I just could not hit anything when they were hitting everything.
3bet a guy pre with double suited aces, flop is 233, he has 3399. Lol. Got it all in pre-flop for $500 again with aces vs 44JJ. We ran it twice and he hit spades on the second board. I had As and another guy who was in for the first raise had folded spades.
Then they just kept hitting their straights and flushes, and I just could not do it.
At Encore now after a lazy morning. Playing NLHE on line for PLO.
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Yeesh, sounds like some brutal runbad.
You’re WAY due, I think a +$2k session is right around the corner!!
I wanna see pictures of a huge Plo stack soon.
Thanks everyone. Ended up eating at Ocean's One yesterday. Love that place. We were going to head to the Venetian to buy in late to the PLO tournament, but there was no line when we walked by so we sat at the bar and had a great meal. Tuna tartare, calamari, wings, a cheap piece of steak with fantastic mashed potatoes and good vegetables, four glasses of bad wine, two large Bailey's with 20% tip was $62! I took the bartender another $5, and without asking he poured Us in those huge glass of Bail
Wow, and here I am spending 45 bucks on breakfast at the Paris cafe. The casino restaurants punish you for being lazy.
Unfortunately, got my ass kicked again. Seriously unbelievable. I did think of you guys with a few pictures on the way out. It was quite the show. There were four young hots girls heading toward us, but it would have been awkward to take their picture. It was like we were on a movie set for a new, hotter Charlie's Angels. Now we're sitting at the Venetian playing 1/2 pot limit Big O!!! Let's go.
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So sorry you’re running bad. It really sucks when that happens in Vegas
The run bad continues, but having a blast. It is 4:00 a.m. and this casino is packed. Absolutely hopping.
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sorry to hear you're running bad, but glad you're having fun regardless!
Thanks. It has actually been amazing, the run bad, but we are meeting so many interesting people and seeing so many people we remember from previous trips.
The Sphere is seriously cool as part of the view.
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Unfortunately, got my ass kicked again. Seriously unbelievable. I did think of you guys with a few pictures on the way out. It was quite the show. There were four young hots girls heading toward us, but it would have been awkward to take their picture. It was like we were on a movie set for a new, hotter Charlie's Angels. Now we're sitting at the Venetian playing 1/2 pot limit Big O!!! Let's go.
Charlie's Angels had 3 chicks.
Where was this?
very shapely but don't like their taste in clothes
I approve of any and all pictures of wannabe Charlie’s Angels
I know Charlie's Angels had four women, but it's what I thought of. These chicks were on fire. Very confident and very attractive. It was as if they were walking away from an explosion in a movie. I wish I had taken a picture.
The club line was in the Wynn. Maybe XS or something like that?
We got to bed about 5 a.m. and didn't get up until about 11. Played some Scrabble while drinking coffee in bed, then ran to OYO. Had a blast playing $10 blackjack at 3:2. My husband was down a ton, then won most of it back, so only lost $100. We have never been dealt so many 4s!
Walked back via Koval. Going to Pampas in an hour.
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yeah when I was playing at Wynn late at night there was basically a parade of smoking hot ladies the whole time
