BigWhale & brother (feat. MuckPls) does Vegas - 2025 edition (21st-31st March)
Hello people,
I can't believe it's been 6 months since I have been in Vegas, and we cannot let that go on for much longer! I will fly to London on March 20th after work, relax at a hotel there overnight, and then fly direct from there to Las Vegas on Friday the 21st (just in time for March Madness).
My brother will finally join in as well; he actually has a business trip to the US coming up in a few days, so when he is done with work he is already in the country. He will also head out to Vegas on the 21st of March.
A late addition to the trip is also 'MuckPls' who said YOLO and booked his own trip as well. I'll let him post the details on his end.
With this being the middle of March, and MGM having slashed my previous reasonable offers, it was not super easy to find cheap hotels. As of such, I have to stay at 3 different hotels to take advantage of the comp nights I had available (although I have to pay full resort fee). I will be staying at:
- Excalibur (2 nights)
- Flamingo (4 nights)
- MGM Grand (4 nights)
That said, it won't be too much stress to switch between the hotels. For MGM properties I can obviously check in and get digital room keys through the app. And for Flamingo I will just show up early and pay the (ridiculously high) early check-in fee to avoid gigantic lines.
It's March Madness time in Vegas when we are there, so I have high expectation of there being a lot of games to play and hopefully some good action as well. But regardless, it should be a fun and hopefully profitable trip. I will come back with some more thoughts + picture of shoe and bankroll in a few days.
As always, you guys can expect a lot of hand histories as well as random pictures from my end. Hopefully I can get brother to post a bit as well. And MuckPls will obviously also contribute with his own degen stories 
This is only the first of many trips to Vegas for me in 2025, but we can get back to that later. I am regardless stoked for the trip, and it will be nice having someone to share the excitement with as well!
Buffaloooo hand pay on 1c denom max bet $3,60:
I am getting close to Vegas; chilling at SFO now waiting for my next and final flight before arriving.
6.5 hours layover seemed brutal, so I found an Alaska Air flight that leaves 8pm instead. I am $200 USD lighter as a result, but I will arrive in Vegas 3 hours earlier. Seems like a good deal to me - well not really, but I will win it back at the tables 😀
No joke this time, I have finally made it to Las Vegas and checked into my room at Excalibur (Royal Tower). First impression is reasonably favorable, looks clean and not in absurdly terrible shape.
Met up with 'Enhanced' (brother) for around 30 minutes, but that's all the action for tonight. I think it's around 70 hours since I started my trip from Malta on Thursday, and today I have been awake for 25 hours now. So let's take a long and warm shower, and get some sleep.
As I missed one day of my trip, I only have this room for tonight before moving over to Flamingo. Not ideal having to pack up and leave only 12 hours after checking in, but I have never found it too stressful to switch hotels during trips. So I am sure it will be fine.
There will be poker tomorrow, but we can get back to that later. For now, good night from Las Vegas.
Glad to see you made it without further catastrophe.
Should be great cash action all over town due to NCAA tourney, the pits have been buzzing about poker, wsop circuit as well at the shoe. Go bink a ring for a souvenir.
Hopefully a 10 hour sleep and then some gambol
You should treat yourself to a very nice meal tomorrow
[QUOTE=feel wrath;58932811]Hopefully a 10 hour sleep and then some gambol/QUOTE]
I got 6 hours of sleep, almost as good! Man, this AC in the room is noisy though.
View from room is slightly better than for 'MuckPls':
But we are in Vegas and life is great 😀 Gonna head downstairs and use my meager $50 free play.
