Vegas Aug 9-12

This was a quick trip with three buddies (W,L,& T). Arrived Thursday evening, L & I checked into the Paris on a 2 day comped 2 days at $77 each, while W & T checked into Planet Ho. We had decided each of us would pick a restuarant for each days dinner.

Thursday
Dinner - T picked Joes Steak and Stone Crab at Ceasars for some fine dining - excellent meal $350 with tip & no drinks. There specialty is steak on the bone, I had Filet Mignon on the bone and it was the best steak I've ever had.(10/10)
Gambling - Hotel/Casino hopped to Bellagio, Monte Carlo, NYNY, Mandalay Bay. W signed up for a MGM/Mirage card at Monte Carlo and received $10 in free slot play. On his 2nd spin he hit for $1139. T & I were playing BJ and T was winnning I was about even. No poker this day. Drinks were flowing really good.

Friday
Woke up pretty sluggish and met W at the 10am Planet Ho tournament. 43 players, I finished in 14th place and W finished 3rd. I played in a 1-2NL game while waiting for him and made $65. Ate lunch at spice market buffet. (8/10) We headed towards the Mirage to see the Love 7pm show with stops along the way at Bills, Flamingo, IP, Harrah's, lost a $100 playing craps in the IP. Love was a great show and I would recommend it. 10/10. It was my night to pick the restaurant. I made reservations at Mon Ami Gabi (Paris)So we headed to Paris after the show. Meal was decent but our server was kind of cranky. (7/10)We just played BJ that night. I lost a few hundred.

Saturday
Met the boys and headed North to the Venetian ate lunch at Grand Lux. Good value 9/10. We then had plans to go to the Wynn to sit the the sportsbook to watch some sports/horse racing. (our favorite book) While walking through the Wynn Casino, we stopped by some $10 slots. I said "anyone want to throw in $10 each" only T took me up on the offer. First spin nothing, 2nd spin 7 - Triple Diamond - Triple Diamond. Light comes on, ok we won something decent... ($9k)Whoohoo!!!. Attendant comes over and takes my ID. 20 minutes later she's back with good news and bad news. Good news is I won, bad news is they took $2700 in tax. So I peel off 3K for T and we hit the sportsbook. It was all reserved for the Arlington Millions, so over to the BJ tables. We were now at the $50 min tables. I got killed for a few hundred but W won 3K. It was now about 7pm and it was L's day to pick the restaurant. He had picked the Rio seafood buffet, but we were at the Wynn and they comped us 4 buffets so we decided to eat there ($38.95 each) so why not. Great buffet 9/10. Headed back to Paris for more BJ and drinking. Lost a few hundred playing but was still an awesome day.

Sunday

Woke up early and played in the Paris 9:30 poker tournament. Card dead most of the way and becomes an allin fest after the first break. Met the boys at 11 as they brought there bags to our room. We had Sunday booked on a comp even though we were't staying, but having a room all day/evening is nice. W & I headed down towards MGM to pick up a few things for my family at M&M store, etc. We headed back and hit the 1:30 Paris tournament. Again an allin fest and I couldn't win a race. Met the others at the BJ tables to play a little more. We ate dinner at the Paris buffet. 9/10. Hung around the Paris playing some slots/BJ. L decided to put $20 into a $5 slot and hit for $600, which now took him into the black.

Summary
Gambling - Everyone won $ on this trip. which is quite remarkable
Meals - ate like kings
Drinking - had our share of libations
Shows - Love was a great show
Hotel(s) - were great, centrally located. Like the look of PH casino
Taxes - suck, hopefully I can get the $2700 back.

Looking forward to going back, probably with my wife next time.

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July Results

Another quiet month for me playing online poker.

Interpoker - cleared the 500MPP $100 monthly bonus. +185 (inlcudes $100 bonus plus $40 rakeback)

Party - I didn't take them up on the crappy bonus they offered me. I did play in 1 MTT $11 buyin and finished 3/190 players for a profit of $184.

Intercasino as usual I busted out on the bonus -$50

Paradise I played off and on a bit on Paradise this month, usually when I just want to play < an hour. In the past 2 months I ran a $20 deposit up to $1400 and then I lost $800 a week ago, but got $300 back the last couple of days. I'm currently sitting at $900. I'm also hoping they send me the 300pc chipset they offered me.

That's it for July; August will probably be another slow month while we enjoy the summer. I'm going to try to play in the PSO summer league. I probably won't make all the events but I'll try as many as possible. Over the fall/winter I'll have to try a few more PSO promo's. They've added quite a few rooms over the past several weeks.