Vegas Slaughter

Not a good trip dollars wise. Got absolutely killed, was never winning the entire trip. Did have a nice massage that was comped by the casino. Ate a couple of $300 meals, one at Lemongrass for a late night dinner, the other at Olives for a mid afternoon lunch.

The dinner at Lemongrass was at about 1am in the morning, and we ordered way too much food. The lunch at Olives was good, and we impressed our waitress by actually eating everything, which included: 6 oysters on the half-shell, calamari appetizer, carpaccio, two different kinds of flat bread, and we both had scallops for the final entree. I had a couple of glasses of the Duckhorn merlot as well, which wasn't bad. Here's their lunch menu.

I also got to play the headsup IGT limit holdem machine. I beat it, and I personally didn't think it played all that well. But I probably only played like 100 or so hands, so that is clearly not enough to gauge how well it actually plays. It did pull off a river check-raise bluff successfully, in which I felt totally owned when I peeked at the computer's hand.

Other than that, it was a fairly tame trip, no wild outings or visiting the petting zoo. Just got my gamble on, and got my ass handed to me.

Epic Come Back!

So I got in real deep last night. I was down to my last dollars, and I decided to play some 9/6 jacks or better video poker. I washed through that, and then was about to go home with my tail between my legs, when I remembered that I could cash in my player points for money right at the machine. I did so, got my $40 or so, and ran that up to $1800 on the machine.

I then took 1k, and played blackjack and erased all my losses for the night, and even won a little bit for the night! A very nice come-back, and has me geared up for my upcoming Vegas trip. I hope I run super hot in Vegas and come back with like 50k. Although I will be happy if I come back with 25k too.

Solo

Do to a bizarre twist of events, it appears as if I will be making an upcoming solo trip to Las Vegas. I have never done one of these before (a solo trip), so we shall see how it goes.