Vegas Day 2

After getting a minimal amount of sleep, I roll out of bed and go through the rinse cycle and get out of the room to avoid disturbing my room mate.  Even though we have a 2-bedroom suite, and technically it's my room, I still wanted to be courteous as possible.

I roll downstairs put in a small losing craps session, when my buddy finally stirs.  We head over and have breakfast at the cafe.  There's a reason I will only eat breakfast at the cafe.  It's usually pretty hard to screw up breakfast.  After a nondescript meal and some mediocre service, we will about before sitting down and playing the IGT heads up machine.  I put in $500, run it up to around $750, swing back down to $555, when I have to relieve myself.  I tell my buddy to play, as he was just watching trying to get a feel for it.

I arrive back and he's run it up to over $850 in the matter of a few minutes.  I tell him to just keep playing, and 10 minutes later we're cashing out for 1045.  I give him 245 for his share, just to say thanks.  After this we roll into high limit lounge Carta Privada for some blackjack action.  I am extremely tired and on a whim ask the pit boss if that's a house phone in the middle of the pit that I can borrow.  He says sure, and I book a 2pm massage at the Aria Spa.

We split up around 1:10 or so, with my roommate wanting to check out the pool and take care of some business.  I show up at the spa around 1:15 or so, relax a bit, and get a nice 50 minute Swedish massage from an attractive Asian miss, named Mai.  This is definitely the way to go, I've decided.  Normally I get a massage the day of my arrival, but this massage was so much better after already been on the Vegas experience for over 24 hours.

After showering and heading back to the room, I run into the bachelor and the best-man on their way out to the pool.  So I join up with them, and hang at the pool for a little bit.

My roomie and I decided we had enough of the pool experience, so we head on back up to our room.  I change out of my beach attire, and he decides to take a nap.  At this point I am hungry, but it's late in the afternoon, so I know I shouldn't eat a ton, considering we have a group dinner at Mesa Grill at 8:45.  So I decided to grab a bowl of soup at LemonGrass.

I talked with Tony the Italian bartender for a bit over slurping down my soup.  Then I hit the craps tables before dinner.  I'm humming along going up and down as one should, when my roomie finally arises from his nap and asks where I am.  I let him know and he shows up and buys in.  At about 7:25pm, the dice have come me to as it appears the table is cooling off, and I say, well we don't need to meet the others until 8:00, and it's not even 7:30, so I guess we have time for one more roll.  3 minutes later, I have seven-out and the dice pass to him.  I look at my watch and say, well now it's only 7:28, so we still have time.

He then proceeds to go on a humongous heater.  He bought in $500 and cashed out $4000.  I made another 20k+ score.  I told him, honestly, I don't really mind missing dinner.  All good things must come to an end however and at about 8:05 we head up to the bachelor's room, AKA party central.

As to be expected after more than 24+ hours in Vegas with a group of 16 guys, getting anything organized is just not happening.  Most everyone is some combination of drunk, hungover, high, crashing, baked, or sleep deprived.  Eventually mostly everyone shows up, but at this point it's too late to actually walk over to Caesar's Palace so we split up into 4 cabs and try to reorganize and meet over there.  As expected, big gigantic huge fail.

I think we finally got seated at the restaurant at around 9:15pm, only 30 minutes later than our actual reservation.  I must say that I was severely disappointed with just about everything at this establishment, with the exception of the shrimp corn tamale.  That was excellent, everything else from the ambiance, waiters, service, and food was nothing better than mediocre.  I did grab a peek at the regular menu and it appeared to have some good items on it, so I might be tempted to come back with the wife some day.

After dinner we walked back to Aria in the 85+ degree heat in the night, stopping by the Bellagio fountain show to watch for a bit and take a group picture.  We head back to Party Central and I break out the Cuban Cigars I have for everyone and we start smoking up a storm in the no-smoking executive suite that Cecil booked.  By the time I showed up to the room, Cecil had already booted and was looking much the worse for the wear.

After smoking the stogie and having some good conversation, it was obvious that Cecil was about to pass out, and my roomie couldn't stand the smoke anymore, so we headed back down to get our gamble on with a couple others as well.

We played craps and I made a small 2k score, but we were playing with the most annoying, game-slowing, bring the pace of the game to a halt group of guys at the other end of the table.  $1 more on this bets, move this bet from here to there, no I didn't want that, etc, etc.  They had the dealers and the pit boss hating them and themselves.  After like an hour of this, I couldn't take it anymore and I rage quit.  I didn't think I could tilt from craps, but I learned something new.

My roomie didn't want to crash just yet as it was only 3am in the morning, so I said ok, let's play a real carnival game, and we stopped by an ultimate texas holdem table.  The players, play this game so absurdly bad it's insane.  I bought in 2k, my roomie broke down his 5k flag and we were off to the races.  We played about an hour, I doubled my buy-in, my friend got crushed for like 3500 or so, even though I was betting bigger than him.  He ran super-bad.  Flop a set, lose, top-top no good, two-pair no good, etc, etc.  It was pretty funny in my opinion.

I was extremely out of it at this point, and had stopped drinking at dinner, so I was completely ready to turn and so we did a little after 4am.

End of Day 2 in Las Vegas.

Vegas Day 1

Wow what a weekend!  Had a great time doing the dual celebration of Cecil's bachelor party and my law school admission.  The whole weekend was a blur, although I didn't drink very much the entire weekend, but I definitely suffered from sleep deprivation.

Flew out from San Diego on the 11:30 am flight with a bunch of Cecil's crew from San Diego, including myself, the best man, and a few others.  We arrived in Vegas, met up with Cecil and a few others and then headed over to Aria casino, with a stop for liquor at the liquor store first.  I unfortunately forgot to take a picture of all the alcohol that was purchased, but here are a few shots from in the room:

After checking in 8 of us headed down to Julian Serrano's for lunch.  We had a good lunch, lots of food and wine was ordered, and good conversation as we got to know each other better.  I think there was a total of 16 guys for this trip with quite a few people still rolling in.

I am now completely jonesing as I had been in Vegas for over 3 hours and had yet to place a single bet.  New record for me, I'm sure.  Gambling this trip was a very positive experience for me, with a minor bump in the road.  We got a craps table together and I proceeded to dump a 20/40 bankroll in short order.  Other people were showing up, and I ended up in the high limit room playing blackjack with my other buddy who came out from San Diego.  We booked a small win and then headed over to Aria poker room to play drunken 4/8 limit no look holdem.

We started off by everyone putting in 5 bets preflop and then 5 bets again on the flop, so we were essentially on the turn immediately.  The gamble was a little too thick, so we then changed it up so everyone put in 5 bets preflop, and then you were allowed to look at one card, cap it with a chip and then do your action.  On the turn you were allowed to look at the other card, and also ask to see one of your opponents cards.  It was a ton of fun, we were very loud, and very obnoxious.  I was really expecting others to join us, since we were trying to give away money!  I however, ran like a god.  I had JJ, KQs, AA, and something else all hold up, making in order, jacks full, nut flush, and aces up.  I believe I was the only winner cashing out 440 in about an hours worth of play.

After that we freshened up

and got ready for a big group dinner at Blossom.  They had a nice setup for us with a private room in the back and a large banquet table with 3 lazy susans situated in the middle.  Food was excellent and we managed to finish most of it.  The group then headed to the Marquee night club inside of the Cosmopolitan.

Now, I am not a club guy at all, but I felt like I should make a token appearance and not be a total dickhead and bail on the guys.  So the club was what I expected, large, loud, and crowded.  I did manage to walk around a bit, and saw a blackjack party pit inside the club, with female dealers wearing basically trashy lingerie.  Not stripper skimpy, but skimpy enough.  I kicked it with the guys in the club long enough to have a few beers and yell over the music trying to chat.  We got bottle service and a nice setup.

I bailed after about an hour, and headed back to Aria.  Although I got lost in the back corridors of the club's exit ways, and eventually got dumped out onto one of the Las Vegas Strip side streets and proceeded to hoof it back.

I then hit the craps tables again, and went on a massive heater:

That's after hitting the bonus bet for 50/100/50 a pop.  Although I did get a little paranoid.  After hitting the all small, and then only having the 10 left for the all tall, and legendary status, I took a bit of insurance and layed 2000 on the 10.  Two rolls later, 10 baby!  20,900 minus the 2000 insurance I took, was almost a 19k hit.  This is what this score looks like after coloring up:

Then it was off to bed.

There and back again

Back home from our Northern California family road trip.  Added about 1500 miles to the family minivan.  Added a couple more cities that I have never been to, to my travel log.

We left last week on Friday.  Spent the day in Los Angeles, specifically Wi Spa.  Enjoyed our relaxation time there and then spent the night in LA at the Hyatt Regency.  Woke up rather latish, and had brunch at Chez Marie on the edge of Santa Monica.  Food was ok, service was good, ambiance was very nice, but they had a massive fly problem out on the patio.  From there we made the very long drive to Woodland, California where my sister-in-law lives.

We arrived around 7pm or so Saturday night.  My sister-in-law literally moved into her new house, the night before.  There were boxes everywhere, nothing could be found, etc.  It was a major disaster area, as to be expected.

On Sunday, we went to Napa Valley.  We had brunch at a very nice place call Brix.  The Sunday brunch was very good, as far as brunches go.  From there we toured Sterling Vineyards.  I wasn't super impressed with the wines, but then again, I pretty much just drink Pinot Noir, and Sterling apparently doesn't make too many of those regularly.  My sister-in-law and her husband have a membership there so that's why we went.

Monday was my free day and I got out to Capital Casino.  I made 2k playing 2/5 no limit and 300 playing 8/16 limit. I got involved in two big no limit hands.  The first I had pocket sixes and flopped bottom set on a 6 King Jack two diamond flop.  The spot limped, I raised to 25, everyone else cleared out.  He called.  He check/raised my flop bet of 35 to 100 and I called.  Turn was 5 of diamonds, he bet 210, I called.  River was 5 of clubs, and he check/folded to my river bet of 475.  Talked to some of my friends, who play no limit a lot more than I do, and they pretty much said that I screwed up every street.  Oh well.  The other big hand I got involved with was pocket kings that ended up winning unimproved.  Very loose aggressive splashy player open raises under the gun to 25.  New spot calls him next in.  Folded to me in cutoff.  I raise to 115.  Splashy calls, spot folds.  Flop comes 973 rainbow.  He check/calls my flop bet of 150.  Turn was a blank.  He check/called my turn bet of 350.  River paired the 3, and he lead for 500.  I insta-called and he tabled 75 suited, and I collect the monies.

In 8/16 two memorable things happened.  When the table first started, we had 5 chops in 6 hands!  The only non-chop hand was when I raised the cutoff with A9o.  Then I proceeded to dribble off a bunch of chips, before I went on a rush, winning like 4 or 5 pots in row.  In a kill pot, some obviously poor player open-limped early, I raised with A4h, everyone else cleared out.  Flop comes AQx.  He check/calls, turn A, same action, river A, same action.  I collect the monies.  In all I enjoyed Capital Casino.

Tuesday we headed out to San Francisco.  Did the San Francisco thing, visited Pier 39, the wharf, rode a cable car, yadda, yadda, yadda.  Then drove to Monterey and spent the night at Casa Munras.  Nice hotel although we didn't get there until a bit before midnight, and their bar was already closed, which was a little irksome for me.  

The next day, we hit Monterey Bay Aquarium.  And then drove into Carmel, and had dinner at Dametra Cafe.  The food was good, but the service was horrible.  The owner came by and asked us how our meal was and I was pretty honest with him.  The bartender/waiter and kitchen screwed up multiple things, and I let him know, particularly since I have worked in restaurants before and I know how they are supposed to work from both front of the house and back of the house operations wise, exactly what I think went wrong.  He was very apologetic and offered to buy our dinner for us.  I didn't let him, but he did buy my wife and I a bottle of wine, and gave us two for the road as well, along with a free dessert, so that was nice.  We'll definitely go back and give them another try, next time we are in Carmel.

Comparing Carmel and Monterey, from the little I saw of both of them, I much preferred Carmel.  Carmel reminded me of a mix of La Jolla and Del Mar.  After dinner we got some ice cream and coffee, and then it was off to Solvang, a little piece of Denmark, right here in California. 

We arrived at the Kronborg Inn  a little after 10pm.  From a hotel room perspective, I actually liked this room the best, even though it was the lowest star hotel we stayed at.  Go figure.  As it turns out, there is a casino located super close to the hotel.  After getting settled in, the wife said I could go check it out, and grab another $1 check for my collection.  So off I went to Chumash Casino.  Big casino, little poker room.  I played 15 minutes of 1/2 (yes one dollar two dollar blinds) no limit and played I think 4 hands, winning 3 of them, and booking a $52 profit.  The first hand I played, I flopped quad 8's.  The second hand I played, I missed my open ender with 87 on a J56AK board.  The third hand I played I hit made my straight with KT on a QJ889 board, and the fourth hand I completely forgot as I think I raised the button, continuation bet the flop and took it down.  And then the table broke, and I took off.  I stopped off at the blackjack tables for a little bit, and lost some.  And then headed back to the hotel.

Today, we toured Solvang, riding around on a surrey which was fun.  As we were walking around the town, I hear this woman yell out my wife's name.  Turns out one of my wife's friend from San Diego was also in Solvang today, small world.  Then on the drive home, we stopped in Los Angeles and ate at Beer Belly in the heart of Koreatown, unbeknownst to me or my wife when I suggested we eat there, care of Diners, Driveins, and Dives.  Food was just a tad above average.  We ordered the following off their menu: Duck French Dip, Beer Belly Grilled Cheese, Beer and Chipotle Braised Short Rib, Death by Duck, and the Summer Crab Salad.  The Duck French Dip and the Grilled Cheese were excellent.  The short rib was mediocre to blah, and the Death by Duck was nothing special, and I mentioned to my wife that the Summer Crab Salad would have been better without the crab!  So don't think we'll be headed back there anytime soon.  And then we drove home, just so I could head on back out tomorrow!

I am leaving for Vegas tomorrow morning, to attend Cecil's bachelor party and to celebrate my law school acceptance as well.  So it's a dual trip for me.  The only real issue, is I am extremely tired, and I am not sure how much partying I will actually get done this weekend.  We'll see.


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Off to school again!

Got my acceptance letter to USD school of law today via e-mail.  Things are going to be busy, busy, busy!

Bounty off!

After LSAT celebration beer and poker.

Still Alive and Kicking

Don't worry, I am still alive and kicking.  Just been extremely busy the last two months, but things have started to slow down.  Although I expect things will get extremely busy for me in the upcoming months as we head into August.  Early morning Friday insomnia finds me with some quiet alone time at home.

I took the LSAT on June 10.  Not exactly sure how I did.  The LSAT consists of five 35 minute timed sections along with a 35 minute writing sample with a 15 minute break in between sections 3 and 4.  The graded portion of the test is comprised of 4 sections, 2 logical reasoning sections, 1 analytical reasoning, and 1 reading comprehension.  The astute reader will notice that only adds up to 4.  There is a fifth timed section of the test that is called the experimental section that is used to test drive future LSAT questions.  So there are 3 possibilities for any given LSAT, there could be 3 logical reasoning sections, 1 each of analytical and reading comprehension, or 2 logical reasoning 2 analytical reasoning and 1 reading comprehension, or 2 logical reasoning 1 analytical reasoning and 2 reading comprehension.  The test I took, I had 3 logical reasoning, and 1 each of the the other two sections.  On the analytical reasoning, I unfortunately ran out of time, and had to guess on the last 5 questions or so, and on one of the logical reasoning sections, I did not mark on answer on one question that I had skipped and intended to come back to, but ran out of time.  I was shooting for a score between 165 and 170.  I may have fallen a little short of that mark, but should hopefully score in the solid 160s.  We shall see, the test score should be reported back in early July.  My law school application for University of San Diego school of law, starting in the fall of 2013 has been submitted.  My personal statement first draft initially consisted of almost 1500 words and was 4 pages in length.  Most personal statement essays should not be longer that about 2 pages, double spaced, so I had to do quite a bit of editing to get it to fit within the required length.  So now, I am just playing the waiting game.

Since April 1, I have put in 283 hours worth of poker and I am up a a tad, nothing to write home about.  Although this past Wednesday I lost 4000 playing 40/80 mixed half holdem half Omaha high only in a short handed game.  I was definitely the favorite in the holdem rounds, while a dog in the Omaha rounds.

Back in middle May, I started playing a gentleman from LA heads up fairly regularly on Wednesdays.  We have a standard agreement.  We try and start by 9am.  Loser can quit at anytime, winner needs to play until at least 1pm, unless the game gets to at least 5 handed and then the winner can quit too at anytime, otherwise the winner must stick around to at least 1 pm in that case as well, in case the game gets short again.  I also negotiated with the casino manager a time charge of $5 per person per half hour when the game is heads up.  So that definitely makes the game worth playing now.  Before the casino was dropping $1 per hand even heads up, which makes overcoming that drop very tough unless you have a very large edge on your opponent.

My opponent is not the worst heads up player, I have ever played, but he's certainly not the best and I certainly have an edge over him.  Although he's currently up about 500 on me after about 18 hours of play, including our very first session that lasted only 2 hours where I lost 6000 to him in the most absurd ludicrous fashion.  Our first heads up session consisted of me essentially losing every big pot, with just absolute coolers like, over pair versus over pair, two pair versus better two pair, set versus set, straight versus straight, and flush versus flush.  As I am not afraid to put in action when I have a big hand, you can imagine how big those pots were and how quickly I got decimated.  And unfortunately our first heads up session, we hadn't negotiated our deal yet and we got started late at 11 am, and he had to quit at 1 pm.  Remove those two hours from hell and I am currently winning at a clip of 343.75 an hour or over 4 big bets per hour.

In our last session, we started heads up last Friday at around 8:45 am.  Two hours later, he quit me and waited for the game to fill up before he would start playing again.  We're supposed to play again this morning, so we'll see how it goes. 

In our last session, he went absolutely bonkers over a hand I played, in which he thought I played it horribly, but only because he didn't remember the board or the action properly.  I opened the button with 86o, and he 3-bet the big blind with what he claims is AA.  Flop comes A45 rainbow.  He bets, I called.  Turn is a 2.  He bet I called.  River was a 3, and he check/called, and I of course won with a 6 high straight.  Now he claims that I raised the the flop with 8 high and called his 3-bet, with no pair no draw, and that the board came A52,3,4.  He was willing to offer me 2:1 odds that the board wasn't A45, my $500 against his $1000. 

I declined, as I saw no upside potential in taking a wager like that.  In any case he kept pestering me about it, so I offered him $100 straight up with the winner getting $80 and giving the floor $20 to go look at the tape.  I won of course, and he still wouldn't let up, implying that I colluded with the floor man to angle him out of  $100. 

Now let's think about this logically.  First, the $100 is a fairly meaningless amount of money in the grand scheme of things, and why would I want to damage my reputation over that?  Second, he's seen me play enough at this point, that he should realize that I do play somewhat sanely and have folded to his flop bet in 3-bet pots somewhat regularly as one should given my wide button opening range, and his super narrow big blind 3-betting range.  Given that when these pots occur, he's putting in the 7th bet out of position and I can call getting 7:1 immediate, with implied odds of usually at least 6 more small bets, given that his showdown percentage and turn continuation bet in these 3 bet pots is almost 100%. 

So I can call the flop with as little as single over card if I think it's live and still be mathematically correct in doing so.  Calling with a gut shot to the nuts is a no brainer.  Turn or river comes a 7, I may get infinite bets from him with his supposedly top-set.  In any case, I don't really care what he thinks of my heads up play, but I got super annoyed that he kept pestering me about it, so that's what really motivated me to get the floor to look at the tape, so I could hopefully shut him up, but to no avail.  It's not super surprising to me anyways, as he's shown through comments to me previously while we've been playing heads up, that his memory of the board cards and the action is circumspect.

Family vacation plans are still in the works.  My two older kids are attending vacation bible school (VBS) at the local Korean Catholic Church this week.  And then starting next week, the two older kids will be attending Gateways Summer School in the afternoon.  We still need to go to the San Diego County Fair and we'll probably do that next week some time.  After the kids are done with their Summer School, my wife has a planned a trip up to northern California to visit her sister and her brother-in-law.  Her mother and her nephews from Minnesota will also be there, so our kids will have some other kids to play with as well.  She wants to make a couple of side trips as well, one likely to Lake Tahoe, and another to the Bay Area.  And there's talk of us going to Wichita as well.  I'd still like to sneak in a boys trip to Las Vegas, but we'll see about that.

This update killed about an hours worth of my morning, so I guess I'll sign off now, grab a shower, and start heading into the "office."

And we're back!

Wow, it's been a while since I last had a chance to make an update.  I've been extremely busy with all of the things going on in my life.  It seems that even though I don't have a regular job to go to anymore, I seem to have even less time to trawl around on-line.

I've started studying for the LSAT in earnest.  I scored 158 on my first practice test that I timed myself on, with no prior study or practice.  I'm looking to score at least 170, so I have 12 points to improve.  Unfortunately, the raw test score to LSAT reported score is logarithmic, so to increase my score requires getting quite a few more right.  I am doing fine in reading comprehension, almost always get them all correct with maybe 1 or 2 incorrect.  I do fine in analytic reasoning with no time constraint.  I need to get faster, as I keep hitting the 35 minute time limit.  My current Achilles' heel is the logical reasoning section of the test.  What is odd, is that from the prep materials I have one of which contains 3 practice tests with answers and explanations, is that I do fine on the difficulty 2, 3, and 4 questions, but struggle with the 1's and 5's.  I guess I am over thinking things sometimes.  I have been getting better and scored a 168 on the practice test that I took today.

My regular schedule now is to study on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, play poker on Wednesday and Friday, and family time on Saturdays and Sundays.  As the test gets closer (June 10, 2013), and if I feel I need more study time, I'll knock off Wednesdays from poker first, and then include Sundays for studying as well if necessary.  I received two more study aids today in the mail from Amazon, and I plan on starting on them tomorrow.  I'll see how useful they are.  Sometimes I think the writers of the LSAT are sadistic little green evil men, but I guess they need something to separate the riffraff from the cream of the crop.

While my kids had spring break from their school in early April, my wife suggested we go to Vegas so the kids could go swimming and have something to do over their break.  I didn't really want to go, but my wife prodded me enough for me to acquiesce. I made some phone calls and hooked up with a host at Mandalay Bay.  The host arranged everything and was much better than my current host at the Aria.  He was attentive, got all the details correct and made sure that we had everything we needed each day were there.  He arranged for us to have an approximately 1500 square foot, 2 bedroom suite.  One bedroom had a king bed, while the other had 2 queens, which worked out perfect for us.  The beer, red bull, wine, cheese and fruit platter, and fresh cut flowers for my wife, were all delivered within an hour of us checking in.  We got a cabana each of the 3 days that we were there.  My kids had a blast and loved the cabana service and the fact that they could pretty much order anything they wanted any time they wanted.  We tried three different cabana locations, one at the lazy river, one at the west lagoon, and one near the wave pool.  Each had its pluses and minuses.  Next time around, I'm sure my wife will have a better idea of where she wants our cabana to be.  Two complaints, the cabana menu is very nondescript and has nothing really tantalizing, it pales in comparison to the cabana menu at the MGM Grand, which is a little surprising since they are owned by the same company.  I couldn't get a vanilla shake, since their shake machine was broken.  I complained jokingly that I was going to the Bellagio if I couldn't get a shake.  

We arrived early on Wednesday morning a little after 10am.  We left San Diego a little after 5am in the morning.  Unfortunately, the beginning of this trip was the day after the Day of Degeneracy with Cecil and crew.  Bad timing on my part, as I was in no shape to be up this early in the morning for travel via car.  More on the Day of Degeneracy later.  The first night we ate at some meh sushi restaurant inside Mandalay Bay called Mizuya.  Can't say that I recommend it.

The  next morning, we got room service for breakfast (at least the kids and my wife did, I was sleeping).  Spent the morning at Shark Reef, and then headed out to the the pool.  After the pool we decided to go to RM Seafood for dinner.  Food and service were much better here than the previous night.  After the kids were in bed, I headed out to do some gambling, and got back to the room very early Friday am hours.  My wife graciously let me sleep for a couple of hours, took the kids for breakfast and headed out to the cabana.  I got a few hours sleep and then headed out to the pool to join up with the rest of my family.  While at the pool, we were debating staying another night or coming home, but decided to stay and see the 6pm showing of Tournament of Kings at Excalibur and then drive home.  We were on the road home by around 8pm or so, and arrived at home a little before 1am.  My kids enjoyed the show, particularly my youngest, whose eyes I swear got all bug-eyed, and she was screaming and giggling with delight almost the whole time.  It was difficult to get her to eat anything for dinner.  The other two enjoyed it as well, but unfortunately, we sat in the Dragon section, and it is a little hard to get all amped for the bad guy, when you know inevitably he is going to lose.

Overall it was a fun Vegas trip.  All of the room expenses got comped, and while I lost, I lost the equivalent of a bad 40/80 session so it wasn't too bad.  My wife is thinking of going again this summer, but I'm not so sure about that, nor keen on the idea.  Vegas is very hot during the summer, and I don't think my kids nor myself or my wife would enjoy spending the day outside in the pool area, even if we were in a misted cabana.  I am thinking of going to Vegas to play in the WSOP limit holdem 6-handed $2,500 event on June 26.  I haven't told the wife yet about this.  Hoping to sneak it in as a post-LSAT / law school acceptance gift to myself.  The wife has 3 or 4 different ideas for summer vacation plans.  All involve visiting at least one of her sisters, so it's either going to be Northern California, Minnesota, or Wichita, or Vegas, or some combination of the three.  Plus my kids are signed up for summer camp for 3 weeks in July or so here in San Diego, so we'll need to work around that as well.  Nothing has been decided and conversations regarding that have just begun.

Well that's a pretty long update, and while I have other mildly interesting things I could possibly muse about, I'll save it for another time.  I will leave you with this, from Kenny Rogers, which was playing as I was eating a burger at BGR for lunch today, "Know when to walk away and know when to run."