I have been slacking!
I haven't updated the blog in a while this time either, and I haven't even taken many pictures of what we've been doing lately. Big Chris came into town after he won his WSOP satellite seat a while ago and his buddies from his hometown Nick and Caleb together with Calebs buddy Drew were here hanging out and we had a good time. The first night we went out, we went to play some low limit stuff just playing around at some place called Casino Royale. Don't let the name fool you, because it sounds like a decent place, doesn't it? God it sucked. That was the worst staff as far as customer service goes as well.
We walk into the place and go up to the bar, me and Nick order two beers and they ID us both, that's fine. I give her my ID she looks at it and hands it back, Nick gives her his drivers license and she looks at it and looks at it some more (it's a regular state drivers license) and looks at it some more again. She holds it in different angles in the light, takes a few steps back and looks at it again. Nick goes in a perfectly normal tone of voice, "Do you want some other forms of ID?" and he gives her a bunch of other ID's like four of them. She goes, "Are you trying to be some kind of smartass?" and he replied "No, I was just trying to help"
She looks at the same ID again and walks off again and he goes "I just want a fucking beer" at which point she blew up completely and called security over. We talked to security for a minute and he informed us that she refuses to serve us from now on but we're perfectly fine just asking some other barmaid to help us out. As we walk off from the bar the security guard walks with us and tells Nick, "She's a bitch anyway"... that was fucking hilarious.
We go to play some "switch" blackjack for like $5 a hand. See I used to have this problem betting blackjack. I'd win like $1500 playing poker one night, then go blow $3500 on blackjack and wonder what the fuck is wrong with me. That happened a few times. I had a good run back in like December where I sat down with $100 at the blackjack table and won about $18,500 and it was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me as it made me want to play more. I haven't played blackjack in several months now so I've been good with it, and actually managed to just bet $5 a hand! I was proud of myself. Momentarily. Then we go play some craps, a game I barely understand and that I'm not even enjoying too much but then again its a tablegame so hard to enjoy it too much since you know at any given time you are taking the worst of it. We play for a while, drink some and then me, Chris and Nick take off to the Venetian. Then we went trying to find a place to just sit and drink and hang out. We went to like three million casinos just walking down the strip. We went to Venetian, Casino Royale, Flamingo, Barbary Coast, Bellagio and a bunch of others I barely remember like Harrah's and some other ones. We eventually get all the way to New York, New York and they had a great pub/bar called Nine Fine Irishmen or something of the sort? It was actually pretty nice and they served good Guinness too... for Shawn if you're reading it, don't you wish you were there? I know you are such a Guinness connoisseur.
Then we take a cab back and just hang out at the bar at Treasure Island, until sometime early morning. Just talking, playing some video poker and drinking. It was fun.
Big Chris busted in the main event so he's been upset about it, luckily it wasn't like he blew some kind of big opportunity or anything. It's only $12 million for first, chump change. Me and Nick make sure to remind him on a daily basis that it's alright, there'll always be NEXT FUCKING YEAR which is a long ass time ahead. Well, every time I try to talk shit I always get the question "Hey swede, how did the satellites go?" and I just have to quietly mumble "shutthefuckup" and be quiet. I'm actually in no spot to be ragging on Chris but it's still fun.
We're heading back on Saturday from the looks of things together with Andy and Donald unless Andy makes it to the final table in the WSOP event. He's still in good shape with 55k as of going into Day Three I believe? I think there'll be 1100 starters and 800 people getting in the money when he starts the day so I am definitely rooting for him to make it good. If he gets ahold of some chips he'll be dangerous so hopefully he'll get a nice little run of cards early and be able to chip up.
That's all for now, ciao.
We walk into the place and go up to the bar, me and Nick order two beers and they ID us both, that's fine. I give her my ID she looks at it and hands it back, Nick gives her his drivers license and she looks at it and looks at it some more (it's a regular state drivers license) and looks at it some more again. She holds it in different angles in the light, takes a few steps back and looks at it again. Nick goes in a perfectly normal tone of voice, "Do you want some other forms of ID?" and he gives her a bunch of other ID's like four of them. She goes, "Are you trying to be some kind of smartass?" and he replied "No, I was just trying to help"
She looks at the same ID again and walks off again and he goes "I just want a fucking beer" at which point she blew up completely and called security over. We talked to security for a minute and he informed us that she refuses to serve us from now on but we're perfectly fine just asking some other barmaid to help us out. As we walk off from the bar the security guard walks with us and tells Nick, "She's a bitch anyway"... that was fucking hilarious.
We go to play some "switch" blackjack for like $5 a hand. See I used to have this problem betting blackjack. I'd win like $1500 playing poker one night, then go blow $3500 on blackjack and wonder what the fuck is wrong with me. That happened a few times. I had a good run back in like December where I sat down with $100 at the blackjack table and won about $18,500 and it was probably the worst thing that ever happened to me as it made me want to play more. I haven't played blackjack in several months now so I've been good with it, and actually managed to just bet $5 a hand! I was proud of myself. Momentarily. Then we go play some craps, a game I barely understand and that I'm not even enjoying too much but then again its a tablegame so hard to enjoy it too much since you know at any given time you are taking the worst of it. We play for a while, drink some and then me, Chris and Nick take off to the Venetian. Then we went trying to find a place to just sit and drink and hang out. We went to like three million casinos just walking down the strip. We went to Venetian, Casino Royale, Flamingo, Barbary Coast, Bellagio and a bunch of others I barely remember like Harrah's and some other ones. We eventually get all the way to New York, New York and they had a great pub/bar called Nine Fine Irishmen or something of the sort? It was actually pretty nice and they served good Guinness too... for Shawn if you're reading it, don't you wish you were there? I know you are such a Guinness connoisseur.
Then we take a cab back and just hang out at the bar at Treasure Island, until sometime early morning. Just talking, playing some video poker and drinking. It was fun.
Big Chris busted in the main event so he's been upset about it, luckily it wasn't like he blew some kind of big opportunity or anything. It's only $12 million for first, chump change. Me and Nick make sure to remind him on a daily basis that it's alright, there'll always be NEXT FUCKING YEAR which is a long ass time ahead. Well, every time I try to talk shit I always get the question "Hey swede, how did the satellites go?" and I just have to quietly mumble "shutthefuckup" and be quiet. I'm actually in no spot to be ragging on Chris but it's still fun.
We're heading back on Saturday from the looks of things together with Andy and Donald unless Andy makes it to the final table in the WSOP event. He's still in good shape with 55k as of going into Day Three I believe? I think there'll be 1100 starters and 800 people getting in the money when he starts the day so I am definitely rooting for him to make it good. If he gets ahold of some chips he'll be dangerous so hopefully he'll get a nice little run of cards early and be able to chip up.
That's all for now, ciao.
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