Poker, Football, and everything sports

Ok so for the 2nd straight year I went to Vegas in August with my closest friends, aka my crew, and we had an absolute blast!!! No poker this weekend just blackjack, roulette, horses, clubs, and drinking. Here's a recap.

We made great time driving in got into vegas in 3 and a half hours and checked into our hotel NY NY. Very nice hotel one of my favorites I've stayed at in Vegas. The casino floor is riddled with NY memorabilia and buildings on the outside. We get in and I immediately hit up the roulette tables with Kristal. I brought in for 40 and tried out the system that worked pretty well last time. I put 3 bucks on 10 numbers: split the zero's, 2,5,7,12,13,20,22,23,and 34. and put 10 bucks more on one of the vertical columns. After hitting the vertical column twice, I hit #13 for 70 bucks! I tip the dealer my 2 buck bet and cashed out the 70 bucks up 30 on my buy in.

That night we went to the Cirque show KA at the MGM Grand! Great show I preferred Mystere because some of KA was painfully slow but they had some AMAZING parts so def recommend it. Before going out, I play more roulette, and bam first number is 7! 105 bucks for me and I'm 2 for 2! That night we went to ROK, the club in NY NY. The ladies got free vodka for an hour, so they loaded up on drinks and were good to go for the night. We were there till about 2 and walked around the strip before getting to bed, but not before losing 80 bucks in roulette. Lame!

The next day, I hit my 1st vegas buffet at Excalibur. It was just ok. Good selection of food, but alot of it wasn't very fresh, so some stuff was cold. Still good though. Another round of roulette loses for me before i hit up the black jack table. I buy in for 100, and get up to 150 easily. Played one deck, and kept a good track of high cards, winning both of my 25 chip bets. After one hand of 7 cards under 8, I bet 25, and get an 8 and a 3 for 11. The deal shows a 5, and I gladly double down for 50 bucks, knowing I'll cash out up 100 if I hit. Bam 9 for me 20 overall! Dealer flips a 9 for a 14. No 6 or 7 and I'm golden. 1st bad beat of the trip. 7 for a dealer 21. So lame. I go on to lose the 100. We also decided to bet some horses in Planet Hollywood. I ended up down 50, only winning one bet. Loveeee betting horses, but I have no idea whats going on. I should learn how to read the books so I'm not just betting on colors and names lol.

That night we hit up 3 clubs, tabu at MGM, Rum Jungle at Mandalay Bay, and I forget what it was called but the club at TI. All nice, TI was my favorite its half indoors half outdoors. Great night overall. During that, lost 60 bucks at BJ, but got 40 back playing roulette. I only bet on red, and vertical and horizontal 12ths. Think that might be a better way to go next time.

Saturday, Kristal, Arod, dave and I hit up our favorite place in Vegas, the Burger Bar at Mandalay Bay. I got the kobe beef burger...fantastic! Arod got a buffalo burger that I might have liked even more. Awesome stuff. Bet more horses, and was down 20 bucks. Won one bet for 24 that was cool. More roulette more losses sadly. that night we decided to take it easy mostly. That night we went to the MGM dinner buffet. Fantastic lots of great food definitely worth the 25 bucks. Good stuff. We went to the coyote ugly bar, which was actually a club. And then we mostly chilled all the girls were tired from walking around in heels, and I was down to just chill and drink in the room.

Overall, I lost all my money, and had a blast doing it. Next time I'm in vegas, I'll play some poker for sure! I'm in the black in vegas poker and in the red in everythingggg else, so it makes sense. In an online note, I chopped the 10 buck cubed on FTP Monday for 2 grand. By cubed, I mean i buy in for the original 10 bucks. In the 1st hour, I can rebuy once, and at the end of the 1st hour, I can pay 10 bucks for 2000 more tourney chips.

Had a blast with this tournament it was a big monkey off my back. I've played it over a dozen times, and had several min cashes and i really wanted to final table it. I ended up winning two huge pots with 4 or 5 tables left, both times flopping a set against top pair. Had a huge stack until the final 3 when i finally lost the chip lead. We got heads up, and we were dead even in chips. rather then play it out, we decided to chop the 1st and 2nd prize evenly to make it 2 grand for both of us.

So got my vegas money back! Sweet. This weekend I got 7 freerolls that have 10k prize pools that i got entry with from ftops sattelites and tournaments. So hopefully I can hit something there. I'll post updates. Thanks for reading guys!!