Bobostonepony

It’s 4:11am PST on my what will be my last full day in Vegas. I have been sick for 3 days now and have spend a total of about 3 full nights in bed. I will write up a compete review shortly but wanted to share with you my experiences of this day.

After finally getting out of bed, still sick of being sick and anxious to try and make the best of the situation I decided to get some lunch and go play a poker tournament. I ended up driving over to Ceasars and playing in the noon tournament (which is without a doubt the best structured tournament I’ve ever played in.

After getting knocked out of this tournament, I went over to the slots to try my luck again. Earlier in the week I had won 2 $300 pot jackpots on the same machine pretty much back to back. On the same row of machines, I hit again $300 and then followed up by $200.

Over the past 4 days I would hit this same jackpot a total of 4 times. Also, I would hit the a $200 jackpot one other time. So, as of Thursday, after losing quite a bit of money back on slots and craps (which i’ve found is my new favorite form of gambling) I was back in the green.

Back in my hotel room was the $500 pink chip from the Golden Nugget I had recieved for getting a straight flush in 3 card poker with a $10 bet. This chip would be cashed in on Friday and would be my Friday budget.

On a last minute hunch… I put another $4o in one of the Ceasar’s slots and the following happend:
This was the progressive jackpot and was good for $1000. Shortly after this picture was taken, I went over to the high limit room at Ceasars and played a little 3 card poker. After losing about a hundred bucks I put down $25 on the pair plus and the ante spots and asked Sue, the asian dealer, “How bout 3 of a kind?” …. and she gladly obliged. I looked down to see trip 8’s. Trips pays 30 to 1 on the first spot and like 6 or 8 to 1 on the ante. I don’t know exactly what the payouts are exactly but I looked down to see that I was paid over $1000 for that hand. What is even more astronomical is that the gentleman to my right (who had moved to that seat just 2 hands before to duck his bad luck in seat 4) also had trip 5’s.

I went over to the Venetian to get my ass handed to me in a poker tournament. It was nice, but in my opinion Ceasars is waaay better as far as tournys go. I was starting to feel terrible again and my medicine was starting to wear off so I headed back to the Orleans.

If you are familiar with the area, you know that once you pass the highway while on Tropicana you will see an In and Out burger and the Wild Wild West Gambling Hall and Casino. The Wild Wild West caters to truckers and people passing through town (transients). I had to go in. It was like being in the twilight zone. When I walked in the first thing I saw was 1 person playing craps on a half sized table. I had to play….

more to come…