Excessive Variance

This is the bullet point edition of my most recent Vegas trip.  I may expand on these later (such as adding pics and video) for a more in depth post, but for now these will have to do.  For fun at the end of each day I listed my total level of degeneracy for the trip.

Saturday (June 19th)

• Late Afternoon flight with a stop in Phoenix
• Spotted Steelers team plane
• First class is great
• Check in at Ballys, nice room
• Good 5/10 game Saturday night @ Rio
• End of Day Degeneracy Level (EDDL) – 2.4

Sunday

• Watch World Cup @ Bally’s
• SNG @ Rio – Chop it up
• More 5/10 @ Rio
• Dinner with Clay
• EDDL – 2.4

Monday

• Event 39 $1500 Shootout
• Sick Table Draw
• Out 4th at table, losing with AK to AQ AIPF for chiplead
• Event 40 $2500 Razz
• Good table draw
• Dwan’s buddy and a 75k prop bet
• My shoulder is famous!
• When table breaks with level and 1/2 to go, I’m chip leader of table
• Moved to table with Jerry Buss, avoided pro heavy tables
• Make it to Day 2
• Check out the HORSE Final table that Ivey wins
• EDDL – 3.3

Tuesday

• Move to Whoopi Goldberg suite at PH, 2751.
• Table redraw is decent, but very card dead first level
• Table break, end up at pro heavy table
• Made 8543A on 5th gets cracked in huge pot by a guy calling me down with J7Q showing for running perfect cards to make a 75 and cripple me
• More 5/10 @ Rio
• Stock the room fridge with drinks & relax
• EDDL – 3.8

Wednesday

• Dustin shows up
• Pai Gow @ Aria
• Lunch @ Skybox
• Walking the strip
• Watch CWS game, see great comeback by TCU
• PF Changs with Jersey & Dustin
• 25-1 on my 6 card Pai Gow Bet
• Exploding fist pounds from old asian woman dealer
• EDDL – 4.4

Thursday

• Stand in line for almost 2 hours to pick up my new phone
• Told Scott about my dad being dead, got invited to breakfast
• Two shots before breakfast
• Earl of Sandwich w/Dustin, Jersey, Spice, Nik, Ang, Scott
• 3 card – I need a fin…
• Baby Pai Gow w/10 min drink service
• Spinning w/Spice
• Nik lost her purse, but got it back
• I lost a coin flip for dinner
• Back to Room to change for dinner
• Meet up with Vold & Ass (not sure if I like this nickname combo, might have to change this) for dinner @ Lavo
• Amazing meal
• More Spinning
• Leprechauns!
• Watch Vold play blackjack and call it a night
• EDDL – 5.8

Friday

• Breakfast at PH Coffee Shop
• Quick Spinning
• Shopping on the strip
• Prop bets w/Henry on clothing prices and other things
• Lemon Sorbet
• Over/Under Rolex’s
• Shoe wench (The video is too large)
• Ellis Island for cheap food
• Credit Card Roulette for dinner checks
• Spinning
• Henry provides crap lessons
• Ozzy rolls like Usain Bolt runs
• No Karaoke (thank you busy shitty casino!)
• Aria w/Vold & Ass, Henry & Justin, Spicey & myself.
• Shady’s back, back again…
• Henry gets intoxicated and awesomely obnoxious
• Dustin, Spice and I meet a loud hooker on the way back to PH
• Bed time…
• EDDL 6.9

Saturday

• PH Coffee shop again
• Head to the Cabana @ Venetian
• “Easy there GAP guy”
• World Cup emotional roller coaster
• Crazy prop betting
• Back to Spinning
• Back to PH to get dressed for dinner
• Limo to pick up Henry and to the Palms
• Little Budda (epic fail on the lack of group pic, this is the best we got)
• Run around and get changed
• Meet at Flamingo but end up gambling at Bills
• 3 Card & Pai Gow
• Walk back to PH
• EDDL 8.7

Sunday

• Dustin with the ninja exit (I totally didn’t get in a joke about Dustin’s mom, well played sir)
• Mexican Breakfast by a stripper pole
• Blue Adidas
• Gun club
• Crazy Limo Argument
• Fancy Paris burger place that isn’t as good as the one at Mandalay Bay
• Bet on Yankees comeback, sweat it at Bally’s Sportsbook
• Army 2/4 mix game w/Henry, Scott, Burgandy, Nik, Jersey, Ren, Ozz, Spice and I
• Spike a 1 outer on Spice for quads, and make a high hand bonus!
• Vold joins in, Ass watches.
• Game starts to break, goodbyes are said.
• Pick up stuff from Plazzo
• Download Entourage premiere and the G20 Riots
• Little sleep
• EDDL – Broke the meter…

Monday (June 28th)

• Starbucks w/Ren, Oz & Spice
• Henry pulls ahead in prop bets for the week
• Limo to airport
• Goodbyes
• Delays
• Home
• EDDL – Zero (no degeneracy left)

Weird trip for me…  started off okay, became sort of a dissappointment, and was saved at the end.  Total expenses were more than 9k, don’t really care.   Bliss Bubble.