I doubt many, if anyone, will advise not to go play poker in Vegas. This is after all a Poker forum, subsection LV.

For balance perhaps Xpost on Safe&Boring Lifestyle USA forum

So no license yet. Otherwise things are great. Have been living with the gf for 5 months now. As far as where to play NLHE on this side of town? Your only options really Boulder Station and Green Valley. Green Valley will have more games for NLHE. Boulder is smokey and they usually have one game going of 1/2 but i go there for the donkalicious 4/8 Omaha high game. I usually go to Bellagio or Venetian now when I can play. I have not been playing much live lately due to a lot of unexpected medical expenses. I will play cash during the WSOP though.

I am coming out of my life induced semi retirement for the afternoon. Between all kinds of home costs and medical expenses I have just not had the time or money to play regularly. It is now tax season and I have no tax clients today (business is slowly growing) and my shift is over at the ft job. My gf is in cali for a couple days. Watch out strip regs and tourists I am coming to take your money or spew whichever comes first.

Boulder is no longer a smoking room and +100000 to the 4/8 omaha game. It is AMAZING. Such a fun/profitable game.

When did they make it non smoking? I almost went there today. I am already on the strip.

2 months ago thereabouts, maybe longer.

False, lived here for almost a year, and the first week I was told about the 4/8 Omaha and it was non smoking.

Roommate it up? I'm looking

I live with the gf so no roommate needed. It was a losing session the other day. Not much I could do. Set lost vs open ended for 60 bbs and I lost a 3 way all in for another 60bb with middle pair and flush draw vs tptk with no draw vs a lower flush draw with no pair. Was surprised to get two callers to my shove lol. Time to do more tax returns. Pretty standard stuff. I will Probably end up back on the felt more regularly after April 15th.

I am dusting off my poker game and this thread by playing some 1/2. I just got engaged and have lots of stuff to pay for. Expected WSOP poker will be limited to 1/2 and small tournaments like Rio/pH/golden nugget dailies on weekends. I may call off a day or two to get some play in as there is no time off available at my job and I have weeks of sick time avail.

I am currently sitting at pH after doubling a min buyin. The fiancee is at the Backstreet Boys.

Glad to see you're doing well and still at it. Lots of 2p2ers in town these few weeks, so plenty of opportunity to hang out/met folks/etc.

This. Lots a interesting/good/fun peeps hanging around and coming in and out of town regularly right now.

Well except Katana, you literally just missed him.

I left the session 100 dollar poorer after a possible bad river call. I thought the guy only had trips at best but he had actually went runner runner boat on me. Oh well. Tonight is more PH action with hopefully better results.

I found out recently that I am getting sued for 25k about a motor vehicle accident back in May of 2012. The funny thing is I don't own a car nor have driven in years. So it looks like I either have to pay an attorney or fly back to VA to get this sorted out. It really sucks how easy it is to sue someone. I don't know how the attorney came up with my name and address back in VA but there is a ****up somewhere. It looks like I am going to be moving the poker funds to this cause for the time being.

So how the hell have I been? I have been doing good. The last few months have been busy. Looking for wedding venues has been quite the process. The average wedding in this town can get pricy. We are thinking ceremony/reception/decorations for 100 is going to cost 15k. The food and entertainment costs are quite pricy. This is really the low end as the average can be 30k.

We recently spent a week in Michigan at my family's cabin and it was great albeit cool. It was great to get away from the Job and venue shopping and just unwind. We came back just in time for the NIN show which was amazing.

I am closer to getting the license back. I have not had a drink since June 8 2013. The attorney tells me that they have an 80 success rate for administrative reviews but sometimes they fail which would require to fly out there. 5% of people get denied totally and have to wait a year. I like the odds. I do have to get letters from 6 people and take a substance abuse evaluation/drug test.
If i pass the review i will go to MI in November for the a football game, but if i fail i will save funds for the hearing.

The tax business went good for my first full year out here. I hope to do 3 times the returns as did this year. I learned alot about the business side of things and i plan to have my E.A. exams finished before Tax Season. I will be attending a conference at the Rio as part of continuing education requirements as a break in the monotony of work.

Life is good.

I'll write you a letter.

Good read, nice to read about someone moving out to Vegas and making it work

Update? Saw you posting in another thread about moving to Vegas.

What happened with you being sued by someone you didn't know?

Ok, an update: The lawsuit went away after several letters to the attorney.

I am terrible at keeping up at either this thread or the fitness thread. I am neck deep in tax season right now so I am working 6 or 7 days a week. My tax business is busier than last year which is nice. So many evenings I am seeing tax clients after work. I plan to finish my Enrolled Agent Certification tests this summer so I can have fancy letters after my name

I am trying to go 3 days a week to Crossfit, but this box is small and I can't always make them due to my schedule. After this contract is up, I may switch to Rhino Crossfit, as they seem to have better hours and open gym times so I can just go in and lift if need be. The box is doing a Paleo like diet challenge for two months until March 17th, so I am finally under 250 lbs for the first time in a while. This is good as I am not really paying attention to calories and still losing weight. I am on week 5 of C25k. It is almost all long runs after this.

I am getting married in December. It happens to be one of the rodeo weekends. We have a venue picked out, she has her wedding dress bought already. We have most of the money for the wedding already. We still have lot of little things to do before then.

I hope to have my License back before that. It looks like I will need to fly to Michigan after tax season to get a substance abuse evaluation as it seems the people here either don't do them , or do them but are idiots like the only company I found. I basically will be given her grandfather's truck as he is too old to drive pretty much. That's a cool deal. Funds are allocated to that project, but I can't plan anything as we don't have scheduled that far ahead.

As far as what fun things have I done lately? Not much. We go the movies alot or see free shows that they give locals tickets for. That topless show at the westgate wasn't bad, and we saw a hypnotist at the tropicana that was entertaining. I miss poker, and probably wont be playing much until after the wedding. I am pretty boring right now lol.

op I read the first three pages and skipped ahead thinking for sure you had to make your way back to Michigan before yiur house sitting duties were up, however came to last page and see your still in vegas and doing well. damn it, now i have to go back and read it all to see how you got to this point. congrats on the marriage and go big blue.

I played my first session in a while at the Golden Nugget. Plus 74 over four hours. There were a couple of hands I made a bad call and one hand I failed to get enough value out of. Still not bad considering I was rusty as hell.

I had spent three hours at crossfit before the session and was sore and worn out so that had some effect I am sure.

I worked as usual but started getting sick monday afternoon. I kept having stomach issues and next thing I know I am at urgent care and now in the Hospital. I am better but not 100 percent. It looks like they could let me go tomorrow or Friday.

I haven't spent a night in the Hospital in like 30 years and then I was so young I dont remember.

So life here in Henderson has been pretty good as of late but nothing is perfect.

I am getting married here in a couple of weeks to my lady of 3 years. We have our ups and downs. She's OCD and I am the opposite. She organizes and motivates me while I help calm her down.

I recently finally got my driving privileges back for the first time since 2002 all because of her IMO. I made it a goal when I proposed to her that I would get that part of my life together and I am glad I did.

That said after that long of a gap in driving I am far from the world's best driver. Watch out streets of Henderson/Vegas. I drive like an old man.

Wedding planning has taken much of our free time but we still fit in alot of concerts. We have seen Slipknot at the festival grounds near Mandalay Bay. We attended the Monster Mash festival in Tempe with many bands including Tool. Other shows included Five Finger Death Punch, Manson, Godsmack, and more I can't remember.

My poker playing has been sporadic. I played 1/2 at the Golden Nugget and dropped a buy in in a short session and a couple break even sessions in the Omaha high game at Boulder station.
I am exploring leasing a cheap vehicle mainly for my small tax business and possibly grabbing a second part time tax related job for this coming tax season. I final tabled a 100 man tournament at the Orleans this summer in my only tournament action. I think there is money to be made there.

I work remotely in tech support for a major tax software company. They recently decided to pull all those wfh agents within 50 miles from an office into the office and told all the others to step up their game. I see the writing of the wall and am testing soon to finish up my Enrolled Agent credentials. This should help me find a similar paying position should something happen. I am fortunate to have 8 years with my current employer but nothing lasts forever.

I still go to crossfit 2 to 3 days a week and want to go more. Hopefully a second vehicle will help with that. One year of working out sporadically has lead to zero weight loss but I am much stronger. Squat is at 275 and deadlift is at 385. I need 4 days including open gym time to hit up the core lifts in addition to the normal WODS.

The goal is to bank money during tax season for a honeymoon and poker bankroll. We won't take one until after tax season. She has no time off and I won't have the ability to take any until after 4/15. I get 4 weeks a year now and it is hard to take it all.

Nice update. Glad to see you hanging in there.

What have I been up to? Update Part I

I survived the marriage festivities, lighter in my wallet but richer in everything else. Now that that planning nightmare is over things are much less stress free.

We took a little post wedding trip to CA and were rewarded with a nice fat speeding ticket. We made it to Long beach and spent a day whale watching and checking out the aquarium there.





We watched Ozzie and the Rival Sons back in February and Ozzie seemed old as dirt and ready to keel over at any moment. The Rival Sons were pretty good. I like that bluesy 70's kind of sound.



Tax season happened so not much fun occured until a spring trip to Red Rock where we walked our little dogs to the brink of exhaustion.






We took my wifes 94 year grandfather on a Lake Mead Dinner Cruise. I enjoyed the views but the food was meh.




We have gone to this Full Moon Circle meetup out in the Desert South of Boulder City. It is basically a bonfire party with a drum circle that goes all night once a month. We managed to get our Rav 4 bottomed out in a rut and had to be pulled out lol Good times. We will probably go to the next one in August or September, schedules permitting.



And most recently we went to Laughlin for a little day trip. We took a little boatride up and down the CO river. Not much to see in that town lol.

Update Part 2: Where I ponder my future career(s)

I have worked for the same tax software full time for 9 years and a year prior to that as as seasonal employee, but that may be coming to an end soon, not by my own choice. I am on a sort of probation where they monitor my performance monthly and don't get any quarterly bonuses (15 % of my pay) so that part of my life is not so swell. For the past few years I have been primarily a chat support agent and starting approximately last fall my scores have been below goal. I will say that chat support is hard imo and pleasing people solely via chat support is rough. Also there were some issues with the software and some procedures that were out of my control.

After some soul searching I have come to realize I am not happy in my current position there anyways. Things have changed in the company over the years anyways. I have been Work from Home (WFH) for about 7 years now. When I started they basically said most any position can be work from home and people could get hired for advanced positions and still be WFH. Last fall they announced a dramatic change (but I had noticed things before anyways) where those who are WFH within 50 miles lost their abilty to WFH and announced that they are going to make sure those WFH meet performance standards so I guess I am example #1 of that. I have never had a problem with survey scores in the past.

I used to be able to get time off. Being there more than 5 years gets you a month of vacation. Their staffing/scheduling has been pretty terrible the last few years. We can only plan time off 3 months ahead of time and there are only 2 slots per day to request time off. I was able to get 2 days off may-aug and have a month sitting in the bank. I used to be able to take weeks off and went to the WSOP for weeks. There used to be a plethora of positions to advance to, and those have since been outsourced/eliminated and those that remain are not for those WFH and are in fierce competition.

I plan to go one of a few routes:

I am an Enrolled Agent and can probably get a job in the tax industry. I have a small tax business and I will aggressively market that if need be.

I originally got this job based on my computer knowledge. I dealt with software installations, connection issues, printing issues, and other technical stuff (before that role was outsourced) so I feel like I could be useful in IT type positions. I never bothered to get any certs (A+, etc) as the company did not care about them.

I also have been self-studying web development online using sites such as FreeCodeCamp. There is a lot to learn and maybe in a year I could be employable, depending on how I progress. I am scheduling tech meetup/networking events. A good friend of mine is in the industry and I have been picking his brain as well.

My wife is now working in the Law Enforcement arena and there seems to be lots of room to advance in that department. She will probably soon be the bread winner anyways. I will probably apply for positions there as there seems to always be openings somewhere.