Part 2 - My first night in Vegas
Coming out of McCarran I took a deep breath of fresh and well-tempered Vegas air...boy did I miss that. Weather and temperatures sucked big time in Germany so I found the 60 degrees here pretty welcoming.
Now I did something that may seem kinda contradictory to my nittyness:
On the bus to the rental car station I quickly prepared a tipping roll with a good amount of freshly printed karma dollars from a German bank planning to give them out to all the people who are nice to me. First on my list was the rental car bus driver who loads/unloads your baggage. They are usually really nice and helpful but nobody seems to be tipping them.
When I got dropped off at the rental car station I was damn tried, exhausted and hungry so I hoped for an empty Dollar counter. Well I guess standing in line is the fate of a nit booking economy cars and declining upgrades ofc (nit beat no.1).
Got into my KIA an hour later and made my first stop at Wholefoods on the way getting some more espresso macchiato (dont need to explain that here, yay!) and some food.
Finally made my first drive along Las Vegas Boulevard, looking at the all the night lights and hotel giants, passing the sign, feeling home.
Just like the Dollar counter the Quad desk punishes nits with another long waiting line (nit beat no.2). Check-in took me only half an hour though and I at least managed to get a room in the 3rd tower which doesn't have construction noise - at least I didn't hear any in the 2 nights I slept there.
My room looks a lot better in this picture than it actually was but I can't really complain at all. I was absolutely fine sleeping here for 2 nights:
Nit beat no. 3: had to buy $10 interwebs the first night since I arrived too late to go and buy an USB stick.
On my first night in Vegas I can never seem to get any good amount of sleep at all. Time zone changes, the long journey and all that adrenaline mess up my sleeping schedule completely for the first few days.
It was 10pm, I did an internet and tried to sleep but realized that I couldn't even though I was tired - standard. So off to teh pokerzzzzzz!
I crossed the street and headed towards Caesar's while enjoying the snapping sound of the Mexican paper slip gang and jumping my way into the poker room on that funny moving walkway. Kinda missed all that too. Sat down in a 1/3 game to get into the groove of slow live pokerz and prevent myself from spewing off too much money already on the first night...it's definitely always the most dangerous night to grind for us Europeans!
I got on a table with my favorite Caesar's dealer Han Solo. I find that guy hilarious and always enjoy playing at his tables - off to a great start as it looks!
First noteworthy pokerhand came up which I feel I misplayed with regards to river betsizing:
I opened 6
5
to $10 after it was folded to me on the hijack (what an irony, you nits are supposed to limp in livepoker!) and get called by the BU and BB. Both were pretty young and tight players (table change!) so flopped pretty much the nuts on K
7
2
with my backdoor flush and straight draws. I bet out $20 into ~$30, got called by the BU only.
I naturally fired again on the J
for $55 which got snapcalled - so I prayed for diamond or a heart that I could at least potentially bluff.
I already saw the dealer put out a diamond, but it was the K
...kinda meh card but I bet $120 anyway (those internet kids always bet way too big in livepoker) and got a long tank by BU which made me feel comfortable about my hand.
When he finally said "You got a boat?" and called with the A
7
I realized that $120 is a huuuuge bet in 1/3 which probably won't get called by worse too often. Decided to call it a night and finally get some sleep. After doing another internet I finally managed to.
Up next: First 2/5 Session at the B