Alright! Long update coming up, last nights in Vegas and New York!
On Tuesday we went over to SushiSamba for our second time this trip and make a similar order like the last time. Oh my god, the food is just amazing. Especially the Wagyu on hot stone-thingy…
Afterwards we took a cab over to Aria for some Baccarat-spew (Ludde won about 1k$) and Olof, who joined us at SushiSamba for dinner with his friend Eli, won about 500$ and me and Eli just railed.
Plan was for us to grind cashgame, but with the list being that long and me and Ludde kinda tired we decided to call it a early night and go back to our hotel.
Wednesday morning Ludde tries to wake me up and convince me to join him down to the pool, never. My goal for today was grind non-stop until our flight to New York.
I pack my bag, take a long shower and then grabbed a cab over to Venetian. Sat down at a newly started 2/5$-game and bought in for 1k$. The table is pretty soft and I can controll it pretty decent. Eventually an asian guy makes an absurd play, and calls me down when I’m 3barreling my ace high in a 3bet pot. He tank-calls river with like 75o on 7J43K. Don’t really know how he calls pre etc, oh well… guess he was tired of me betting and betting. So i’m stuck 800$ and reload another 1k$ and from this point on it goes pretty smooth.
I manage to make some great suck outs. The best one was where I open Q8s (my favourite hand) and flop is 862. One of the fishes at the table leads out, he gets one caller and I’m not folding here.. I make the call and turn is quite good, it's a queen giving me top two. The fish continues and the third guy folds, I think for a while if I should go for a raise here or just call it down. I decide to go for a call and plan for river is probably snapping of every rivers… Well, I have to re-evalute that decision when river is another queen, giving me a full house. The fish continues and bets like 200$. I tank for a while and then raise it up to 500$. The fish thinks for like 5 seconds, and makes the call… I table my hand and he mutters and flashes 88 for flopped trips, ops. Could probably have taken the last 400$ if I just jammed, but what evs.
A couple of hands later its time for me to suck out again. I open 75s and get 3 callers to the flop. Flop is 893 giving me a gutshot and a backdoor flush draw, with the table being so soft and nitty I obviously continue bet here are 2 folds and one snapcall, hm okey.. Turn is a 6 giving me the straight, cool, cool, all good here.. Fi checks again and I bet out again and he snapjams for about 400$ total. Uhm, easy call and he flipps over 33. It takes him a while for him to understanding that I have the best hand, I dodge river and scoop a nice pot again.
I decide to leave Venetian being up 116$ and head over to Aria to meet up with Ludde and Olof for some grind and beer. I signed up at both 2/5 and 5/10 but got a table at a 2/5$ game. Bought in for 1000$ and won the first pot after herocalling down with ace high. The its time for me to play my biggest pot of the trip.
I look down at Ac Ah at BTN and playing 1200$ everyone at the table covers me.
UTG opens 25$
MP calls
I make it 150$
SB thinks for a while, and throws in the chips.
Fold
Fold
Flop is 6d 6s Jh
SB checks
I bet 175$ into 355$-ish
SB thinks, then raises to 425$.
I fake-think for a while then makes the call.
Turn is a 7
SB thinks for 5 seconds then announces all in.
Snap-call
River is a King
I flop over my aces
SB shakes her head and mucks her hand.
I scoop a 2500-ish pot!
Nothing really happens after that and I cash out a +1591$ profit after a while and me and Ludde decides to go back to the hotel and get ourselfs a couple of hours sleep before New York-flight.
Fast forwards 10h.
Me and Ludde meets up with one of my friends from back home. We go to our hotel, we agreed that she could stay with us for the weekend, and drop everything off and took a fast shower and then went out to see what New York could offer. We got recommended Buddakan, a asian restaurant over at Chelsea market. Ordered in a lot of food a long with a great bottle of red wine. The food was good, but comparing to SushiSambsa it was nothing! When we were done we strolled over to Le Bain, a roof top bar, and we saw that it was like 20-30 people in the line so we walked up to the guy at the entrance and asked him if there was any list or if we just could stand in line. He told us that we could stand in line, but neither one of us were interested in that so we walked away, then some guy from the inside began shouting at us and I walked back and he said like ”Nah, its cool… you can come in” and opened up the line for us and let us walk past everyone? Haha, neither one of us really understood what happend but hey, we didn’t have to wait in line right?
Great view, had a couple of beers and prosecco, then back to our hotel for some nice hours of sleep. Woke up Friday morning and strolled around the city, went to Macys and then got back to our hotel at like 16.00 and then slept until 20.00, had ourselves a fast shower and went out again to grab something to eat. We walked around in downtown (we lived like 1minute from the Wall Street bull) and eventually found a restaurant that looked nice, called AKA hotel. Ordered ourselves a nice filét mignon and another bottle of red wine, discussing on the plans for the night, we decided to atleast go out and see how the nightlife was.
We’ve had a lot of people recommending The Box, a night club that offers some kind of crazy show? So we take a cab over to their location and luckily the line was kind of short this time, only 3 people standing in front of us. We begin talking with them and they say that they have been standing in line for 30 minutes… Ludde looks over at me, then at Emma, then at me again and begins to smile… He goes on and say ”Okey, lets be ******ed” and he walks up to door man and is back 2minutes later and says ”Okey follow me”. Apparantly he had decided to go with a bottle service for 1k$, luckily he says ”You can pay 200$ each, I take the rest”.
So we go into the club and order a bottle of 1L belvedere and from there on we just get ****faced, the show was kinda ”meh”… we have heard that it was going to be CRAZY, and I mean it was kinda weird but not like we have heard it would be.
Dont know when we got back home but we woke up Saturday morning and didn’t leave the room until like 12.30. Then we walked over to 9/11-memorial, afterwards we took the subway up to Central Park and walked around there for maybe 1 hour before heading back home.
Took another power nap and then headed over to Bodega Negra for dinner. Wasn’t that impressed with the food. The restaurant itself were nice and good cocktails but the food was kind of ”meh”. With everyone being totally hungover and destroyed the only reasonable thing to do was to make it an early evening and go back to the hotel afterwards. Problem is that I’ve heard so much great things about the roof top bar over at 230 and 5th. So me and Ludde said that we would go over there and take ONE drink, then back home. Emma was totally dead and decided to not join us and instead go back to the hotel.
Me and Ludde gets over to 230 and 5th and see the big fkn line. Oh well, lets skip this and go home then…. is what a sane person would say. Then both me and Ludde looks at each other and both are thinking the same thing…. bottle service?
So we agree that we aren’t going to spend more than 300$ EACH, because neither one of us is that thirsty or in the feels for partying, we just wanted to see the view. So I walk up to one of the guys standing with the list and ask him how the bottle service works. He tells us that its starts at 250$, alright thats fine, even lower than we had plan to spend perfect… so we begin to take out 250$ each, then he tells us its 250$ total… hahahaha so me and Ludde begins to laugh and it's a snap call from our side. We give the guy the money and he calls over a waitress and she takes us by the whole line, and we dont have to stand in line to the elevators and then got a nice table with a great view over the Empire State building. We went for a 1L grey goose and a lot of red bull so we managed to rack the bill up to 390$ and then left 460$ total, perfect! When we got back to the hotel I was totally smashed and woke Emma up, which wasn’t that popular on her side.
Woke up today totally hungover, Emma left early to continue her journey and me and Ludde had to check out 13.00. Both our flights are 22.30 and 23.30 so we had some hours to kill. We went up to 5th avenue and had plan to spew of in the shopping malls. But being to hungover and destroyed we ended up like buying 5 t-shirts, then we spend like ages looking for a massage-place were we could grab a massage for 60minutes but they were fully booked. Somehow me managed to kill the time and got picked up at 19.00 at our hotel, sucks though that Luddes flight is from JFK and mine is from Newark, oh well. Sitting in my cab right now, been stuck in traffic in the same spot for like 15minutes now, damn this citys traffic is ******ed haha.
But I guess this sums up the rest of the days on this trip, hope that you have enjoyed it.
Both me and Ludde left Vegas being in profit, my cash game results were something like this
Session 1 Aria +50$
Session 2 Venetian +681$
Session 3 Aria + 235$
Day 1 = +966$
Session 4 Aria -1500$
Session 5 Venetian +972$
Session 6 MGM +47$
Day 2 = -481$
Session 7 Aria : 78$
Day 3 = +78$
Session 8 Venetian : 116$
Session 9 Aria : 1591$
Day 4 = +1707$
Total profit: 2270$
All played at 2/5$ Venetian/MGM/Aria
Arrived in US with 6200$
Left US with 5300$
Spent 2500$ on hotels & grand canyon, guns, plane tickets pre trip
So roughly 3400$ total on this trip, and then I won about 2500$ in gambling aswell lol...
For the pit games I guess I ended up like a couple of hundred, think Ludde won 2-3k$ at pit games, maybe more and won like 1-2k$ at PLO.
Ludde is probably going to Vegas for the NHL premiere in October/November, cant remember when it was… and I might join him on that trip, otherwise I’m hopefully going to Vegas next year (and then i’m going to play WSOP Main event).
Thats it for now, thanks for following!
Now back to being a student and not having 400$+ dinners every day
Best regards
Minibiff
Oh, went I arrived at the airport I asked how much for upgrade to Business.. 600$, what a bargain.. so now I upgraded myself to Business class, guess I have to get drunk in the lounge now so I atleast get some rake back in alcohol...