Just got back from a trip in argentina. Had a lot of food and even managed to find poker.
Summer is a great time to go (for me personally) because it's winter there. There were no tourists in sight (!!!) so things are more quiet and authentic.
Pretty good for the middle of the winter. It's pretty european there in terms of architecture (with prices to match), at least in the nicer parts of downtown. Clean, safe, friendly people for the most part.
Hotel:
Service was amazing. EXCEPT they kept on referring to me as Mrs. (my last name).
Cool looking building next to it:
Fooooooooooooooooood
This place perfectly suits a night owl like me. The day starts later and restaurants don't open for dinner until like 7-8, and then they serve until 2am or so.
So they are super duper big on beef. If you love beef and lots of it, that's the country for you to visit. Consumption per capita is like 190 pounds/year or something.
This is one style of how they cook their meat in restaurants (I think those are baby goats/lambs/pigs)
Is it just me or does it look slightly uncomfortably graphical
They bring chunks of roasted meat to you on plates
But they do meat on the grill too!
They also grill cheese by the wheel...
Wine is only served by the bottle in restaurants and it's really cheap - you can get the smaller bottle for the price of a glass in american restaurants. I think I've averaged a bottle per day
Yeaaah so def not a country you go to try to lose weight. On top of all the meat cheese and wine, they have a huge sweet tooth too. Dulce de leche is their favorite dessert and they put it in everything..
Like in their national snack - alfajores - shortbread cookies with a thick layer of dulce de leche in the middle.
And in ice cream.. It's huuuge there. Every ice cream place sells their stuff by the kilo and does delivery.
Shopping for sweets there is the BEST. They give you free stuff right out of the display for you to sample as you shop. I was buying truffles and they gave me half of what I bought in freebies.
The gamb00l
I OBVIOUSLY had to check out their casino once I found out that they have poker. On weekend nights they had 25/25 pesos and 25/50 pesos running. So that's about 1.5/3 (oh they also have terrible inflation so it might be like 1/2 by the end of the year).
Airport-style security with xray belts and walk through detectors
Closer...
So it's a room in the basement but that's okay!
Okay so apparently there are no atms in the casino. You either bring the cash or you can withdraw using your credit card. I'm not sure if that's actually helping problem gamblers (I assume that's the reason) or making things worse.
They give me my buy-in in a plaque. The 1.5/3 had no maximum buy-in so we are in for 200bbs. #highroller.
They also have plaques for 500 and 1000 pesos ($30 & $60), which people were actually betting with. SO extra.
Games are probably similar to 1/3s in US. Mostly some omc rec players, MALGs, and some young grinder-types (I wonder if they read 2p2?). The game is mostly loose-passive with a ton of limping pre from any position.
Soooo I didn't find out about the rake beforehand cuz I figure how bad can it be right? Wrong. I figured out eventually that it's 5% NO CAP... I saw the dealer taking out the equivalent of FIFTY DOLLARS from a $1k pot at 1/3 and I died a little inside...
They also stack the chips in the pot and then count out the 5% manually after each hand so it takes kinda long to play each hand.
I ran super hot though (how TF can I never run like this playing higher stakes?!?) soooo the rake is clearly beatable
. Got all my food on the trip covered, which's awesome.
THEN I find out no one really wants to convert pesos back to dollars so I have to change it back at a really terrible rate. Good thing I won.
Last edited by Snowball2; 07-16-2017 at 01:01 AM.