Semi-casual for dinner and show last night:

At the pantry for breakfast. Line to get in went fast. Granola/Yogurt/Berries plus an egg and toast for me. Trying to go easy on food to make way for omakase later.

Could have done without the toast. Granola yogurt parfait was rather large. Still felt healthier than some other options.



Soon off to wander. Probably back to the V for more 1/2NL.

Gorgeous day. A bit warmer today and not quite as windy.

Very nice pics. Keep up the good work. Best of luck.

Thank you!

Chip stack part way through a 6 hour or so session today. I managed to add a bit more to it over the course of the day:

On the way back to the mirage I walked to Harrah's and crossed there. So a couple days in I have barely managed to venture any further North or South of the Mirage property. Such a home body.

Harrah's and The Linq:


Harrah's:


Darth Vader and a Stormtrooper. Chewie and Yoda had just moved on:


A couple Transformers:


Casino Royale and McDonald's:

Same, gl op

The Mirage poker room was empty this morning when I passed by, with only a few names on the 3-6 list. So apparently a couple of the regulars did expire yesterday after all. I headed back to the Venetian and put my name on the list for 1/2 and waited five or ten minutes before a second table opened. There were three regulars from yesterday plus a new reg today when the table opened.

I caught much better cards today. I lost a few pots early today with a couple pocket pairs as well as AK. My first big pot of the day was with KK. I 3-bet to $40 pre after a raise and several callers and got two callers. I c-bet $75 on a QTx flop and called a shove that was only another $20 or so from someone holding QJ and held.

I won a huge pot with top two pair on a really gross board. I had raised pre with QJ and had gotten several callers. The reg in the SB lead out on a QJ9 rainbow board with $40 which was about 3/4 of the pot. I called. He lead out $40 again on turn 8. I thought it looked extremely weak and spazzed out and shoved and he called off another $160 or so with KQ. My two pair held and I was way up.

I got KK a couple more times in this session. I had KK in the big blind and made it $20 to go with several limpers in the pot. Short stack in the SB who had been buying in $100 at a time, playing garbage cards and overvaluing anything he hit called and shoved into me on a Q high flop with some random trash. I called and held against his third pair.

I took another $100 stack from the same player when I flopped a set with 99 and he shoved his QQ into me.

I got my third KK of the day when I raised after 1 limper, another $100 buy in at a time guy to my immediate right again. He had been calling flop and turn bets all day then folding the river. He had stacked off recently calling all in with a gutshot (interestingly the bettor was also on a gutshot and won a huge pot with K high ultimately). Anyway, I c-bet a paired board and fired again on the turn only to get check-raised. He obviously (very likely?) had trips but his check-raise was barely a raise and I had to call. K on the river and blam, I lucked out to take another decent sized pot.

At some point I sent a guy from London into Rage Tilt with my AKs against his 66. I don't remember the action but the flop was TTK, turn was a brick and river was an A. He was super pissed that I rivered the goods against him. My hand reading skills suck but I thought I was ahead from the flop onward. I couldn't recall taking many pots off of him previously but I know he blasted me out of a few pots earlier in the day. He must have been pissed about me taking chips from others or something. Anyway, he went on what appeared to be full blown monkey tilt to me and ran up his stack to over six hundred dollars over the next half hour or so before quitting. Again, I don't recall the action but along the way he scooped a huge pot with 32o during his tilt fest. You are welcome dude!

+$644 for the session. Poker is good when you get smacked in the face with the deck and your cards hold.

Love the pics! Love reading so far!

Thanks!

This is kind of what we look like...


...every time we go to:


Except that we aren't headless in real life.

After dinner (which was ridiculously good), we wandered down the strip a bit.

Bellagio fountain is not nearly impressive as I remembered from previous trips:

GL OP...

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Can't wait to hear about Kabuto.

We hit the forum shops at Caesar's in search of what I am told is the holy grail of makeup stores. Or maybe it was just one that was familiar, I forget.



Holy grail found:


We found our way to the Caesar's Casino eventually:


Then we bumped into Joe:


Tuesday night after 11pm seems to be a rather good time to wander through Caesar's. Omni attracts a pretty nice parade of hot young ladies. I was restricted from taking any photos. Sorry.

Thanks!

It was too amazing to speak of! I will try to post something tomorrow but it is going to boil down to something like "this was amazing", "then they brought another plate of amazing", "followed by more amazing"...

Got my wife settled into our Hotel and then wandered back over to the V for a late night session. Bled some chips early and then chipped back up and closed out with a winning session.

+$170

A few shots between Caesar's and the Mirage.

Caesar's check-in lobby:


Couple pics of Caesar's:




The Flamingo across the street:

Enjoying the thread bro, GL for the rest. More food pics maybe lol?

Thanks! I'll post up some Kabuto food shots soon.

Many many many thanks to LVL for all the great reviews of Kabuto. We would have never found this place on our own. We had enough trouble even finding it with the reviews and the address in hand. The cab driver had no clue where it was and as we got closer suggested Jack in the Box instead. Even once we pulled into the parking lot we couldn't see it, he then suggested Raku. I had to coax my wife out of the cab. Apparently she is not a fan of China Town strip malls with massage parlors. We were parked almost directly in front of the restaurant and it wasn't until I was out of the cab that I could even find the place. Nice and subtle.

The sign:


The staff were extremely warm, welcoming and attentive and we were treated to what might be the best service we have ever received at any restaurant lifetime.

We both opted for the large Kabuto Omakase and ordered a bottle of Sake at their suggestion. The name escapes me but it was light and floral. The second bottle we had later was also light and floral and may have been called Juto. Neither of us are big sake drinkers but both were quite tasty and went well with the food.

They started with a 10month aged citrus sake with crushed ice which was delicious:


The appetizer was a mixture of marinated clam, squid and mackeral with tasty cucumbers with some seaweed tucked in there as well as a couple pieces of bluefin tuna. The tuna, cucumbers and seaweed were awesome. The clams were likely my least favourite dishes of the night but that is due to personal taste not their dish.


Next came a plate with five types of sashimi. The shrimp was by far the best tasting shrimp I have encountered. Incredibly creamy. Both the tuna and the shrimp tasted like they had marinated in butter for a few days. In a really good way. The shrimp was from Canada. There was an orange clam with this course as well that was very tasty as well. The whitefish was okay for me.


A plate of grilled items followed. Grilled otoro with divine sauce was amazing. The kobe beef was quite good. Clams in mushroom broth was hit and miss for me - again I wasn't a huge fan of the clams (with the exception of the orange clam on the sashimi plate), but the mushroom broth was delicious. The other two pieces were less memorable for me.



Then came a string of the most delicious nigiri I have encountered. I missed grabbing pics of the next few pieces but they were simply delicious. Neither of us had tried traditional edomae style sushi before and we were blown away. I snagged a pic of the fourth piece. Don't recall what it was. It was good!


Salmon Roe next, or earlier? Very good.


Otoro perhaps? Amazing.


Mackeral. Yum.


Sea urchin. More yum.


Hot sweet omelet. Loved it but should have waited another minute or so before eating. Came dangerously close to ejecting it due to high temperature.


Then we had our option of a couple more pieces of Nigiri. I opted for o-toro and chu-toro while my wife opted for 0-toro and giant clam.
Chu-toro:


Then came an otoro handroll (delicious) and a choice of bone-in-fish or mushroom miso soup and we both opted for the mushroom. Very good.

Dessert was a choice of raspberry sorbet and strawberry crepe layer cake. I opted for the sorbet because I was concerned I would explode at that point. I had a bite of the layer cake and it was amazing! Something like 15 crepes with strawberry goodness layered in between.

Sorbet:


Heaven:


Then we got a cab and went home. The end.

All in all, AMAZING. Highly recommend. Food was incredible. Atmosphere was incredible. Service was incredible. Win win win. Part way through the meal my wife started lobbying to go back there Friday or Saturday night. She claims this meal as her best of all time. It may be for me as well. Easily in my top three for sure. Maybe top two. Maybe top top.

Bonus Kabuto pics. I can't seem to take a pic that isn't blurry, so good luck with the list of fish for yesterday.



Artists at work:

*droooooooool*

+100

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We're headed to Vegas in February, and Kabuto is definitely on our list. Thanks for the preview and TR! Good stuff.