BAD BURRITOS AND WORSE MOVIES
Pretty uneventful weekend, I put myself in a hole to kick things off at 2-5 this week down -$300 and ultimately decided to grind out some hours at Ballys for that mtt promo. Picked up $160 Friday night, $135 Saturday, and $70 + $150 between two sessions Sunday night. Somewhat small but consistent wins, pretty standard for me at 1-2. Made the week a whopping +$215 with a dismal volume of 20 hours. Last weeks +$1870 was also over really poor volume @27 hours. Goes to show that skimping on volume fks up bottom line...I think it's fair to say the 2 weeks combined could have (should have?) been +$3000 or more based on the games I was in and solid play had I been hitting my 37 hour/wk average instead of the 20 & 27.
Sunday's sessions were split because the games were pretty poor after the first hour or so. I decided to leave for a bit and waste some time since I was out early anyhow. Headed over to the Palms to catch a movie. I ate a little place in the food court I hadn't seen before called "Chronic Tacos"...I was lured in by the interesting Day of the Dead style graffiti'ish art on the outside. As it turned out I should have taken those skeletons for the international warning to stay away. I was starving so expectations were low, I would have been happy with standard chain (Rubios/Cafe Rio/Baja Fresh) fare but was even let down there. The burrito sucked, rice was super dry and I hit a few inedible tendon chunks in the "marinated" chicken. The sub-par guacamole was the only thing that lubed this p.o.s. up enough to slam down my throat. So yeah...obviously not a food report, just a warning to stay away if you happen to be wandering through the Palms hungry.
Went to grab a movie ticket, only showtime left was for Transformers 4 or 5? something like that. I recalled seeing the first and maybe second one and them being mildly entertaining in a juvenile sense. Well...all the decent chicks in cutoff shorts, fast cars, and overboard explosions (all this usually appeals to my 12-14 year old maturity level) couldn't salvage this sh!#storm...I mean ***** Frasier was the villain!? I can confirm that this blurb from Rotten Tomatoes "Seemingly written by a thirteen-year old boy and directed by his walking erection, this one is nothing but a booming pile of rubble." does not even do it justice, as my 13 year old walking erection was NOT impressed. The random jumpy plot was only outdone by the horrendous acting; I'm a Mark Wahlberg fan but don't know if I can even stand looking at his face anymore after this fiasco. I'm just going to try to pretend he didn't give a #$^t and wanted a quick paycheck for hookers and blow. To make matters worse the thing is long...like really long. I tried my best to sit through it but just imploded somewhere like 2 hours in while some robots were high-fiving and sht and started riding dinosaurs...fml. On a positive note found a better game when I got back to Ballys. I think I got in a total of 17 hours at Ballys with at least 9 of those during the double hours time so should be about 26/100 hours or so into promo.
EPIC ASIAN DEGEN AND JAILBAIT ATTEMPT FAIL
Last night (Monday) I was pretty burnt out on Ballys so hit a little 1-2 game at a lower grade location (no name at the moment because some really bad players were staying there and I might hit it up some more this week). Game was super fun, had a few drinks, socialized, and basically was reminded how much I enjoy live poker. I met an awesome Asian dude from a southwestern state I wont reveal, we'll call him 'Sammy'. Guy was a mid 40s mega degen who went on to regal me with his tales of degeneracy. In my wizened old age I've become a bit of a life nit so often live vicariously through such stories. I'll try my best to share some of his tales but I know I won't do them justice from the original, heavy Asian accent telling.
So Sammy is sitting on my right and he's about 9-10 drinks deep and playing super spewy. We have a few drinks together and get to talking...Sammy comes from a really wealthy family and got his financial planning degree at a Cali state school. While in school he and his brothers lived together for awhile and basically drank/smoked/did drugs on a nightly basis until his parents forbid them from housing together. One nigh Sammy does "4 speeds" because he's not feeling like they are having any effect (Wolf of Wallstreetish lol)...he and his brothers end up at a bar, get in a fight with some chicks boyfriend, and this is when Sammy discovers the strength/energy enhancing effects of large doses of Amphetamines when he lifts the guy up (he's a small Asian guy) and chucks him over the bar breaking his collar bone. After graduating Sammy crushes commercial real-estate in one of the hottest markets right before the bubble busts. He moves to Reno for a year but degens off 7 figures at Baccarat and Pai-Gow including $244,000 in one night before his family basically forces an intervention for him to move back south, he likes 1-2 poker now because "you can play however you want and only lose a few thousand in a night if you do bad". He also tells me he stayed married to his first wife for 10 years to win a prop bet with his brother who's been married 6 times; His father tells the brother now to just get hookers when he needs it b/c it's getting too dam expensive. Sammy heads out at about 1 A.M. wasted as $#%# b/c he needs to be up in 3 hours to trade the Asian markets haha. So yeah this guy was obviously epic. Despite the great table I only ended up exactly +$100.
I had noticed this ridiculously hot young blonde chick watching us (me?) play from the rail for the last 20 min or so; rocking the short Sophie shorts and a tank top letting the belly button ring peak out, shes clearly too young/clean to be a hooker, especially in this place. Pretty much a 9/10 -1 for no tits but +1 for tongue ring. I grab some food and sit down at an empty table and she wanders over. Sits down starts asking me about the game and how to play it, where am I from ect... Shes from Seattle and is here with the family who have apparently crashed for the night. Shes "bored" and "too young to play" ...says she just turned 18, I'm not about to card her. We talk for awhile and she agrees to go ride around the strip, maybe hit up China Town...I'm just brainstorming how to close this deal. About to get up to go and this angry looking guy (her father) comes down from one of the towers (rooms) gives me a dirty look like he knows whats going down and basically tells her to GTFUp to the room...whole situation makes me think the 18 thing may have been BS...either way I head out pretty blue-balled/frustrated and obviously sans young chick.
Not much going on today...up 10 pounds in 4 weeks on this bulk which is cool. Was a strange amount of decent chicks wandering around at Target (the store)...I must have exceeded some unwritten limitation though b/c the gf punches me and says "Seriously!? Anything with a vagina huh!?!?" in reference to my subconscious staring. I say something along the lines of "that's not true at all...a hot tranny could probably catch my attention in the right light"...the humor was not well accepted.
Sorry not much for pictures lately and no chip porn...I have a certain rule with chip porn pics; Your going to look like a **** regardless snapping pics of chips, so I try to refrain from doing so unless the chipstack is a minimum of 150%+ starting stack size...obviously I'd like to have more chip porn pics recently but been kinda flat. I do have a pretty awesome plan to get this thread back on track showcasing Vegas and pumping up the entertainment level drastically with a cool photo challenge idea...I'm still working out the details and am really busy now but will probably debut the idea in a few weeks. Sorry for the lack of females in thread lately, in the meantime here's some thread-saving eyecandy from my last Puerto Rico trip...
So yeah DONT eat at this place.
Tastes even worse than it looks...
And don't see Transformers...even if your crying 8 year old kid tries to drag you into it...
*** Shameless off topic threadsaver pics from last Puerto Rico trip ***