Well spent yesterday down at Town Square or w/e with the gf. If anyone's here for a trip down on the strip it can be a cool place to maybe spend the day/evening. It is basically a bunch of retail and some restaurants as well as a big movie theater. I'm actually pretty pissed I forgot my phone because there were some sexy cars and some nearly as attractive females. Off the top of my head I saw a RR Phantom, Porsche Carrerra GT and a Panomara Hybrid, an SL63 AMG, a Jag F-type, a 550i 650i and M6, and a Nissan Skyline.
On my way home I stopped at a place on Stephanie Street right off Sunset to eat. It's a little 50's diner looking place that used to be called Ginza Sushi but went out of business and re-opened as Tokyo Boys. Only my second time eating there since it changed, I think it's pretty well reviewed. Prices are relatively low and the food quality is decent. The presentation is a little heavy handed...overall the food is just 'ok' but the star is the tuna. It's pretty clear they have a good tuna supplier and get in large pieces of very fresh and premium quality tuna that they know how to cut and serve. In fact, I would say if you eat here, do yourself a favor just order tuna dishes and you can't lose.
I headed out late to get in hours at Ballys. The table I started on was not the best but got shorthanded so I sort of got stuck there for a bit. Basically treaded water picking up some pots w/nothing and w/out the best hands. I don't recall actually making a hand for the first 2 hours at the shorthanded table and the deck also seemed to be unaware I was present. Table finally broke and I got to go to the juicey game...several $800+ stacks and just general spewey preflop and all around poor play. At this point I was only sitting on like $150-160 and contemplating adding back up to max but the table dynamics sort of made me want to feel able to get it in lightish (even like pp99/AJs would be a big hand showdown at this table). Things worked out perfectly when I pick up ppKK UTG with the most drunk and aggro player on the button. Obviously I limp and a few calls to him he makes it $12, SB proceeds to make it $25, BB calls the $25, and I make it $75. Surprisingly it's folded around to the BB, an older chick in baggy guy's clothing and a mega-luckbox from what I have seen. She flats the $75. Flop comes 6-6-10 rainbow, she checks, I ship the rest in (like $80) she flats...board runs out 5-9 and she sits there so I say "I guess I like that board" showing the KK. She says "no you don't I have it" and slowly rolls the pp 99 on me. g$%#TR$%$ lol...easy game. I had to bite off a comment about how she could go upgrade her wardrobe now and give her husband his cargo shorts back...the last thing I need is bad karma with 2 outers smacking me around. I should have re-bought and owned that game and regret a little not doing so but I was coming up on the maximum time I had planned on playing and was a little frustrated having waited so long to set up an ideal situation so left stuck 3 bills.
Goes to show though how important volume is...If I had just not played on Thursday like I was inclined to, I wouldn't have picked up the +$264, and so would be stuck all that much more. August in general has not been very kind to me thus-far. Really sucks because I do feel like I am playing very strong and dialed in and my motivation is still stronger than ever. I had my eyes on a few of the VDS events in September but they were largely dependent on cash games results for August so are looking unlikely...barring some large reversal and run good. I'll see what I can do of course.
Hit up Caesar's new room today and I do enjoy it. I can see things starting to crawl back to life for them after having previously sort of run the old room into the ground. I sat in a few hours and made +$120. I meant to take some pics of the new room set up for the thread but totally forgot so I'm just going to do a whole pic review of the room next time I get in over there. Got to Bally's afterward to put in some more hours. Frustration continues for me there losing $75 for the session despite some soft spots at table and playing as solid as possible.
I have recorded a few problem hands but haven't gotten around to posting them yet, I will link the threads in here when I do.
Seared Tuna Tataki Salad
Tuna Sashimi
Unagi Sashimi
Spicy Tuna Roll
Dragon Roll
Caterpillar Roll
...Also, at least Ballys wasn't a complete bust, snapped this pic for you guys...chick in red had that hot short girl build with a nice ass
...tall 6'4ish dude they were talking to was a ***** boss, he totally caught me sneaking the pic and laughed and winked at me.
Last edited by wheydacheese; 08-10-2014 at 06:53 AM.