OK back from dinner/movie, everything has sort of ran together over the last 1-2 weeks as I've adjusted to new schedule. I put in a solid 8 day grind with good results and had a nice night off tonight. I had one temporary setback on Saturday where I should have lost only around -$200 but failed to adjust to changing conditions and ended up down -$395. Not exactly sure where I left off so I'm just going to unload all the pics on here w/brief captions and let that do the talking for now since I feel like getting some extra sleep tonight. Call me Twisty's because I got a lot of nice chip/food pron for yas.
I think we left off on Friday night...at the point in picture was sitting on $800 ish but gave a chunk of that back before cashing out in for $300, out for $567
Saturday started off solid, in the pic just stacked Paul Magriel (aka 'quackquack') which if you've played with him around town you'll know he's a tight nit of a spot that's tough to squeeze value out of so that's a nice feat in itself. Unfortunately I ran poorly and proceeded to play subpar while failing to adjust to changing table conditions and all these nice chips in pic went byebye...in for $700 out for $405 (-$395)
What do we do when we fall down? lol...pick that #$^$ up, changed venues over to the Excalibur for a big rebound Sunday, in for $300, out for $775
Back to Ballys Monday to keep the ball rolling...this was actually only a 3 hour session so I considered pushing it for the 600bb part of the Aug photo challenge...unfortunately the game broke as you can see in pic. In for $300 out for $947
guy in Mon game was a college bball coach who had coached some Canadian team championship and was sporting the bling ring lol
the gf started sexting pics to try and get me to bail early on Mon night (NO most definitely not forum friendly lol) ...naturally I declined, just sent back this gem from the bathroom stall
Its been an 8 day grind so I took Tuesday off, did the little tasting menu at Nobu and was pleased with the food (with one exception you'll see)
Nobu, the empty table in pic was a brief anomaly between parties, the place stayed slammed the whole time we were there. I was pleased with the efficiency of the service given the fast pace of things.
Edamame w/seasalt...good clean start
The Yellowtail Sashimi, delicious albeit a little light on the portioning
California roll w/tuna,salmon (I don't even usually like raw salmon but this was great) and whitefish (sorry forgot the type) Nigiri
Everything great to this point when they bring out the $%#% #%^#$ garbage...some rockshrimp salad...horribly constructed dish, the sauce tastes like it was made from Cheetos powder or some such @#%$. It's only worse on the salad than on the shrimp. I was so disappointed with how everything had been so good then this somehow had made the cut for the tasting menu. Can you tell I didn't care for it? haha This could have been nice as just like a ginger soy shrimp salad with some mandarin oranges or something, maybe some pickled ginger/radish
Was still steaming from the last dish and worrying I would not be satisfyingly full by the end of this when one of the best parts showed up. It's a perfectly cooked slab of Black Cod with a sweet demiglaze on it...very heavy and just so decadent (in a good way) The skin is also delicious and tastes almost like Unagi with the glaze bringing out the fats.
They kept the nice rebound going with the dessert; a nice concentrated green tea Ice cream, a very good chocolate lava sort of cake w/berries, and my favorite (in the mug) a sort of Cappuccino cake with a frothed ice cream on top.
After that just shot back to Town Square to catch Dawn of the Planet of the Apes...really not a bad movie.
Saw this Raptor and wanted a pic, guess I'm a sucker as a previous F150 owner...may have been totally rolled and destroyed while I was driving it but I didn't have a scratch on me afterwards so that's worth considering
Last edited by wheydacheese; 08-20-2014 at 06:39 AM.