OK so Sunday we wake up early and order Uber over to Crown and Anchor on Tropicana to watch the Spurs place, en route I place my sports bets for the day:
(Those of you that know, may realize that I needed later on that day to get the broom out, that's a sweep ladies and gents)
We get to Crown and Anchor wearing Spurs tops and the chairman of LV Spurs comes over to introduce himself to us, nice guy with a British accent. We settle down, BK wants to drink and apparently they can't serve booze in the bar area at that time so we sit up top, there are maybe 15-20 people in the bar most of them there to watch Tottenham:
and I order the "Banger on the Bun" (essentially a British style sausage sandwich):
Comfortably the worst bar food of all time. Stale, almost chalky bread, what tasted like frozen chips which had freezerburn, slightly slimy onions and a below par sausage.
That said, I *adored* that place. Friendly server/bartender, great people, an actual atmosphere for Tottenham in Las Vegas (with half an eye on Houston/Illinois as I had money on that), all round pleasant. Next time I'm in Vegas I'm there in a heartbeat.
Tottenham win pretty comfortably in the end 3-1 (though took a Son goal near the end to settle the nerves with a 2 goal cushion), good atmosphere and people are happy, I buy a scarf (I always do when I go to other supporters groups):
Tottenham win, Houston cover easily, I'm now essentially freerolling my other 2 bets (Duke -6.5 (picked purely because I hate MSU more than just about anything in my life for deeply silly and personal reasons), and Purdue -3.5 (because my local bar in Chicago is a big Purdue bar and I've come to love them).
We say our goodbyes and Uber back to Park MGM to get changed to go to STK, BK has a 60 minute snooze, I walk downstairs and realize I have $50 free play on my MLife card from the reservation, stick it in a $2 one armed bandit (you can't use it on a progressive machine) and stick $2 in the machine to start it, run through that and the $50 freeplay and cash out:
I'll take that any day and twice on Sunday.
I wander over to the Cosmo and find a seat facing the sportsbook to watch some of the Villanova game, for some reason the biggest screen has the damn NIT on it, wonder if some whale had $500k on that and demanded it, seems weird:
BK shows up and we go to STK and immediately just send it in. As discussed above I'm a huge fan of a gin martini, dry, twist, so I order a Botanist one. Had I known it was $30 I might have asked if it came with a reacharound, but it was good nonetheless (not as good as the one the prior night at ResortsWorld).
This is what $58 (+tax and tip) worth of oysters, a $92 (+tax and tip) steak, and a $12 (+tax and tip) knob of truffle butter look like:
Oh and let's not forget the $41 lobster mac and cheese:
All in all the meal was very good. Oysters were superb. Steak was a little overdone for my liking (server said chef recommends medium rare to medium so I went medium rare despite ALWAYS going rare), it was closer to medium especially around the edges imo, but was still highly solid.
Sides were good. Drink was great. It came to $250pp including tip. It wasn't that good. Now immediately annoyed at Carversteak again for cancelling on me. The Las Vegas Dollar to USD exchange rate is about 1.8:1, we all know this.
I proceed to go to Planet Hollywood to find some cheaper craps but fail, end up punting $150 at a $10 table when I buy in for $300 only to get down to my last $50, go $20 on pair plus and $15 on ante and play blind and hit a flush, immediately cash out and wander over to Aria to meet up with the LADS and get packed and leave.
Put $100 in a video poker machine and there is this weird multi-hand version I'd not played before, this almost immediately happens:
As previously discussed, I'm kind of a nit at all things -EV so just cash out a couple of hands later for $184 from $100.
At this point it was that I see Duke are down 5 with less than 7 minutes left and give up on my -6.5. Ahhhhhhhhhh there's nothing like an easy cover.
We get back to room, grab a quick dinner at Eataly (which I love, but I have a principle usually of when on vacation never going anywhere that I can get either in the city I live in, or in NYC or London (where I visit multiple times a year/have lived for extended periods)), settle at the circular bar in Park MGM and watch my (very expensive Calcultta auction purchased) Auburn team go down in flames to a rampant Miami.
My +EV Miami players in my lower stakes player draft taking care of my more expensive -EV Auburn team feels like a metaphor for me kind of crushing at poker and getting completely dumpster fired at table games. Such is Vegas.
Jump in a cab to the airport, and wish Vegas adieu until probably WSOP 2023. I've got to go back and use the $300 off at Carversteak, that seems like as good a time as any.