Great concerts, lousy poker, mostly pics
09-22-2018
, 12:33 AM
I’m flying from SJC to LAS, staying at Vdara, but unfortunately run into a few problems getting there.
The long-term parking lot at the airport is full, meaning I send more money parking at the garage.
When I take Lyft from McCarron to Vdara; I look at the Lyft app and I’m supposed be riding in a white Toyota Camry. The app shows the car driving into the airport parking garage. I see a white Camry and I get into the car thinking it’s my ride. The driver doesn’t speak English very well, but it sounded like he said: Are you “my name”. So I say yes and we drive to the strip.
A few minutes later he asks if I canceled the ride and then I get a call from the driver who was supposed to pick me up. Long story short, there must have been two white Toyota Camrys, both at the airport parking garage at the same time and I got into the wrong car.
Anyways, I feel bad about getting into the wrong car so pay the driver cash: $25.
I used hotwire.com to book my room. $200 / night and no resort fees.
But there is an (optional) $44 cleaning fee; If you want your room cleaned you need to pay $44 for each day you get your room cleaned. I was there for 7 nights, got the room cleaned twice.
I head over to T-mobile arena for the Journey/Def Leppard concert. I’m sitting way up in the upper deck, so no pictures.
Two sports bets:
Sunday:
Brunch at Bardot
Fruit and Yogurt with Beignets
Bacon and Eggs
Poker at Aria in the afternoon: $ -194
Poker at Planet Hollywood later that night: $ -179
No really interesting hands, just me calling way too often pre-flop.
Coming up: Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Queen (with Adam Lambert) and more poker.
The long-term parking lot at the airport is full, meaning I send more money parking at the garage.
When I take Lyft from McCarron to Vdara; I look at the Lyft app and I’m supposed be riding in a white Toyota Camry. The app shows the car driving into the airport parking garage. I see a white Camry and I get into the car thinking it’s my ride. The driver doesn’t speak English very well, but it sounded like he said: Are you “my name”. So I say yes and we drive to the strip.
A few minutes later he asks if I canceled the ride and then I get a call from the driver who was supposed to pick me up. Long story short, there must have been two white Toyota Camrys, both at the airport parking garage at the same time and I got into the wrong car.
Anyways, I feel bad about getting into the wrong car so pay the driver cash: $25.
I used hotwire.com to book my room. $200 / night and no resort fees.
But there is an (optional) $44 cleaning fee; If you want your room cleaned you need to pay $44 for each day you get your room cleaned. I was there for 7 nights, got the room cleaned twice.
I head over to T-mobile arena for the Journey/Def Leppard concert. I’m sitting way up in the upper deck, so no pictures.
Two sports bets:
Sunday:
Brunch at Bardot
Fruit and Yogurt with Beignets
Bacon and Eggs
Poker at Aria in the afternoon: $ -194
Poker at Planet Hollywood later that night: $ -179
No really interesting hands, just me calling way too often pre-flop.
Coming up: Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Queen (with Adam Lambert) and more poker.
09-22-2018
, 03:29 PM
09-23-2018
, 04:38 AM
09-25-2018
, 02:03 AM
Room service breakfast (Vdara)
Poker at Aria : +$91 #winning!
Finally, a winning poker session
One interesting hand (I posted this at LLSNL)
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...raise-1723527/
V1 ($250) : 30 yo WG, tourist. I stacked him earlier with runner-runner full house. He shoved with nut flush, I don’t think he noticed that the board had paired. Mostly playing tight.
V2 ($250) : 30 yo Middle Eastern (?) man. Playing lots of hands, but not making any big raises until now.
Hero ($300) : Nerdy tourist
Hero (UTG) raises to $15 with AKo
V1 (UTG+1) calls
V2 (Button) calls
Flop ($45) : Ks8d5s (I don’t have any spades)
Hero bets $25
V1 calls
V2 raises to $100
Hero?
Dinner at Mesa Grill (Caesers Palace):
Mariah Carey concert pics:
Mariah sounded great but I wonder if there was some lip syncing
Check out this video from a few months ago (skip to 2:10):
Poker at Aria : +$91 #winning!
Finally, a winning poker session
One interesting hand (I posted this at LLSNL)
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1...raise-1723527/
V1 ($250) : 30 yo WG, tourist. I stacked him earlier with runner-runner full house. He shoved with nut flush, I don’t think he noticed that the board had paired. Mostly playing tight.
V2 ($250) : 30 yo Middle Eastern (?) man. Playing lots of hands, but not making any big raises until now.
Hero ($300) : Nerdy tourist
Hero (UTG) raises to $15 with AKo
V1 (UTG+1) calls
V2 (Button) calls
Flop ($45) : Ks8d5s (I don’t have any spades)
Hero bets $25
V1 calls
V2 raises to $100
Hero?
Spoiler:
Dinner at Mesa Grill (Caesers Palace):
Mariah Carey concert pics:
Mariah sounded great but I wonder if there was some lip syncing
Check out this video from a few months ago (skip to 2:10):
09-27-2018
, 02:08 AM
More winning poker:
Tuesday night (Aria) : +$103
Wednesday afternoon (Aria) : +$42
Headed over to Planet Hollywood Wednesday night for the Jennifer Lopez concert.
Was going to have dinner at Gordon Ramsey Burger, but there was about 20 people waiting in line just to get in. Instead I walked over to Paris and had dinner at Burger Brasserie
Burger + Fries + tax = $28 !
Restaurants on the strip keep getting more and more expensive.
Jennifer Lopez pics:
Tuesday night (Aria) : +$103
Wednesday afternoon (Aria) : +$42
Headed over to Planet Hollywood Wednesday night for the Jennifer Lopez concert.
Was going to have dinner at Gordon Ramsey Burger, but there was about 20 people waiting in line just to get in. Instead I walked over to Paris and had dinner at Burger Brasserie
Burger + Fries + tax = $28 !
Restaurants on the strip keep getting more and more expensive.
Jennifer Lopez pics:
