I saw a girl at the bar by her self that kept smiling at me. Hooker, black jack hustler or thief obviously. I called her over and within a minute I concluded she was a black jack hustler and asked her how long she had been doing it. She tried to play it off of course but eventually opened up after I told her I will tip if her best b jack hustling story was good. I gave her 5 for the first story, then 25 for the second. Ray Allen, Anthony Anderson and several athletes, looked like basketball players were at the table next to us. Ray was cool, cut up with us a while. I hung out a lot with Kevin Dillon when he was in there previous years, I remembered this scene from Entourage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nfFMj2nrqk
I asked Anthony for a pic to send to Kevin and I told him the caption would be "shut the **** up Drama"
I had bought in at b jack a couple times and got down to my last $1500 from the 10k v poker hit. Put all of the 1500 on a hand, passed it over to Brian to cut the cards and went on a crazy run
I think I had about even 5 or 6k more I had slipped in my pocket, hoping to forget about them. Got really drunk, went over to the basketball players table after most had left. One dude was playing and a dealer was there I liked so I sat down and played some while I left most of my chips at the other table. I dont kn ow who the athlete was but he was huge, had to be an NBA player. He spotted a girl over at my table leaning over on it, with her hands covering my chips. I went over there and took care of business. If I had been slightly drunker she woulda caught it. They got one of those cubes for me
A lot more happened that I just cant recall well, but at some point I lost a hand, doubled up every time chasing and eventually lost it all, including my pride and dignity. I had lost it at the other table Brian was not at, I kept grabbing chips from my main spot saying im gonna do a quick hit and run at the other table. I put 5,800 on my last hand, got dealt 8,8 vs a dealer showing 5. I didnt have the money to split it, the NBA player said he would like to do it. He put up 5,800, got dealt a 10 on both for 18. I think the dealer hit for 19. I told the dude I was sorry for getting him into it, he said no problem, it was his decision. It must have been 5:30 am and that just kicked the life out of me. I was immediately drained. Passed out in the room a few hours then had to check out of Aria by noon. Overall I didnt lose but around 1800 for the night but geez. Went on that crazy swing and then out of habit hoarded a bunch shower gel and crap. I piled it up and just shook my head at myself.... but I still took it. Degen life