Cliff Notes: Casino very profitable as usual. Playground nice club with hot girls. Too many tight tables, seems decently well run.
So 3 of us went to Casino around 1.30pm Fri. Played some 2/5 since first table that opened up. We played till around 5pm, game was great as usual, as we made respectively 1315, 1125, and 700 between us in this short amount of time. Then eat some dinner in Chinatown and drove to Playground. Got there around 7pm and placed was packed.
We waited in line for about 20m to get our card as we were pre-registered. Nice set-up but way too many tables for the space. Almost any table you sat in someone would have to squeeze in between you and next table. You know how annoying that is for 8 hours every minute?? Well, ok, got better by 3am when place was clearing a bit.
Started with around 220, got to 235 with alternates. Kinda messy in between, no mic, dealers didn't know what to do with rebuys etc. Play terrible as expected. I decided not going to do any rebuys since only 10k tourney anyway, not worth it. My two buddies got knocked out within 2 hours and played the 5/5 game. $14 rack versus Casino of $11, but at last night got free drinks and food. I think they said there will be smaller food menu for free stuff going forward. Game played deep with $200-2k max buy in and was very aggressive (I didn't play but two friends did)
As for tourney I decided all or nothing. Was pretty much chip leader through whole thing. Made it down to a couple tables, and lost a massive three way pot with 99 vs AK vs my QQ. Finished 13th and left around 4.15am.
Food was excellent, friend got shrimp cocktail, desert, etc and all was great. Girls were very hot as expected in very small outfits. Figure thats a good ending.