pokerJAH/pkrfce9 Vegas Trip Report June 8 -12th

JimmyHo

pokerJAH;354574 wrote....wait...it gets better :)

OK, to continue the story...actually might have confused some of the sessions, but they did all happen, although order may be messed up. Anyways, we head to The Range and sign up for the mixed package which includes the firing of three different machine guns and the "Dirty Harry' package. The DH package includes the 357 magnum used by DH in most of his movies. It was a great experience and highly recommended if you like chicks with guns! They also pick you up and drop you off at the hotel.

After the guns session, we decide to check out Caesars as apparently they have an uncapped 2/5 game. When we get to Caesars it is really dead compared to what we have been use to so we decide to just head back to the Bellagio as it has been kind to us and the crowd is always mixed and lots of table selection.

On the way to the Bellagio we stop at the Lord Brahma temple. I tell Greg to light an incense candle as it will bring him good luck. He just scofts at me and so I light my candle, and he sees the true power of believing about 15 minutes later. We arrive at the Bellagio and I get seated at a 2/5 table and buy in for the max of $500. Greg is still waiting for a 1/2 seat so he is standing behind me watching my session. The very first hand I get dealt KK. Everyone is folding around the table and I am thinking to myself, oh great, we will chop :( I turn to the guy beside me and firmly tell him I don't chop. It gets around to him and he makes it $35. I announce I am all-in and he snap calls. Greg is like, what the fuck?? I am all in the very first hand??? Its a dry board and I flip over my KK and he shows QQ. I double up the very first hand and tell the dealer, "seat open!". Everyone at the table is like, your leaving?? I say, yup...I am freerolling 1/2 :) The guy beside me is stunned... we head over to PH and have a nice dinner at PF Changs courtesy of my new Asian friend :) ...to be continued...

JimmyHo

as mentioned before, The Range was a blast and we were able to fire a total of four weapons in total, AK-47, MP5, M249 (chain fed machine gun) and the '357' Dirty Harry Magnum. The M249 was actually the easiest to fire, which was very surprising given it was the largest and a chain fed machine gun.

After dinner, we headed back to the Venetian. Greg and I ended up finally playing together at a 1/2 table, and was probably one of the funnest sessions of my short poker career. Johnny 'Fuckin' Chan was sitting at the table behind us, and he must have thought we were all on crack. Most of the players managed to get pictures with Mr. Chan, and he was very cool about the hole thing (especially given he was playing $1k/$2k mixed game).

We definitely had the loudest and most exciting table of the night. All the dealers were having a blast at our table and I decided to tip the dealer $1 every time I swore. I was even able to get some of the really quite Asian lady dealers to tell a dirty joke for $2. These dealers are real chip whores! Of course they would get a dirty $1 chips for the dirty jokes. Don't think either of us made any money at that session but it definitely was one of the highlights of the trip. Probably spent a hundred bucks on dealer tips at that session.

On our final day, we ended up back at the Bellagio and I did play a 5/10 session with Huck Seed (and his very hot girlfriend). Ended the session up a couple hundred when some guy pushed me all-in with QQ and I doubled up. Was down at that point when some cowboy called my $360 raise to hit a gut shot on the river. Definitely much bigger swings at 5/10 than 2/5. One reason I liked the Bellagio 5/10 game was it was capped at $1.5k so it doesn't play like some of the uncapped games.

Overall it was a great trip and would highly recommend the Bellagio and Venetian poker rooms to anybody heading down to Vegas in the near future. I think the action is just as good as the Rio on any given night.

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