Vegas July 2014 - Main Event satellite |
Days 1 and 2 - Just hangin' around |
Last Updated: 2014-07-05 10:49:24 |
Four days in Vegas, four days at home and back to Vegas...
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After telling Joann I didn't need to run the GPS to remind me what was the best way to get out of town, I drove right by the first exit I needed to take and we took an alternate route. No matter, even with a little traffic it was still about the same drive time.
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Got to the room, and we almost didn't have one. Apparently when I changed the dates there was some confusion, I never got an updated confirmation and apparently Aria had us arriving the next day. But after a lengthy chat presumably with the person that had to approve it, the woman checking us in finally said "It's been fixed" and sent us on our way.
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We're a little nervous about what the bill is going to look like. Yeah it's a Thursday...but it's Thursday night on a holiday Friday and I'm guessing this place is packed.
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We take our stuff up to our room and then meet up with Nikki and Tom. Nikki is the person I work with most closely at Boeing and just happens to have eerily similar personality traits to Joann. I said from the first week that I got to Chandler that at some point I was going to refer to one of them by the others name...I still haven't, but I still have a little time...
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So we get some food, have a few drinks and chat for a while. They rode Tom's motorcycle in 110+ heat from Phoenix to Bryce and Zion Nat'l Parks and then down here. It was a little warm...
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They head up to their room, Joann decides to hit one of her favorite slots before we go up ourselves and, well, let's just say manages an over 550% profit on her investment. Joann's ROI in 20 minutes of slots destroys my ROI on 4 days of poker once again!
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Friday was more hanging around. We actually did a more stereotypical Vegas day for a change. Hit the pool, had lunch at a buffet, hooked up with Nikki and Tom, cruised a mall, did a little drinking...got dinner, did a little more drinking...watched the fireworks, did a little more drinking...gambled a little, did a little more drinking...
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Honestly I probably had more drinks in the last two days than I've had in the last two years combined here in Vegas. I need to make a point of taking a break from the poker stresses a little more when we come out on long trips.
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Having said that, the party is over at least for a day on Saturday. The plan is to play in a Mega-satellite to the main event at 8pm. Hate that late start time, but with 20% or so of the field winning seats it shouldn't go too late.
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If I win a seat I intend to play in Day 1B on Sunday.
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Wish me luck! |
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Nicholas "nick" Werle: | 2014-07-05 12:44:03 | chainsaw says the PH $550 is a better deal than the RIO megasate |
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