Morning Tikay.
As seen as you have single handily closed down our Forum next door
, I will have to post my VEGAS trip report here.....
* WARNING * - contains a massive bad beat story.
As you know, I have been trying for years to get to Vegas with Sky poker, and scraped in via the last tournament satelitte. This would be my 1st ever trip to Sin City.
Flew from Manchester on Virgin with a stop over at Atlanta. Landing at about 9pm, I was slightly taken aback by the sight of all the lights from the city.
After checking in, I needed a drink and a nicotine fill up. Had a walk about the casino (Planet Hollwood) and decided to locate the poker room. 1st friendly face I saw sitting down playing cash was TommyD (he sends his regards to you and has promised to drop by here to say hello too). I declined the offer to sit down with him and super ollie to set fire to $100+ . I was only going to play Tornament poker on this visit. I had also predecided to only play roulette in any casino I went to.
The following morning I was surprisingly up very early and was feeling remarkably fresh. I decided to play the PH £100 10am tournament. Only 29 players and I cashed in 3rd for $335. I had arrived. Buzzing with that 1st cash, I tried my hand on the roulette tables. Another $250+ in winnings. Easy to make money here I mused to myself. Obv, the next 6 days found me out and I never made that much profit in a day again. I played 8 of these $100 tournaments over the week and I final tabled 7 of them. Sounds impressive.......but most had only 2 or 3 max tables to begin with. I cashed only once again out of all them......2nd for $400. So, only $65 down for the whole week on poker. I took that as a personal victory and put my $735 returns in a seperate wallet to bring back with me to help fund my annual Benidorm trip with the lads.
Went to the Sunday night welcome party. Apart from TommyD & Super Ollie, there was an array of Sky poker faces I knew. To name just a few......Ben nutter, DanTB, Timmy Ra Ra, Swog. Also got introduced to players like Granite and alvez. It was a really friendly night with a good vibes.
Had a walk down the Horseshoe for the FT of the Main Event. Bumped into Ian Simpson and had a really good chat with him. Nice bloke. I was a proper poker fan boy, and loved the atmosphere in there. Watched the final H/U hand live and all the razzamataz that followed.
Visited most of the other casinos while there and was impressed by The Bellagio and The Venetian the most.
TommyD took me down Freemont Street one night. Wow. We ended up in an Irish bar sampling the Guinness for several hours
Enjoyed that evening.
Overall, I really enjoyed my 1st trip to Vegas. However, I never realised how expensive everything is over there. Mind blowing prices for food...drink....tips (?) etc. I will need some more coin if ever I am lucky enough to be able to go again.
And now for that horendous bad beat story......
On arriving back at Manchester (Via Amsterdam), It appears I had parked in the wrong Car Park. Sigh. Just the £550 charge for that.....plus £103 charge for the intial Car Park.........and a £60 icing on the cake charge for stopping for 90 seconds looking for the right car park on arrival. All poker winnings gone and no Benidorm trip this year for me. GG.
Hope you didnt mind me posting this here Tikay. And hopefully I didnt waffle too much
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Cheers, Alan.
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