The ITB Four on Tour

[Dingdell]

Can I just say I am loving this. Keep it coming.

[Girgy85]

Can I just say I am loving this. Keep it coming.

+ 1 and more pics!!

[DesD]

Loving the updates, keep them coming rookie.

Must be a thread of the year contender already?

[Graham C]

+2, of everything, good stuff

[tikay]

Keep it coming Rooks - it's, ahem,  the schmizz.

No, really - it's great stuff. Can't wait for the poker action to start! Just tell me - please - that you got a rubdown fom some damn yank, at the Table, & returned it in kind.

Great read.

[tikay]

Loving the updates, keep them coming rookie.

Must be a thread of the year contender already?

Not exactly of theYear - yet - but it must be near the top of the Wednesday afternoon in November Rankings.

[Graham C]

lol are you sure?  There's been some good Wednesday threads this month

[Chili]

Great read Benny boy - please tell me you are there for 2 weeks?

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Great read Benny boy - please tell me you are there for 2 weeks?

Off out to a Beatles concert thing now, not sure i'll like it but the other 3 wanted to do it. I am a day behind at the mo, we are on the lash tonight (been at it all afternoon too). I will get up to date in the morning I hope, it's  been quite a rollercoaster already.

We are here for 12 nights in total.

[celtic]

Great read Benny boy - please tell me you are there for 2 weeks?

Off out to a Beatles concert thing now, not sure i'll like it but the other 3 wanted to do it. I am a day behind at the mo, we are on the lash tonight (been at it all afternoon too). I will get up to date in the morning I hope, it's  been quite a rollercoaster already.

We are here for 12 nights in total.

brilliant read rooks.... hope u keep it going. making me want to go back already!!!

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Right then, where were we...

[celtic]

Right then, where were we...

vegas?

[cia260895]

Great read Benny boy - please tell me you are there for 2 weeks?

Off out to a Beatles concert thing now, not sure i'll like it but the other 3 wanted to do it. I am a day behind at the mo, we are on the lash tonight (been at it all afternoon too). I will get up to date in the morning I hope, it's  been quite a rollercoaster already.

We are here for 12 nights in total.

N1 lads have a great time but how can you not....

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Sorry this isn't up to date, it's harder than you think!

So, we got to the hotel on Monday night, and showered up and got changed for an evening wander. We walked from Riviera down to Ceaser's which took around half hour and I bought into the big tourney the next day. I turn 21 on the 15th, I arrive in Vegas on the 17th and I play my first tourney in Vegas, a $1060 Freezeout on the 18th. Brilliant.

Once I had bought in we all decided to call it a night and headed back to the Riviera, we jumped in a cab which worked out at $10 which isn't too bad. Wandered through the casino and me and Shieldsy got distracted by some 3 card poker so jumped on with $50 each and soon doubled it before coming off. We used this as an ideal excuse to order some room service when we got back to the room. I had a meat lovers extreme (4 eggs, bacon, sausage and ham) omellete, and also had a meat feast pizza. Shieldsy just ordered a Southern Fried Chicken Dinner. I ate my omellete and a couple of slices of pizza. Left it overnight and the pizza was good for Shieldsy's breakfast.

[Rookie (Rodney)]

Tuesday morning get up around 11am and all 4 of us wander down to Ceasers where my comp starts at midday. That's about as good as it get's on the tournament front of things as after a couple of hours in I find my flopped set being turned over by a guy who played his flush draw so well, ([  ] ******88), and that was all she wrote. I left the tournament area of Ceasers and saw Rosy having a game of poker on the 1/3 table. He was about $50 up when we decided to go across to O'Sheas and meet up with Shieldsy and Noly.

On route me and Rosy got a brief lesson on the craps tables and decided to have a game in O'Sheas and won ourselves about $50 each which was quite fun. Craps is a very strange game and I don't understand it all. But the way the Yanks take just rolling a dice so seriously is worth the comedy value alone.

O'Sheas cardroom is about 3 tables big at the back and 2/3 cash tables at the front. There was a $45 comp starting which we all decided to play just for giggles, and we ended up donating 1/4 of the prize pool! Top 2 paid and I was out early doors, Rosy soon followed. Shieldsy and Noly made final (only 17 players), but when Shieldsy's 44 was no good for A3 he was gone. Despite Noly hitting the river against 4 different players for his tournament life he went on to bubble and was not happy. By this time I was cheering for the other guys to beat him as I had not eaten all day and it was now about 5pm.

The fun now begins. I know where the Outback is and we walk down the road to go to it, and on route through a casino (we can't remember which one), there is another steakhouse which looks quite nice. So we pop in the lift and up we go. All of a sudden we all feel pretty underdressed - two of us wearing baseball caps and hoody's in an environment of suits and ties would do that. We got our seats and immediately saw the mistake we had made. The prices were ridiculous, but we decided to stick it out and order food.

I ordered a 10oz Filet Mignon which came with no chips, sauce, nothing, just a lump of steak on a plate - $40. Noly, Shieldsy and Rosy all had another steak, a 16oz one with a bit of sauce - $44. Drinks were a couple of diet cokes, some Corona, and a couple of glasses of Red. Now was the time for the flip....

We had decided we would flip by rooms, so me and Shieldsy vs Noly and Rosy. Now this is the clever part, me and Shieldsy had this master plan. We flipped a coin between us and he called, he called wrong. He flipped a coin and I called, I called right. So, odds now say that Shieldy will get his next one right and I will get mine wrong no? Well thats how it worked anyway, Rosy flipped the crucial coin and Shieldsy called tails. There were a couple of fistpumps and high fives when we realised we had avoided the $250 bill.