Viva Las Vegas! A lone rangers blog!

[BorntoBubble]

Hi all!

After much indecision I have decided to write this blog! Partly so I can brag about being in Vegas, partly for some company and partly somewhere I can look back on after my trip for memories!

So! Lets get started!

About me!

For those of you that don't know me I'm Callum Morgan. Born in north west England in a chav tastic Warrington! The only plus side was that I lived in "the nice bit", therefore I  grew up wearing a track suit for sport and not as my going out gear. I got into poker at about 15 playing with friends and eventually after I aught my dad how to play I used to watch him play. I got into gambling very soon after my 18th birthday I had opened up a bet fair account an used to sports bet and play poker on there! I was hooked from the get go! When I look back on those times  now and how much I knew I don't know how I was only a small loser on that site back in the day! Must have ran great! I got my first taste of live pokers when my dad took me to china town in Manchester, we played on a table with 8 Chinese and then me and my dad... We both ended up up! Unbelievable when I think back to it now! Again I must have ran good :p

I went to uni after a year out... A year out where I dossed about and drank and gambled away every penny I earnt! Had a great year though! When I went to uni my flat was about 5 min walk from g casino and inevitably I started to spend more and more time in there! After about 5 months I was a little bit up and very happy! Then one night in my uni bedroom I binked the big 22 on stars and thought all my Christmases had come at once! Since then I have played live and online very regularly but mainly live as I just spew about online!

I moved to Nottingham last year for work and have been going to Dtd about twice a week since then. After moving to Nottingham poker started to flat line and then started to slip under the flat line! I was spending a fortune and not earning enough and my poker bankroll was going down and I was starting to feel a bit meh! So before I spewed of all my cash I decided to buy my car outright of my parents so I had an asset and also so I had no cash to spew! This was about November time last year and was a great decision for me! After this I started playing better poker and money started coming in again! I had a great Christmas back home and 235 in manchester was like a gold mine to me... I ended up making enough to book this trip...

The trip!

I set off for Vegas on Friday the 15th feb from London gatwick and return on the 1st march! Back home to Manchester!

(I'm writing this while waiting around in airports and on the plane and will post when I get wifi!)

I will be staying in the grad view hotel which is off strip not great location but room is huge and nice and I have paid £90 for two weeks! Not bad!

Good luck me!

[BorntoBubble]

Day -1!

I started the trip by heading to London from Nottingham the night before my flight. After a send off beer and a jager bomb with my mates I found myself on leg 1 of the trip! I was in the 21:28 East Midlands train service to London. And by midnight I was trying to enter the hippo drome where I got refused because of my luggage apparently it would take up to much room in there cloakroom and I wa not allowed to put it in the corner of the poker room! So it was off to the empire I went!

Summary

I sat with 100 and after 3 hours I was up to £350. I ended with 50!

Interesting hand in this spell was a hand where I had quads and didn't put a guy all in on the river thanks to him hiding £100 in his hand meh! Tilted me pretty bad as he had the but flush an would of have called. My night ended with a hand v the drunk on the table who shipped blind. The hand goes raise to £16 I call button calls and he ships in the straddle for £300 original raiser folds KQ and I call with 1010 he flips q8hh and he finds a queen on the turn meh! Would have given me a nice £600 profit on the night instead I was making the trip to gatwick £50 down before we had left the country! At least it's cheaper than a hotel!!

[BorntoBubble]

Day 1

I arrive at Victoria station at about 6:30 I'm a little tired now and was really struggling to find my train! When I found it it was an 8 carriage train with nobody on it also it was a train that was going to split in half halfway through the journey unfortunately I don't know which half way going to split and go to gatwick an which half not to gatwick! With nobody on the train to ask I hedged my bets and sat in carriage 4/8 thinking that I'd I needed to be in the back half not the front half I only have to move one carriage! Luckily enough the front carriage was going to gatwick and by 7am I had arrived! I had never been to gatwick but had seen airport a few times and fancied my chances with this airport!! When walking to the check in desk I walked past the West Indian cricket team!!! Lads! I checked in picked up my $$ and ended up having breakfast at 8 I'm cafe rouge, this was the only place showing the cricket (nz v England 20/20) so this had to be the place I had my breakfast! I was boarding at 10:30 so had about 2 hours to kill after England had smashed New Zealand and I had smashed my bacon butty! I had a big problem now I had been up for 26 hours had had 8 hours of work 6 hours of poker an q hour of 5 a side football! I was pooped! I also had no battery on my phone! Big problem I cannot set my alarm so I wake up or my flight this means I cannot sleep! Bollocks!! I end up sitting on the floor next to a plug so I can plug my phone in, I don't know if this is allowed and I highly doubt it was but it got me the necessary battery I needed to set my alarm which meant I didn't have to worry bout falling asleep! I didn't end up falling asleep in the airport but as soon as I sat in my seat on the flight I was gone. Out for the count! I woke up 6 hours in and watch looper and ted before the end of the flight! Was quite successful flight it went rapid! When I arrived at the airport things slowed. I queued for immigration, I had to wait ages for my bag, I ha to queue for a whole for customs and then I had to wait 20 mins for a shuttle bus! Fantastic!! Nearly 2 hours from landing to being at my hotel! Great! I arrive at the grandview hotel and they are great speedy check in loads of freebies including wifi which was supposed to be $50 a week! I think I was going to swerve that but free is free!

After check in I arrived at my room which was huge! It's great we'll chuffed with it had a bath little nap an then off to the strip! It's 7:15 Vegas time now and I'm on the shuttle heading into town! Think I'm going to play at the Venetian tonight but going to have a wander around some of the sights first! Will report back once I'm sat at the tables!

Good luck me!

[celtic]

In first!!

Love Vegas, and stories about it. Good luck.

[BorntoBubble]

In first!!

Love Vegas, and stories about it. Good luck.

Thanks!

[BorntoBubble]

For the first week I will be all alone! My mum and dad are joining me for 4 day in the middle of the trip (this will hopefully be a nice break for sightseeing after I have smashed the pokers) then the final few days I will be back on the poker! I have ended up at the Venetian I walked from the aria(where my shuttle dropped me off) down to the Venetian popping into a few casinos along the way to take in the sights! It's just as amazing as I imagined it! They also must be filing a new hangover film as it seems I cannot get away from the cast of that movie!

Poker update

Sat with $100 on a 1/2 at the Venetian hit the nuts 2nd hand and got paid what a life! Since then not much has happened and I'm back to where I started after a few missed flops not that much action on the table but also not that great a standard don't know if I'm going to post exact figures this trip or not I'm always a bit cautious of that invade people read from outside the poker world!

[George2Loose]

Love these blogs about vegas too. What will you mainly be playing? Any target on profit you wanna make? Do you play house games?

[leethefish]

Have a great trip Callum
I've never been ...yet hopefully going next year for my 40th !!

[Leatherman]

Enjoy fella and be lucky

[craigbetts]

Good luck, ensure you pick your tournaments wisely as most are hyper turbos. As for cash, in my limited experience and not being a cash game player I found the tourists in planet Hollywood easy enough to make a few dollars. The biggest fish there was someone who posts on here!

Although there are a lot more qualified Vegas vets around here who will give better advice. Enjoy.

[redsimon]

In first!!

Love Vegas, and stories about it. Good luck.

If you play tournies, try the Aria daily and Venetian ones are OK, other Casino's tournies are as described.

Any pictures?

Tip for cash, if you're at Venetian and table is nittish/ no good ask the dealer for a table change. They will get the floor to put you top of the list, as long as your table is full or near to full.


MGM is good for cash. Ballys too especially late night early morning and the view is good

[millidonk]

Good luck, ensure you pick your tournaments wisely as most are hyper turbos. As for cash, in my limited experience and not being a cash game player I found the tourists in planet Hollywood easy enough to make a few dollars. The biggest fish there was someone who posts on here!

Although there are a lot more qualified Vegas vets around here who will give better advice. Enjoy.

Sighs. I just like to give action that's all, can't all be nits sitting their all day sipping diet coke.

MGM best for cash imo. Destroyed that place, thought they were going to have to borrow chips from another casino when I was last there.. Venetian for tournaments, DO NOT play tournaments in Mandalay, TD is a complete Nazi, price and structure is ridic, hate it.

Have a great time. Night helicopter over strip, helicopter to grand canyon, catch a show and avoid circus circus and stratosphere would be my advice.

$1 Straweberry Daquiris ftw.

[Tal]

Subscribed.

Aria had $100 comps at 1 and 7 when I was there last year. Always made good money for a one day comp and well worth playing.

Win big.

[redsimon]

Good luck, ensure you pick your tournaments wisely as most are hyper turbos. As for cash, in my limited experience and not being a cash game player I found the tourists in planet Hollywood easy enough to make a few dollars. The biggest fish there was someone who posts on here!

Although there are a lot more qualified Vegas vets around here who will give better advice. Enjoy.

I just knew this had to be Milli lol confirmed

[millidonk]

Good luck, ensure you pick your tournaments wisely as most are hyper turbos. As for cash, in my limited experience and not being a cash game player I found the tourists in planet Hollywood easy enough to make a few dollars. The biggest fish there was someone who posts on here!

Although there are a lot more qualified Vegas vets around here who will give better advice. Enjoy.

I just knew this had to be Milli lol confirmed

fml.