40 year old Vegas Virgin .... A diary

[bonusnetbets]

Have a great time!
ps. the Planet Hollywood buffet was excellent last time I was there

[Junior Senior]

Jealous! Good luck mate!

[leethefish]

Just a quick update ......
Really overwhelmed with the sheer size of it all !

Had a little look around but was really tired so we had a burger at Gordon Ramsey burger ......just awesome !
Few beers & a little cash game .... Mrs fish booked her first win with $17 profit  Couldn't hit anything and left for an early night !

Up really early today had a bath at 5am lol

Gonna head to  town square this morning I wanna buy a watch  ...a birthday present to myself and then book for Grand Canyon ....

This place is like no other place I've ever been !

[KarmaDope]

One cheap tip that is worth it - especially if you are gonna go to Town Square. Get an $8 Deuce Bus Pass to Town Square. Get the watch, get the bus back. Then use the same bus pass to spend the day Downtown. When it goes dark, get the bus from the start of the route, go upstairs and get the front seats. Stay on the bus all the way to Mandalay Bay. Lovely way to see the lights on the Strip without spending a fortune on helicopter rides etc.

[leethefish]

One cheap tip that is worth it - especially if you are gonna go to Town Square. Get an $8 Deuce Bus Pass to Town Square. Get the watch, get the bus back. Then use the same bus pass to spend the day Downtown. When it goes dark, get the bus from the start of the route, go upstairs and get the front seats. Stay on the bus all the way to Mandalay Bay. Lovely way to see the lights on the Strip without spending a fortune on helicopter rides etc.

Thanks mate sounds good

[tonytats]

You played cash n never won ? But lee the games are soft n full of pigeons n donks so everybody says  . Have you gone to the wrong places ??

If you go downtown try a burger at the sit up counter in binions mate they are good only 10$ too

[leethefish]

No Tony lol can't win a bean ....yet !!

Day 2 ....can't sleep for more than 4 hours lol! must be jet lag
What an amazing day
Had a look around the belagio and decided to go shopping !
So we took advice from everyone and got on the douce bus paid for 3 days @ $20
For someone who hate shopping and I mean HATE !!
I had a ball ....we went to the town centre and the south outlets ....talk about shop till you drop Mrs Fish!!

Tried to sleep in afternoon ... No chance so played cash at ph booked a small  $100 winning session .

Eat at outback for the most amazing Rack of Ribs !

We decided to play cash in the evening at MGM and  both sat on $1-2 very first hand if get aces and win a nice size pot
Second hand qq ....think this might be a good session until on  a 10-8-2 flop we get it in for a flopped set of !

turned out to be a nightmare as later in the session I was in big blind with the mighty q-3 off and it's raised with 7 calls to 5 so I make it up

Flop 3-8-3
I Chk and original raiser makes it $18 to which all call ....including mrs fish !
and I shove for the last of my stack about $50 and all call apart from the better poker playing part of the family mrs fish who shoves for $150! They all fold and it's mr & mrs
There was a little bit of ...she's just protecting him blah blah
Turn 8
River blank
I flip my hand and she semi slow rolls me with quads !!

The bonus being she then gets to pick a ticket out of the box for a gte prize of between $50-$1000 for quads
She picks $50 and booked a $350 winning session ..... Which covered me 😳 well I did take her shopping !


Still can't sleep and up at 4am playing $1-2 in ph am going on canyon trip about 9 so really looking forward to that.

Any tips on getting used to this time and sleeping shit !?!?!

[flushthemout]

Sounds like ur having a ball Lee, glad to see Allison remains best poker player never been to Vegas, San Francisco and Lake Tahoe for me, sleeping tips...... Don't go to Oz.

[KarmaDope]

You'll eventually start waking up later but for the first couple of days it is pretty standard to sleep <5hrs.

I just made sure I was getting to bed ~midnight and eventually I started waking up at 7/8am.

[Tal]

Waking up early is your body's way of reminding you you're in Vegas and sleeping is wasting hours of valuable Doing Stuff in Vegas time.

Listen to your body, Mr Fish.


Alternatively, have a massive breakfast, spend a few dollars on a baseball game and snooze in a comfy chair in a sportsbook, while several hours elapse. It's an old man solution to the problem, but it definitely works for me.

[RED-DOG]

It doesn't matter when you sleep. Time has no meaning in Vegas.

[MLHMLH]

I always take sleeping tablets with me (prescribed from my GP) and when I wake up at 4am I pop one of those and hey presto the next thing I know it's 9am!

[Graham C]

Glad you're having fun, enjoy the rest of the trip

[Marky147]

Glad you're both having fun, and nicking a few quid at the tables!

I very rarely sleep for more than 4/5 hours at a time in Vegas. Come to think of it, that's not much different to home. What I sometimes do, is grab a quick power nap when up in the room getting changed for dinner, and that normally sees me right.

[Junior Senior]

get out to the grand canyon on a chopper.. its awesome! and make sure you put some cream on that precious little head of yours!