A couple of things happened today that reminded me of some funny Vegas memories. I really can't remember what order things happened in, so I'll post a few funny stories as a series of anecdotes rather than in any order!
This first story was 2011, I was there for an extended trip and Flushy and Middy had joined me, this particular tale occurred on Thanksgiving where we decided to head out and hit the strip just gambling and drinking messing about.
We've found ourselves at the Imperial Palace (now The Quad, one of the budget strip hotels) playing some $1/$2 NLHE, as you can imagine we were fucking about, playing pretty spewy, getting increasingly more drunk and rowdy (courtesy of some 4ft Daquiris!) the table is finding us pretty entertaining in general as when we're in pots with each other we're going for each other properly, every kind of angle shoot, slow-roll, needle possible, but the rest of the table seems really nice so we're only pulling this stuff on each other.
Then this young kid sits down in the middle of the three of us and is finding everything hilarious joining in the high fives when something funny happens. I can't remember the exact hand but we were also playing props where you each had a card and you get $50 for it coming on the flop and $100 if it goes in the middle, I don't recall the details but basically middy outdrew flushy with one of my cards in the middle and edge, so we both spanked flushy and we're going nuts, running round high fiving everyone, got the whole table chanting "pay, pay, pay, pay" as Flushy having to pay our more the the stack he lost. The kid who just sat down is finding it all particularly incredible.
Then this hand occurs. This kid finds himself in a pot with this lovely old lady, who must be 70+, has been joining in all the fun but been very tight, spun $100 into ~$400 courtesy of some somewhat dubious play on our part.
Then this hand occurs....
The board is something like KQ853 (not that order) and the women has shoved the river so pot will be $800 odd if called, the kid got a double up early and was playing very snug himself, look absolutely pained "ahh no you have KQ don't you, I know you have KQ but I can't fold" it even reaches the point where the women has all but told him she has KQ. After 1minute + of this he calls and she turns KQ over, even offering an apology as she looks to collect the pot. Kids looks devastated, shakes his head, says nice hand, looks to move his cards forward then stands up, slams 33 for bottom set down and cheers, shouts "Pay!" and looks to us for high-fives...
Table was in absolute, women was devastated and left. I think someone got the wrong end of the game!
After this we went to Ceasers Palace and played the wheel of fortune game, Middy put $50 on the 40-1 segment and it landed, now he wants to up his bet on the same bet but the croupier informs him $50 is the max, however there is a different 40-1 bet you can make as well, so Middy throws $50 on that and it rolls straight in as well!!
"where you wanna go lads I'm treating you" says Middy, I won't say what happened but a picture tells a 1000 words and all that.
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