12/11: Cool Stories Bro, No.

First off I will come back in a day or so and do the full update. But anyways, this douche, name Jay wouldn't shut the fuck up about lots of things during my session yesterday. Apparently, according to him I am no good at poker and play badly.

And ftr, I just let him go on and on about stupid shit.

Spoilers: I ran well, value bet lots and made some money. I will add in some interesting hands for your reading pleasure.

-Out till tomorrow.

----And we're baaaaaack

So, to the action. I got to Capitol after a fantastic run at Chipotle always delivers. Sidenote: if you have to ask for a menu at Chipotle, you are doing it wrong. The 2 people in front of me both asked to see a menu, WTF, seriously. The answer is burrito. Always, even if you think its not, the answer is burrito. No tacos, or quesadillas, burrito.

Ok, so I walk in to Cap and to my dismay I see that there is no 6/12 running and only a list. So I add myself, and wait to be called for the new table of 4/8 that would open shortly. I sit in the 4 seat and am joined by a bunch of regs, mostly LPPs, and 2 kinda LAG spew types both black dudes one looking like Hancock with the beanie and sunglasses (definitely a necessity at 4/8, I don't see how you could win w/o them tbh). We got involved in a few hands which came out about even for me.



The other LPPs at the table were a smattering of pretty straight forward middle aged guys, and one older lady who was primed to hit and run which she pulled off nicely after hitting a 3 outer in a huge pot (7ways capped pre, and capped 4 ways on the flop).

So, as I said I am in the 4 seat and Hancock is in the 8. The first hand we got involved in was a pretty big pot in the end. I raised ATos after he limps UTG, and seats 1 and 3 limp behind both blinds and everyone else calls. Flop comes AT6 rainbow. Checks to me in position, I bet, bb calls, Hancock check raises seat 1 calls 2 cold, and the other limper folds. I 3-ball, bb folds, Hancock caps it and the other guy calls. I am pretty sure I have the best hand although, I am kinda more worried about the other guy in the hand. What the fuck could he have? I later learned that this guy, an older Greek guy wasn't really all there and wasn't necessarily of a sane mind. So the turn is a 5 putting a heart flush draw out, and Hancock checks, if I am behind I am gonna find out now, the old man does as well, and I fire. Hancock just calls and the old man folds, hmm?

At this point, I am sure I have the best hand. River is an offsuit T making me tens full. Check, bet, call. I show, he mucks A6os. Nice pot there.

We went on to get involved in some other hands with similar action. In one, I have Aces in the SB and raise a family preflop, put in 3 bets against him and 2 others, on a board of 754 rainbow. Turn was a 7, I lead, she calls, he now raises and 1 guys calls in between and I think for a while and decide to fold. I am pretty sure I am beat here most of the time and my 2 pair is no good against 3 opponent and I am drawing to 2 outs. Turns out that, the old lady had TT, he has T7os for turned trips and the other guy had a naked 6. Thoughts on this, it is probably a call, but I didn't really see him bluff raise at all.

I might have been giving him too much credit but it was the correct play for this hand, and probably not in the long run.

Now about 1 hour into my session, Nik texts me and says he is on his way down to join in the fun. I am up about 10ish bets at this point and then this hand goes down. The very next hand after the Aces hand. I pick up JT of spades on the button and 2 people limp, Hancock, and this Indian (7/11, not peace pipe. Remember, realist, not racist there is a difference). I hesitate and just call instead of raising. I have been getting into the habit of raising these types of hands for straight value here, thoughts???

So we see a flop 5 ways with the sb, and bb coming along for the ride. I flop the fucking world w/ KQ9 and the King and Queen both being spades, nuts with OESFD to the Royal weeee, checks to the Indian guy who bets out, I snap raise, folds back to our beanied friend who calls 2 cold (I put him on a weak King type hand or maybe a small flush draw). Turn is a red 4, great card. Checks to me and I bet, both call. WTF, I am supposed to hit the royal right???, River is a T basically killing the action, and hancock leads out, yada yada yada we end up chopping. FTR he had QJ of hearts.

Continuing on, I get AK shoved up my ass on the turn in a pretty big pot and I am up around $40 when Nik is moved directly to my right in the 3 seat. He sat down and had a couple hands snapped off by some pretty sick running beats in monster pots. Say it with me ayeeee yahhhh.

I guess Nik kinda turned on the boomswitch for me and I picked it up. QQ flops a set in a kill pot and holds. 88 flops a sets and gets paid on 3 streets. KJ gets 3 streets 2 ways w/ 2 pair and an extra bet on the river vs. a smaller 2 pair. I also value bet 2 hands that made me 2 extra BBs on the day. Once w/ AJ on a board of J84K3, pretty standard, and once w/ Q2 suited on a board of JJ294 but that really doesn't qualify because the guy folded but I did get the bet on the turn though.

After those hands and a $1 Fat Tire, I am up about $240ish and am poised for a bigger run. Nick takes a break and we get short. I open 22 flop a set and river a boat getting 3 streets 2 ways. Then I make top 2 purrrr with AQ and get paid on 3 streets by 1 guy.

Our table ends up breaking and Nik takes the 6/12 seat in the Pai Gow room, and I am first up on the that list. I am moved to another table with this guy Jay. To start out, we really don't have any history, he is not very attentive to who he is playing against but claims that he plays great (allegedly a 2+2er) and makes a point to tell people that they are doing things incorrectly. Word to the wise, don't do this ever, ever. And for what ever reason, if you are an ass and just have to do this, it helps to have a decent amount of chips in front of you. (I had like 500, he had 40)

He went on and fucking on about "I made 3k playing 3/6 in Reno at the Sands Regency." Then it was, "I called an all in river bet w/ JT high because I knew it was good and I knew this guy had nothing at a no limit game a couple weeks back." /coolstorybro.

It doesn't help that this guy looks like an out of work high school math teacher but smells like an ashtray. Seriously, I would rather you smell like straight shit, than Marlboro. Mix in a breathe mint bro.

I end up putting him all in, in a kill pot when I held AQ high at then end and basically my turn bet forced him to call it off, big deal. I show, I am good. He then starts his little hissy fit. I don't understand how you can be the turn (board is T552, and AQ is a pretty strong hand here, imo), what did you think I called your bet on the flop with. I wanted to say something but I was pretty obvious that he had AJ or something to that effect. I just play it coy and say I don't know, I thought you fold or something like that.

After, he reloads, we get involved in a multiway pot. Basically UTG raises, 2 calls, I 3! with red Tens, he calls 3 to the face, ok, that is AQ obv. and it ends up getting capped 4 ways pre. Flop is 974, w/ 2 spades, UTG leads, 1 call, I raise, Jay disgustedly folds, saying, "you probably have Ace high here too, great play." tyty. Anyways, UTG 3-bets and I am pretty sure I am behind to an over pair here. Until the turn...the T of spades. UTG leads, 1 call in between, I raise both call. River is a low card and I get 2 more BBs for that 2-outer vs UTG's JJ.

Fuck this has gone waaaay long. I am gonna wrap this shit up. I kinda spewed w/ KQ against a nitty guy where I felt I could get some free cards in position, it worked, I could hit any of my outs though.

Jay berates me again for raising pre w/ KJos in a kill pot and double barreling in a pretty decent spot. Oh well, w/e I got in a few more winners and racked up.

Final tally for the day in 6hrs-ish of play, I came up $380, weeeeeeeee.

I look to be back next week sometime possibly next Friday night.

-Out.

12/3: 2 Small Sessions

Part 1 - Someone Gets Locked Out...of the House


Yeah, so the original plan was to leave work around 330pm, have a pint at Brew It UP, then make it to Capitol for some 6/12. I didn't end making it down until 5, oh well Nik put me on the list as he was already playing.

I arrived at Cap and didn't even notice that they had 2 tables of 6/12 going which meant the game should be pretty awesome. I take my seat opposite Santi in the 9, he in the 6 seat. We really didn't clash at all during small amount of time we played to together. Only sat at the same table for roughly 1 hour or so.

So, hands. Nik was a up a bit when I sat down maybe a rack or so, so things were going swimmingly to start off for him. I started off pretty slow, watching Nik value town a couple guys an iso-raise pre w/ KTos and get a couple streets of value.

I raised a couple hands and took it down on the flop w/ a C-bet to keep me at even. First off, this next hand isn't anything special at first, its a chop for ffs but Nik and I were talking later, there were a bunch of ways the villain could have played the hand.

I open JT of hearts from MP, SB & BB call. Flop comes AT8 w/ 2 clubs. Checks to me I fire, SB calls, BB folds. Turn - 4 of clubs. SB checks again. I fire. The SB now, laboriously calls.

This turn play by him, I think he was a few possible hands. Now, basically w/o getting in to it, if he has a T and a club here he should CR the turn for a couple of reasons.

1- His hand has lots of showdown value HU if he has an Ace or a Ten w/ a good kicker.
2- He can put me in a real tough position w/ a hand like JJ-KK or a T w/o a club redraw.
3- If he is behind to me, and I call he still has outs.
4- He finds out if he is already beat by a flush or up against a better hand.

So back to the hand. River pairs the 8 (no floosh). He checks, I think about value betting here but I am pretty sure that I am only getting called by something better at this point, so I decide to check behind.

He tables JTos w/ the J of clubs. We chop it up. Oh well, kind of an interesting hand at second glance.

A couple orbits later, I raised AK form the SB and took 5 people to the flop, flop TPTK, and somehow I hold w/ 1 pair and get paid off by Clark (he is the owner of Capitol Casino) w/ a weaker Ace, and that was a nice pot and I am up a bit.

I whiffed a few other hands and then the phone calls started. Well, obviously, someone locked themselves out of their house and didn't remember my phone number, and didn't have a cell phone and is stuck at the neighbors :-( Supernit to the rescue.

Not before leaving this hand comes up. Feliz and Gloria have joined us now. Feliz is probably one of the more decent players at Cap and has been playing for a living for the last 2 years, I like the guy. Although he is a Dodger fan w/e we all have flaws.

So I pick up AQ of hearts in the BB in a Kill and I nit it up and don't raise pre and we are 4 way to the flop. God I suck. Flop comes Q 8 6 w/ 1 heart. Gloria checks, I bet, Feliz raises, Gloria calls 2 to the face, rut rho, weak 2 pair? I 3-bet and all call. Turn is the 3 or hearts great card. Gloria checks, I fire, Feliz now folds, maybe a hand like 99 or something like that??? Gloria still calls. river is and offsuit 5, Gloria checks, and I fire again and she tank calls, I am good. She flopped an open ender w/ 75 and paid off the river w/ a 5 nice.

That was pretty much my entire session, I left up about $155, went home, let the gf back in the house. Came back to Cap primarily for dinner w/ Nik. Sat for a little bit and made another $10 or so. Had the Kung Pao Combo for dinner, talked angle-shooting by people at tables and then took off. Nik ended up staying and playing for another few hours.

Total for the short night was $165 up in about 3 hours. I absolutely hated leaving that awesome of table but w/e life happens sometimes.

Hopefully, I won't be working next Friday and get to play some more 6/12 at a good table.

-Out

11/30: Um, Well, November Wasn't Quite Over

After my last blog, I didn't think I would get out to play until the weekend. I was incorrect.

I made it down to Cap around 630ish and quickly ordered the Double Mushroom Chicken and Steam Rice prior to sitting down, which is delicious btw. My new table was opened shortly, and I drew bad as usual and posted the BB.

Hey, look at that, 1st hand I get red Jacks and raise 6 people, yay!! And we are off, unfortunately the flop is Q-high, mono-suited (clubs) and I bet the flop 3 calers and the turn is a 4th club effectively ending the hand for me. So much for a good start.

Next hand I end up rivering a weird straight and getting paid off for a little profit to get me back to even...

Here is where the night took off. I raise 4 limpers in a Kill-Pot w/ KK and be the whole way and get paid off on an all unders board. Weeee, nice pot there. A few hands later, I raised red Nines UTG, get 3 bet by the button, the SB caps it, BB calls, and all call. Flop is 9-high (mbn) and get paid off by 1 person who was all-in at the river decent start :-)

Then, I felt a rumbling...Aces hold in a 4-way pot for a sick pot. AK flops hard in a kill pot and holds. I make a play and get there w/ a rivered flush against SK (see Nik's blog).

More thunder and lightning. 88 goes runner-runner for tilt factor against some guy who full on berates me, I fucking love it. I win another hand him w/ AK in a big multi-way pot. And, I am just gonna say it, God-Mode Engaged.

We played 6 handed for like an hour and a half were I made some good plays, like semi-bluff raising and getting there with a big combo draw. And then just straight snap raising a guy w/ A-high, barreling the turn w/ the flush/over card hit, and hitting an Ace on the river. Aces flop a set and hold again. Weeeee....

When all was said and done the result looked like this.



I enjoyed that configuration :-)
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I ran awesome. Came up +$450.

**Updated end to the Month.

TSP: 17hrs
TP: +850
Hourly: 6.25BB/hr (yeah, that's nuts, lol definitely sustainable)

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More updates to come. I might come back and post some strat on 1 hand where I barreled and got there.

-Out.

11/29: End to November

So after a terrible last session this past Saturday, I tallied up my results. Overall I ran pretty well for the month.

TP: +$400
TSP: 13hrs
BB/hr: 3.8BB/hr

Hopefully with the holiday approaching and the nights getting longer, I will be able to put in some work and have some long sessions and really push my game and though processes up to another level before Vegas in January.

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Online, I haven't really been playing that much at all. It goes in waves for me, sometimes I feel like I want to fire up a few tables, but I just can't stand not playing live. It is more fun and entertaining to me.

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On the strategy front, particularly I have found that turn aggression has been a little suspect in my game. I have turned it up quite a bit. I have gone for some raise/fold lines on the turn in spots where I felt that I could be showdown (semi-bluff) raising with the best hand and got burned for it. ROT? most likely but I like those plays sometimes.

Standard example:

Hero limps behind 2 limpers in LP w/ A6 soooted (raise pre???). 5 to the flop.

Flop: 862 (1 of my suit)

Checked to me in position, I bet w/ 2nd pair. 2 calls.

Turn: 3 (of my suit, I pick up nut frush draw).

1 Limper bets, 1 call, Hero???

Call? Raise? Fold???

I found myself in these situations at least 4 times the last 2 sessions. I kinda like to raise here w/ the NFD and there is only a 1 liner to a straight out there. Its possible we have the best hand, 1 limper in between might fold an 8 and we can showdown 2nd pair or hit our flush etc.

This might (most likely) is way off, but I just wanted to put it out there.

What do you think?

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I want to hit Cache Creek soon, or Cordova w/ the $200 Aces cracked that runs for 6 hrs everyday and $100 for the other 18 hours.

See you at the tables.

-Out.

11/26: Belch

Puked on myself...
Kicked in the groin...
Overall just flat got slapped around...

Well, after all the turkey had made its way through my system, I decided to join Nik down at Cap for what I thought would be a good day for some 6/12, however the must move was shit and I decided to play 4/8.

Oh well, that might have been a good decision. I hate playing in a bad game with the possibility of getting stuck and then being faced with the task of having to grind back at a lower stake game.

I will just say this will be a short blog as I only won 2 hands, both without showdown. Its pretty difficult to win monies when you are card dead and don't hit a flop. As is life, that is how it goes some times.

I did manage to value town someone my first hand with 2nd pair in a kill pot getting 3 streets in against a weaker 2nd pair. But that was about it. I had to fold an over pair on a 4-flush, paired, and 4-staight board, which would have been good but there was a bet on the river and 2 callers in between, so I am obv not good right, wrong, lol live pokers I guess.

No big deal, as the session went I got turned a lot and had to lay down some decent hands to turn check raises.

No real hand histories to report just that I got outflopped 2x in some big multiway pots and got to showdown some hands and not call a river bet.

That is all.


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Oh, yeah, read Nik's up coming blog, you will see what it is like to have everything go right and just straight CRUSH a table.

MBN right?

Sick, sick day at 6/12 for him.
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In other life news, (prepare for brag post).

Brag: New position should be opened up for me which that comes along with about a 15% raise. I say should because of the organization that I work for is known to take months to get on shit like this.

Beat: More worthless meeting, and middle management type crap that I have no business being involved with at my level of experience. Yay for upcoming mistakes, lol?!?

Variance: This is wouldn't be taking place until August of 2011 :-(

11/21: Wait I had a blog???

Well, obviously, there is a a BLOG in here...

Where the hell have I been??? Well, to be honest, lots of fucking places in the last 6 months since my last blog entry.

I'll give a little Cliff Notes of what went down my last 2 Vegas trips, trip to Europe, P.E. Exam, and oh yeah teh pokers.

So starting off at the top the June Vegas 67 trip was my longest time spent in Vegas ever, 7 days, 6 nights. That is a long-ass time. Dare I say, too long. It went awesome though. Now since all of the guys on 67 are IRL friends, we found lots to do and talk about outside of degen'ing at the worlds most skill-related poker game...Cap NL Omaha, what a fucking swongfest. The world cup was in full swing, England lost, US won so that made us all happy except for AlbinoKid, who disappeared for a day following England's atrocious performance against Algeria, or Kazakhstan, of Tahiti. Oh, those damned Tahitians what a soccer powerhouse.

As for the poker, it has now pretty evident that the poker economy has evened up with the world economy in that the good 10/20 games of a couple years ago have dried up, and the 8/16 game at Venetian which was semi-decent last January, is now becoming a nit-fest and only a few live ones wanting to gambooool up. I think total overall for the trip, I had a slight loser like $400-$600, mostly from being hit w/ the run bad and card-deadedness the entire trip.

Greatest moment of the trip: Rambler losing CCR at the deli. Like 20 people in unison screaming "Yahhhhhhh!!!" at 3am in the middle of a packed Carnegie deli, soooo epic.

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On to my next trip, after returning from the dumpster fire that is Jacksonville, FL, I went to a bachelor part for 2 people. Pokers: +/- $0, meh, Sapphire was epic. It will definitely on the docket for the January trip weee. Everyone had an awesome time I a pretty sure of that. Shifty and my other buddy Nick are now married so big congrats to them.

/bachelor party trip
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Europe: Where the history comes from.

Well, 2 days after returning from the bachelor party trip, the gf and I boarded a plane for Europe and a hosteling adventure. A quick run down of awesome points/cliff's on the trip along with the place we visited.

Land in Dublin: Proposed to Girlfriend, she said yes :fistpump:

London: Sick ass place, possible site of future 67suited forum meet, so clean, easy to get around, great eats/beer. Met up w/ Albino Kid and HG. Such great times. Thx guys for making it down to London.

France: Calais & Paris. FUCK YOU FRANCE...in the words of ahhhhhsht, "I hope you all get cancer of the dick and die." Worst.Cuntry.Ever.

Switzerland: Lausanne. Holy fuck this place is awesome, expensive as shit. How expensive you ask??? About $30 at a McDonalds expensive. I love Lausanne, it is incredible, right on Lac Leman, and great people.

Italy: Rome, Florence, Venice. Rome-cheap, dirty, great food, can be seen in a day. Florence, one of the greatest places on earth, best food I have ever eaten, very intimate setting but has the gypsy. Venice, a great place to get lost, and drink lots of cheap wine from a bag.

Austria: Innsbruck. Just like Davis, CA. College town, great breweries, strip clubs galore, and live gambling everywhere. Kick ass zoo as well.

Germany: Augsburg, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Cologne, Munich. All amazing places, met up w/ a friend from SLO, Thomas at Oktoberfest, just like beerfest the movie btw. Rothenburg, medieval village with walls still in tact, great night watchman tour. Cologne, stopped there for a bit, got to see the Dom, such a goth cathedral and pretty sick place.

Belgium: Brussels, Brugges. Waffles, beer, waffles beer, dutch people. Brussels in a town that doesn't wake up until about 11am and doesnt turn off until about 3am. Brugges was kinda meh to be quite from.

Dublin one more time for emPHAsis: Guinness factory tour, drunkards peeing on buses, and more beer.

Fly home. Amazing trip.

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Well Europe was pretty much all of September, October was pretty much a polar opposite. I studied for 1 month straight for the Professional Engineers exam. Pretty fucking hard test. We will see how I did in like 3 months.

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Pokers: SD and I had been playing pretty regularly up to the time of the bachelor party trip and I had been doing pretty alright. Took all of September & October off, and finally made my return to the LHE arena a couple weeks ago. November is going decent.

After looking at my records, it looks like I am up an OK amount for the year (for someone who doesn't really play all that often), somewhere in the neighborhood of 2.5-3k. My hourly is about 1.85BB/hr, not Santi like, but I'll take it. I am really looking to start playing more, and improving my game. I really feel that I am looking at the game in a different light and that I am evolving as player, pushing edges in marginal situations where I was pretty unimaginative before.

So, I am going to try and get the blog going again on a pretty regular basis and posting strats at 67.

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Vegas in a 7 weeks bitches.

/blog

Can You Feel It???

Ahhhhh shit. Get yo bankrolls 67sooooted 'bout to tear up Bellagio, Encore, Wynn, and Venetian too!!!

We on a plane,
We on a plane.

It only feels like yesterday when AC & Shifty were staring longingly into each others' eyes over a gelato at Trevi. A scant 6 months ago, Shabba was found on top of a mechanical fallus at a convention for porn. Mr. Shit placing his 67suited hat in some working whores' ass cheeks, Superdonk was in search of tentacle porn, Deuce was finding ways to get out of going to the deli and Santi was being Santi.

So, in :countdowncheck: 14 short days, a huge crew from 67 and CP will be headed out to vegas for the June Forum Trip. Oh the douchbauchery that will ensue. Might I mention that left to our own devices we will be playing lots of poker.

Congrats to Paddy, and :cough cough: the 23yo virgin for winning Main Event Seats, Paddy will be playing and obv winning w/ a 67 patch on his shirt. Rambler will be ducking us in the mix games but playing a $2500 HA tourney at the series.

Here is the list of who will be in attendance and where we all are staying:

Deuce (Wed 6/16 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Panti (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Harrahs
Shabba - (Wed 6/16 - Sun 6/20) - Encore
Superdonk (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Mirage
Fender (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - Harrahs
Shifty (Tue 6/15 - Mon 6/21) - IP
Turtle and his never touched a pussy ever friend(Wed 6/16 - Mon 6/21) - Harrah's
ACbarone (Thur 6/17 - Sun 6/20) - Transexual Flamingo
ttthomas (Wed 6/16 - Sun 6/20 ) - IP Deluxe room bitches
Oak (Thur 6/17- Sun 6/20)- IP
Asshat (Wed 6/16- Tues 6/22)- Wynn
Ashley and her boyfriend (Thurs 6/17 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Pika (Fri 6/18 - Mon 6/21) - IP
minnesotasam and texansocer7 (Sat 6/19 - Tue 6/29) - House 6 miles from the strip that will smell like buttsex
DD AKA "Ron Paul's Fluffer" (Thur 6/17 - Mon 6/21) -Venetian
Ryansphoto AKA "Brokedick inbred" (Thur 6/17 - Mon 6/21) - Venetian
Luske (Tue 6/15 - Fri 6/18) - Encore
DanMcw (Fri 6/18 - Wed 6/23) - IP
Albinokid - Somewhere

Its gonna be an amazing turnout. It looks like we will have a waiting list to get into our private game which will be held in the the Ivey Room at Aria, lol (not really, but we will be playing an assortment of cash games w/ each other)

Just a short post about how this all works for 3T.

-Arrive in LV
-Degen Pit Games
-Go to eat at Deli
-Play pokers w/ 67suited members
-Eat at Luxe
-Nap (for deuce obv)
-Play cards w/ tourists and take their monies
-Eat at Luxe
-Play more pokers
-Win Monies
-Sleep

Lather, rinse, repeat 6-7 times.

/vegastrip

And that is how we do it.

glglgl to everyone going, may we all make lots of monies, and ice each other lots.

-out