I really was dreading the flight, after the crap flights last year. It really couldnt have been better though, i shipped an upgrade to economy plus so I had some leg room, AND there was no one sitting next to me so I could dump my stuff there instead of putting it in the top bit. The flight from sydney to san fransisco was delayed by about an hour, and I was really nervous that I would miss the san fransico-vegas connecting flight. The Pilot told us that it would be all good, because we would be “making up time in the air”. This confused me, I mean shouldnt a plane go as fast as it can all the time? theres no speed limits up there. Anyway so during the flight I had a bit of a yarn to the guy sitting near me and finished BalugaWhales book. It was the goods, I need to go back and highlight the key points and summarise it.

Arrived in San Fransisco, made the connecting flight by half an hour so there was no worries. Exchanged AUD for USD. Arrived in vegas at about 2pm, went to the baggage bit and noticed Benny playing the pokies. We discussed our flights etc and jumped in a Cab to the Gold Coast Casino, which is a small casino (by vegas standards, approx 5x bigger than Canberra Casino). The room is nothing special, but for 50 bux per night you cant really go wrong. It has wireless internet which is my one and only requirement.

After we arrived we stuffed around for a bit then headed to the venetian where we got some crappy lasange for dinner, then headed to the poker room. I am playing 2/5 all of this trip, but I thought i would have 1 session with benny at 1/2 to get myself back in the swing of live poker, also cause i was tired and I wanted have some fun and relax with some vodka and red bulls. I ran pretty good, flopped sets with my first 2 pocket pairs, the second one won about a $200 pot with a boat vs straight. Not too many other hands, won a decentish pot where I double barreled with J4o. Attempted one light 3bet and I got c/minraised on the flop. damn. Still, I hadnt slept in a good day and a half, had about 6 free vodkas, had a heap of fun chatting at the table with benny and won about $200. Cant complain. After our sess we laughed at some funny gun ads on the taxis and then headed back to the room.