Yesterday we did pretty much our first non poker activity and hit the stratosphere for
the rides.

We had the buffet first which was pretty good. We headed up to the top and
got our tickets, unfortunately the ride called “the insanity” that was closed for me and Andy last year, was closed again for me and Benny. Anyway we went on the other 2 rides which were scarier than I remembered. Was good. After the rides we grabbed a drink and checked out the view of the strip and the rest of vegas. We briefly sussed out the poker room which brought back some bad memories of me wrongly folding a set (see vegas 08 blogs). They didnt have any 2/5 running so we decided to go downtown to fremont street to check out the golden nugget poker room. We got there about 10pm, had a quick walk around the shark/pool thing and the Actual golden nugget, then went into the poker room. They didnt have any 2/5 tables but the 1/2 game was uncapped so I bought in for my $600 I planned to use in the 2/5 game.

I ended up sitting next to Erin from new york, and we had a yarn about music and vegas etc while playing. Before I know it its 6:30am and we had been playing for almost 10 hours. Gawd. We go for a walk outside and the natural light hurts my eyes. We rock into a gift shop and i buy a las vegas brew mug and 2 las vegas pillows, and 2 see through hat thingys. We go back into the golden nugget for the breakfast buffet which was great. We go home and go to bed about 8:30am.

Get up at about 4:30pm or so, play a sess online then go to the bellagio. See Patrick antonius, Freddy Deeb and David Benyamine playing in Bobby’s room which was pretty sweet. The poker room is good, kinda cramped though. They have squished probably 30 tables in there when there is really only room for 25. Anyway the standard of the poker is rediculously good, which I discovered shortly into my session there. Yuck. Finished down a little bit and came back to the Gold Coast to write blogs.