Day 2: Friends
I finally met up with some other Poker Buddies out here that I met last year. We went to dinner at Dos Caminos at the Venetian which I went to last year and is a pretty baller Mexican restaurant.
I ordered some Queso Fundido and a side of Mexican Street Corn on the Cob; both were extremely good and relatively inexpensive–$16 for the two combined. There was a bit of problem with the tab at the end of the meal as 10 of us were at the table and I only owed $16 for the meal and they wanted me to pay $45. I gave them $20–enough for the tip and when told I needed another $25 I sternly but confidently said ‘I’m not paying for your guys’ alcohol. I felt like I might have been a little out-of-line but I also felt like I had a right to defend myself and I just hoped nobody took offense to it. I do not have the kind of money some of these guys have and I certainly wasn’t ordering many $11 margaritas (although I did order 1 and paid cash for it). Looking back at it now I should have given another $5 because we ordered some Guac at the start and I didn’t contribute any to that and for that I feel bad for. Hopefully no one else noticed but I’ll just give $5 extra the next time we go out.
Afterwords we go up to their pimp room at the Venetian; I swear its larger than my apartment and it has 2 (yes two!) bathrooms for the one bed. They got a good deal and certainly beats the hell out of my shitty place at the Imperial but I am saving like $150/night so I don’t feel so bad :). They had a few bottles up there as they wanted to pregame before going to a strip club; I had some tequila while catching up. We then went down to the floor to gamble some; I spent $5 on some stupid game but I did get a Corona out of it, which is worth the price lmao had I ordered it at a restaurant but it was more me just spending time with them than anything. We walked around for a while until their limo arrived then I headed back to the IP to write up my posts.
I need to do some research regarding tomorrow’s Ceasar’s tournaments as there is a chance that I may not play it given some changes they may have made. If it becomes true tomorrow I’ll explain more about it and probably play cash most the day. I also might play a couple satellites into other Venetian tournaments but not certain on that.
