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I got up around 10 or so and I decided to just stay in bed for a couple hours and not do much but watch TV and relax before my tournament started at 4 pm. I had already signed into the room a couple days earlier so I didn’t have to do anything except show Halvsame from FTR to the room, as he’s going to be my new roomate for the next few days.


He flew in from Norway a couple days earlier and this is his first time in Vegas. Housekeeping had not cleaned up the place in a couple days so it was a little sketchy in here. The first thing he said though was “Just what I was afraid of, the toilet has a lot of water in it.” Crazy Europeans, this is going to be fun lol.


He leaves around noon to go play in a tournament and I chill still in the room, I eventually get out of bed and shower and eat upstairs at the Teahouse again. I walk my way over to the Venetian and plan to kill at least 2 hours before hand. I see Xianti, Tyson and Eric (the FTR Admins) playing the tournament there and I talk to them for a bit before I head to the sports book. They have real comfortable chairs with like 30 TVs going on so that was fun.


At this point my nerves are starting to act up the more I think about the tournament but not for any real reason. At 3:00 or so I decide to go walk around the Palazzo Mall, and after nearly getting lost, make it back just in time at 4:00 for my tournament.


I was done by 6:00 pm and after I cash out I head upstairs to the Venetian Suites, which were pretty baller. They had tons of booze up there and I finally met Gabe for the first time, one of two guys I wanted to meet out here. As expected, he is real cool too. We decide to play blackjack in the room, first Xianti was the bank and then Gabe was; I managed to lose $50 but it was a blast. We have reservations for Dos Caminos in the Venetian at 9:30 for 16 people.


At this point, the 16 of us include: Me, Tyson, Eric, Xianti, Halvsame, Gabe, Swiggidy, AndyAkb (my 2nd fav guy out here besides Gabe), Alexos, Maxxscam, PocketFours, Mcatdog, Givememyleg (Carl), RxGrossman, Random Carl’s Friend and Spenda.


When we arrive we decide to get shots of Tequila, not just one but two. It was really awesome Tequila and you wouldn’t even know you were drinking it had you not been told what it was. For 15 guys it was roughly 30 shots, probably at close to $10 each; the baller dinner starts out awesome.


I intentionally sit at a table with Gabe because I think he is going to be the most fun to talk to and we do have a lot of history. Every 30 minutes or so Tyson would come over and play $20 Rochambeau (Rock Paper Scissors) and Gabe would just smoke Tyson every time, but either way it was extremely entertaining. I ordered a classic Bombay and Tonic as the waiters bring out a massive amount of chips, salsa, and guac for 15 people. The guac was good but not as good as their green salsa, which wasn’t hot at all. It must have been made from Tomatillos with lime juice and cilantro, at least I think so; it was really tangy but excellent as well (my mouth is watering just thinking about it). With the chips and salsa, Gabe is in charge of ordering appetizers and he gets a Seviche Trio with 3 different kinds of fish (1 was good, the other two were Meh) and he orders some kind of plantain platter (which were also Meh).


For my main course I ordered Kobe Beef Tacos which, by the time they got there, I was pretty stuffed. I only ate the meat inside as I was too full for anything else; I thought they were OK but not as much as I was hyped about. Gabe got the Avocado Crusted Tuna and that was pretty good, much better than my tacos.


Since we’re all a bunch of degenerative (degen for short) gamblers, Tyson says he’ll give $20 to the person who can guess the cost of the bill. He passes a paper around and I’m one of the first to choose, and I pick an even $1500. It goes around to Maxxscam (who I roomed with two years ago at the WSOP so I know him well) who does a Price is Right ‘Fuck You’ and chooses $1499. Since we were doing closest to cost there was a large margin below $1500 but not above. That said, the bill came out to $1499.57 after the tip so I won the $20, but only by a measly 7 cents. Whee!! Now I’m only down $30 on the day from gambling.


At this point in the day it was getting close to midnight and I was tired as fuck. The rest of the guys were headed to a strip club somewhere (not the Rhino) and I just went back to the Imperial Palace to crash. This was the most fun of the trip so far but Friday Night has got to be pretty awesome too.