24 Hour Party People part one - 7AM to 7PM
Having crashed into bed at approximately 2AM, I figured that I would wake at around midday before heading off to play some poker. Unfortunately, I opened my eyes to stare at an alarm clock reading 7.00AM and the sound of Karl repeating the word 'poker'.
Before heading downtown for a game, we had to sort out the room. I called reception which, in a hotel containing 2,000+ rooms, turned out to be a call centre. The lady seemed to be suitably shocked by our needle story, and we were moved to a 29th floor room with an excellent view of the strip. We moved our belongings to the new room, stopping by at reception to drop off the 3 needles we had found after an extensive search. This was greeted by a typically American "Oh.. My.. God" from the receptionist, who assured us an extensive investigation would be launched. To this day I have not heard the result of this investigation, but my guess is there is one less hispanic cleaner working in Vegas.
We headed downtown to the newly refurbished Golden Nugget, where we had stayed last year. We started playing $2/$4 limit and, luckily for us, a poker lesson had just broken up with the participants moving to our table. Within ten minutes I was 25 dollars up and dreaming of life as a poker pro. Two hours later I was brought back down to earth with a car crash of a hand. Raising with QJ suited from the blinds, I hit top pair with a Jack on the flop and bet out. I had two callers and bet out again on the turn with both calling again. When a Jack hit on the river I was in dreamland and contemplated a check raise, before simply betting out. A lady called me and I proudly showed my 3 of a kind with Queen kicker. She showed KJ and I showed the expression of someone who has just been told they have a week to live. I finished 35 dollars down for the session. If she had played the hand correctly and raised, I would have been spending the rest of the trip living off 99 cent hot dogs, as there was no way I could have folded.
We went back to the hotel to change for a big night out, and I decided to wear my flowered shirt as I had pulled the last two times it was worn. The only other time I wore the shirt was my birthday, when I was blind drunk by 8PM, so this was not a good example of the shirts attraction. There then followed a moments reflection as Karl reminded me the last time I wore the shirt was when I pulled the girl from Sheffield. "Oh well," said Karl "Unlucky in love, lucky at cards.", clearly forgetting the mornings events. "Lucky at finding hyperdermic needles, maybe?", I retorted, and we headed out the door to Planet Hollywood.
At Planet Hollywood I became re-aquainted with the excellent chicken wings and tenders starter, which is surely up there in the top 5 Vegas culinary delights. Karl had a ticket booked for Celene Dion at Ceasars Palace beginning at 8.30, so we headed to the poker room at Ceasars for a few hands of $3/$6 limit before the show started. 90 dollars down for the trip so far, it was time for a sh*t or bust performance.
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The WSOP main event 2006 is currently broadcasting on Challenge TV (Sky channel 124) at 11PM every evening. Repeated on Challenge +1 (125) at midnight (duh!). Catch some great showdowns involving the pro's, and make your own mind up on the burning issue:- Was Jamie Gold lucky or did he just play great poker? I bet he wouldn't have laid down a set of Jacks...
Before heading downtown for a game, we had to sort out the room. I called reception which, in a hotel containing 2,000+ rooms, turned out to be a call centre. The lady seemed to be suitably shocked by our needle story, and we were moved to a 29th floor room with an excellent view of the strip. We moved our belongings to the new room, stopping by at reception to drop off the 3 needles we had found after an extensive search. This was greeted by a typically American "Oh.. My.. God" from the receptionist, who assured us an extensive investigation would be launched. To this day I have not heard the result of this investigation, but my guess is there is one less hispanic cleaner working in Vegas.
We headed downtown to the newly refurbished Golden Nugget, where we had stayed last year. We started playing $2/$4 limit and, luckily for us, a poker lesson had just broken up with the participants moving to our table. Within ten minutes I was 25 dollars up and dreaming of life as a poker pro. Two hours later I was brought back down to earth with a car crash of a hand. Raising with QJ suited from the blinds, I hit top pair with a Jack on the flop and bet out. I had two callers and bet out again on the turn with both calling again. When a Jack hit on the river I was in dreamland and contemplated a check raise, before simply betting out. A lady called me and I proudly showed my 3 of a kind with Queen kicker. She showed KJ and I showed the expression of someone who has just been told they have a week to live. I finished 35 dollars down for the session. If she had played the hand correctly and raised, I would have been spending the rest of the trip living off 99 cent hot dogs, as there was no way I could have folded.
We went back to the hotel to change for a big night out, and I decided to wear my flowered shirt as I had pulled the last two times it was worn. The only other time I wore the shirt was my birthday, when I was blind drunk by 8PM, so this was not a good example of the shirts attraction. There then followed a moments reflection as Karl reminded me the last time I wore the shirt was when I pulled the girl from Sheffield. "Oh well," said Karl "Unlucky in love, lucky at cards.", clearly forgetting the mornings events. "Lucky at finding hyperdermic needles, maybe?", I retorted, and we headed out the door to Planet Hollywood.
At Planet Hollywood I became re-aquainted with the excellent chicken wings and tenders starter, which is surely up there in the top 5 Vegas culinary delights. Karl had a ticket booked for Celene Dion at Ceasars Palace beginning at 8.30, so we headed to the poker room at Ceasars for a few hands of $3/$6 limit before the show started. 90 dollars down for the trip so far, it was time for a sh*t or bust performance.
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The WSOP main event 2006 is currently broadcasting on Challenge TV (Sky channel 124) at 11PM every evening. Repeated on Challenge +1 (125) at midnight (duh!). Catch some great showdowns involving the pro's, and make your own mind up on the burning issue:- Was Jamie Gold lucky or did he just play great poker? I bet he wouldn't have laid down a set of Jacks...
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