TR June 16 - July 10 (LONG)

[Sensei Rob]

This trip was planned way back in June 2009 being serious poker players we wanted to make the journey out to vegas for the WSOP. Fast forward to Jan 2010 and the WSOP schedule is released we pencil in the dates and our numbers have shrunk from 5 to 2 of us. Its our first trip to Vegas let alone to the US.
We book flights with V Australia go the cheapest option Leaving June 16 from Melbourne Via Brisbane to LAX the Delta to vegas. During our booking 3 female firends decide to tag along no worries, 2 of them are on a world the round tickets the 3rd tags her flight with us but has booked accom with the other 2. We have them in Vegas for 1 week then they are off to LA for the 2nd week we instead are in LV for 1 week and head to LA for 2 days then come back to vegas till the 10th july.
We booked the 1st week at NYNY
then 7 nights at the Venetian
and then our last 8 nights at the WYNN
We wanted to experience a few different places.

Come D DAY we have spent every waking hour of last 6 months speaking about Vegas, I have read every trip report on this Forum (THANKS EVERYONE)

Quick note: I have printed off every poker tournament schedule known in Vegas and highlighted some 15 odd tournaments i wanted to play from WSOP events to V Deep Stacks etc. Purely a Poker trip with some fun on the side....

Our flight leaves at 6am I decide not to sleep scared i am not going to hear my alarm, For you aussies you will understand i brave the freezing melbourne weather in my shorts flip flops and tshirt and board my flight for Heaven.
We arrive in LA at 7am the same day. Here the fun begins. My luggage is lost! I report it and the clerk tells me give it a couple of days....Next bad beat My mate and I print our boarding passes to LV our companion is having trouble, Special services???? Yeah right we miss our connecting flight arguing with Delta and running from terminal 2 to term 5 aint no fun. You want funny we were supposed to be 9 hours in front of the other 2 girls guess what 13 hours sitting at LAX we board the same US airway flight as them to LV....Not a good start to my dream trip!!!!


Sorry i told you this was going to be long!!!

[Sensei Rob]

We finally check in at NYNY totally buggered no clothes no clean underwear no nothing, even my bottle of gin and vodka are in my suitcase.....So have a shower and meet at the bar downstairs and it starts.....Everyone told me that my accent is like gold here but WOW! I hit 5 numbers in a row on Roulette and am up 1k.....LETS DRINK. We are an instant hit....We start are tipping game "who can tip the bartender the most" he obviously makes a killing. We move over to MGM and learn to play Craps and increase the bankroll before we know it my buddy who DOES NOT PARTY is off to bed at 4:30 WEAK! We stroll back at 9am get 15 mins shut eye.
Day 2 is shopping I spend up big at Premium outlets, new pair of slick sunnies, runners, shoes, shirts, jeans, and yes underwear!!!!

The first week is pretty tame we drink at bars and play poker through out the day. It wasnt until I played at cesars and the room was next to Pure and the line full of fine women that I thought What the F**K am I doing I should be partying!!!! I promise to myself that when i get back from LA and rid of our baggage that it will be on!

So we hire a slick E350 Merc and venture down to LA and we drive back the Friday and check into the Venetian. Wow what a room, this is perfect. We crash the Friday night and wake up Saturday ready and charged.

As my buddy is not a party animal i find myself flying solo until I bump into one of the lads from home OH SHIT, I found my wingman, we drink ourselves silly at the bar and hit the sack early Sunday morning.

Sunday we organise to go to dinner with a bunch of aussies that i have never met but know of from poker we go to a Pearl at MGM, not bad chinese food. This crowd is allwell into the 30's early 40's and they want to hear 80's music, Studio54 it is (so we thought) it was shut. By now they are dropping off. One of the party was a 23 yr old german bloke nicknamed the zee german! Its he and I left we move over to NYNY as i spent my entire 1st week getting wasted there. He motions for Rok Vegas, we go in and here is where the FUN BEGINS!!!!

We get so drunk its bordering insanity we are moving between groups of girls. Unfortuantly at about 3am i get a tap on the shoulder and am escorted out of the club...I then chuck up in the cab....Throw a 50 at the cabby for the mess and tip him a 10 for the ride. Then comes the walk of shame thru the V lobby....Zee german aparantly ends up in a limo with 4 girls and wakes up in a room at PH. To today he doesnt know what happened....

We meet up at 2pm at Carnival court and start drinking again we are drinking all sorts of stuff, I start talking to this little cutie from Pennsylvania (spelling?) shes dancing on the bar for me doing all these incredible things her friend is awfully quiet..OOPS her friend is her Mom!!!! Bad beat. We exchange numbers and we beeline back to the V.

[WarreN]

Lookin good, keep it comin!

[mrankimonki]

nice dude. keep it comin

[Sensei Rob]

The next couple of days are uneventful, a buddy from San francisco flys in I havent seen him in 10 years. We have some casual drinks do the happy snaps aorund the casino. We eat dinner the Tuesday night at Grand Luxe. The service of the waiter is bordering insanity. How fckn nice is this bloke I pull him up and tell him "You want a big tip? Stop being si nice and professional treat me like shit PLEASE!" I cant handle the over top service suppose I am not used to it. the next night we do the WYNN buffet. All I have to say is OMG! Sensational, the choice is incredible. Major problem though I can barely walk I am so stuffed it ruins my night. Oh well we still have 10 odd days to go after this. Lets call it game set and match Wynn buffet.....The best buffet I have ever had.....

This brings on Thursday July 1. We are leading up to the July 4 weekend. We start our day off early at the bar at the V. My 45 yr old aussie wingman (carwash) and zee german. We decide to head over to rail one of our boys playing a WSOP event then go off to Voodoo Lounge for the night. Come 1030 we hike it over to Voodoo. $20 entry....and in we go. I start hitting the Gnt's pretty hard. After reading on the forums about table service and stuff i though fck it, I inquire and I dont stuff around just set me up near the DJ outside, 2 bottles for $400. We pouring drinks having a ripe old time. The security guard asks if we are alright? "Um yeah" he looks puzzled no are you OKAY????? Yeh bud fine! Would you like some companions? I look at him mate I dont pay for hookers....He laughs "your new to this" NO SHIT! He returns 10 mins later emoty. FFS do u want to see how its done bud! I return back with 2 fine ladies.....Ended up being swedish girls he gives me thumbs up...Ok bud!

As the night drags on we end up being 4 blokes, I kicked some bloke by accident being an idiot and felt bad he was solo so I invited him in and 11 girls. I am making out with 3 different girls trying to decide which one to go home with. We had the 2 swedes, 2 aussies, 2 irish girls, and girls from somewhere in the states. I finally settle for Ms Ohio (i think) Night ends 8 bottles later I settle the bill $1370 we head down the lift in the mayhem i loose Ms Ohio and find carwash with the 2 irish girls (mind u I dragged these 2 girls from the inside bar and never spoke to them once)
Wheres zee german? GONE!!! Good luck to him. We stroll around the RIO, Carwash is hooking up with the dark ahired irish girl so i smoothly move over to the blonde, She looks at me and says what u invite us in u make out with the whole nightclub pulls her camera out showing me photos of me on top of some girl on the couch and now u want me??? I dont think so darlin!!! FCK ME!
We jump in a cab head off to yep u guessed it NYNY. We go to the bar and order drinks.. Now I want to gamble so the blonde (KAT) comes to watch I pull out 200 and play some drunked BJ betting 25 per hand she starts rubbing my leg, gambling is turning her on YES WIN BABY! We make our way back to carwash and his girl. The girls are staying at MGM, lets go to MGM? We start heading off to MGM its about 6am Carwash yells Im catching a CAB....Its across teh road man? he stares at me " I AM CATCHING A FCKN CAB" his girl goes with him i stare at Kat she grabs my hand lets walk. Not a word was said but we walked thru the casino staright to the lifts and up to the room.......Finally WINNER WINNER!

at 10am my phone rings its my roomy "where the fck r ya? we have to check out of teh venetian at 11 oh fck.......By the way I still didnt know this girls name (another win) i try to wake her with the "OI" "YOU" fck her purse bag thing she had a passport i open it ah ok she wakes Im going....her response OK BYE!

HA I felt used and abused!
I make the drunken walk of shame with strut and checked out.


Footnote Carwash is 45 his girl she was 28 and a stunner, he put a deposit on a diamond ring for her!!! NUTCASE!

[Sensei Rob]

So I get back, pack my luggage and check out of the Venetian jump in a cab and make the 2 min journey to the WYNN. Very little sleep and feeling very seedy but oozing confedience and feeling like im the man. We get a strip view smoking room on the 30th floor and a free rollaway for the 8 nights. Whatever i dont intend on sleeping much anyway well here anyway! We get upstairs settle in and back to the venetian to see if carwash is alive. He has not responded to any texts. Finally at 4pm he responds, I still had my V room key to get passed security at the lifts and i make my way up to his room. He is COOKED! WTF? Oh man what happened to u questions starting flying. his girl left at 2 and he organised dinner tonight...Oh yeah ok. We have to go to MGM to pick them up at 7. Cool. His roomy is downstairs playing Day 2 of the V deepstack running nice and deep my mate is watching. We should have roomed and our roomies should have roomed they were purely playing poker.
around 6pm zee german rocks up to the V, Carwash texts me to go get the girls as he has been hugging the porcelain all afternoon. I venture out with zee german to MGM, the girls make us wait....FCK Im impatient then they stroll by.....Wait....see if they wait.....yep there waiting and searching. We jump in a cab back to the WYNN, Wheres carwash? HIS FCKED UP! Up to the room the 4 of us go i pull out my shirt and Kat was kind enough to iron it for me (marriage material this girl I have the proof and will post pic) back to the V and we start our drinking, as they are leaving tomorrow nad have not been anywhere they want to do a pub/bar crawl so we basically go from the v all the way to NYNY drinking at every single casino. Kat and I end up 30 mins in front of the zee german the brunette and yes my roomy who decided to come for a drink. We decide to wait a Monte carlo, where I get the 3rd degree from Kat, Are you married, I think ur married. Y was i so stand offish oh fck girl lets just drink!
Eventually the other 3 catch up, we go to Pour24 and start drinking crazy shots and before we know it my roomy has had enough its 1am and his over and out! We go grab a slice of pizza and bid him farewell and tell him ill see him some time tomorrow afternoon.
Back upstairs to kat and she has had enough she wants to go to bed. WTF? its 1:30 girl, he friend tells her its our last night in Vegas u cant....She grabs my hand and like that we are gone to MGM upstairs and OMG we WIN again....after a lot of fun i finally fell asleep only to hear an alarm go off at 7am......she is up inthe shower packing her friend nowhere to be seen they need to be at the airport by 9, finally her friend returns at 8 blind drunk...where is zee german, he just dropped me off.....Did u? i ask NOOOO I am carwashes girl i dont do friends while she starts stripping infront of me OMG I LOOOVE VEGAS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Go down they check out and i take them to the airport, it was sad to see them leave a lot of fun.......Bid them farewell I exchange emails with Kat and back to the Wynn i go.....What to do tonight.

Silly girls were still a bit drunk and missed there connecting flight home from Atlanta and were stuck overnight, they should have stayed for teh Sat night July 3rd....Oh well for me maybe lucky they didnt!!!!

[NyceGuy]

This is pretty great...

[2MSR]

Hahaha awesome TR so far

[WarreN]

lul

[Sensei Rob]

July 4 eve, I have no idea how big this weekend is going to be. Dinner is organised for that night with a group of aussies again at some steak house del francisco??? or something like that. On paradise rd (i think no idea), we have an 8pm booking so I try to relax for the afternoon and try not to drink for a change of pace. I meet carwash and our roomys at the V lobby and we cab it to the restauarnt. Dinner is us 4 a couple that we met at the Pearl and 2 lads from Sydney and zee german. This table had a big day yesterday of poker between 3 of them they had cashed close to 200K. We are ordering $90 steaks, expensive bottles of wine, Im loving life, my ego is massive, as are zee germans and carwash. We are hitting on groups of girls at diferrent tables, I had that "millionaire attitude" vegas does it to you. Finally the bill arrives and its worked out at 240 each incl tip. Everyone is throwing 250 at the bill claculator being the only female on this table she was trusted. One of the sydney boys who made 70% of that 200K had arrived in a limo and organised a limo back we all throw in our 10 change from the 250 and decide to limo it back.
We have decided to go to the Palms. teh married bloke J has a contact at the palms apparently ( its where he and zee german are staying) for Rain, Im like whatever. Limo drops the SYD boys off at PH, the 2 poker playing roomys are dropped of at the V and the rest of us fly off to the Palms. We are dropped off at palms place. J's wife goes off to bed and the remaining 4 hike thru that Sky tunnel thing that seemed to go forever to the palms. We get to rain and didnt know where the line started or finished. this is ridicoulos! J is tryingto ring this bloke, nothing dont know how but he got some passes for 4 of us...VIP???? No idea, tap a security guy on the shoulder. You need girls.... We grab 5 girls and they let us slide thru. GO J well played sir. Girls are free boys 25 each. Whatever who cares. Standing in line chatting to the girls and she just loves my accent her words..."OMG YOUR ACCENT IS SO SEXY" Oh yeah, good enough to fuck? She gives me the sexiest Hm HM sound I am ready for a big night!!! We get in the girls buy us drinks we dance but as usual i get distracted and loose the girl....My god girls are lifting skirts at us, bumping and grinding....This city is out of control.
By now Paul Oakendfold is just tearing it UP! The joint is packing a mean punch, drinks are 13+ tip. carwash is hating this joint and eventually starts talking to some girl who is hating it as well. smart bloke carwash, finds the right girl for both of us.. We find her firend and skate out of the joint at about 2, we jump in a limo, the line for cabs is just wrong! flick the driver $100 for the short trip to NYNY, When I drink i throw this monopoly money around. We split away and again its getting heated. I have the friend (dont know name but I named her Miss Cali) near the back toilets sitting at the slot machines. the other girl is firing texts to her friend....Damn girls I go back to her I give her my licence, my credit card and my room key. Show some trust girl, Im not gonna murder ur friend. This obv worked she handed them back and about 15 mins later she sent a text saying ok I trust him have fun we are going to our room c u in the morning" WHATS UP WITH THAT???
Now i have a dilemma I cant go back to my room, my roomy wont get out of bed and i have a rollaway, fck it NYNY, roll up to reception room please. By now its close to 5am No problem $242....I throw her my credit card. I want late check out pls, she gives me a 2pm check out, I flick her a 20 and move for the lifts. This shit is incredible 3 nights in a row OMG I WANT TO LIVE IN VEGAS!!!!! this shit does not happen at home!

I dont know what it is about this city but its amazing. We wake up at 1 check out and i walk her to MGM where she is staying, kiss her goodbye and strut like a rockstar to the cab rank and back to the wynn I go.

My buddy is in the room he looks at me...."your out of control son".....Its VEGAS BABY!

Are you going to play any poker. Well in the 1st week i played 2 tournaments and 2 cash game sessions, the second week i played one tournament I thought I was going to die and a sattelite and I did fall asleep. So im not sure.....I promise i will play a venetian deepstack on the Tuesday or Thurs coming up.

[Sensei Rob]

Its July 4, my roomy had bought into the V deepstack and ventured down a couple of hours late I firing texts away to see where everybody is...No response. im flying solo, and decide to do what i do best. Drink.
I casually walk to carnival Court have a few there then move to Bills and keep drinking there, I decide to fly back to the V and check on my boys progress, he is running well. Finally i get a text back from carwash he is playing today at cesars and now at the V in the 7pm tourney, I find him and he says what are we doing tonight....I have no idea....lets just drink at the bar at NYNY he says.....Ok hurry up lets go drink, he just starts moving all in till he busts and we move towards the NYNY (idiot) I dont why we always ended up here but i think it was the first place I went to and it felt like home. We are drinking away and we start chatting to this young girl, her friend had picked up the biggest tosser i had ever seen i mean this bloke was wearing a checkered shirt and had a red sweater draped over his shoulders like a croquet player...TOSSBAG! She is lonely I notice she orders a drink and pulls al $1 notes out, this girl is freaking broke. She is in college in Phoenix and came to vegas with 4 friends and 350 in her pocket WTF? 350, i spend that before i arrive at a club!!!
Anyway chatting away, feeling nothing but hey, carwash has had enough i think he is about to die soon and leaves. Im stuck with the airhead 21 yr old, but hey i am going for 4 nights in a row here. By now Im totally pissed and she dares me to go to cesars and do the hangover party tricks. Im all for it. This girl now starts bitching about her boyfirend....hmmm ok....by now its 5am and we cab it back to NYNY where she is staying I walk her to the lift...Im feeling jiggy she turns stops me and siad we are 3 girls and 2 guys in a small room you cant come up! Ur joking but my run??????? Yep my run ended we exchanged numbers and said wait for tomorrow, tomorrow is a different story she promised.......Ok, I luck out and head back to the wynn.....Its sleep time, finally i get more than 2 hours sleep. I think my body is hammered and i sleep through until I hear my phone...msg....Ms phoenix, Nice.....Meet me tonight at NYNY......DONE baby! Back to sleep i go, I think I have had about 6 hours sleep the past 3 days and i go into total shutdown and sleep until 3pm......I go down stairs and order a pizza the size of a football field, a coke and start firing texts. carwash needs rest he is not going anywhere tonight. Zee german had no credit yesterday he is up for a good time.. I tell Ms phoenix to make sure her cute little friend comes tonight I will have a frind for her. So tonight is organised...Its GAME TIME. Zee german meets me at NYNY at about 10pm. texts are flying between Phoenix and I, The bar guy at pour24 who made a killing from us night 1 is treating me like royalty. He approaches a couple of girls and escorts them our way. You legend man! As we are hitting it off with these 2 from california up rocks the 2 girls from phoenix......Oops what to do. I apologise to the 2 extremely friendly gals exchange numbers and scoot off with the 2 from phoenix. As we head down the escalators Zee german says I think you were very rude man to the other 2.. Was I? Obv I was they never answered my calls the next day.
The girls are smashed we are borderline, we are running around NYNY to MGM and back, gambling.....Im running like God on roulette and am up $400, we start ordering shitloads of drinks for the 4 us tipping the waitress 20 each round....Eventually we move over to NYNy and sit on the couches at the bar, I motion that we should go to their room I get turned down..The other 3 friends are flying out in the morning and are leaving the room at 5 we can go up then....Eventually its time they say goodbye at the lifts to their frinds and we make our way up. Zee german jumps in the bed with his girl and they are like 2 quiet mice Im in with the other Job is done, then this nut case jumps up and starts running around the room shouting "YOUR NUMBER 24, YOUR NUMBER 24" What? Your the 24th guy I have slept with....WTF????
Anyway I doze off and they wake me at 10 zee german is gone, i look at my phone he leaves me a text at about 8 saying he has gone and thanks for the night! (good mate I am) These girls call concierge and ask for someone to come and collect there bags, they ask how many pieces....16 WHAT? 16 pieces for 3 days? RU FCKN MAD! I get up put my jeans and shirt on bid her farewell and GTFO quick smart! What a fckn experience that was!!!!

[Sensei Rob]

Every day is becoming harder and harder....What to do tonight is the only question. Carwash is ready to dance and is wanting Studio54. SO tonight is planned a couple more lads from home have arrived after spending a coupe of weeks touring the US. We tell them to meet us at studio54. Carwash and I go for dinner at the asian restauarant next to the V poker room. Worst service I have ever seen which up to now I have not witnessed but good food. We then head off at about 1030 to MGM, we go in and Carwash is disappointed I want 80's, you hear a hint of it here and there, he gets excitied when it comes on and realises he put on shoes that hurt him and leaves to go back to the V to change shoes. I am flying solo and not feeling it....Theres a few people around not bad for a Tuesday night. An hour later Carwash comes back its Midnight, by now I am starting to get on the happy side I beeline toward 2 girls and start making conversation. I already made my attentions clear as carwash wanders over and gets there attention Im pointing at the brunette mouthing shes mine and the blonde turns around "fuck i got caught".....No she says I want u! WTF?????????? This has never happened to me before......No probs girl I wont complain....Thank fck for me the brunette ended up being married and way too hard as carwash battled valiantly. the other 2 lads finally rock up and its on....Drinks are flowing I am performing dance moves that I never knew I had. We having a great time, we bump into a bunch of other aussie bloke who had just arrived.....Chat to them tell them how this city is unreal off they go in search of girls (gave them the just TALK to them no pick up lines just be normal everyone loves the accent and just say yes I do have a pet kangaroo)
Blondie I remember her name Lauren are getting nice and cosy up against the railing above that 1st step....Then the cokblocker of a friend arrives and drags her away.....Cummon girl u joking me??????? And they charge out.....I look for the boys and they are drinking away at the bar. Carwash gave me the sorry bud I tried she has never been unfaithful and you had no chance so he told her to basically fck off (nicely though) Such is Life! The club shuts and we decide to gamble it up at the MGM we raid a BJ table and teh 4 us start gambling away and we are loosing, I was down 200 for the session and have had enough time to head back. I head of to the wynn grab a cesar salad from the shop cant remember trhe name at the wynn and head off to bed at about 5.

[NyceGuy]

Great so far...sucks for the blonde's friend cb'ing. I truly hate that.

[nassau]

the line of the tr so far" "

broke. She is in college in Phoenix and came to vegas with 4 friends and 350 in her pocket WTF? 350, i spend that before i arrive at a club!!!

.. classic!

[dnix]

nice