Today's Quiz: You know it's a virgin drink, right? (VEGASTORY 5 of 6)
Stories of failed poker tournaments are vastly uninteresting and difficult to follow even when you know all the players and terms used. I bought in for the $60 Harrah's tournament at 10 am about forty minutes before it started. That time was meant for me to grow $140 to $200 in craps to fund the tournament. Instead I ended up walking out of Harrah's short $200. The next tournament I wanted to play was the 3 pm at Caesar's and had zero intention of gambling at all before that. Which I was amazingly able to do. I think I might've hit a wall on Friday night; I was also rather hurting from the celebration post Xavier win.
Caesars, similar to Wynn, was running a poker tournament series that canceled most of their usual daily tournaments - but kept the buy-ins somewhat reasonable. They had correctly geared it towards the basketball fan population calling it, "Hoops & Hold'em." I chose the series' event: Saturday's 4:00 PM $130 double stack with 20 minute "turbo" levels. The time before it was killed by watching Richmond and Wisconsin make it to the Sweet 16. Watching the end of games in the Caesars Sports Book is always a spectacle.
A headphoned man who had seen my late night IP poker celebration/meltdown the night before
An attractive nurse from North Carolina, but moved to Vegas a few months ago with her professional poker playing boyfriend.
A man from Sweden that was wearing a Sturgis Motorcycle Rally T-Shirt
That T-Shirt: It was not a shirt from the Rally, just an Urban Outfitters type of tight graphic tee referencing the annual event in Montana. I'm the farthest thing from a motorcycle enthusiast, but I know that Sturgis is a big deal. Someone else at our table was from Montana, and he made a mention of it to the Swede in the Shirt. Now I understand the Swede was not communicating to us in his first language, but he had no idea of any large bike rally. He was wearing the shirt because it "looked cool" to the anger of the man from Montana. I tried to cut him some slack, mentioning that I like a few bands from Sweden. He wanted to know which ones - so I told him Peter Bjorn and John along with Miike Snow. I didn't expect him to have heard of Miike Snow, but how can you not know of PB&J? The man was an impostor.
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks by Pedro Rossi
Meanwhile, Mr. Charming wondered aloud what music was playing in the headphones at the end of the table. This is when I went into one of my most repeated jokes: "Probably Yanni." That line almost always gets a shock chuckle, even if they don't want to laugh. And sticking to the playbook I followed it up with the, "It makes sense, very calming music to settle your heart rate during cards... Personally, I prefer John Tesh."
Typed Quintessentially by TQ @ 7:45 PM
Today's Quiz: You know it's a virgin drink, right? (VEGASTORY 5 of 6)
Stories of failed poker tournaments are vastly uninteresting and difficult to follow even when you know all the players and terms used. I bought in for the $60 Harrah's tournament at 10 am about forty minutes before it started. That time was meant for me to grow $140 to $200 in craps to fund the tournament. Instead I ended up walking out of Harrah's short $200. The next tournament I wanted to play was the 3 pm at Caesar's and had zero intention of gambling at all before that. Which I was amazingly able to do. I think I might've hit a wall on Friday night; I was also rather hurting from the celebration post Xavier win.
Caesars, similar to Wynn, was running a poker tournament series that canceled most of their usual daily tournaments - but kept the buy-ins somewhat reasonable. They had correctly geared it towards the basketball fan population calling it, "Hoops & Hold'em." I chose the series' event: Saturday's 4:00 PM $130 double stack with 20 minute "turbo" levels. The time before it was killed by watching Richmond and Wisconsin make it to the Sweet 16. Watching the end of games in the Caesars Sports Book is always a spectacle.
A headphoned man who had seen my late night IP poker celebration/meltdown the night before
An attractive nurse from North Carolina, but moved to Vegas a few months ago with her professional poker playi
ng boyfriend.
A man from Sweden that was wearing a Sturgis Motorcycle Rally T-Shirt
That T-Shirt: It was not a shirt from the Rally, just an Urban Outfitters type of tight graphic tee referencing the annual event in Montana. I'm the farthest thing from a motorcycle enthusiast, but I know that Sturgis is a big deal. Someone else at our table was from Montana, and he made a mention of it to the Swede in the Shirt. Now I understand the Swede was not communicating to us in his first language, but he had no idea of any large bike rally. He was wearing the shirt because it "looked cool" to the anger of the man from Montana. I tried to cut him some slack, mentioning that I like a few bands from Sweden. He wanted to know which ones - so I told him Peter Bjorn and John along with Miike Snow. I didn't expect him to have heard of Miike Snow, but how can you not know of PB&J? The man was an impostor.
Peter Bjorn and John - Young Folks by Pedro Rossi
Meanwhile, Mr. Charming wondered aloud what music was playing in the headphones at the end of the table. This is when I went into one of my most repeated jokes: "Probably Yanni." That line almost always gets a shock chuckle, even if they don't want to laugh. And sticking to the playbook I followed it up with the, "It makes sense, very calming music to settle your heart rate during cards... Personally, I prefer John Tesh."
Typed Quintessentially by TQ @ 7:45 PM