Viva Las Vegas

Well in about an hour we are headed to the airport to being our Vegas Vacation. Here's hoping I can at least break even! In addition to the poker we will be playing for hours on end, Ron and I are also planning on playing a round of golf in near 100 degree weather (yikes!) and hitting up The Gun Store, were we will shoot various machine guns and feel like bad asses.




Go see Tropic Thunder for these two reasons:

• Robert Downey Jr. who excels at playing an Australian playing a black guy
  
• Tom Cruise, who I despise as a person, putting on one of the best performances of his career
  

Vegas

Well we leave for Vegas in 18 days and are pretty excited to go. Shannon hasn't been there since she was a kid, and last time I was there I was a 20 year old constantly looking over my shoulder as I played blackjack. It will be nice to go back and be able to sit in the casino, legally, and relax with cocktails.

Ron and I decided to head over to the Livermore Casino on Friday to prep ourselves for Vegas. However, the only thing we prepared for was how to lose money (and, hopefully, that does not happen in Vegas). We sat at a 3 -20 spread limit game, where the blinds are $1 & $3 and the max bet and/or raise is $20. We got murdered. I got no cards (best hand I was dealt all night was pocket 4's) and Ron got a ton of good hands dealt to him, only to get beat by a player that should never have been in the hand. People were taking down $150+ pots with King high or a set of sixes they hit on the river. I left a broken man, but knowing if I had a big enough stack, in enough time the table would be mine for the taking. Just gross.