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Published: August 17th 2009
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Woke at 0930 after a surprisingly good nights sleep. We walked around Fremont Street and found breakfast at Fremont Hotel and Casino. I ordered the Ultimate Breakfast Omelette and was asked if I wanted Swiss or American cheese. Turns out American cheese is a thin square layer of nuclear yellow stuff that vaguely resembles plastic - I would have been sure it was plastic but plastic tastes better.
We stopped in at Lost Vegas a gambling museum with all sorts of memorabilia from the mafia and rat pack days of Las Vegas. I was looking for a chip from the old Sands Casino but the $95 price tag for a $1 chip was a little over budget.
We caught a bus to what I thought was the strip but soon realized we were heading in the wrong direction (North not south). We found the Poker Palace and Jo played some $1 blackjack for half an hour. She started with $20 and finished with $18 - all in all not bad entertainment for $2.
An hour or so later we finally arrived on the Strip. We visited Stratosphere on the north end first. We were approached by a tout
offering free tickets to a show. Despite my claims that I doubted he was genuinely giving away anything for free he continued. We ended up signing up for a two hour time share seminar at the end of which we could get dinner and a show. He required a $20 deposit to ensure we were going to show up. I figured it was either a cheap show and dinner or an amusing anecdote about getting ripped off in Vegas. At the time of writing (1940 sitting at Fatburger) I am still not sure whether we are going to see anything at all.
We spent a fair bit of time at the Nascar Café - a neat place entirely devoted to NASCAR. They had a few replica cars and plenty of memorabilia and souvenirs on display. They also had a roller coaster starting inside the building looping around outside and going across to the Sahara casino and up about a hundred feet then stopping and doing the whole thing in reverse.
Our first casino stop was Wynn Resort where we watched a few hands of poker and I bought some $1 chips and a packet of cards. Wynn was
a classy casino - much nicer than the few casinos we went into in Downtown last night. Most importantly the drinks girls had shorter skirts, longer legs and bigger breasts. Next was the Venetian - a fairly good attempt at a replication of Venice, Italy complete with operatic gondolier. We wandered upstairs to the mall above where everything was done Venetian style - right down to the amazing paintings on the roof. After brief stops at Harrahs and Paris I spotted Fatburger and we just had to get dinner. Amongst their advertising was a sign stating “Do you really think that man clawed his way to the top of the food chain to eat soy?”
Additional! We have been approached by no less than 20 people offering show tickets for free. I suspect the odds of getting our $20 back are not looking good. We visited a few more casinos before finally building up the courage to join a game of no limit hold’em at the MGM. My plan was to wait a few rounds to get an idea of the players at the table before playing a pot. On the 3rd hand of the night I was
dealt AK of spades and the bloke to my right raised the $2 big blind to $15. I called - as did a bloke on my left. The flop came Xs-Xs-Kd giving me top pair and the nut flush draw. The bloke on my right bet $20 and I min-raised to $40. Everyone folded to me and I was up almost double after my first hand.
We sat at the table for an hour or so before leaving exactly $28 each up. The rest of the night was spent looking through New York New York, The Bellagio (with its famous poker room) and the Rio. We got back to the Golden Gate around 0200.
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