World Series ends and the rest of the year begins

The World Series is finally over... It was pretty easy for awhile, then really kicked into high gear for the last 2 weeks before trailing off quickly. The 12 hour, no break days ended after Day 2 on Wednesday and then it was pretty short work from there on staying at 7-8 hours or less. I won't get the final check until Thursday, hopefully it will be a good one and I can relax a little on bills.

Now I have to decide what I am going to do now. I was offered a full time position at Imperial Palace (technically extra board which just means no benefits, no normal shifts, and no guaranteed hours. But it is still 40 hours a week basically), and had an audition at Treasure Island, in addition I was offered a spot on the Card Player Cruise in December, and a spot at the WSOP Circuit event in Tunica in September.

The only problem now is working all these options together and figuring out where to go.. .For now, I am working at Imperial Palace and will see how it all fits together in a week or so when I hear about Treasure Island.

When I worked at the World Poker Tour at Mandalay Bay they gave me 2 free tix to see Mama Mia which is a musical based on the music of Abba. A very good, very family oriented show... very nicely done. Then at the World Series I was given 2 free tix to both Clint Holmes and ERocktica. Clint Holmes is a one hit wonder from 30 years ago (he had a song called Playground of my mind - My name is michael) and nothing since. But it turned out to be a lovely tribute show, and very touching.

I then went and show Erocktica. Now it is effectively the same thing as the Clint Holmes show, cover tunes, etc... except instead of an amazing live band behind the 2 singers, it was a group of dancers and recorded music. VERY VERY loud recorded music, and lots of smoke machines, etc... WE ended up getting seats up in the 2nd row, and since the dancers were all topless it made for a very interesting show. It is really a sad state of affairs that I was watching the show at one point and didn't even realize they had put their tops BACK on... how sad is that! The singers were both very good... but I think there are better shows in vegas if you want to see Topless dancers and live music.