Brune blows through town

Oh boy... I always forget how crazy a few days with Ken can be, and how people who don't live in Vegas have to do EVERYTHING right now... sleep is for the plane ride home.

Ken got in Sunday afternoon and was staying at the Venetian so I met them over there after they finished lunch. We played there for a little while before decided to head downtown for the best blackjack in town as well as cheaper food. It turned out downtown was awesome! A great microbrewery, some awesome blackjack and craps games, and some amazingly cool old-style vegas entertainment.

Downtown Vegas is a very interesting place. They have setup the "Fremont Street Experience" which is a very nice road (which noone is allowed to drive on) with vendors and entertainment, a light show and musc. Add in all the lights and glitter from all the casinos littering the corners and it was very entertaining. I really like it a lot.

Downtown was good to us for awhile, and the beer at Main Street was AWESOME. Unfortunately we found Binions and a great single deck, 3/2 game with a 25 dollar min and the dealer proceeded to lay the beatdown on me and Ken pretty serious like. Unfortunately Binions wiped us out and we hung around a few more places until around 10 and we headed back to the Venetian so Ken could get some more money, and played there until around 1 AM before hitting the sack. The plan the next day was to play the 9:30 AM at Paris so we needed our rest.

Unfortunately Ken's roommate had to be at the conference at 7 AM so he was up at 6 and I couldn't sleep so I didn't get asleep until 3. So we were both exhausted and tapped out of the Paris tournament early. We decided to hit the Ballys 11 AM but there was only one seat left. I took it and Ken played blackjack. He was up 400 at BJ and I managed to take 3rd thanks to an INSANE outdraw. I get KQ on the bigblind with only 8500 total (4000 is the big blind), a min raise from UTG and I have to call with only 4500 behind. He flips up KK for a massive hand and me drawing so slim it wasn't even funny. The flop is J/10/9 for the nut straight. No Q and I take the whole pot and cruise into 3rd place.

After that and some craps I drop Ken at the Venetian for a nap and I head home to rest up. I managed to get an hour nap or so before we headed back out on Monday night. A quick trip to Circus Circus, Rivieara, the Wynn and Frontier managed to net me 700 for the day and a 2 AM bedtime again. Unfortunately for Ken, he went to the Strat without me and got crushed so he was cruising around at down 1500.

We agreed to sleep in on Tuesday morning as we were both tired... My version of sleeping in was till around 2... Ken's was till about 10 AM before he was back down gambling it up. I met up with him and Kevin at TI around 5 after getting tickets to the Star Trek Experience at the Hilton then we headed over to there.

Now I don't get motion sickness very bad, but some people do... If you do, avoid the motion rides (DUH!) which Startrek is. I loved every minute of it... the history museum on the way into the theatre, and the live action actors acting out the scenes before the motion ride at the end... They have the Klingon one and the Borg one and I of course had to do both of them.

We ended up playing until 4 AM at the Hilton with me hitting a massive craps run at the end to finish up 900, and Ken catching some monster cards at the blackjack table to pull back to down only a grand. A funny story on the way to the buffet :)

Kevin and I are starving, so we are heading to the buffet. While we are waiting to cashout Ken sits down at a roulette table and wins his first bet... So he tells us he will meet us at the buffet in a minute. Needless to say 45 mins later the buffet is closed, and we are ken-less still. Bruneville was rocking the blackjack tables when we got out, and had managed to acquire a comp to the paradise cafe so he could eat later.