New Phone Number

Well.... I have been here over 6 months now, so I finally got a local number in vegas. I still didn't bother getting a home phone, but I did change my cell phone to a vegas number... so I guess that means I am going to stay for awhile :) However, in my infinite wisdom we bought a marvelous new couch at Walker furniture. It has 2 recliners, and a sleeper sofa... so very comfy! We both LOVE it. In order to make getting the couch the MOST challenging possible, we gave them my old phone number to call for delivery directions... then I went to Cingular and changed it. Obvious this worked very well when they called to get directions! We ended up having to call the office, get the number changed, have them call the driver, blah blah blah... Long story short. We have a couch and a living room... very exciting.

I mentioned earlier that I was working to get my hours in for the Station Freeroll in October. Estie had 74.9 out of the 75 hours she needed, and I was not quite as close. So Estie and I headed up to the Red Rock to work on my next installment of hours. I decided to make this as challenging as possible and dropped 400 dollars in the first hour. I managed through some miracle to get back to even and even cashed out a nice 60 dollar profit (which was a huge improvement over down 400). Estie was killing the 4/8 game turning a 90 dollar profit in the same time (she was smart enough not to stress herself out and stayed up almost the whole time). The night really got interesting when about 9 PM the 200,000 dollar station casino bad beat jackpot was hit at Boulder Station. Luckily the rules of the bad beat are the loser gets 45,000 of that, the winner gets 35,000, and every other player in every other station casino gets to split the rest of it. Estie and I were both playing when it hit, so the two of us along with 387 of our closest friends all got $345 each. It was a very nice capper to an already fun night out together playing poker.

Friday afternoon on the way home from work I stop to see how close I am to my hours... I need 75 and I have 67.7! BAH! that is 7.3 away from the requirement and I have to work Saturday night and we are going to some friends Saturday afternoon... so I guess I need to finish it Friday Night. An 8 hour marathon here we come!

So I buy in for 200 (the max at 1-2 no-limit), and on the 3rd hand run into Ace's with my 6's on an 8 high flop and manage to only lose 120 on that hand... so I cap off for another 100 and build back to even before hitting 2 pair against better 2 pair and going back down to 100 and recapping off to 200 for my final cash in my wallet. A few missed draws, and some missed flops and I am sitting at a little over 100 out of my 400 left, and only about 1.5 hours into the night... BOO!!!! I buckle down and determine not to play scared, but to play smarter... If I lose the 100 I have left, then I just won't get the hours... whatever, it has still been a good week.

7 hours later I am still playing, recouped all 300 of the lost money and another 525 on top of that. I really didn't play any huge hands, just nickle and dime stuff. I got Aces 3 times and managed to win all 3 times with them for a net of about 200 on those 3 hands, a flopped flush, and a straight made nice payouts... A very satisfying night until the end. Now Red Rock uses these login/logout system where when you get up from the table they push a button and you get no time while you are not there. It is a solid idea, and prevents abuse of people logging in and going for a 3 hour lunch... however, when someone forgets to punch you back in you fail to get the time, or as happened to me when someone logs someone into YOUR seat you get booted out and get no time. So I finish my 8 hour marathon and head to check to make sure I am all good and after 8.5 hours of playing, I am credited with 6.5! WTF! Apparently I lost 30 mins to dinner (which I expected) and another 30 mins to someone else sitting in my seat! BAH! I was falling asleep at the table (I don't play well asleep...) and even though I am still 40 minutes short I am going to bed anyways... I will find a way to get an hour tomorrow I guess.

The work schedule is out for next week, and with 1 person leaving for Green Valley I am back up to 4 days including 3 8 PM - 4 AM shifts (my favorite shift) and I got a 7 PM - 3 AM shift added for this coming Saturday. An overall very decent schedule for the week, and with thursday and Friday off a good time to take a ride up the mountain or go do something else fun.