Drunken Cowboy
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Had to move my flight up to very early because of the hurricane. I only slept about an hour last night, but I am on the plane. Fired up and tired.FFPC weekend coming up
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shadrap
Footballguy
you won't be tired when you see the Vegas lights. good luck in your draft. a little hair of the dog will help. {experience}
my son is flying out tomorrow for an FFPC live main event draft.
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
Drunken knight
Footballguy
Drunken knight
Footballguy
2 1/2 hr delay
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
Landing now
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
I got home last night from an 11 day Nevada golf vacation. We golfed in Incline, South Lake, Carson City, Gardnerville... Vegas and Henderson. BUT, one experience blew them all away. I didn't search to see if anyone recommended this but...
I cannot recommend a better day for golfers in "Vegas" than the Paiute Golf Resort about 40 minutes north of town. You're not just far away from the bright lights and hustle of Vegas. You can see the highway in the distance and nothing but desert in every direction as far as you can see. Surreal really. A stretch limo for 45 minutes and your there. $40 bucks each for your foursome. That's both ways. And well, just three great course (i only played the original). This is a really great, really unique experience. Do it golfers.
I cannot recommend a better day for golfers in "Vegas" than the Paiute Golf Resort about 40 minutes north of town. You're not just far away from the bright lights and hustle of Vegas. You can see the highway in the distance and nothing but desert in every direction as far as you can see. Surreal really. A stretch limo for 45 minutes and your there. $40 bucks each for your foursome. That's both ways. And well, just three great course (i only played the original). This is a really great, really unique experience. Do it golfers.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
coyote5
Footballguy
WYNN Slots is completely nerfed now according to Reddit. I haven't looked at it closely yet but sounds like they introduced VIP levels, for which you need to be level 2 in order to get the comped rooms. Achieving level two is nearly impossible without spending real $$.
https://www.reddit.com/r/WynnSlots/comments/d2ztly/vip/
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
Anybody see this "venue tax" business? Seems bars/restaurants at park mgm are charging an extra hidden fee. Some places at sahara (formerly sls, formerly...ummmm...sahara?) are doing this too.
kevzilla
Footballguy
Tons of place do this. Google "Vegas concession fee" before your trip. Spreading like a plague.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
It looks like the tide on that fee has turned. I can only find like 6 places doing it.
Hopefully this venue fee gets nipped in the bud quick too. Looks like it was as high as 12%.
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
My last hand of the trip:
I have been playing for a few hours my gf and friends are all in bed. It is about that time. I am playing Pai Gow poker. I have $100 bet out. I am betting $5 on the fortune bonus. I thank the dealer and put $5 for him on the bonus and put $5 out on the progressive bet as well. I hit a straight flush. I win my hand, 50 to 1 on fortune, and an extra $500 on the progressive bet.
Can't wait for my next trip.
I have been playing for a few hours my gf and friends are all in bed. It is about that time. I am playing Pai Gow poker. I have $100 bet out. I am betting $5 on the fortune bonus. I thank the dealer and put $5 for him on the bonus and put $5 out on the progressive bet as well. I hit a straight flush. I win my hand, 50 to 1 on fortune, and an extra $500 on the progressive bet.
Can't wait for my next trip.
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
Always fun to hit something like that. A few years ago I sat down at 3 Card Poker for the first time, 'cause some friends were playing it. It's an interesting game, in that you can lose quickly, you can win a LOT quickly, or you can just sit there and ride the coaster for quite a while as you imbibe. I did a lot of the latter.
Until I was down to my last $75. I thought about asking for check change and drawing it out, but I was just about done anyway, and it seemed awfully coincidental 3 chips and 3 bets. So I plunked down my 3 $25 chips and waited for Kevorkian the dealer to administer her mercy. But a strange thing happened on the way to Bustville. If you don't know 3 card Poker, the first bet is your Ante. The second bet is that you'll get a pair or better. The third bet is what they call a six card bonus. If your 3 cards PLUS her 3 cards yield three of a kind or better, you get paid on a sliding scale. 1 to 1 for 3 of a kind. 1000 to 1 for a Royal Flush.
So I got my cards and took a look. This is the point at which you have to decide if you want to make a 4th bet, to play against the dealer's 3 blind cards. That bet has to match your Ante. My buddy said he knew I had something good because he's never seen me reach for money that quickly. Well, I did. I placed my bet, and she flipped over my straight flush (J-Q-Ks). Which won my bet, my ante, and my pairs or better bet. But the 6 card bonus payout on that straight flush was 40 to 1. A nice little bonus to be sure.
But if she flips the A-10 of spades, we're goin' to ##########in' Sizzler. And we're taking her with us.
'Twas not to be, of course. But it made the rest of the weekend so much easier.
Until I was down to my last $75. I thought about asking for check change and drawing it out, but I was just about done anyway, and it seemed awfully coincidental 3 chips and 3 bets. So I plunked down my 3 $25 chips and waited for Kevorkian the dealer to administer her mercy. But a strange thing happened on the way to Bustville. If you don't know 3 card Poker, the first bet is your Ante. The second bet is that you'll get a pair or better. The third bet is what they call a six card bonus. If your 3 cards PLUS her 3 cards yield three of a kind or better, you get paid on a sliding scale. 1 to 1 for 3 of a kind. 1000 to 1 for a Royal Flush.
So I got my cards and took a look. This is the point at which you have to decide if you want to make a 4th bet, to play against the dealer's 3 blind cards. That bet has to match your Ante. My buddy said he knew I had something good because he's never seen me reach for money that quickly. Well, I did. I placed my bet, and she flipped over my straight flush (J-Q-Ks). Which won my bet, my ante, and my pairs or better bet. But the 6 card bonus payout on that straight flush was 40 to 1. A nice little bonus to be sure.
But if she flips the A-10 of spades, we're goin' to ##########in' Sizzler. And we're taking her with us.
'Twas not to be, of course. But it made the rest of the weekend so much easier.
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
I had a 6 card straight flush earlier in the weekend. The last card was a black q. I needed a q of clubs for a 40k hit, but it was the q of spades.
Brony
Footballguy
Played 3 card poker for the first time on my trip last week. As I was reading up before I left, the 'experts' advice was to not play the pair bonus nor 6 card bonus, but everyone out there was playing all three (or whatever was available pre deal).
It might be more mindless than roulette to play, which could be good or bad thing depending on your mood. Ultimately success comes down to the cards you get, and I was getting bad cards both times I played.
It might be more mindless than roulette to play, which could be good or bad thing depending on your mood. Ultimately success comes down to the cards you get, and I was getting bad cards both times I played.
parasaurolophus
Footballguy
I dont even like touching door handles. The thought of having sex with a hooker makes me want to vomit and spray lysol on my penis.
jvdesigns2002
Footballguy
If you want a fun, inexpensive casual place to have lunch--Crack Shack just in front of Park MGM has great fried chicken and great fried chicken sandwiches. The Firebird is really good if you want something spicy. Next door to Crack Shack is Eataly--which is a cool place to go if you like good quality Italian "street food". They have great sandwiches and you can create your own cheese/meat/bread platters. They also have really tasty Italian pastries and chocolates. It's basically set up like an italian street market. It's a cool place to go for lunch.Tiger Fan said:
Rodrigo Duterte
Footballguy
When are you going, where are you staying?Tiger Fan said:
kutta
Footballguy
I’ll second those recommendations, and actually that whole area. They’ve done it very nicely, and there’s some good spots over by NYNY. You can’t go wrong wandering around there and picking a spot.
ffldrew
Footballguy
After a big night at tables in the MGM had two girls come up and ask if I wanted "to party"
shadrap
Footballguy
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
One of our favorite pastimes in Vegas has become hooker/not a hooker. Occasionally tougher than you might think at Circle Bar in NYNY.
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
Once resulting in a provocatively dressed young lady yelling at one of our GBs, "OH MY GOD, YOU THINK I'M A HOOKER!?!?!? WTF?!?"
Good times.
Good times.
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
"You girls party?"
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
I was pleasantly surprised by Eataly. It's a massive waste of space. There's a ton of overlap in the food between counters. They could have accomplished the same thing with a fraction of the Sq Ft they used. And it's not cheap for what it is. But the quality was there. Had the Arancini and a Traditional at the sandwich counter. It's not fine dining, but both better than I expected.
Sideshow Bob
Footballguy
Though it's also possible at that time that nine fine irishmen would have influenced me to believe anything tasted good.
Worm
slimy ninja
Senor Schmutzig
Footballguy
The greatest part of Eataly is the fact that you can walk in off the strip, walk straight through it and when you exit, you are at Best Friend.
THAT'S where you want to eat....
THAT'S where you want to eat....
Gawain
Footballguy
So, starting to plan my youngest brother's bachelor party in Vegas.
Targeting May 14-18.
Get in on Thursday and get settled.
Friday go hard
Saturday go hard
Sunday recuperate
Monday fly out
Normally I go around March Madness, so spend 90% of my time in a book.
My rough itinerary is:
Friday: Battlefield Vegas...Dinner...Strip Club
Saturday: Pool Cabana...Dinner...Night Club
Sunday: Zion tour or something...Dinner
I'm concerned about cost for some of the guys that are invited. Any recommendations for what I should be planning? Figure we have 6-10 guys who will come.
Targeting May 14-18.
Get in on Thursday and get settled.
Friday go hard
Saturday go hard
Sunday recuperate
Monday fly out
Normally I go around March Madness, so spend 90% of my time in a book.
My rough itinerary is:
Friday: Battlefield Vegas...Dinner...Strip Club
Saturday: Pool Cabana...Dinner...Night Club
Sunday: Zion tour or something...Dinner
I'm concerned about cost for some of the guys that are invited. Any recommendations for what I should be planning? Figure we have 6-10 guys who will come.
Chaos Commish
Footballguy
If you're craving bbq there's a few Bell's Bbqs in the valley. Don't go.
If it's pizza, there's a few Joe's in the valley. Go.
If it's pizza, there's a few Joe's in the valley. Go.
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
I would ask what everyone is planning to spend before planning anything. Lotus of Siam is a great dinner without spending too much.Gawain said:
Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
It depends on who can't afford it. If the groom's best friend can't come because of cost it would be a downer.
I would lay out the expectation that everyone doesn't need to come along for all the planned things.
Rick James
Footballguy
Looooooooove me some Pai Gow. I sat at a table in Caesars for roughly 8 hours one time. Finished in the black about $800 which is damn near impossible with all the pushing
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parasaurolophus
Footballguy
If you are concerned about cost it is probably too expensive.Gawain said:
I had a friend that got married pretty late in life, he had his bachelor party in Vegas. There was literally no regard for cost at first, which irritated several people. Most people had families and paying tons of money for a drink with dry ice in it really wasn't important anymore.
Me and another buddy arrived a day later than everybody (we hiked zion). We had been to vegas probably more than all the other guys combined and we didn't have any issues speaking up or offering up alternatives. Once people realized it was ok to not always do everything as a group, it was all so much more fun.
Most of the best memories from that trip involved just hanging out as a group anyway. I think the most fun we had was just boozing it up in the suite and somebody had brought this. Very few times I have laughed so hard. Since we had rented a car for zion, we got lots of good local beer and food for the suite. The next best memory I have was all of us playing black jack at one table where every time they had to shuffle the deck the last two guys stood up and everybody slid down and two guys sat down. The waitress had no problems bringing everybody a beer every time she came around.
Osaurus
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Drunken Cowboy
Footballguy
For those travelling from east to west, what do you do when you wake up super early in vegas? no matter how late I stay up or how much I drink, I find myself always waking up at 5-6am Vegas time and look for things to do to kill time then. I typically end the night with some sort of meal, so I'm never overly hungry. I usually just stroll downtown (we stay downtown) with a coffee and people watch....but that gets old. It looks like even the earliest spas don't open until 10am...b/c that would be perfect.
any suggestions? (schtick and non schtick)
eta - looks like the golden nugget spa opens at 6am
any suggestions? (schtick and non schtick)
eta - looks like the golden nugget spa opens at 6am
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