I had to work in the morning but I wasn't planning on being there long. Jason and I were waiting for our friend from Idaho, Justin, to arrive and then we'd be on the road. He had a work meeting in the morning and would leave soon after. My day dragged on even though I was super busy. A part of me was already check raising tourists on the felt and the other was sipping daiquiris (fully dressed with whipped cream & umbrella of course) while naked chicks were grinding their ass on my crotch. Oh how I love Vegas...

The not so long drive from Idaho turned into us leaving town at 4:30. So much for being ahead of traffic. Jason had this ellaborate route planned out to take Redwood Road out to the west side of Utah Lake and pop out somewhere in Payson to avoid the congestion/construction in Happy Valley. I'm like wtf!? I was able to convince him to take the normal I-15 route like 100% of Utahns and there was hardly any congestion. I run so good!

We passed time BS'ing about how rich we were going to get, who's schlong is bigger, and how many times Bob's taken a broomstick in the arse. You know, typical dude stuff. We made a quick pit stop for fuel in Mesquite and Justin stuck a couple quarters in the slots and whadya know, we earned some free snacks!

I want to say we arrived at our destination hotel, Hooter's, some time between 9 - 10 pm locally. We checked in, did the usual sight seeing of the place, and took it easy for the most part. My companions called it a night pretty early but me, I can never sleep in Vegas. Skipped on over the the poker table and they had two tables of 1/2 NLHE going. I put my name on the list and was called shortly thereafter. I had a typical table of good, average, and terrible players. It didn't take me more than an orbit to know who was who. I bought in for the table max of $200 and played tight as usual. Its the one great thing I get to enjoy when I play outside the group; table image = tight. I dipped to a low of $150ish and this hand comes up. 2 limpers in front, button, who's been very active, raises to $12. I peak at KK in the blind and pop it to $35. 1 of the limpers calls to my surprise and the button calls. Flop comes 8 9 J rainbow. With the stacks as they were, I shoved and was instacalled by the limper and button folds. Q fell the river and he tables A10o. Nice call sir...He plays maybe another orbit and goes gets some hookers and blow with my money. FML

Dig back into my pocket and pull another $200 out. This buy in was also uneventful since I ran top 2 pair into bottom set on a flop where I'm never going to fold and he just happens to have a stupid set so blah...Obviously this wasn't going to be a good night so I saved the 3rd buy in for another day...