Vegas Trip Review Sept. 3rd-7th (Long Read)

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Just wanted to start off by saying the reason I'm posting this is because I love reading these myself and assume others do too.

Thursday: Arrive to a surprisingly crowded Las Vegas with my friend Tony @ 2:45 P.M. (apparently some huge convention was there leaving that day before Labor Day weekend). Get to Bally's put a twenty dollar bill between my credit card and driver's liscense and ask for any comp. upgrades. End up getting a junior suite out of it for four nights, not bad for twenty bucks. Go to room get changed and go down to the sportsbook place two hundred dollar bets on college Troy and South Carolina ATS. Go to Bellagio to watch them because it is the only place that I've found in Las Vegas where they don't ask for drink tickets in the sportsbook, they just keep bringing them. Watch both bets lose and have about 8 coors lights. Ended up betting North Texas and Oregon for fifty a piece just because we wanted something to watch. Sat next to an older guy who had 5 grand on Oregon ATS (ouch). One winner one loser. Play blackjack at Bellagio for about 3 hours and break even. Go to eat at some expensive burger place across from the Wynn. Walk through Encore (which is probably the nicest place in Vegas). Play blackjack at Palazzo win $240. Decide to head back to the hotel and end up playing blackjack at Paris. Lose $150. Play roulette at Paris lose $50. Try to get it back at Bally's and lose $300. I also pass up a threesome opportunity with two asians (1 cute 1 fat) because I'm drunk and furious about losing so much the first day. (only brought 800 for the trip down 460 the first night with my shitty money management skills)

Friday: Wake up at noon feeling like shit. We decide to eat at Nathan's hot dogs which was delicious. Go to Bally's Pool and see a ton of people partying. Start drinking again. Leave, get changed, and go back to the Bellagio for the Tulane/Tulsa game. Make a $50 bet on Tulsa first half and $100 bet on Tulsa full game. Both bets are never in question win $150 and have between 8-12 coors lights. Go back to the room wait for my friend Joel to arrive from Phoenix. He gets in at around 9 with two bottles of Crown. Tony, Joel, and I finish a bottle of Crown in an hour and take a cab downtown. Play $5 blackjack at 4 Queens lose $50. Play blackjack @ Binions for 6 hours. Most fun I've ever had at a table in my life, had runs up to $300 and down $150. We were all so so drunk. End up losing $100 but it was well worth it. Get back to the room as the sun is coming out.

Dogwood · Answer

Just wanted to start off by saying the reason I'm posting this is because I love reading these myself and assume others do too.

Thursday: Arrive to a surprisingly crowded Las Vegas with my friend Tony @ 2:45 P.M. (apparently some huge convention was there leaving that day before Labor Day weekend). Get to Bally's put a twenty dollar bill between my credit card and driver's liscense and ask for any comp. upgrades. End up getting a junior suite out of it for four nights, not bad for twenty bucks. Go to room get changed and go down to the sportsbook place two hundred dollar bets on college Troy and South Carolina ATS. Go to Bellagio to watch them because it is the only place that I've found in Las Vegas where they don't ask for drink tickets in the sportsbook, they just keep bringing them. Watch both bets lose and have about 8 coors lights. Ended up betting North Texas and Oregon for fifty a piece just because we wanted something to watch. Sat next to an older guy who had 5 grand on Oregon ATS (ouch). One winner one loser. Play blackjack at Bellagio for about 3 hours and break even. Go to eat at some expensive burger place across from the Wynn. Walk through Encore (which is probably the nicest place in Vegas). Play blackjack at Palazzo win $240. Decide to head back to the hotel and end up playing blackjack at Paris. Lose $150. Play roulette at Paris lose $50. Try to get it back at Bally's and lose $300. I also pass up a threesome opportunity with two asians (1 cute 1 fat) because I'm drunk and furious about losing so much the first day. (only brought 800 for the trip down 460 the first night with my shitty money management skills)

Friday: Wake up at noon feeling like shit. We decide to eat at Nathan's hot dogs which was delicious. Go to Bally's Pool and see a ton of people partying. Start drinking again. Leave, get changed, and go back to the Bellagio for the Tulane/Tulsa game. Make a $50 bet on Tulsa first half and $100 bet on Tulsa full game. Both bets are never in question win $150 and have between 8-12 coors lights. Go back to the room wait for my friend Joel to arrive from Phoenix. He gets in at around 9 with two bottles of Crown. Tony, Joel, and I finish a bottle of Crown in an hour and take a cab downtown. Play $5 blackjack at 4 Queens lose $50. Play blackjack @ Binions for 6 hours. Most fun I've ever had at a table in my life, had runs up to $300 and down $150. We were all so so drunk. End up losing $100 but it was well worth it. Get back to the room as the sun is coming out.

Dogwood · Answer

Saturday: Wake up at 11:30 furious because we missed the start of the morning college games. The game we liked the best out of anyone the whole weekend (Kentucky) had started and our team was up 21-0 at halftime (ended up winning 42-0). I consider that losing a $100. Anyways, go to Bellagio to try and find seats and its packed. Place some bets and go to Caesar's. Standing room only there. Joel goes back to the room to sleep. Tony and I go to Bill's Gambling Hall and find seats in their tiny sports book. Watch the games and start drinking again. We stay there until 8:30 @ night drinking and winnng. I end up winning 7 (Notre Dame, Michigan, Oklahoma St., Texas A&M, Stanford, Alabama, Washington) and losing 2 (Illinois and UTEP) up a little over $400. Our other friends Tyler, Alex, and Mike come in around 9. Tyler brings practically a full bar with him (vodka, whiskey, rum, so co lime mixers etc). Tony and I are already drunk from drinking all day and proceed to get shitfaced. The night goes something like this: Try to play craps at O'Sheas can't pick up the game because I'm too wasted. Somehow arrange a limo to pick us up the next night and take us to a strip club. I do this with 3 different limo drivers. Mike gets hit on by the hottest hooker ever while playing blackjack at Harrah's. Get's her number contemplates paying a grand for one hour. Tony texts her talking about "casual ass play". Tony texts her saying she should find a new profession because she doesn't know what a "ATM" is. She texts back threatning him. End up at a video poker bar across from Bally's with 2 dollar strong 7and7's. The same hooker stumbles in their as well and somehow doesn't see us. We bolt and head back up the strip. Decide to pay 30 bucks a piece and go in the Bank a club inside Bellagio. The night gets real blurry here. I remember dancing with girls, getting sprayed with champagne, having Mike try to lick the champagne off my jacket. Tony making out with a married chick and that's it.

Sunday: Wake up feeling like death around 2. Tony heads home. Mike and I go down bet Colorado against CSU and the sunday night baseball game Over. I want to say it was the Dodgers/Padres . Go to Bellagio not even thinking about drinking. Get there and three dudes from Texas are shitfaced and have bet on the same teams we did. Back on it. Can barely put down a coors light so I switch back to Seagrams. Tyler and Joel come over after sleeping for 14 hours. They start drinking we lose our ass on the football game decide to try and bet out of it during the second half and lose that. Lose the baseball game too. In the process, put down a coors light and 7-8 Seagrams and seven. Drunk again we go eat at Sbarro. Bad idea. The pizza makes us all so tired. Go back up to the room and change. Decide to wake up by doing shots. Have 4 So Co lime shots and head up the strip. Go into the Christian Audglier or whatever its called and contemplate getting bottle service for $150 a bottle. The place is dead. I walk out and sit down at a blackjack table in Treasure Island. I don't win a hand, lose like 7-8 hands in a row and lose $200. Get so pissed I walk all the way back to Bally's alone. Mike and Joel shortly follow. Tyler stumbles in the room at 7 AM shitfaced from playing poker all night at O'sheas. I have limo drivers blowing up my phone all night long.

Monday: Wake up and head home.

All in all it was a really fun trip, I've gone twice a year since I've been able to gamble legally (3 years) so this is my 6th time out there.

Dogwood · Answer

Things I learned this trip:&#xD;&#xA;- Don&#x27;t mix a trying to win money sports betting trip with a crazy party trip. Nothing works out the way you think it will.&#xD;&#xA;- If you plan on partying hard bet your games for the following morning before you start drinking that night.&#xD;&#xA;- Never pay full price to get in a club in Vegas somebody can always get you deal.&#xD;&#xA;- Freemont Street, just like anything, is what you make of it. We had a blast.&#xD;&#xA; &#xD;&#xA;Sports Book Reviews: (only went to 4 this time)&#xD;&#xA;Bellagio: hands down my favorite place to watch the games. Free drinks with no tickets, incredibly fast service, comfy chairs.&#xD;&#xA;Ballys: I know some people like this book a lot but I don&#x27;t. They just renovated it so it looks a lot better now but I just get a bad vibe from it. Maybe it was the 1 ticket per hundo bet policy and the feeling I was putting the guy out asking for tickets.&#xD;&#xA;Caesars: Cool set up people seemed to be having a blast. Awesome if you have money on the two games being played on the huge screens (on my trip these were USC/San Jose St. and Georgia/Oklahoma St.). If you don&#x27;t you have to try and find your game on the smaller tv&#x27;s behind the ticket writer&#x27;s. Oh yea 3 hundo for 1 drink ticket. I know to some of you that isn&#x27;t anything but to me its a little steep.&#xD;&#xA;Bill&#x27;s Gamblin Hall: Call me crazy but I liked watching the games in there. Yes, the chairs do blow but I literally had 8 games on up close right in front of my face.&#xD;&#xA; &#xD;&#xA;Would love to answer any questions if I can, I really enjoy talking about Vegas!

Walter_Sobchak · Answer

I love reading trip reviews...sounds like u had a blast...cant wait to go again

gimmedempoints · Answer

I love these these write ups!  Sounds like a good drunken time.&#xD;&#xA; &#xD;&#xA;Can&#x27;t wait to go back again too Walter!

rushyyz · Answer

Great write up Dogwood... I love going to Bills GH when I go to Vegas, just to get away from all the glitz and glamour for a while.  I&#x27;m ready for my annual birthday trip in March only 6 months away

woody7777 · Answer

Great times it sounds like!  Can&#x27;t wait for my next trip (end of October)

Fugettaboutit · Answer

I liked reading about your trip.You must be 20 something because once you hit the 30 mark those drunken nights hurt so much worse! Enjoy while you can!

smalltimer · Answer

good read

Vegas Trip Review Sept. 3rd-7th (Long Read)

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