fist pumping /// thumbs up...

:fist pumping: wow, what a weekend.

hahahahah.

so i dont know where to start
i guess i'll start it with the quote from Dick, "I Like to Party."

so lets get this shindig started. i was soo excited to go to vegas, mostly bc i've never been since i've turned 21. it's pretty much the thing i wanted to do, but kinda didn't cuz i dont think my family is much of a party time (over 1/2 have kids under 5) so that doesn't exactly equate easy times. anyways, i finally got to go for Russ' 21st bday and i dont think i would've missed this for the world. i mean, he is my brother and two, he is my brother. so yeah, i would've gladly quit job (had i not quit when i did) and gone to this. well, a better sacrifice would be i would have given up half my roll for this.

so we get on the plane, and did i mention that russ' parents are more than generous and baller to pay for our airfare and hotel ?!? wth. -_- too nice. this just doesn't happen everyday, so BIG THANKS to them.

it takes us a little under an hour to get there and i don't think that it was even that long. we land, get our stuff and cab it to Bally's. We dropped our stuff off and met up with the family. we hadn't eaten yet, so i suggested the Bellagio buffet. (doing it baller status, right?) and well, it was AMAZING. i <3 the lamb/crab/kobebeef/primerib/etc. so we all agreed, "it was worth it."
then after the feast, we started with the gambling.

(sidenote: i personally hate the pit games, BUT when you're with you're friends, it IS lots of fun. but i feel that i'm -ev at the games and am just a spewtard, IMO)
so we get back to bally's and pregame with some goose shots (leopard print shot cups for me, no doubt) and jack/coke. best jack/coke ever, thanks to brian. =D

we get downstairs finally and i'm feeling loose, so we start playing black jack in the "party pit" where they give you party beads and decks of cards when you spike blackjack. so i do about even and it's whatevers since i had like two beers (newcastle, mmm) then the guys wanted to walk around, and i was going to play some poker at caesar's. gosh that was so convenient it's like right across the street. so the guys ended up walking to mgm? or somewhere on the strip and i'm off to caesars.

i make my way into the poker room and put my name on the 1-3 NLH game. you can apparently buy in for 100-500 so i was contemplating buying in deep. but the stacks at my game were <100bb so i figured i wouldn't bother and just bought in for 300.
if you don't care about what the hands were and just want to know the end result...i came up 200.

if you care about the hands...here they are best as i remember.
2nd hand in, i have AKo raise to 12. guy behind me immediately flats. girl sitting on 13bb's shoves. folds back to me. i look at the guy's stack behind me, and he has 50bb. i shove my stack in and he mucks JJ face up. (what a nit) the girl shows QQ. of course, it was my first time in vegas so i spike the A on the flop and the board bricks out.

oh so right before this, i get greeted by this guy in a hat (who's at my table) and glasses who looks like the dude from big daddy, the one who steals adam sandlers g/f in the beginning who is the cook at hooters at the end...Sid was his name. actually donk is closer.

so i have KcQc in the hijack. MP makes it 20 with one limp in front
i flat. and limper folds out, he has 110 in his stack and he bets out 30 on
the flop of Jc 9c 4d
i think about it and ship it in. he tanks and folds.

- -Side hand - -
so a huge hand goes down with that same guy who i just had a hand with
[17:11] faithfulxservant: he bets like 30% of his stack PF
[17:11] faithfulxservant: and gets two callers
[17:11] faithfulxservant: flop goes J 9 5 with two spades.
[17:12] faithfulxservant: Og raiser puts his stack in
[17:12] faithfulxservant: this other guy calls
[17:12] faithfulxservant: the guy behind him, the glasses and hat guy, Cid thinks and shoves all in. the guy who called thinks and calls it was like...150 more to call. there was like 30 in PF so total of 90. on the flop it was 60 (OG All in), then 60 (tank/flat call), then 210(Cid Allin) and then a call (flat caller) so the pot was 240 main pot.
OG raiser has KK, Flat/call has AJo, and Cid has QT
board rolls 7, 8. so Cid hits his oesd and scoops a huge pot that he didn't even have his flush draw on.

so anyways, this hand occurs like...a few hands later, which is why i played it the way i did.
[17:15] faithfulxservant: in the SB i have A5o and it gets like limped 6 or 7 ways so i call 2 more
[17:16] faithfulxservant: BB checks
[17:16] faithfulxservant: flop is Jd 5d 5s
[17:16] faithfulxservant: i check
[17:16] faithfulxservant: BB bets 20 (he's the guy with AJ)
[17:16] faithfulxservant: the guy behind him (the glasses and hat (QT)) raises to 100
[17:16] faithfulxservant: folds around to me
[17:16] faithfulxservant: i ship
[17:16] faithfulxservant: in my head fistpumping
[17:16] faithfulxservant: the guy behind me folds
[17:16] faithfulxservant: and the other guy ships
[17:16] faithfulxservant: and shows me a 5
[17:17] faithfulxservant: pot was like close to 800
[17:17] faithfulxservant: turn and river goes 7, 7.
[17:17] faithfulxservant: and i'm like. if you have a jack, that's the worst.
[17:17] faithfulxservant: he shows a 6 for a rivered boat that was saved...
[17:17] faithfulxservant: and i shake my head and we chop.

the AJo guy is tilting a few hands later and ships $92 AI PF (all in preflop) and i find ATs so i call. i hit my T on the flop and that's the end of his run here. but yeah. $200. ship iT!

anyways, that's the end of my poker stories, cuz i didn't get another chance to play. so the next day, we wake up and go to the cal to play, Omg... California>justin's soul. so needless to say, other than the amazing saimin and food we have, i get killed at 21, and vow to only lose a max of 100 again at blackjack. (yea, right) so i kinda get out of control and nearly blow my roll, but i managed to salvage over 1/2 back.
so im kinda down, (in jamie language...sadpanda) so we decide to get fat tuesdays from caesars which cost like 25 each for 6shots in a 1/2 yard stick, which was amazingly delicious. so we get our drink on and it actually ends up making us feel tired, so we just go back and chill. daniel, russ, and brian play BJ for a little bit downstairs and i needed to take it easy. anyways, i take a shower and get ready for the dinner and i feel a lot better after the shower.
so it gets time for russ' party and we get downstairs and into cabs off to the hard rock...(sidenote:we also put bets down at paris' sportsbook since bally's was closed. the line was -5 lakers so we all bet 50 on them) so while we were at russ' dinner we watched as we made the easiest 45 ever, (house took 10%, yucks) anyways, we get to the place and we're early so we end up just watching the game and then we mosey into the patio area for his bday. o heck yes, we have our own bartender and it was OPEN BAR. so needless to say, we go crazy and it's patron shots left and right. i think i had a bit much, and i dont remember a lot of things i said or did, but the things that mattered was that i managed to make my way to the tables for the afterparty. but the food...was awesome. i wish we'd have gotten to have more, but it's all good. and so i'm like watching grant and i'm like, "how are you doinG? and he just smiles (no teeth) and gives the thumbs uP. hahahaha. hilarious. =D i've been fistpumping this entire time (gettin' it started)
haha, so there's a lot of good stories, but there needs to be a line drawn and it's here. so whatever happend, happened and that's the end of that here.

so russell's fam bam get us out to the tables (ugh.) and we play craps. (btw. i'm drunk at this point) and so preggers jamie has to tell me what to do, since i honestly didn't know how to play before this. i just keep asking her, " so did we wiN? what do i dO? " haha, good times. and MUCHO thanks. and about this time uncle roger ships me $100 to play. which was ridiculous. hahaha, it was funnn times talking with him though. just talking about how much BS BJ is sometimes and stuff. so we used that money for a cab (to the cal and back to bally's) and for a little game which continues here...

i ended up playing at the BJ tables @hardrock and apparently it was $25 min .i didn't care (obv drunk) and we end up running hot so i make some back from earlier ( i also won a little at craps) i also end up with a players card and dont know how i got it bc i dont remember asking for one. w/e. anyways, i'm like joking it up with the pit boss, fist pounding and dropping jokes left and right so its good times, (warning: pG13 the girls who were dealing were wearing little clothing with gogodancers behind them in the background)... but i end up winning most of my money back...

but then we go back to the cal. Russ is running like a god this entire time, but his fam bam came back to the cal...ewww. lol but for him, "ship ship."

so i make a wise decision to not play any more cuz i'm about even overall. so i am lame from here on out.

some more stories happend, but again, innocent must be protected. so i leave it there.

anyways, we end up back at bally's after eating and whatnot at the cal. so i get up and grant is sprawled on my clothes and whatnot, and he's like half awake and feet pressed up on the wall, his position caused me to chuckle and he wakes up and gives me the thumbs up with a smile, causing me to laugh harder. i contimplate going out to caesars, but grant convinced me to stay and sleep. (smart decision) i needed that for sure. the other guys get back up later (they played BJ)

so we wake up with the mister and misses who check us out of our room. while we rehash what occured the night before. everyone packs up. me and brian go to paris to cash our tickets out. Ship the 45. =D we get our change and meet up with everyone back at the rooms. we're ready to bounce and make our way to get cabs and the airport.
we get there make our parting ways sb/la with brian and daniel. say a prayer. and split.
we end up taking our tram to our terminal and eat lunch (ruby'S!) so goooD.
then we get on our flight, and the entire time...we're nothing but smiles and laughs. fist pumping and thumbs up smiles, remembering one of the best weekends for the books.
(even though i went on the gambling lollercoaster with BJ, which i don't recommend bc i learned my lesson, it was a great time all around.)

we get back, safely.

and i'll quote dick for the end,

Dick:" I'm never coming back to Vegas. Never again."
Me: " heh, reallY?"
Dick: "Nah, I'm lyinG."

:thumbs up smiling w/no teeth: