Day 3B - San Bernadino - Mojave - Vegas
Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 9:29 am
As we booted along the freeway towards the Mojave Desert, we rode the edge of the San Bernadino Valley. It was beautiful. I didn't get to enjoy it for very long as Brad got into a race with a couple of young guys in a 350Z. For around 15 miles it was in and out of traffic, booting along around 100 MPH. This caused a problem once the other car pulled off the freeway. Petrol.
Normally you just pull off and fill up. So that's what we did. We pulled off into a town called Victorville, and turned down the main road.
For 4 miles we saw:
4 Car Washs
3 Car Window Repairers
7 Auto Repair Shops
3 Car Yards
and 1 Car Insurance shop
and not one single bloody petrol station. It was unbelievable. We got to the very end of the main road and just before rejoining a different highway we came across a very dodgy looking place in a back corner. It was a very quick fill up and drive off.
Now at this stage we were heading towards the factory outlets around 125 miles outside vegas to meet up with Brad's younger brother and his 3 mates who had planned a US trip months in advance and had organized a stop in Vegas to coincide with our trip. We caught up with them and organized to pull off at a town called Baker to get something to eat and shoot each other with our BB Guns.
Lunch at a yiros restaurant called The Mad Greek. Not a normal place at all. Good yiros though. We then headed around a mile out town to an empty part of the desert behind a motel and spent the next hour shooting everything in sight. You could tell none of us had ever play with a BB gun before. The temperature started to drop even more so we took off and headed towards Vegas.
We hit the first casinos in Nevada around 50 miles outside Vegas. We stopped off at one called Wild Bill's Saloon because it had a MASSIVE roller coaster that circled and through the casino. Unfortunately it was only open on the weekend but it gave me chance to see my first Las Vegas Slot machine. It was different...
We entered Las Vegas from the south right at at Sunset. We pulled off Las Vegas Boulevard at the top of the hill and watched the city light up. It was incredible. We ended up booking a room at the Luxor, as Brad's reasoning was it being my first time to vegas the first week should be on the strip and he has always wanted to stay there to go on the diagonal elevators up the pyramid. We checked in around 8:30pm and headed downstairs for a beer. We were both pretty stuffed but being the first night we had to stay out for a little while. When the other 4 eventually caught up (somehow it took them an extra hour to get to the strip) we set off looking for something to eat.
Somehow we ended up at hooters anyway at the 24 hour restaurant, had a good feed, played some 3 card poker, then found they had a $1/$2 table open.
Buyin $50-$200
Rake 10% max $4
$100 for Aces Cracked
Live straddle for $4 available
I bought in for $125, there were a few regulars of low skill and a few sharks who weren't even that good.
I dropped my first buy-in on this hand.
8 handed - Players that matter.
UTG (straddle) $145
Me (button) $152
1 Flat in front, I make it $22 with [jd 7c]. Straddler is the only caller.
Flop [8c 6c 5c]
He Checks. I bet $36. He calls.
Turn [jh].
He checks. I shove. He shrugs and calls.
River [5s].
He rolls [5d 7d].
Awesome to the max.
I rebuy for $100.
2 hands later i get [as 9s], see a flop of [9c 9h 3d], get it all in against big stack.
He shows [ad 9d] and hits a running flush. Great start.
It's now 3 am and I wander back to the hotel for a well earned sleep.
Normally you just pull off and fill up. So that's what we did. We pulled off into a town called Victorville, and turned down the main road.
For 4 miles we saw:
4 Car Washs
3 Car Window Repairers
7 Auto Repair Shops
3 Car Yards
and 1 Car Insurance shop
and not one single bloody petrol station. It was unbelievable. We got to the very end of the main road and just before rejoining a different highway we came across a very dodgy looking place in a back corner. It was a very quick fill up and drive off.
Now at this stage we were heading towards the factory outlets around 125 miles outside vegas to meet up with Brad's younger brother and his 3 mates who had planned a US trip months in advance and had organized a stop in Vegas to coincide with our trip. We caught up with them and organized to pull off at a town called Baker to get something to eat and shoot each other with our BB Guns.
Lunch at a yiros restaurant called The Mad Greek. Not a normal place at all. Good yiros though. We then headed around a mile out town to an empty part of the desert behind a motel and spent the next hour shooting everything in sight. You could tell none of us had ever play with a BB gun before. The temperature started to drop even more so we took off and headed towards Vegas.
We hit the first casinos in Nevada around 50 miles outside Vegas. We stopped off at one called Wild Bill's Saloon because it had a MASSIVE roller coaster that circled and through the casino. Unfortunately it was only open on the weekend but it gave me chance to see my first Las Vegas Slot machine. It was different...
We entered Las Vegas from the south right at at Sunset. We pulled off Las Vegas Boulevard at the top of the hill and watched the city light up. It was incredible. We ended up booking a room at the Luxor, as Brad's reasoning was it being my first time to vegas the first week should be on the strip and he has always wanted to stay there to go on the diagonal elevators up the pyramid. We checked in around 8:30pm and headed downstairs for a beer. We were both pretty stuffed but being the first night we had to stay out for a little while. When the other 4 eventually caught up (somehow it took them an extra hour to get to the strip) we set off looking for something to eat.
Somehow we ended up at hooters anyway at the 24 hour restaurant, had a good feed, played some 3 card poker, then found they had a $1/$2 table open.
Buyin $50-$200
Rake 10% max $4
$100 for Aces Cracked
Live straddle for $4 available
I bought in for $125, there were a few regulars of low skill and a few sharks who weren't even that good.
I dropped my first buy-in on this hand.
8 handed - Players that matter.
UTG (straddle) $145
Me (button) $152
1 Flat in front, I make it $22 with [jd 7c]. Straddler is the only caller.
Flop [8c 6c 5c]
He Checks. I bet $36. He calls.
Turn [jh].
He checks. I shove. He shrugs and calls.
River [5s].
He rolls [5d 7d].
Awesome to the max.
I rebuy for $100.
2 hands later i get [as 9s], see a flop of [9c 9h 3d], get it all in against big stack.
He shows [ad 9d] and hits a running flush. Great start.
It's now 3 am and I wander back to the hotel for a well earned sleep.
