Recom Mission Part 2

This trip was put together so we could find a house to rent and to give us an insight into the future lives we will both be living. This trip became completely different to any other trip I had made to Vegas before. I am a total night person, I play in the casino till 6am most nights get home for 7am and get to bet by 8am or 9am. The nights I dont play I still keep the same hours. On this trip I was out playing poker at 6am every morning for a couple of hours before breakfast and I was in bed by 10pm everynight bar 1 night. That 1 night we went to see Love the Beatles version of Cirque Du Soliel. I managed to watch the first 30 mins but slept through the rest. I enjoyed what I saw but it wasnt enough to keep me awake.

Other insights that I discovered about the poker scene while is was there are that ill be able to get good action at the tables all year around. I was expecting certain times of the year to be busier than others and that maybe during the Jan/Feb part of the year the tables would be quiet and id have to balance my profits from other parts of the year. So its the first Saturday of the trip and the cardrooms are heaving. The porn convention is on at the Sands Expo and the electronics convention is in town the 2nd biggest connvention of the year so im told. On top of this its the Divisional playoffs in the NFL. People had come from all parts of the country to be in Vegas to bet and watch the game. During the first game I have 4 guys wearing club shirts drinking and watching the game. They dont have there eye on the game at all they play they own cards and have no idea whats happening in the game. (note to self next year play as much as poss during the NLF and MLB postseason).

After nicking a couple hundred I decide to venture of to the Mirage to play my first session in what used to be my fav cardroom. Without a doubt in my mind the Mirage has the best staff and dealers in Vegas. There ability to deal andpersonalities on the table meant that the Mirage had always been my cardroom of choice. The room that used to be the heartbeat of poker in Vegas when was opened by Steve Wynn is now less than a shadow of its former self. If your lucky you can still find 1 2-5nlh game. If there is a list to get into the game you can be in for a long wait with only 1 table. I play for a couple of hours and dont get much action while I watch the 2nd game between Green Bay and Seattle in some of the worst snow conditions you have ever seen a ball game played in.

For Sunday see Saturday the cardrooms are again full and we have 2 more American Football games to watch. I played in the Venetian only on Sunday. Im really optomistic about just how much traffic the cardrooms have been getting over the weekends and it will be interesting to see how it continues through the weekdays.

Monday morning and we get up early have breakfast in Treasure Island and make our plans for the day. We have a hire car linedup for the day. We have looked up some local Realtors (estate agents) in the yellow pages but we decide to just go out driving to get to know a few areas first and then if we come across an area that we like then find an agent to help us find a house there. We pick up the car and decide that Nancy can drive as she hadnt driven in the States before. Im not sure what the reason for them driving on the wrong side of the road is but it does make it exciting at times. They have some great laws like the you can turn right on a red light if there is a space in the traffic. So after some fun dodgying the traffic we are out and driving its a scorching hot day and once you get away from the strip you really get to see how beautiful last Vegas is. Nancy fell in love with the mountains. The views of them are stunning and the differing colours that came through the hills as the sun lowered was amazing.