I wake up at 6:30, but manage to stay in bed and try to sleep a little more. At 7:30 I can't stand it anymore I have to get up and go play. I'm like that little kid in the Disney commercial that says "we're too excited to sleep". We'll at least I get up, Cliff won't get up for hours. I take a shower and head down to the casino.
I decide breakfast can wait and head to a poker game table. I stay long enough for the dice to make it around the table one time with no luck, so I cash out down $125. I walk around for a minute and decide to try the $5 slots. I slide a $20 in a Double Diamond machine, hit the play max credit button twice and that's all folks for that $20. I try the machine next to this one with the exact same results. Well, I knew I didn't like slots anyway. I walk outside to feel the crisp morning air and take a walk North on the strip, maybe I'll go to Stardust.
As I walk and observe the scenery, I realize just how beautiful the desert can be. I notice as I'm walking that there is something going on over at the Desert Inn to the entrance - hmm. I don't make it as far as Stardust because I decided to look in the door at Frontier and found myself buying in at a blackjack table. The dealer is Muhamed and seemed very nice although I only understood about 1/3 of all he said. The table is a little up and down, but I was up about $300 when Larry tapped out Muhamed. I swear Larry was sent to the table to talk my head off so I couldn't concentrate on the cards. He told me so many gambling tall tales that I was left with the impression that he either was stupid, a liar, or a stupid liar. Most of his stories went something like - "I bought into a roulette game for $3 had it up to $2100, but lost it". After a while, I decide to take what I had left and move to another table. I sit down at a table with an older dealer named Donny and immediately get on a very good run. I didn't keep track, but I know I went through one full double deck shoe head to head without losing a hand. Another player joins us and my luck slows, but is still quite good. After a half hour or so Donny gets tapped out by Tom. As Donny leaves the table he say "you'll like him, he's a real George" I'm not quite sure what was meant here, but all I can figure is that a George must be a good tipper, because I tipped him pretty heavy on my upward roll. I couldn't get anything going with Tom and cashed out up $1000 and asked for a comp to their steak house for 6. I knew asking for a comp for 6 was a long shot, but it doesn't hurt to ask. They said I hadn't played long enough and all they could do was 2, I said thanks anyway and walked back to TI, once again amazed at the beauty of the mountains in the distance.
It was about 11:30 so I went to the room to see if Cliff was up yet. He had just finished getting ready and had already eaten room service. Spencer and Brent had gone to the CES and Mike wasn't quite ready so Cliff and I go back down to the casino. Cliff goes to get a table for us in the high roller room (I still don't consider a $25 table a high roller, but they do apparently) and I go to the counter in the Terrace Cafe to get some breakfast/lunch. After I ate, I went and joined the blackjack game with Cliff. Mike comes down and joins us and we play ‘till around 1:45. We were on a good table, but I had a Vegas.com meet planned at Monte Carlo for 2:00 so we needed to leave. I cash out up $700. We catch a cab to Monte Carlo(I'm glad to say the cab did not smell like ass), they let me out and they go to NYNY to play there and catch up with Mark who stayed there for Thursday and Friday nights. Cliff got him a comp room there since he was coming in early.
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