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  • mca47
    mca47 Posts: 13,334
    I'm gonna be there tomorrow through Saturday (Oncology conference). It's for work though, so I can't have too much fun. :x
    I'm actually there about once a month...again...for work. :x

    The last time I was there for fun was for a buddy's wedding. Sat down at a poker table, first hand was pocket aces. Started out hot, was up about a grand then everything went to shit. Don't think the free booze helped! :lol: Still came out about $200 on the plus-side. :D
  • uninnocent-
    uninnocent- Posts: 5,959
    I'm going to Vegas for the second time in a couple months for a bachelor party. I'm sure I'll have some stories, but I doubt I'll be able to share them.
  • Lizard
    Lizard So Cal Posts: 12,091
    was just there a few weeks ago......got in late...stayed up til 4 am drinking and gambling and slept the whole 2nd day I was there! :lol::lol:
    So I'll just lie down and wait for the dream
    Where I'm not ugly and you're lookin' at me
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390

    My fiance and I are the same exact way. We went to Vegas together a couple years ago and we got into a few arguments. I'm more of a gambling/drinking all day type and she wants to walk around and shop and all of that other shit. The only way we will go together again is if there are some other couples involved so the girls can go do whatever they want and the guys can sit at a blackjack table or the sportsbook all day.

    Going to Vegas for my bachelor party labor day weekend. I'm sure I will have some stories to share after that one.

    The first trip my hubby and I took together (when we had JUST started dating) was to Vegas...so now it's 'our' place...even got engaged there. We've been there about 15 times together. Luckily we both love to gamble and party like it's going out of style, so it works well for us. Would LOVE a girls' trip to Vegas...but I'd very likely get arrested :?

    I'm so very jealous that your bachelor party will be in Vegas. Godspeed my friend.
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    The first trip my hubby and I took together (when we had JUST started dating) was to Vegas...so now it's 'our' place...even got engaged there. We've been there about 15 times together. Luckily we both love to gamble and party like it's going out of style, so it works well for us. Would LOVE a girls' trip to Vegas...but I'd very likely get arrested :?

    I'm so very jealous that your bachelor party will be in Vegas. Godspeed my friend.


    That's nice....I wish 'our' place was Vegas. We both love the party aspect, but she's not the type to sit and gamble all day where I could easily sit at a blackjack table for 5 hours and think nothing of it. Oh well.

    The bachelor party should be fun. A good friend of mine is getting married a month before me so we're making it a dual bachelor party...should be pretty rowdy.
  • conman
    conman Posts: 7,493
    never been to Vegas.. not sure i would survive and if i did, the trip would likely end with me in handcuffs
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    A trip to Vegas a couple years ago we went with about 10 people and wanted to go outside the strip, found the Silverton Casino, and proceeded to play Pai Gow until 8 the next morning...whoops!
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    The last trip I went alone for a week. For some reason I don't sleep much...especially in Vegas. I was on about a 40 hour push where I think I got drunk and sobered up 2 or 3 times. I get back to my room and see my eyes in the mirror. :o These pictures don't do it justice but they were bright red...almost like devil eyes! I had to take a picture as I was kind of amazed and impressed at the same time. :lol:


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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    edited February 2012
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    A trip to Vegas a couple years ago we went with about 10 people and wanted to go outside the strip, found the Silverton Casino, and proceeded to play Pai Gow until 8 the next morning...whoops!


    Pai Gow is not even gambling...it's a drinking game! Also, did I say it's one of my favorites!!! :lol:
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    The first trip my hubby and I took together (when we had JUST started dating) was to Vegas...so now it's 'our' place...even got engaged there. We've been there about 15 times together. Luckily we both love to gamble and party like it's going out of style, so it works well for us. Would LOVE a girls' trip to Vegas...but I'd very likely get arrested :?

    I'm so very jealous that your bachelor party will be in Vegas. Godspeed my friend.


    That's nice....I wish 'our' place was Vegas. We both love the party aspect, but she's not the type to sit and gamble all day where I could easily sit at a blackjack table for 5 hours and think nothing of it. Oh well.

    The bachelor party should be fun. A good friend of mine is getting married a month before me so we're making it a dual bachelor party...should be pretty rowdy.

    DUAL BP? Oh man, you guys are going to be a wrecking crew.
    I love sitting for 5+ hours at a gaming table (some form of poker until I win enough to go play craps) but yeah, my wife doesnt really think that is fun.

    Make sure to find a way to let people know it is your bachelor party. You want to run into drunken groups of women so your non-married buddies will be able to increase their chances of being able to party like total morons with the 2 bachelors as well as meet up with an equally wild woman.

    My liver hurts for you now.

    For the EV show I am going with my wife but we are flying in that afternoon, catching dinner, watching the show, gambling for a few hours and flying out the next AM. Will be our 2nd time there together but it will not be a standard Vegas excursion.
    (until I wake up sleeping on a row of slot chairs without my shoes)
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    DS1119 wrote:
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    A trip to Vegas a couple years ago we went with about 10 people and wanted to go outside the strip, found the Silverton Casino, and proceeded to play Pai Gow until 8 the next morning...whoops!


    Pai Gow is not evening gambling...it's a drinking game! Also, did I say it's one of my favorites!!! :lol:

    Pai Gow is MUCH more fun at 'Card Clubs' or 'Indian Casinos' where you play against other players at the table. Nothing beats raking in dough while 3 total strangers yell at you in Mandarin.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    I'm going for the first time on March 30th. I can't wait :D
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,906
    DUAL BP? Oh man, you guys are going to be a wrecking crew.
    I love sitting for 5+ hours at a gaming table (some form of poker until I win enough to go play craps) but yeah, my wife doesnt really think that is fun.

    Make sure to find a way to let people know it is your bachelor party. You want to run into drunken groups of women so your non-married buddies will be able to increase their chances of being able to party like total morons with the 2 bachelors as well as meet up with an equally wild woman.

    My liver hurts for you now.

    Yeah, the dual bachelor party is going to be pretty nuts. We're prob going to have like 20-25 guys total. As long as no one ends up in jail or the hospital, I will consider the trip a success. Oh man, I can't fucking wait.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,023
    Hookers and blow, some good steaks and some gambling.
  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    DS1119 wrote:
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    A trip to Vegas a couple years ago we went with about 10 people and wanted to go outside the strip, found the Silverton Casino, and proceeded to play Pai Gow until 8 the next morning...whoops!


    Pai Gow is not evening gambling...it's a drinking game! Also, did I say it's one of my favorites!!! :lol:

    Pai Gow is MUCH more fun at 'Card Clubs' or 'Indian Casinos' where you play against other players at the table. Nothing beats raking in dough while 3 total strangers yell at you in Mandarin.


    I've only played Pai Gow in Vegas or The Turning Stone which is an Indian Casino here in Central NY. Didn't know they even offered this variant. I would love to be yelled at in some Asian language while drinking! :lol:
  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    DS1119 wrote:
    Mamasan23 wrote:
    A trip to Vegas a couple years ago we went with about 10 people and wanted to go outside the strip, found the Silverton Casino, and proceeded to play Pai Gow until 8 the next morning...whoops!


    Pai Gow is not evening gambling...it's a drinking game! Also, did I say it's one of my favorites!!! :lol:

    Pai Gow is MUCH more fun at 'Card Clubs' or 'Indian Casinos' where you play against other players at the table. Nothing beats raking in dough while 3 total strangers yell at you in Mandarin.

    Ahh so you're the dbag that always like to play the bank, eh? I've met with your kind before....





    :lol:
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  • DS1119
    DS1119 Posts: 33,497
    intodeep wrote:
    I'm going for the first time on March 30th. I can't wait :D


    Stay another week and a half and see EV.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    DS1119 wrote:
    I've only played Pai Gow in Vegas or The Turning Stone which is an Indian Casino here in Central NY. Didn't know they even offered this variant. I would love to be yelled at in some Asian language while drinking! :lol:

    I feel like a total fucking degenerate when I go and play at the local card clubs. But it is a great amount of fun and my buddy and I might be the only guys speaking English at a table. We are certain they are talking shit on us & that makes it even more fun. Barely a bit of strategy with the game so it is indeed a good one to go and get housed while playing. Being the bank is so much fun....
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  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,800
    Mamasan23 wrote:

    Ahh so you're the dbag that always like to play the bank, eh? I've met with your kind before....





    :lol:

    Yep, that is me. I let everyone else have their turn but every time it passes me I grab it.
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  • Mamasan23
    Mamasan23 Posts: 16,390
    Vegas is a place I squirm in my seat all of the way to......and lay like a fucking zombie in my seat all of the way back from. (I am positive this is not unusual!)

    I think you've stated it perfectly!
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