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I can't think of a title for the post because it will be very very random. Yesterday we woke up late after having a semi-quiet night here at the house when the cops only had to stop by once. Gank and a couple of his buddies had stopped by again and I went to bed early (like 2:00) before pretty much everyone else. After waking up late I went for a swim for a while and then we went to the Bellagio to play the $500 tournament again. Nate, Marcus, SamENole, and Nordberg all played in it. I busted about 5 minutes into it when my Kings ran into Marcus's Aces. No big deal, I had to kill 5 hours so I went and played some 30/60 and made about $1,000 in a fairly tough game. After a few hours there Nate, Marcus, and Nordberg had all busted and SamENole (real name: Matt Smith) was the only one left. They were down to 6 handed and it was taking FOREVER to knock someone out. Marcus, Nate, and I decided to all play some 2-5 NL while we were waiting for Matt to bust so we could go eat. I have to say that this particular game was one of the softest games I have EVER played in. I don't know if all NL games are like it but it was pretty unbelievably easy. I made a couple good hands and got max value for them, also made one spectacular bluff on Nate and ended up about $400 in 30 minutes before we quit. Matt was STILL in the tournament, so us three plus a girl named Lisa all went to Noodles to eat. I had heard great things about the food at Noodles and I wasn't disappointed. I still don't think it can compare to the Dragon Palace in Seward though.

After we finished eating, Nate and I went over to the Rio and he registered for a couple events while I had them transfer my "front money" from Lake Tahoe down to Vegas. Front Money is kind of like casino credit, I gave Harrahs in Lake Tahoe $10,000 to hold on to so that I didn't have to carry $20,000 with me to Vegas. It's just in case I got robbed or something I wouldn't lose everything I had on me. Anyways, it took them almost an hour to get all the paperwork through and get me my money. It worked out perfect though because SamENole was staying at the Rio and needed a ride to our house just as we were leaving. We got back to our house and Nick really wanted to go out for the night, even though it was already past midnight. I agreed to go and six of us all hopped in a cab and headed to the Ghostbar at the Palms. I had heard that the Ghostbar was one of the best clubs in Vegas, maybe that got my expectations to high. It was really nice and since it's 56 stories up it has the best view in town, but the whole place just was kind of mellow. We got a booth and a couple of bottles and had a pretty good time because all the guys were a lot of fun. We met a couple of nice girls from New York and the night ended up being all right. After we rounded everyone up at around 4:00 we went downstairs and since there were six of us we just took a limo home instead of a cab. I'm already wore out and it isn't even the weekend yet...