Well I spent 10 days in Vegas. Got hooked up w/ a nice place at Caesars Palace by an old friend of mine who is a huge baccarat baller now. I'm not one to write long stories or anything, so I'll bullet point the significant things
1. Had Sushi Roku (~$100 a person) with my friend, the waiter thought we were gay lovers I think :|. Either way, food was awesome.
2. A bunch of friends from home came to vegas, we went to Club XS at the Encore, which was absolutely ridiculous (ly awesome), it's so huge and it has a nice ass pool in the middle of it, surrounding blackjack tables lolol.
3. The next day we all went to Club Rain at the Palms, which was a much shittier club but Above and Beyond played (which is why I went), and while I'm not a huge trance fan, I like A&B and it was pretty cool there.
4. Played at CP, Venetian, Bellagio, and MGM, 2/5 and 5/10. Ended up winning about ~2k on the trip which, considering I played like 30 god damn hours, is really really shitty (especially considering I didn't play online much during this trip, and missed out on 2 Friday nights where I usually make 2k alone online  )
5. Got food poisoning from Caesars Palace room service. Was knocked out with a high fever for like over 24 hours. Never bothered to complain because I was too lazy
6. My busto friend I went with put $30 on the number 2 on Roulette as we were leaving CP on the last day and binked it for $1000 and some change.
Overall I think I was getting a bit bored with the city maybe a week in, I can't imagine living here for like 2 months without succumbing to my inner degen (Only played table games twice, came up $10 on blackjack booyah). Having said that, I'm still going back in like 2 months or so when all my online internet poker homies come for WSOP and I'll be playing more table games and just having fun (not 21 til August). I think that's probably mandatory for anyone staying at Vegas for a while, is that you have friends to hang out with - for the 2 weekends I was there my friends from home came so it was like hanging out with them, only in a much wilder scene.
The best thing I got out of the trip though was that in a way I sort of "found myself". It really put things into perspective...on the 2nd day we were partying at XS and my buddy who is 20 also was like "dude...who else does this?" (meaning compared to our peers who are studying for midterms, working min wage jobs, etc. we were out in vegas underage partying and ballin, etc.). Then on the night we drove back (it's like a 3 hour drive back to LA), we saw a couple stranded in the desert with their engine broken down, and it made me think wow, here I am having the time of my life as a 20 year old kid, going home in a nice BMW (although I hate BMWs) with thousands of dollars in my pocket, etc. how on earth can I EVER complain about my life?
So yeah I hope I didn't come off as too arrogant, and I know I suddenly broke into story mode even though I said I wouldn't write a story, but somehow the sick degeneracy of the city was able to bring out a very nice, humbling perspective for me. From that, I think I somehow have a better sense of what I want to achieve, how I'm going to achieve it, etc. So in the end, I thought it was very cool that on the drive to Vegas, I was filled with anticipation (to gamble, to have fun, etc.), and as I was coming back from Vegas, I still had a great sense of anticipation, only this time for my immediate future, my goals, etc.
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