As I write this, I am on a flight back to Vegas from Chicago and St. Louis. I had a great time with my family in Chicago for Mitchell's college graduation. Congrats Mitch! I also got to spend a day in St. Louis with Amy for the wedding of two friends who were on her freshman floor. It was a really great time, and it was nice to see some old faces and hit up a few wustl spots like Fitz's and Morgan Street. It was really nice to take a few days off from Vegas and see my family and Amy, but now it's time to get back on the grind. I'm looking forward to getting back to Vegas to finish out the trip with a bang.
For today's blog entry, I wanted to backtrack and tell you a bit about what was going on just before Cliff won his bracelet and proved that he's the sickest and that we're a crew to be reckoned with. After spending our first week at Polo Towers, it was time to move out of our timeshare. Because there was a huge music festival and the Pacquiao fight in town on the 9th, we had to stay one night at the Jockey Club next to Bellagio before moving to Harrah's for a while. The Jockey Club, also a timeshare resort, was a very nice surprise. The place was much nicer than I thought it would be:
Cliff barely got to enjoy it, as he spent the day and most of the night gathering chips at the Rio. After our night at Jockey Club, we hustled our way over to Harrah's to check in before heading to the Rio for Day 1 of my WSOP $1k and Day 2 of Cliff's $1500 (see last post to see how that turned out if you don't already know!) The line for checkin at Harrah's was too long, and I tried to use my old platinum card to checkin in the VIP room, but was denied and sent on my way with 2 mini water bottles and one fake smile (Now that Cliff is a baller Diamond status player, I don't think we'll be getting denied there again). As a result, we ended up having to wait until we returned later that night to check in. It turned out that Cliff had a long day in the tournament, which worked out in more ways than the obvious one.
When we got back at around 2:30am, we checked in, only to find out that they had given away all of the standard rooms. Bummer right? Not really, because this is what they put us in instead:
And that was just the master bedroom, bathroom, and living room. The second bedroom with two queen beds, shown to the left, is basically the room that we have now that we have moved out of the penthouse. We just don't get the huge master bedroom, insane bathroom, or living room...or a powder room, bidet, bar, or anything else for that matter. But it's more than enough for us. Even though we had to check out of the penthouse the next morning and move into our standard room, Cliff apparently wasn't ready to stop living the high life, so he decided to just take down half a million dollars that day. Easy game.
After the big tournament win, our friend Marshall decided to snap book a flight out to celebrate, and it was fun to enjoy the victory with friends in Vegas. Now, it's back to the grind. Cliff's home friend Tony just got to Vegas to spend the last 3 weeks grinding with us, and I'm gonna be putting in alot of hours to try to make something big happen before the end of the summer. Hopefully we'll all continue to run well and make some more noise at the WSOP!
-Danny
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