Vegas TR Day Three: 4/8 Horse Game with Jerry Buss

So I'm sitting at the Mirage O8 game, and Shifty walks up to me and says "dude, I just got Jerry Buss to play in our Horse game." Now, first off, props to Shifty for attempting to get the Horse game started. He bugged the Mirage floor all day for a game, and they eventually caved and said we could get our own Horse table as long as everyone was there at 10pm.

Anyway, I call bullshit and walk over to Shifty's $175 sng, and sure enough Jerry Buss is sitting in the seven seat. I promptly cash out from my O8 game and make sure I'm at the Horse table to police people from getting in when they weren't supposed to, make sure our guys got in the game on time, etc. Around 10pm Shifty was still going deep in the sng, but Jerry busted and Shifty yelled at me "Santi, make sure Jerry gets a seat." Most of our guys had locked up spots, but there was still a couple empties and I told Jerry we had a spot for him. He asked if he could have the available four seat and of course I said yes.

Here's Shifty's side of the story:

I was standing there bugging the shit out of the floor to open a horse game for us when jerry walks in and asks to play 40/80, they just have an interest list, so he decides to play a 175 SNG. i overhear this and lock up a seat. i walk over to jerry and say "hey you know they aren't gonna get that 40/80 off, you wanna play some horse after this SNG?" he says "really? i didn't see a horse game." i tell him they're going to open the game for us, and i'd put him at the top of the list. he says "sure, i'll play. i'm waiting for a friend, but i'll play for a while. i don't care how high you play, horse is always fun." awesome.

after about 15 min, some asian dude comes over, and hands jerry a couple of light-blue chips. i think they were 25Ks, but what do i know. jerry busts quickly after, 77 vs 10s, and i see the horse game opening. i tell him we got his seat and yell at nik. jerry sits right down, and immediately, the horse list is like 15 deep

Table make-up was me in the one, my friend Tommy in the two, Fender three, Rambler's IRL friend Dennis in the five, Deuce in the six, Rambler in the seven, and some d-bag who snuck on the interest list locked up the eight.

I guess the backstory is Jerry was waiting on a guy to pay off a bet, and so he put his name on the 40/80 interest list and the $175 sng. After seeing Jerry at the sng table, Shifty asked if he would play in our lowly 4/8 game, and I guess he said something to the extent of "I love Horse, I don't care what stakes we play." Awesome.

So long story short, Jerry played a complete rotation of Horse with us, and I think we got him for about $150, and only cause he ran kinda crappy in Razz. Everything else he seemed to play seriously, and it was pretty obv the dude just plays to win. We all made small talk for awhile, until sometime in the O8 section of the game a tiny, smoking hot asian girl in a Lakers shirt started sweating him. After that he just kinda ignored us.

During the Stud8 (last game) rotation, Shabba walked in with a couple girls from his work (hot) and started introducing us to his friends. "That's Nik, Tony, Tommy, Dennis, Ryan, the owner of the Lakers..."

Everyone, including Jerry, laughed really hard at that. Good times, probably the highlight of the trip. I'll start the rest of the report later, but I probably just blew my load.

Everyone with their own stories or pics from that game plz post, thanks.

After the Horse Game broke, Shifty, Pika, Reb, Dennis and I went down to the Venetian for an awesome late-night meal, pretty cool Shifty was able to get a great steak at 5am. By the way, the V was a great place to see beautful girls walking everywhere, edging out Bellagio. I was told however Wynn's scenery was even nicer, but I missed out on Wynn this trip. Maybe next time I can make it down there.

Still to come in my TRs is more 15/30 action (which includes one good winning session and one absolute ass kicking), more deli, the Venetian $120 Tournament with a 10 man last longer and a visit from alex the admin at CP, more drunk 4/8 hammer throwing (I actually have two Newcastles during the game :eek: ), the In n Out Challenge and a competitive bowling prop that came down to one pin. Stay tuned!

Jerry chillin' before game time with his reds and blues. A lot of people were wondering why Kid Buss was in Orlando to give the Lakers' Championship speech. The answer: Jerry was too busy kicking it with CP crew playing 4/8 Horse at the Mirage