Vegas TR Day Three: Getting Hammered and Trevi

So I woke up early yet again, even though I was out having french toast at about 6am, I was up and moving before noon. I remember texting Deuce to see if he wanted to grab some Panda Express, but he had just woken up so I had to give him some time. I decided to see what everyone else was doing, and it turned out Rambler and Trey were playing 1/2 NL at Harrahs. I figured I could check up on them and hang out while I waited for Deuce.

I witnessed a couple funny hands while I was with them, one where Rambler mini-re-raised a button min-raise to $6 pre-flop with KTos. He told me that play was for me since I play mini-bet, and to be honest it made me laugh really hard. Some guy who had limped in from MP actually popped it to $14 dollars with QQ, and then stacked off to Rambler when the flop came KKx. The turn was a King for further overkill, and to make the hand even that more entertaining one of the guy's queens came on the river. Too funny, too bad the turn wasn't a queen then river king...

So after some badgering I decide to just sit down. I can't remember too much about the action, except I somehow found myself up like $40 when I decide to raise Rambler's blind to $10 with JT of diamonds. I get a flat caller behind me that i don't notice until the hand's over and then Rambler makes it $35 to go from the BB. I just sigh and tell him "Rambler, you either have Aces or the hammer" and fold. I was waiting for him to show the hand when I turned and saw the guy who flatted my raise. Turns out I didn't notice him at first, and I could have given Rambler's hand away...thankfully the dude folded and Rambler said "you were right Nik" and showed me the hammer. Ugh, Rambler threw the hammer against me FML.

I hung out a little while longer, shooting the shit with Trey and his wife some. Turns out Trey's wife is also half-Mexican/half-white, mixed babies ftw. Finally Deuce and Fender showed up to save me from NL hell where even Rambler was pwning me, so I took my $29 in profit and went to lunch.

We went super all-out for lunch and grabbed Panda Express located in between Harrahs and Casino Royale, then we walked to Bellagio I think. Now this is where it's all a blur...I can't remember if I played 15/30 or wtf, because all I remember is the hockey game being on, and a crew of Shifty, Rambler, Dennis, Tommy and Fender fetching me to go grab a nice dinner somewhere. Pika and Deuce wanted to stay behind and watch the game/play more cards at Bellagio.

We ended up going to Trevi, a nice Italian restaraunt located in the Caesar's forum shops. I had gone there my last couple of trips and really liked the food, so I suggested to the group that we try it. On the way there we played live MFK and made fun of Phil Hellmuth for acting like a complete crybaby toolshed the night before when busting out of the $1500 WSOP NL event.

Anyway, the place delivered hard, and every single guy that went along told me it was a great pick for food. Everyone had something different, and it all looked really good. I think I had something called Penne Puttanesca with Sausage, it was penne with spicy tomato sauce, kalamata olives, and capers. I think the best looking entre was the Chicken Parmigiana that Shifty got...plates were something like $20-$25, good portions, and tasted great.

Haha I'm talking too much about food I'm sure, so after dinner we head back to Mirage and break off into our own games. I had a nice run at O8, and came up over two stacks of red after scooping a couple big hands. O8 was good to me once again, maybe I should play it more often.