I get about 3 hours of sleep, on the floor, because I'm too nice to wake anyone up with I get in at 9am. They all decide to goto the pool, I relax in the room, and then goto the lobby to check in to the other room. I move my things up to the new room (floor 19). I take a nice long shower, get dressed, relax for a bit, then go back to find everyone. I get some sub-par pizza with my cousin Matt at some pizza place at New York, New York. (Just won a $10+1 SNG on party while writing this, final hand? My A7o took down KQo, High card ace).

We met up with Hadjii who had flown in earlier in the day, we then proceeded to cruise around the strip, I meet up with grubby from pokergrub.com at the tables at Excalabur, we play a few hands in a 2-5 spread game, I hate spread games but it's all I could find without a huge list.

I get AQ on the first hand, usually if I sit at a table and get a decent hand I take it to the river as a advertising play, I find people think if I raise preflop ill call it all the way down. I get paid off nicely when I get aa or kk and all undercards flop. Anyways it was very cool playing with grubby, even though he owned me in the first blogger world tour event. And I missed the second stop because I was in vegas.


Late at night, Matt, Hadjii and I took a cab down to Circus Circus and walked around that area, stopping for $1.49 3/4 lb hot dogs and $1.49 nachos. They played a few hands of blackjack but there was no energy in the place at 4am. We left and found a half-awake craps table with 3x-4x-5x odds, I plunked down $40, Matt and Hadjii $100 each. The first shooter passed a few points and made us some capital. Finally the dice got to us. You have to understand, when we play craps, we're loud, it's EXCITING, you have to get the whole table rocking to have a good time. I passed a few points and then Hadjii crapped out quickly, Matt had a nice run, building his stack up and doubling me to $85 or so. Only 1 person threw the dice from the other side and so I got the dice back rather quickly, then the run began, the hardways were coming in, at one point Matt bets $2 on the 9's hopped. (a 15-1 payoff, and when you win the bet stays) I rolled a nine four times in a row, each time paying him $15 he's probably kicking himself for not bumping his bet up to $5 after the 3rd nine.

I finally crapped out, then Hadjii hit some major hardways and Matt passed a few, I went big on the last few rolls that sevened out, so I left with $80, up $40, Matt was the big winner cashing out with somewhere around $325. I got back to the room somewhere around 4-7am--ish....I think.

Day 2 complete.

--Chris Falco