This actually happened two weekends ago now, but I've been lazy about posting. Brad won the Sports Jeopardy contest on 570am. The last time he won something from them it was Harlem Globetrotters tickets. This time he found out his prize was a lot better -- a trip for 2 to Vegas including 2 nights at the Stratosphere and 2 entries to a poker tournament with a $10,000 pot for the top 4 finishers.
We didn't trust either of our cars for that trip so we rented an Impala for $12 a day online. Friday after he got off work, we headed out and made it there at 11:30pm. At first we were disappointed that the check in line was long causing us to miss a midnight tournament, but later found out that the $20 entry fee didn't include about $100 in add-ons and fees. When we checked in, we got a bag of Stratosphere goodies from the radio station including a tote bag, shirt, hat, cards, dice, and bottle opener. We put the stuff in our room and then drove around to a few of the casinos, but didn't play much other than Brad playing some blackjack.
On Saturday they had a breakfast for us and we got our seat assignments for the first round. Luckily we both got the first session. We found out that 16 people from each of the 2 sessions would move on to a final tournament in the afternoon. In the first round, Brad said he was struggling to get good hands, but he managed to build up enough of a pot to make the finals. I dominated at my table early on and built up the biggest pot in the room when it got down to the 16.
We had a break during the second session, so we got something to eat and then used our free tickets to go to the top of the tower. Brad had never been up there before. It was scary just watching the people on the rides on top of the tower being dangled over the edge. Definitely not for us.
We went back for the finals at 3pm. They told us that everyone would go back to having the same amount of chips to start which didn't make me happy. Neither of us got many good hands, but we were both able to hold on for a while and knock people out. Brad finished in 18th place overall and I got 12th. If the pot was split up the way tournaments usually are, I would have been in the money so that gives me hope for the future.
We finished just after the USC game started so we watched that and then headed over to the Rio for the world's largest buffet. The line took forever, but the food was great once we got in. We followed the Noah's Ark rule of buffets: two of every animal. I had at least a taste of 8 different creatures. Mmm...creatures.
After dinner we acted like geeks by waiting for the Star Wars slot machines to open up. We had to go to bed early by Vegas standards because I had to work on Sunday afternoon so we had to leave at 7am to beat the traffic and make sure I got there on time.
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