APAT - Vegas Vengeance: Monday, 21st November 2011
Calling it an early night yesterday was a wise decision as I needed to be at The Chapel of The Flowers for Adam and Julie’s wedding. A few of us gathered in the lobby around 10.30 and we hopped in a a cab or two to head over to the chapel arriving shortly before 10.45. In fact we arrived shortly before the groom!
Many of the visiting APATers had made the effort to dress up for the happy day especially Stuart Oliver who was in full Scottish regalia. For myself I confess that I had not (I had a full suitcase as it was) so I hid myself at the back out of camera shot.
The chapel was completely full and, indeed, the minister commented that he’d never had such a crowd, especially from overseas. I thought that the minister did a wonderful job of the ceremony and Adam and Julie were clearly enjoying their special day.
Once the ceremony was after the bride and groom were taken off to do a photo-shoot and we all trooped outside to find that the sun had truly come out for the first time during our visit. It was a gloriously sunny day.
We all stooged around for a while as Dawn organised us like a military action. We would need more than a few cabs but I was fortunate enough to blag a spot in one of the chapel’s super-stretch limos to Caesars and the Cheesecake factory.
The driver let us out right be a side door just a hundred yards from the restaurant and we lined up outside. Somehow we’d beaten the happy couple to the place but Dawn was on the case.
It seemed that despite a couple of confirmation call the restaurant didn’t take reservations so Dawn had to badger the manager into sorting out some space for us.
It all worked out in the end and by the time we were done we filled three large tables. Somehow Ger and the rest of the party had gotten side-tracked into a bar so that was a little disappointing but still we had a nice meal for what I thought was a pretty decent price for the Forum Shops.
By 3pm I was ready for a nap so I trudged the whole length of the Forum Shops back to Harrah's. I made sure to set my phone alarm so there wouldn’t be a repeat of Saturday. By 5.30 I was cabbing over to the Tropicana for the JAPAT Wedding Tournament.
I really like the way they’re refurbished the Trop although they’ve started pumping in some smell that just, if you’ll pardon the expression, gets up my nose.
We got away with 50 runners or thereabouts but once again I got nowhere with any action or move I would make. I managed to run my A4s into Don Robert’s AA who was on fire on our table.
A couple of drinks later and we’d managed to get a 3/6 Omaha 8 cash game running full of APAT regulars.
Ger seemed to be hitting everything in sight even when he should have gotten out of the hand some time before. This was a little frustrating but there is nothing you can do in these situations.
I sat in for a few hours while dwindling chips slowly. By the time the tourney was over I was ready to call it a night...this must have been around 1am and I was down $140.
So be it...I made my way outside and grabbed a cab back to Harrah's.
I have nothing specific planned for the next few days, my travel guru duties are done and dusted, I’ll just play it by ear
