I got to go to Vegas for a couple days to play some uninterupted poker. This was my first time in a casino and to say I was a little intimidated is an understatement. So I hung around the rail for few minuts and realized that most of the players there wern't any better than I was, so took the plung.

I was imediatly seated at 3/6 table and bought in for a hundred. My luck didn't start off too well.(warning: here's a bad beat story) I had 33 and the flop was JJ3. Sweet, full house, only to be sucked out on the river by quad jacks. Rats. It didn't get much better from there. I ended up all in for the rest of my money three times an survived and managed to squeek out a twenty dolar profit. Given how the night went, I considered my first night at my first live game a success.

The next night went a litle more as planed. I sat down at 3/6 again and to say the table was fishy would be an understatement. There was a constant rotation of four seats getting new drunk players with a few hundred to lose. And the later it got the drunker and looser the game got.

There were a couple of twenty-somethings who sat down doing the whole gheto-fab routine. Me and the guy next to me looked at eachother and grinned. The one guy was pissing the table off by being abnoxous and shooting angles... though I'll use that term lightly because I don't even think he knew what he was doing. He was flashing cards with the second and third best hand and getting himself reraised. Stupid. Also they were betting out of turn on purpose to try to discourage bets, but again, all it did was get himself reraised. They dropped a few hundred before they left with their tails between their legs.

When everyone said how loose the games were, I guess I didn'd believe they were this loose. One hand in particular sticks out. There was a guy at the other end of the table raising and reraiasing evrery hand, regardless of what he had. He was the ATM for me and the guy next to me. To make a long story short there was a 4 flush and a 4 straight by the river, and he was reraising with a queen high! That's right, queen high! Unbelieveable. Needless to say I ended the night up but decided to call it quits when they tried to keep the game together with on and off duty dealers. The action slowed so I bailed. I managed a 300$ profit.

I had a great time and I'm planning another trip for the near furture, this time to play some other rooms, but I'll definatly spend alot of time at MGM.

Good luck, all!