I will try to keep this short and readable. 4 days and nights played at the Aladdin, MGM, Mirage, Mandalay Bay, Wynn, and Bellagio.

Tourneys at the Aladdin, MGM, and Mandalay. MGM not worth your time unless you are really looking to roll the dice. They played six places in a tourney with 130+players. Absolutely ridiculous. And of course this was the tourney where I actually got some cards. Down to 26 players, normally I play a normal tight aggressive game here, but with only six places paying I got a bit more aggressive than normal. I got more ace big hands in this tourney than in the rest of the trip. Unfortunately my AQ went up against chip leaders KK hand early on and I lost half my stack preflop. Two hands later I have A10 and lost the other stack to same chip leader with AQ. Sad thing was the table was really tightening up and I could have rolled to the final table if I had not run into the big stack with big hands.

Highlight of the trip had to be playing at the Bellagio saturday night. I am stuck way back in the corner playing 4/8, but the back wall to Bobby's room (where the $2K/$4k game is played) is to my back. All of a sudden the open table by us is filled by Johnny FING Chan. Its a 2/5 NL game and I still don't understand what he was doing playing in it, but he was about 5 feet from me the entire time. He played for about an hour, then went back to the big game. Doyle, Jen Harmon, were there, plus a few more I recognized, but did not know names. Made the surly dealers much more bareable.

Great trip overall, won about $700 playing 4//8 to 6/12. The fish were out as usual at these stakes. This is my first trip where I really felt like I was the best player at the table most of the time, and never felt that anyone was going to be able to outplay me. Even after my horrendous start of being hooked $150 in my first hour.

Bad beat of the trip was during my short stay at the $1$3 NL game at Wynn. I start with pocket kings, turn a set, river a boat and other player got quads on the river. Nothing I could do to win the hand, he flopped his set, just one of those things.

Best sandwich in Vegas was the Cuban Press at the Wynn, while sitting on the Veranda watching two 50foot waterfalls in 75 degree weather with a slight breeze.

Mandalay Bay is still my favorite room in Vegas. Picked up $420 in about 4 hours play there at an absolutely insane table.

Left a couple hundred at the table games, and another hundred and a half at the Spearmint Rhino, which I highly do not recommend. For Vegas strippers they were not that hot.

Been back two days and already thinking about the next trip in March. Viva Las Vegas!!!