We were both awake at 6:00am after 7 hours of sleep, which was almost more than the first three nights combined. Sean was now fully recovered from his alcohol poisoning the day earlier and started drinking right away, but my shoulder was absolutely killing me. I couldn’t even lift my arm up to eye level. I must have injured it badly hopping that fence yesterday.
I came to the realization that if I requested a refund of my WSOP buy in, I would be given $500 in cash and two $500 tournament buy-in chips! That means I would have to find someone to buy them off of me! What was I going to do?
We go over to the Gold Coast to use a coupon from the LVA MRB: 200 points for a free buffet. It was quite easy to earn on a blackjack machine and I ended up $6.
Since today is Father’s Day, Sean and I decided to play Bingo at the Gold Coast since they were giving away free T-Shirts. It cost us each $18 to play a session of bingo with the electronic machine. I doubted either of us was going to get a bingo, so Sean and I made a bet on who would come closer over all the games to winning.
We didn’t bingo, and headed to the Gold Coast buffet for brunch. It wasn’t a champagne brunch, but they do give you a ticket for a Coors Light Draft if you wanted a drink. It was okay, and Sean tried out some crayfish.
Since the South Point was also offering a free pocket knife for all bingo players, Sean and I went there to try out bingo once again. Why was it only $13 here? Neither of us hit a bingo, but did resolve our personal side bet, with Sean having 9 drinks before it was 12 noon.
SIDE BET #2: Who would come closest to bingo in each game? Well, the Gold Coast session was a tie, but I smoked him at South Point. $2 more for me!
Bingo Swag
I threw away $200 on a Russian Treasure Slot machine sort of as a tribute to my mother who couldn’t come on this trip.
So, today I finally made a decision to alter our plans. Today I would skip the $240 tournament at the Golden Nugget and take Sean to Hoover Dam instead. This was going to be tricky though. My shoulder was killing me and I couldn’t lift it high enough to put on top of the steering wheel. We stopped in at a CVS Pharmacy to buy some naproxen to help deaden the pain and at least make me functional.
Sean wanted to do the whole Hoover Dam Power Plant tour, so I went along with him. It was $11. Because I was a sport and went along with him on the tour, I was able to dare him into planking on a few of the ledges by the Dam.
Owling on the Pat Tillman Bridge
Since we passed by it on the way back, we stopped in on the Pinball Hall of Fame. Now Sean may have the upper hand when it comes to generic first person shooter games on X-Box but I was raised old school playing pinball games and Street Fighter with real joysticks. So the trash talk that ensued brought us to side bet #3.
SIDE BET #3: We’ll play 3 pinball games of his choosing. Best 2 out of 3 wins $2 and the loser has to pay for the games. I double his score on each machine and earn another $6!
We drive back to the Gold Coast to check in. I requested a non-smoking room with 2 queen beds. We were given a suite on the 10th floor, smoking, with 1 king sized bed. Well I wasn’t spooning with Sean, so I had the front desk send up a cot at no charge. I know they are renovating the Gold Coast in phases, but they should definitely do these suites next. I can’t remember the last time I saw shaggy yellow carpet in a casino hotel.
Guess you're taking the couch Sean.
Nice shaggy carpet in the living room area.
We eat Father’s Day dinner at the Cortez Room in the Gold Coast since I have a $75 food credit. It was good and really reasonable. Drinks, steak, shrimp, and dessert came to less than $65.
Tonight’s show was The Mentalist: Gerry McCambridge at Planet Hollywood. We were seated in the second row off to the side. At the beginning of the show, you were given a slip of paper and had to write down your name, 3 questions you’d like answered and something personal about yourself that no one could possibly know. All of the slips are then collected and put in a plastic box at the front of the stage.
For one of the acts during the show he blindfolds himself with silver dollars over his eye sockets and duct tape and then proceeds to dig around the box full of paper. He calls out a person’s initials and gets them to stand up. Then through talking to them and “feeling” the paper they wrote on he is able to actually figure out what they wrote down on the paper. The first 2 people he called out had pretty simple questions, and nothing really amazing. I guess those people could have been “plants” in the audience. Then Gerry asks:
“I’m picking up a name...is there a Sean in the room?” OMG!
Sean stands up immediately.
Sean: “Yes Gerry, that’s me!”
Gerry: “You married?”
Sean: “No.”
Gerry: “But you’re having a baby, right?” The audience and Sean gasp.
Sean: “Yep...”
Gerry: “Girlfriend? Is she with you?”
Sean: “No I’m here with a buddy on a "last hurrah”! This draws several sounds of disapproval from the audience.
Gerry: “You want to know if you’re having a boy or a girl...but I can’t tell if your girlfriend isn’t here with you.”
Sean is amazed, that was one of the questions he asked.
Gerry: “Hold on...wait a minute...you’re a sick freak aren’t you?” Uh-oh, Sean starts grinning ear to ear and begins to turn beet red.
Gerry: “You want me to...there’s something about your penis...a pimple...a wart...no... freckles! You have freckles on your penis!”
The crowd and Sean are howling!
“Ok Sean, I’m going to try to find your slip of paper while completely blindfolded. If I throw your slip of paper to you, sit down and the crowd will give me a thunderous round of applause.”
Gerry throws a crumpled up slip of paper towards Sean...and it’s his! And he actually did write all those things down on the slip! How did he do it? He must’ve had another person get into the slips, read them over and then somehow communicate the information back to him. Sean was completely blown away though and
ended up buying his DVD.
We drove back to the Tropicana to sleep. Sean decided to play poker again all night. I told him that I wanted to be on our way by 9:00am. I needed to get a good night’s rest since I guess I would be playing the WSOP after all.
My Bankroll = -$2400
Sean’s bankroll = -$700
# of drinks Sean had = 15 + ???
Day 6 to follow.
I came to the realization that if I requested a refund of my WSOP buy in, I would be given $500 in cash and two $500 tournament buy-in chips! That means I would have to find someone to buy them off of me! What was I going to do?
We go over to the Gold Coast to use a coupon from the LVA MRB: 200 points for a free buffet. It was quite easy to earn on a blackjack machine and I ended up $6.
Since today is Father’s Day, Sean and I decided to play Bingo at the Gold Coast since they were giving away free T-Shirts. It cost us each $18 to play a session of bingo with the electronic machine. I doubted either of us was going to get a bingo, so Sean and I made a bet on who would come closer over all the games to winning.
We didn’t bingo, and headed to the Gold Coast buffet for brunch. It wasn’t a champagne brunch, but they do give you a ticket for a Coors Light Draft if you wanted a drink. It was okay, and Sean tried out some crayfish.
Since the South Point was also offering a free pocket knife for all bingo players, Sean and I went there to try out bingo once again. Why was it only $13 here? Neither of us hit a bingo, but did resolve our personal side bet, with Sean having 9 drinks before it was 12 noon.
SIDE BET #2: Who would come closest to bingo in each game? Well, the Gold Coast session was a tie, but I smoked him at South Point. $2 more for me!
Bingo Swag
I threw away $200 on a Russian Treasure Slot machine sort of as a tribute to my mother who couldn’t come on this trip.
So, today I finally made a decision to alter our plans. Today I would skip the $240 tournament at the Golden Nugget and take Sean to Hoover Dam instead. This was going to be tricky though. My shoulder was killing me and I couldn’t lift it high enough to put on top of the steering wheel. We stopped in at a CVS Pharmacy to buy some naproxen to help deaden the pain and at least make me functional.
Sean wanted to do the whole Hoover Dam Power Plant tour, so I went along with him. It was $11. Because I was a sport and went along with him on the tour, I was able to dare him into planking on a few of the ledges by the Dam.
Owling on the Pat Tillman Bridge
Since we passed by it on the way back, we stopped in on the Pinball Hall of Fame. Now Sean may have the upper hand when it comes to generic first person shooter games on X-Box but I was raised old school playing pinball games and Street Fighter with real joysticks. So the trash talk that ensued brought us to side bet #3.
SIDE BET #3: We’ll play 3 pinball games of his choosing. Best 2 out of 3 wins $2 and the loser has to pay for the games. I double his score on each machine and earn another $6!
We drive back to the Gold Coast to check in. I requested a non-smoking room with 2 queen beds. We were given a suite on the 10th floor, smoking, with 1 king sized bed. Well I wasn’t spooning with Sean, so I had the front desk send up a cot at no charge. I know they are renovating the Gold Coast in phases, but they should definitely do these suites next. I can’t remember the last time I saw shaggy yellow carpet in a casino hotel.
Guess you're taking the couch Sean.
Nice shaggy carpet in the living room area.
We eat Father’s Day dinner at the Cortez Room in the Gold Coast since I have a $75 food credit. It was good and really reasonable. Drinks, steak, shrimp, and dessert came to less than $65.
Tonight’s show was The Mentalist: Gerry McCambridge at Planet Hollywood. We were seated in the second row off to the side. At the beginning of the show, you were given a slip of paper and had to write down your name, 3 questions you’d like answered and something personal about yourself that no one could possibly know. All of the slips are then collected and put in a plastic box at the front of the stage.
For one of the acts during the show he blindfolds himself with silver dollars over his eye sockets and duct tape and then proceeds to dig around the box full of paper. He calls out a person’s initials and gets them to stand up. Then through talking to them and “feeling” the paper they wrote on he is able to actually figure out what they wrote down on the paper. The first 2 people he called out had pretty simple questions, and nothing really amazing. I guess those people could have been “plants” in the audience. Then Gerry asks:
“I’m picking up a name...is there a Sean in the room?” OMG!
Sean stands up immediately.
Sean: “Yes Gerry, that’s me!”
Gerry: “You married?”
Sean: “No.”
Gerry: “But you’re having a baby, right?” The audience and Sean gasp.
Sean: “Yep...”
Gerry: “Girlfriend? Is she with you?”
Sean: “No I’m here with a buddy on a "last hurrah”! This draws several sounds of disapproval from the audience.
Gerry: “You want to know if you’re having a boy or a girl...but I can’t tell if your girlfriend isn’t here with you.”
Sean is amazed, that was one of the questions he asked.
Gerry: “Hold on...wait a minute...you’re a sick freak aren’t you?” Uh-oh, Sean starts grinning ear to ear and begins to turn beet red.
Gerry: “You want me to...there’s something about your penis...a pimple...a wart...no... freckles! You have freckles on your penis!”
The crowd and Sean are howling!
“Ok Sean, I’m going to try to find your slip of paper while completely blindfolded. If I throw your slip of paper to you, sit down and the crowd will give me a thunderous round of applause.”
Gerry throws a crumpled up slip of paper towards Sean...and it’s his! And he actually did write all those things down on the slip! How did he do it? He must’ve had another person get into the slips, read them over and then somehow communicate the information back to him. Sean was completely blown away though and
ended up buying his DVD.
We drove back to the Tropicana to sleep. Sean decided to play poker again all night. I told him that I wanted to be on our way by 9:00am. I needed to get a good night’s rest since I guess I would be playing the WSOP after all.
My Bankroll = -$2400
Sean’s bankroll = -$700
# of drinks Sean had = 15 + ???
Day 6 to follow.
