vegas good and bad and minor poker talk.
the good and the bad about vegas from yesterday's paper.
the good: a couple wishing to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary called a restaurant, INTIMATE FINE DINING RESTAURANT in henderson (a suburb of las vegas)because they had been there once before and had enjoyed it. they wanted a reservation for the 4th but were told by the man on the phone that they were only open thursday through saturday. the woman was very disappointed and explained that they had canceled a trip just to do this. the man then said, "well, come on and i (turns out he was the owner, DON ESPANILA) and i will cook a meal just for you and your husband."
the place is really small, 8 tables, but when they got there they found out that he had put a table in the kitchen so they could watch him cook. the menu: lobster, osso bucco, fois gras, lamb chops and fresh veggies. the desert was a black and blueberry chessecake cobbler with lemon verbena.
isn't that just so cool? guarantee you that rhonda and i will eat at this place.
a guy named don barker, former health and safety manager for boyd gaming who quit in protest of the company's handling of safety issues following the death of two workers went on to teach osha rules at unlv. so far, so good huh? a guy who cares, right? well, there's more. the government suspended his license to teach because, "he was submitting falsified information regarding the instructional time spent on topics, failing to collect and retain required documentation and inappropriately ADVISING STUDENTS NOT TO CONTACT OSHA TO REPORT SAFETY ISSUES"!!!!"
now on to, as cows would say, udder things: i have won every session since that disaster but they were small wins, which are, of course, better than losses both from a financial and mental basis but i need to hit a big one. also, i am not really playing my A game..don't know why. every month this year has been over a grand profit and that is with and average of only 50 hours per month of play.
coincidentally, yesterday i played at the mgm room and sat next to a nice young man who reads this blog. he and his wife had seen me at the trop one time and became fans. he beat me on my very first hand (if i am going to make mistakes at a table it will be in the first hour of play...seems like it takes an hour for me to get 'into' the flow of the game) when i made a horrible call on the river. so here is a shout out to (i hope i remember the spelling) mr. and mrs. sonnar.
the good: a couple wishing to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary called a restaurant, INTIMATE FINE DINING RESTAURANT in henderson (a suburb of las vegas)because they had been there once before and had enjoyed it. they wanted a reservation for the 4th but were told by the man on the phone that they were only open thursday through saturday. the woman was very disappointed and explained that they had canceled a trip just to do this. the man then said, "well, come on and i (turns out he was the owner, DON ESPANILA) and i will cook a meal just for you and your husband."
the place is really small, 8 tables, but when they got there they found out that he had put a table in the kitchen so they could watch him cook. the menu: lobster, osso bucco, fois gras, lamb chops and fresh veggies. the desert was a black and blueberry chessecake cobbler with lemon verbena.
isn't that just so cool? guarantee you that rhonda and i will eat at this place.
a guy named don barker, former health and safety manager for boyd gaming who quit in protest of the company's handling of safety issues following the death of two workers went on to teach osha rules at unlv. so far, so good huh? a guy who cares, right? well, there's more. the government suspended his license to teach because, "he was submitting falsified information regarding the instructional time spent on topics, failing to collect and retain required documentation and inappropriately ADVISING STUDENTS NOT TO CONTACT OSHA TO REPORT SAFETY ISSUES"!!!!"
now on to, as cows would say, udder things: i have won every session since that disaster but they were small wins, which are, of course, better than losses both from a financial and mental basis but i need to hit a big one. also, i am not really playing my A game..don't know why. every month this year has been over a grand profit and that is with and average of only 50 hours per month of play.
coincidentally, yesterday i played at the mgm room and sat next to a nice young man who reads this blog. he and his wife had seen me at the trop one time and became fans. he beat me on my very first hand (if i am going to make mistakes at a table it will be in the first hour of play...seems like it takes an hour for me to get 'into' the flow of the game) when i made a horrible call on the river. so here is a shout out to (i hope i remember the spelling) mr. and mrs. sonnar.
posted by Ron Shock | 9:43 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Ron,
It was a real pleasure playing poker with you. Thanks for the shout out. I learned a lot about poker from your writings. I tried to put those learnings into my game. However, I decided to stop playing poker from now on last Sunday. (I was only playing it when I came to Vegas anyways.)
Long story short, I won't see you at a poker table but hopefully I will see you at a comedy club.
Soner
Hey R+R,
Happy Anniversary from Costa Rica.
Ours 20th is coming up in October.
See you soon,
V+B
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