Back to real life

I'm back in the UK and (just about) recovered from jetlag. Flying overnight this way is harder than flying westwards. I definitely prefer the UK weather temperatures around 110 are hard to bear - give me the 65/70 of the current English summer.

After going out of the WSOP I got time to do some "gambling". Not real gambling though. Fruit machines are for fools and I only played them with "free" money - Planet Hollywood has a free pull machine in the lobby, having signed up with their players club you get 1 pull a day - I won $5 free slot play - went to the closest machine and ended up with $14 real money which I cashed out. Never bothered with blackjack or roulette (roulette wheels in the European mode of having a double-0 - crap odds and blackjack only payong 6-5). I didplay 3 $80 poker tournaments in Planet Hollywood - a bit of a ripoff as they take at least 25% for the house/dealers - however I made the cas in games 2 and 3 and ended up $400 in profit - yippee. In the 3rd game Runa (Duncan) also made the money so it was a good night for PLrs.

Can totally recommend the fountains at the Bellagio - stirring music coupled to a great visual display. Went round downtown with Duncan, Helen and Ed - Fremont St experience was worth the view coupled to some daredevil late night motorcycle action which really got the adrenaline going. 3 motorcycles being driven round a fairly small metal sphere without anyone crashing was awesome.

Ended up buying quite a lot of clothes whilst I was over there - some really good bargains to be found on the sales racks. Even having spent all that money buying stuff I still came back with a few dollars out my budget. So I reckon the whole thing didn't cost me a bean. A lot of that was due to the hospitality suite provided by Everest - free food, free drink, free internet for a lot of the time - so many thanks to them.

Vegas was good to be in for a couple of weeks but I don't think I'd like to live there ... too many tourists for a start, too many people chqasing the tourist dollar and weather that sucks. If I ever go back there on a proper holiday then its going to be in December to March when the weather is much more to my liking. I've threatened my bro's that I'm celebrating my 60th birthday over there - I'm trying to incentivise them to start saving. Mind you, I do worry, some of them are far too mesmirised by the flashing lights of fruit machines and not as aware of the odds as I am.

Have played very little poker this week, however I did manage a profit on the $1 baby game and eSport have finally paid up ($110) on the league. Unfortunately BikeRadar didn't make it past the semifinals of the Champios League (final game of that tomorrow) so only another $50 or so to come, Still at least I'll be reporting profits tomorrow.