Yesterday Me and Andy went to the Stratosphere, which is this big building in the middle of the city kinda similar to Centrepoint tower. Hui was still a little sick so opted to stay at home and sleep it off. The Stratosphere is a hotel and casino with a big outdoor lookout point at the top, and it also has 3 rides on the roof - The Big shot, which shoots you up in the air up (kinda like a backwards space probe from wonderland), and the X-Scream, which is kinda hard to describe but you sit in these seats and it tilts over the edge of the building. The other ride was closed, but it could be described as an upside down cha-cha that goes over the edge of the building. Anyway the 2 rides that we went on were good and scary.
After the rides we went downstairs to the poker room and played some 1/2NL, I finished up about $40, it should have been a lot more but a hand just before we left I folded 3 tens when i was 99% I was beat by a straight or flush. Turned out the guy only had a pair of queens and it was pretty devastating. The hand only cost me $40 or so but the fact is I should have won around $300 and didnt because I gave my opponent way too much credit, overthought the hand and tried to make a "hero fold". An expensive lesson, and I felt very bad since I played the hand badly as well as costing myself and Andy around $150 each.
Today we had a look at the gold nugget (the actual goldne nugget) inside the golden nugget (the hotel where we are staying). Pretty impressive. Interestingly it was found in Bendigo, VIC in 1975. Also watched Hui playing some highish-stakes BJ which was good. Tommorow we are going to the Rio to finally go bowling and maybe meet up with John, another 2+2 friend.
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