Random Thought: Unfortunate Names

Random Thought: My wife's gynecologist's last name is Biggerstaff. Seems borderline inappropriate, considering his field of practice...

Heading to Vegas, Baby!

"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number." - Steven Wright

So I've been playing poker of some sort for ten years or so. I have spent exactly three minutes in a casino. My wife and I took a trip to Niagara Falls, and I walked into the Fallsview Casino, saw no signs for the poker room and walked out. She was with me, and has no interest whatsoever in poker, so I just left.

I play occasionally at the BestBet poker room in Jacksonville, Florida, but that isn't a casino. It's a poker warehouse. You can go in there most any weekend of the year and there'll be sixty or seventy tables of poker running, and a waitlist for most of the games. But the games there are very, very juicy.

A buddy of mine and I have made plans several times to attend a WPT or WSOP Circuit event at some South Florida or Memphis casinos, but every time we made preliminary plans, they ended up falling through.

So April marks me and my wife's fifteenth wedding anniversary. We decided we wanted to take a trip somewhere - without the kids. God bless my wife, she suggested Las Vegas.

Yeah Baby!!!

So we're planning to visit Las Vegas in April, courtesy of Uncle Sam giving me some of my own money back. We're planning to stay for five days.  As I stated before, my wife cares not one whit about poker, so it won't be the 18-hour-a-day grind that I would love, but I will be getting in a couple of hours of poker a day.

Mostly, we're going to see the sights, eat some good food, watch some good shows, visit the Hoover Dam and Grand Canyon, and just enjoy some time without three ankle-biters hanging from our legs.

I'm excited for the trip - I'll be booking as soon as my refund arrives. I'm thinking we'll stay at Bally's, because it is reasonably priced and next to the Paris and across the strip from the Bellagio. The view should be perfect.

And I get to play poker. In Vegas. I can't wait.