vegas update

Sensory overload. All the time. That's what Vegas does to you at first. Luckily, I'm pretty much totally immune to it now. I no longer become distracted by all the flashing lights and ding-ding-dinging of the slot machines. However, I do become annoyed. Mostly by the type of people I encounter. Fat, smoking, barrel-assed type people injecting their monies into machines that are going to take 1/4 of the money you spend guaranteed. 80 year old electric wheel chair bound white haired ladies smoking marlboro 100s and Burger King fattened 40 year olds knocking back shitty free American beer. These are the people that detest me. And they are all over the place. The strange thing about Vegas is that it's tough to find anyone that's actually genuine. Everyone always has some sort of act going. It's difficult to differentiate between those person's personalities that are based on fiction and those that are actually real. Some people enjoy Vegas for this reason: You can be whoever you want. I'd be lying if I said I hadn't embelished some information about myself...but nothing too extreme.

Despite all the people I dislike, Vegas does give you the opportunity to meet lot's of celebrities. Not fake-ass "I'm a celebrity because I was on a reality TV show celebrities" but actual famous people. For example, I was in Caesar's Palace Poker Room last week and who do I literally bump into by Michael Phelps. Arguably the best Olympian ever and I got to talk to him. Just a regular dude who likes to play poker. He actually did pretty well too as he final tabled a $1500 dollar event. Just a college student but he is one of the recognizable people on the planet. And a nice guy to boot. Who would have thunk it?

Also, playing 2/5 with Denis Philips. For you non poker players he is currently the chip leader in this year's main event at the WSOP. It's the biggest deal in the poker community. And he was just a regular dude as well. He dumped money to the table. I guess that's what you get when you know you are going to win at least 3 million dollars. Lucky bastard!

All for now.