GambleAB and Salsa

Posted by Nat
August 3, 2006

I didn’t do much during the day today.

I saw the 7:30 PM show of “O” at Bellagio with Ozzy. It’s a pretty spectacular show and I recommend it to anyone who visits Vegas. I’ve enjoyed all of the Cirque du Soleil shows that I’ve been to.

After that, GambleAB got in contact with me on AIM and we decided to meet up for some bar action. I got in a cab and went over to his apartment where he lives with veeRob. We headed out soon after to meet up with gbmantis. However, I didn’t leave without getting some pictures of Aaron in his “office”:

Aaron

Again…

Then we went to some bar across the street from the Rio for some drinking and Golden Tee.

gbmantis in the forward facing hat, Aaron playing Golden Tee and gbmantis’ friend in the white shirt
Similar shot
Aaron and gbmantis

So then we ordered some nachos and ate them, but no one really ate any of our salsa. Naturally, we’re all well-off poker players and we felt like blowing $100 each on some fun. So we put up a bounty of $300 for anyone who wanted to drink both of the bowls of spicy salsa. It wouldn’t be all that difficult for the average guy, so I made the demand that I would only contribute $100 if a girl drank them. So the search was on. Here are some views of the bounty/salsa:

Salsa + $300
Aaron and Rob with the prize

So we found a willing participant pretty quickly. Her name is Jodi and she was there with her (boyfriend?) Kevin, a military guy. She didn’t do so well, but I got a bunch of pictures:

Kevin on the left

Jodi

Not doing too well, but getting encouragement
The spectators enjoying the show
I eventually offered a $100 consolation prize if she got down even one bowl. It didn’t happen.
Once Jodi failed, Kevin went for it even though it didn’t count for the purposes of the challenge
He did give some effort, so I gave him a bit of cash to help offset his dinner costs. Overall it was very entertaining.

Then we left to go to The Orleans (a complete piece of crap, I’m glad I’m staying at the Bellagio) to play some craps — it’s -EV from a $ perspective, but not from a fun perspective.

Walking in to The Orleans
gbmantis bought in for $300 and promptly ran it up to like $2.5K. The blacks are $100 chips and there’s a huge row of green/yellow $25 in front of them. The red chips are $5 chips and there are $1 brown chips next to those.

Soon after I split a cab with gbmantis and his friend back to Monte Carlo/Bellagio. I’m now watching V for Vendetta in the hotel room, about to sleep.

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