I didn't realize how exhausted I was after this trip, but it took me a good week to get back to normal. Vegas will do that to you, especially when it's 115°F every day. I had a pretty lazy weekend after getting home about 5am Friday, and I felt reasonably good for work on Monday. But between needing to catch up on family time and having a mountain of work waiting for me, I took a few days off from PCF and most other things.
I thought I was largely recovered until yesterday, when I just couldn't drag my butt out of bed. Luckily I've got a lot of flexibility from my employer, and I work from home part-time, so I was able to just stay in bed a couple extra hours and shake off the last of it.
This was a pretty damned good trip. Poker-wise, I can't complain. Overall I came out about $1000 up in 1-3 NLHE, playing 12 sessions over seven days. Unfortunately, I gave pretty much all of that profit back between my first casino PLO session and dumping a couple hundred into the slots (mandatory for Vegas even though I never play them any other time). My only poker regret is that I ended the trip on a shitty session, losing nearly three buy-ins on cooler after cooler plus a badly played pair of jacks.
I think I also gained about ten pounds on this trip, and it's
@Payback's fault. We went to the Peppermill twice (amazing breakfasts in spite of the 60-90 minute waits) and had several other great meals both on and off Strip. It was fantastic to have someone around to talk about hands, drive me around town, have a beer or Scotch, and force me to try to eat half of a Giordiano's medium in one sitting. My stomach is still complaining about that one. We definitely need to do this again - it was a great trip and one of the best times I've ever had in Vegas.
