Posted by Johnnymac 11:13 PM
Mrs Johnnymac and I just got back to Houston this evening from San Francisco. We spent some time there and in Wine Country this weekend celebrating our first wedding anniversary. It was awesome. The weather was beautiful the entire weekend - sunny skies and temperatures in the 70's - and the hills and blue skies and scenery were just great. Friday night we did a twilight tour of the Robert Mondavi 'To Kalon' winery and vineyard, Saturday we went canoeing on the Russian River, Sunday we traveled up and down the valley going to all of the wineries and sampling the wares, and then we spent Sunday night and yesterday back in San Francisco before coming home.

Yesterday, we took a cable car from just outside our hotel in Union Square to the top of Lombard Street and then walked down to Fisherman's Wharf for a snack and some coffee, and after that we hiked all the way along the bay and waterfront to the Golden Gate Bridge. We walked out on the bridge and then caught a bus back to the subway and back to the hotel. The ocean air was wonderful and we both got sunburns. What a great trip. I married a wonderful and beautiful woman a year ago and we had a wonderful and beautiful time celebrating it all over again this weekend.

I have to give my wife credit, too, I bought the plane tickets and the hotel rooms and she took charge of the itinerary and she did a great job.

Anyway, back to H-town now. Mrs Johnnymac goes back to work tomorrow, but I am off all week to take care of some stuff around the house (the bathroom still looms large) before catching a plane Friday morning to Vegas with Canonico and some other guys to celebrate Jordan's impending nuptials. We'll spend some time by the pool on Friday and then spend the rest of the weekend watching (and betting on) football and playing poker before heading back Monday morning (I have learned that skipping the last night's hotel room before the first flight out is my preferred way of doing Vegas). The highlight of the weekend will obviously be the Horns vs Ohio St game on Saturday night.

But I am not sure where to spend our time this weekend. The last time we went to Vegas for a football weekend we did our football betting and and poker-playing at the Mirage on Saturday and Bellagio on Sunday, mainly because that was really all there was except for downtown and the south-strip-Manadaly area, and as near as I could tell, a lot has changed since I was last out there in June of last year as well. From what I understand, now MGM and Bally's both have poker rooms and I know that they both have decent sports books. Maybe even Aladdin does too? (I'm looking for some small-stakes No Limit or maybe even 6-12, 8-16, or even 10-20 Limit if the games are good) So the point is if anyone has any suggestions, leaving them in the comments below would be much appreciated. As far as the Longhorns, two years ago we went to the ESPN Zone at NYNY and watched UT roll over Oklahome State and that was great - I suspect we'll try and go back, so long as there are no rabidly cursing little girls cheering for Wazoo against USC this time.

4 Comment(s):

Posted by  Dr Fro, at 10:17 AM, September 07, 2005  

You should bet on OU to suck this season. It is a sure thing

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Posted by  Junelli, at 10:45 AM, September 07, 2005  

As of April, MGM had 2 No Limit games:

$1-$2 (buy-in $50 min & $100 max)
$2-$5 (buy-in $100 min & $500 max)

Bellagio has a very juicy $2-$5 NL game ($200 buy-in).

The action at the Palms is supposed to be good too, but I've never played there.

Haven't been to the Wynn yet, but hear it's the Bombay.

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Posted by  Johnnymac, at 4:45 PM, September 07, 2005  

Thanks for all the comments, guys. That is certainly the draw of Mirage and Bellagio's book is even closer... but that's same old same old. I am leaning towards trying out the MGM because the games sound good and the book there is huge. Then again, maybe DeWitt has convinced me to try Wynn. Hmmm....

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Posted by  Johnnymac, at 4:52 PM, September 07, 2005  

Oh, and if you are interested we are staying at Flamingo because we love the place. Yes, the rooms are a little bit ratty but the location can't be beat and the pool rocks, not to mention it's a little more affordable than the big joints. It's getting to where we stay there whenever we go out there.

Seriously, the pool rocks and is great for taking a break in the afternoon. Ask Canonico about the the 20oz cans of Becks. YUM!

(if you need to find me about 5:00pm CDT on Friday afternoon, that's the where I'll be... on a chair next to the waterslide drinking a beer with Canonico)

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