In other news, it's Kim's birthday this weekend (I'm not at liberty to say how old she is), so we're off to Vegas on Saturday for a few days. I'm hoping to have a bit of a turnaround in my poker, because it's been pretty bad lately. Nothing wrong with my play, really... just hitting a bad stretch of cards. Perfect example would have been at the B&M casino over the weekend. I flop a nut flush, and get beaten by a one-card straight flush. I flop a full house, and get beaten by a bigger full house when the board double-pairs. Online hasn't been much better; I'll meander around at the $2/4 tables, and maybe be up a bit, maybe be down a bit. Then I'll go to $3/6 and either make $100 in about a half an hour, or lose 3/4 of that in 2 hours.

We're staying at the Palace Station Saturday night, and the Rio Sunday. It would have been nice to do the Rio both days, but rooms are amazingly expensive that weekend, on account of the fact that it's both the "CES show":http://www.cesweb.org/default.asp AND the "AVN awards":http://www.avnawards.com/... In fact, we're going to try and sneak into the CES show and collect lots of gadgets and pens and USB keychain drives.

Interspersed with all the gadget-coveting and fake-boob-spotting, of course I'm going to try and play some poker. Last time I was there I didn't really play long enough (or well enough) to get a good idea about where the good games were, so this week I'm scouring the online archives of "my":http://guinnessandpoker.blogspot.com/ "favorite":http://taopoker.blogspot.com/ "poker":http://alcanthang.blogspot.com/ "bloggers":http://www.upforanything.net/poker/ to try and find where the juicy tables are. I'm going to want to hit Aladdin, the Flamingo, the Luxor, Excalibur and perhaps the Mirage. Oooh, maybe the Bellagio for some celebrity-spotting. Any other suggestions? I'll be bringing a notebook to the tables, so I should be able to give a pretty good trip report when I come back, as opposed to "I did good" or "I did bad".