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24 minutes ago, Armybrat said:

The Monte Carlo has been remodeled & rebranded recently, the others are decades gone & replaced.

The Strip has changed somewhat since I first stayed at the Sahara in 1957.

I thought you and Bugsy Siegel opened the Flamingo together back in the 40’s?

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Vegas next weekend for Labor day looks something like this:

Arrive Friday afternoon, staying at Encore.  Group dinner at SW Steak followed by lower key night of gambling/drinking

Saturday - two options - cabana day at the pool or go to lagasse stadium for a day of gambling on CFB.  I will likely choose the latter over the former because we later have drinks before dinner, dinner at RIvea followed by reserve table/bottle service at Drai

Sunday - Apparently a really prime cabana at Encore Beach Club.  if we survive the day I think we have no dinner plans.  

Monday - travel home/liver transplant.  

This is a trip put together by a buddy who spends upwards of 30 nights a year at the Encore.  he serves as travel agent and does a great job of putting this together in a top notch fashion, ensures we get outstanding food/service/etc.  Really looking forward to it. 

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17 hours ago, pepper brooks said:

Vegas next weekend for Labor day looks something like this:

Arrive Friday afternoon, staying at Encore.  Group dinner at SW Steak followed by lower key night of gambling/drinking

Saturday - two options - cabana day at the pool or go to lagasse stadium for a day of gambling on CFB.  I will likely choose the latter over the former because we later have drinks before dinner, dinner at RIvea followed by reserve table/bottle service at Drai

Sunday - Apparently a really prime cabana at Encore Beach Club.  if we survive the day I think we have no dinner plans.  

Monday - travel home/liver transplant.  

This is a trip put together by a buddy who spends upwards of 30 nights a year at the Encore.  he serves as travel agent and does a great job of putting this together in a top notch fashion, ensures we get outstanding food/service/etc.  Really looking forward to it. 

That will be a fun weekend for you. That flight home, as well as the next 3-4 days, is going to be absolute hell for you. Wear a rubber.

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Going to be out there this Friday for work during the day.  Flying back Saturday AM, so looking to do a solo dinner, low key.  Any recommendations for restaurants good to sit at the bar but still have full menu?  Ideally, steakhouse, but can be persuaded.  Staying at MGM, but fully mobile.  

If you want to see hot bartenders and waitresses while you eat, go to STK.

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On 8/19/2019 at 1:53 PM, pepper brooks said:

Vegas next weekend for Labor day looks something like this:

Arrive Friday afternoon, staying at Encore.  Group dinner at SW Steak followed by lower key night of gambling/drinking

Saturday - two options - cabana day at the pool or go to lagasse stadium for a day of gambling on CFB.  I will likely choose the latter over the former because we later have drinks before dinner, dinner at RIvea followed by reserve table/bottle service at Drai

Sunday - Apparently a really prime cabana at Encore Beach Club.  if we survive the day I think we have no dinner plans.  

Monday - travel home/liver transplant.  

This is a trip put together by a buddy who spends upwards of 30 nights a year at the Encore.  he serves as travel agent and does a great job of putting this together in a top notch fashion, ensures we get outstanding food/service/etc.  Really looking forward to it. 

 

6 hours ago, LonghornJones said:

That will be a fun weekend for you. That flight home, as well as the next 3-4 days, is going to be absolute hell for you. Wear a rubber.

Yeah, here's how it usually really goes...

Arrive Friday afternoon, staying at Encore.  Group dinner at SW Steak followed by lower key night of gambling/drinking.

Got pretty lit before and during dinner.  Went to gamble and my buddy got on a heater.  Hot chicks  throwing themselves at us.  "Lower key night" doesn't stick at all and we end up staying up way too late and drinking way too much.  Another buddy, after striking out with hot chicks, is dead set on seeing some tits so we head to the strip clubs.  Don't remember much else but I know it was daylight when we got back to our room.

Saturday - two options - cabana day at the pool or go to lagasse stadium for a day of gambling on CFB.  I will likely choose the latter over the former because we later have drinks before dinner, dinner at RIvea followed by reserve table/bottle service at Drai.

We all went with option B as we were pretty much all hanging by a string.  Lost our ass on the couple games we bet on and we all called it an early day because we knew we had a long night ahead of us and went and took a nap.  Too much Redbull from Lagasse's so couldn't nap, but rallied through.  Made it to Drai's which was really kick ass from what I remember.  Not sure when we got done, but it was late.

Sunday - Apparently a really prime cabana at Encore Beach Club.  if we survive the day I think we have no dinner plans.

Started moving around about noon and one look around the hotel room tells me I made a pretty big dent in the mini bar the night before.  Mostly the $15 snacks but had a few drinks for some reason too.  Rolled into the cabana around 1:00 and mostly sat in the corner.  Tried to drink through it despite the smell of anything with alcohol making me sick to my stomach.  Chugged as much water as possible between drinks.  Felt pretty hammered after just a couple drinks.  Must have still been drunk from the night before.  Bailed around 5:00.  Passed out at some point and really only woke up long enough to order room service.

 Monday - travel home/liver transplant.

Feel like I must have picked up a bug because I was sick for a few days.

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Yeah, here's how it usually really goes...

Arrive Friday afternoon, staying at Encore.  Group dinner at SW Steak followed by lower key night of gambling/drinking.

Got pretty lit before and during dinner.  Went to gamble and my buddy got on a heater.  Hot chicks  throwing themselves at us.  "Lower key night" doesn't stick at all and we end up staying up way too late and drinking way too much.  Another buddy, after striking out with hot chicks, is dead set on seeing some tits so we head to the strip clubs.  Don't remember much else but I know it was daylight when we got back to our room.

Saturday - two options - cabana day at the pool or go to lagasse stadium for a day of gambling on CFB.  I will likely choose the latter over the former because we later have drinks before dinner, dinner at RIvea followed by reserve table/bottle service at Drai.

We all went with option B as we were pretty much all hanging by a string.  Lost our ass on the couple games we bet on and we all called it an early day because we knew we had a long night ahead of us and went and took a nap.  Too much Redbull from Lagasse's so couldn't nap, but rallied through.  Made it to Drai's which was really kick ass from what I remember.  Not sure when we got done, but it was late.

Sunday - Apparently a really prime cabana at Encore Beach Club.  if we survive the day I think we have no dinner plans.

Started moving around about noon and one look around the hotel room tells me I made a pretty big dent in the mini bar the night before.  Mostly the $15 snacks but had a few drinks for some reason too.  Rolled into the cabana around 1:00 and mostly sat in the corner.  Tried to drink through it despite the smell of anything with alcohol making me sick to my stomach.  Chugged as much water as possible between drinks.  Felt pretty hammered after just a couple drinks.  Must have still been drunk from the night before.  Bailed around 5:00.  Passed out at some point and really only woke up long enough to order room service.

 Monday - travel home/liver transplant.

Feel like I must have picked up a bug because I was sick for a few days.

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On 8/19/2019 at 1:53 PM, pepper brooks said:

Vegas next weekend for Labor day looks something like this:

Arrive Friday afternoon, staying at Encore.  Group dinner at SW Steak followed by lower key night of gambling/drinking

Saturday - two options - cabana day at the pool or go to lagasse stadium for a day of gambling on CFB.  I will likely choose the latter over the former because we later have drinks before dinner, dinner at RIvea followed by reserve table/bottle service at Drai

Sunday - Apparently a really prime cabana at Encore Beach Club.  if we survive the day I think we have no dinner plans.  

Monday - travel home/liver transplant.  

This is a trip put together by a buddy who spends upwards of 30 nights a year at the Encore.  he serves as travel agent and does a great job of putting this together in a top notch fashion, ensures we get outstanding food/service/etc.  Really looking forward to it. 

Nice plan.  Isn't Drai's where Pauly D from Jersey Shore DJ's?  

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Leave Thursday afternoon for a long weekend. Is there a Vegas watching party?

 

I don’t know if the exes group has a regular game watching party but they met for the Sugar Bowl in the suburbs (Henderson) according to what I could find online.

 

When we have a big name opponent, like an LSU, you will find our games up on the larger screens in the sports books and UT fans at just about every casino. For this game against LA Tech, on LHN, I expect it will be on but perhaps the smaller screens. Should be plenty of Horns fans if watching at a major casino.

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having a small respectful moment of silence for this former great institution.  when hard rock was in it's heyday, it was fucking amazing.  have some great memories there.  best is gambling and then partying with a russian mobster dude who had his own table/booth at the club downstairs.  the table had a fucking plaque with his name on it.  he paid for the 4 or 5 bottles that we had.  fine ass hookers were walking in and out of the booth the whole night.  he practically fucked one while the bouncers on the outside of the booth kept people moving who were stopping to stare at the fucking going on.

another memory is during Rehab when a buddy was caught fucking a chic in the hard rock pool.  waitress caught them and was screaming, "stop!  stop!, there's no fucking in the hard rock pool."  bouncer/security guys gave him a high five and told him to take it to the room, which he did.  i believe that place had one of the original day pool parties.

another memory is when we were walking back into the hotel from a long night at drai's.  hooker grabs a buddy and says that she's horny.  we go gamble while he takes her up to the room.

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having a small respectful moment of silence for this former great institution.  when hard rock was in it's heyday, it was fucking amazing.  have some great memories there. 

i believe that place had one of the original day pool parties.

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Yep, Sunday Rehab pool party at the HR was the one that kicked off what the whole day Pool party scene has become today.

We had some great meals at the Nobu way back in the day and memories at the circle bar. Was sad when the place went cold.
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Yep, Sunday Rehab pool party at the HR was the one that kicked off what the whole day Pool party scene has become today.

We had some great meals at the Nobu way back in the day and memories at the circle bar. Was sad when the place went cold.

 

nobu was fucking awesome!  we used to love sitting at the sushi bar at nobu and shoot the shit with the chefs.  best time was before the Pimp N Ho ball.  strippers and hookers everywhere dressing in nothing but thong bikinis.  there was two strippers/hookers sitting next to us.  we buy a few bottles of sake and give the strippers and chefs copious sake shots.  before each shot, the strippers had to flash the chefs.  they start flashing the whole restaurant, everyone is cheering, and other dudes start buying them shots.  we were given lots of free shit that night from the chefs.

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nobu was fucking awesome!  we used to love sitting at the sushi bar at nobu and shoot the shit with the chefs.  best time was before the Pimp N Ho ball.  strippers and hookers everywhere dressing in nothing but thong bikinis.  there was two strippers/hookers sitting next to us.  we buy a few bottles of sake and give the strippers and chefs copious sake shots.  before each shot, the strippers had to flash the chefs.  they start flashing the whole restaurant, everyone is cheering, and other dudes start buying them shots.  we were given lots of free shit that night from the chefs.

so you're telling me that guys will give away money/food/basically anything valuable to see tits?  no way <idontbelieveyou.gif>

headed out myself tomorrow @1pm   

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having a small respectful moment of silence for this former great institution.  when hard rock was in it's heyday, it was fucking amazing.  have some great memories there.  best is gambling and then partying with a russian mobster dude who had his own table/booth at the club downstairs.  the table had a fucking plaque with his name on it.  he paid for the 4 or 5 bottles that we had.  fine ass hookers were walking in and out of the booth the whole night.  he practically fucked one while the bouncers on the outside of the booth kept people moving who were stopping to stare at the fucking going on.

another memory is during Rehab when a buddy was caught fucking a chic in the hard rock pool.  waitress caught them and was screaming, "stop!  stop!, there's no fucking in the hard rock pool."  bouncer/security guys gave him a high five and told him to take it to the room, which he did.  i believe that place had one of the original day pool parties.

another memory is when we were walking back into the hotel from a long night at drai's.  hooker grabs a buddy and says that she's horny.  we go gamble while he takes her up to the room.

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We had a table at that same club next to Tito Ortiz and Jenna Jameson, and talked to Tito for a little while.

 

Also, somehow ended up at a post AVN award party in a giant suite there.  I was playing pool with my buddy in the middle of an all out orgy while Ron Jeremy watched (the pool game, not the orgy).

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Pushed back early and looking like an early arrival so far. He’s off to a good start. Only 107 today. 109 tmrw and 110 Saturday.

 

Yeah, no complaints on the flight out. I got stuck in a middle seat, but I had 2 hot girls beside me. Which was good.

Sitting at Lotus of Siam now waiting on my supper. This place smells incredible!

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it's been a long ass time since i did the club scene in vegas but i don't think there's anything now that remotely competes with the hard rock in the late 90s and early 2000s.  damn i miss that place.

Yeah, we would go a few times a year 98-02. Great fucking scene, usually capped by laaaate night stumbling around that club in the basement...Baby's, I think? If we ever left the grounds, it was usually to Club Paradise across the street to check out the ballet.

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Been a pretty, pretty good trip so far. Craps tables were packed with old aznz at GN so I walked over to Binion's and scoped out their scene. Found a spot at the end of the table between a young guy who was clearly going to have a fucking good time no matter what and an old retired guy from California. We kinda clicked and started using the same betting strategy and we fucking cleaned house. I'm up $300 so far. I would have been up a shitload more if I had pressed my bets instead of banking them. But it's night 1, my feet hurt and I'm going to start some serious drinking.

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Offerings in the United clubs this morning were woefully inadequate compared to other locations. Good grief. Flight was solid though. Had lunch at red 8 in the Wynn, picked up some bottles for dinner tonight at sw steak. We have a 2015 Dominus and a 2015 Ridge Montebello, both of which Parker gave perfect 100 points.  We were somewhat limited in selection due to them only allowing us to bring 2 bottles and them having to be different vintages from anything on their list. I get that part.  We will be ordering whites off their list and probably mid course Pinot. 

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Offerings in the United clubs this morning were woefully inadequate compared to other locations. Good grief. Flight was solid though. Had lunch at red 8 in the Wynn, picked up some bottles for dinner tonight at sw steak. We have a 2015 Dominus and a 2015 Ridge Montebello, both of which Parker gave perfect 100 points.  We were somewhat limited in selection due to them only allowing us to bring 2 bottles and them having to be different vintages from anything on their list. I get that part.  We will be ordering whites off their list and probably mid course Pinot. 

Emiril’s had a $25/bottle corkage fee when we were there 15 years ago.

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At the airport and United has me delayed.  Fuckers. Have a few pics from encore beach cabana yesterday.  No food pics.  SW Friday night was epic. Rivera private room atop the Delano hotel was a stunning view and cool set up.  The food was good, but when they were addressing the group they made the statement that since Joel robouchon passed, that their chef was the worlds greatest chef.  That kinda shifted my expectations. Dramatically. The food was very good, but no one would have thought it was prepared by the self proclaimed #1 chef in the world. Again, that isn’t saying it wasn’t good, it just didn’t live up to that level of hype.  They forced us into a wine pairing that they pre-selected. It was not commiserate with the food, but it was truly a fun and awesome experience. Private table stage side at drais was really cool  Gucci Mane was suppose to play at 1:00.  He took the stage at 2:30.  He was fucking terrible.  Cabana with our own private pool at encore beach club on Sunday was the highlight of the entertainment for the weekend by a long measure.  That was an obscene scene and set up and definitely a tribute to extreme excess in virtually every way imaginable.  

 

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Cabana with our own private pool at encore beach club on Sunday was the highlight of the entertainment for the weekend by a long measure.  That was an obscene scene and set up and definitely a tribute to extreme excess in virtually every way imaginable.  
 


Was it Diplo? He usually puts on a fun show.
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