Jackpot at the Red Rock...

11/2/08

Jackpot at the Red Rock...

Today I met up with a buddy of mine at Red Rock Casino in
Summerlin. It was a first time for me at this "locals"
casino. For a casino off the strip, it was pretty nice.
That might be an understatement, as it is probably on
par with some of the best on the Strip.

I decided to to check it out on a Sunday morning, as I
wanted to put a couple of football parlay bets. A couple
of ten dolla' bets for a chance to win over eight hunny.
I actually hit have the teams I bet. Don't call me
Scott the Greek yet, hehe...

To kill time there, while watching some football, I also played
some $2/4 limit Texas Holdem. I felt like playing some "no
foldem' holdem", hoping to river some local player in each hand
I was in. I bought in for $120.00, it was for fun anyway, I could
make this last forever at this level. Plus they have a Bad
Beat Jackpot, that all players at the casino (plus their related
casinos) would share in if a bad beat was hit at one of the
poker tables.

Well, whattaya' know, 2 hours into playing, two players at
another poker table at Red Rock, hit Four Kings against a
Royal Flush - Bingo!!! Those players got the big money,
$45,000.00 to the loser and $30,000.00 to the winner of the
hand. There was a total of 306 players at each of the casinos'
poker rooms, so we all got $286.00 for sitting there. Not
bad. I eventually grinded off $25.00 at my stay at seat
10 on table 16, for the 6 hours of play. I was not successful
in putting in bad beats on anybody. I was up and down
for the whole day, with no threat to my original buy in.
Like I said, playing some low limit poker was to kill time,
while watching my picks.

As I mentioned before, I hit 50% of my picks, so no win
there. It's more of a bonus if I hit the parlay and it also
makes me watch the games more intently.

Anyway, I'll be trying to rest up the rest of the night, I want
to enter the Caesar's Megastack tourny tomorrow for their
$200.00 NLHE at 12 pm, I believe.