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After busting from the Bellagio Cup event, I chilled for a few hours before going out for a ballin night of eating and partying. I put on smart trousers rather than jeans for the first time this trip and even tucked-in my purple shirt for our dinner at Prime in the Bellagio.

Prime is one of the best steak houses in the world. I always try to eat there at least once per summer. In previous years you’d normally have to book a day or two in advance to get a table on a weekday night and even further in advance for the weekend. Either that or be a VIP Guest. In the lean economic times, however, I managed to book only 2 hours ahead of time.

It was Rob’s first visit to Prime and he was well-impressed. It is a super-plush place with exemplary service. I had delicious shrimp wrapped in bacon for a starter and then a superb bone-in rib-eye steak. The accompanying wild mushrooms tasted absolutely stunning.

Rob and I have played credit-card roulette for every meal we’ve had together and I’d faded all four of them. I said to him that I needed my luck to change because if I could start losing at credit-card roulette than maybe I could start winning at poker. FML as the waiter picked-out Rob’s card again!

After dinner we went over to The Palms to party in the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa courtesy of PKR. We met the gorgeous Liv Boeree in the lift in a group with Brandon Cantu. I chatted with her later and she told me she’d just won a girl-on-girl boxing match that day. She’s always friendly and pleasant to people and we had a photo taken with her.

We met our friend Jonathan as we entered the invite-only, open-bar party. The place was already rocking, full of poker players and girls. Let me just try to paint a picture for you here. The Hugh Hefner Sky Villa is maybe 3000-4000 square feet on two-levels with a swimming pool on the outdoor terrace. In the main room there was a dance-floor and two podiums, upon which were two sexy gogo dancers in skimpy underwear.

There were three pneumatic playboy bunnies who were generally dancing and/or chatting with guests. In addition there were maybe 15-20 sexy girls in tight dresses who were there to chat with guests and make the place look beautiful. While they may be nice to look at, their conversational skills were generally banal; after talking with one of them for a minute or two, it was so excruciating that I was wishing she would just shut the fuck up.

The highlight of the villa is the bedroom, with a huge circular rotating bed below a mirrored ceiling. Several of the girls were lounging on the bed and I joined them to relax in the ridiculous fantasy of it all while getting some photos taken.

There were quite a few famous poker players there including JC Tran, Chino Rheem, Phil Galfond, Brian Townsend, Kara Scott, Devilfish, Neil Channing and his whole Blackbelt Poker crew and probably many more that I’ve forgotten about. Amazingly Bond18 was not present. How could that happen?

I was also surprised to see Annette_15 there in a fabulous purple dress. We’ve known each other for a while and I joked with her about her being underage and blagging her way into the party (nobody was checking ID). When I first met Annette around 2.5 years ago she didn’t drink, but now that she’s been around the poker business for a few years she’s turned into quite a drinker. I guess it does that to us all, as the drinks were certainly flowing very freely at this party.

The evening seemed to fly by as I chatted with various people, danced with the bunnies and drank lots of vodka, until they finally started to clear us out at 3am. I’m sorry I’ve not got any Bond18 style shagging in the shower stories to tell you about this party, but it was a fabulous evening with lots of fun surrounded by beautiful women and interesting people (although only Liv, Kara and Annette fit in both categories). In the packed elevator on the way down, an attractive girl got out on her own. Devilfish, never one to miss an opportunity, suddenly decided to jump out and chase after her.

Jonathan took quite a few pictures and if I get any photos through from him then I’ll add them to the blog later. Now it’s just one more day of relaxation at the condo before playing the Main Event on Friday.