Bromance - The Extended Edition

I forgot to include some things in my last post, so hence the reason for the 'Extended Edition'

There were a few things on my to do list when I visited Vegas this time:

• Visit Spearmint Rhino's
• Go Clubbing
• Watch the Volcano show @ Mirage
• Watch the Bellagio fountain show
• Watch the Pirate show @ TI
• Get propositioned by a hooker
• Proposition that hooker to proposition Bryan
• Go to The Gun Store

I only managed to complete a couple of things on this list, so I guess there is plenty for me to look forward to the next time I go.

I only managed to visit Rhino's and The Gun Store.

Of all the times I've been to Vegas (3) I've never really been propositioned by a hooker, I just wanted to be, just for the experience and the story. I read on the boards that if you hang out by the Video Poker bars long enough, that one will proposition you. This never happened to me!

There were a couple of girls that were just sitting by the video poker bar @ P.Ho while I was playing for my comped drinks, I looked over, smiled at them and exchanged glances, but nothing! I guess they weren't hookers.

There was this one girl sitting by the VP bar over @ Encore, who was just sitting there for a long time and kept playing with her phone (waiting for a call, Miss?) I sat down, played for a bit, but nothing!

Maybe, I need some more training on my eye to tell me who is a working girl and who isn't! Some of the girls are dressed up really nice and look really hot, who am I to say that they are working? I give almost everyone the benefit of the doubt that they are simply just tourists like Bryan and myself there to have a good time, until I see some noticeable signs.

There were a couple girls wearing really skimpy clothing, high heels, who were walking around like they were looking for someone, maybe they were on the hunt, maybe they lost their bfs.

I do have a working girl story to share though!

So Bryan and myself were headed back to our room in the Encore, once again utilizing the secret Suite entrance, we get to the front lobby, we see one of the receptionist leave her post and direct an attractive girl wearing high heels, a skirt, a tight Ed Hardy top, probably carrying a brand name clutch, towards where the elevators are located. Okay, nothing to it right? She's lost.

We get to the elevators with her the lost girl asks "Is this the button for the elevator? I didn't want to press the fire alarm button by accident". Okay, so she's confused, we'll press the button for her, nothing to it.

We all get in the elevator, she's checks a text on her phone, drops her hand with the cell phone, so it's hanging by her side, thank goodness for large sized screens these days! The text reads something along the lines of "Come up to Room 2713". So, she's reading a text, nothing to it, right? Wait a minute! OMG, she's a h00k3r? Hot girl, skimpy clothing, clueless on where the elevator is, scared to push the wrong button to call security, gets a suspicious text to a room number?!!!!!!!

At that point all I could think of and really wanted to blurt out was "How Much?" I probably couldn't afford it, but I just really wanted to know. All I could muster out was; "Is this you?" when we got to her floor.

In retrospect, I should have played it cool and said "So.....you got any friends?". That's it, that's my working girl story, or the closest thing I have to it.

Hidden Gem: People look really hard for 3:2 Blackjack @ $10 minimum tables; well I noticed that there were plenty of those kinds of tables available @ the Encore. Some of them were even empty; it was really easy to get a seat, sometimes even a table for yourself. Just stray away from the hotel check in desk if you're looking to have a table to yourself.

There are $10 tables with 3:2 payouts at other hotels as well; however they're all usually very crowded and full of onlookers. I found that it's very quiet @ the Encore, which is a good thing.

There could be a lot of factors in play here, day of the week, too far up the strip from anything else, time of the day, however if someone is looking for a good place to practice their game, I'd recommend Encore.