Vegas, baby, Vegas! (Part 2)

On Saturday, we all went to the Rio to see part of the 2005 World Series of Poker. It was the 3rd day of the No-Limit Texas Hold'em World Championship. There were 5619 players competing for the $7.5 million grand prize. It takes $10,000 to enter and the top 10% all receive cash prizes.

When we entered the game room, it was almost completely silent with a background sound of only chips clicking in the players' hands. It was quite impressive.







Even the dealers were quiet. You could practically smell the tension in the air. It's like everyone nose that you have to be quiet.
(You can click on the picture to zoom)



We went to the shopping outlet near Downtown Vegas where we ate at Makino's, an all you can eat Japanese restaurant. Needless to say lots of sushi was devoured. Afterward, we went to Fremont Street to do some gambling and check out the light show that happens every half hour. They have had this for a while, but in June of last year, they upgraded their system to Viva Vision (courtesy of LG) and now consists of 12.5 million synchronized LED lights, creating the world's largest screen, now capable of producing high-resolution images at 60 frames per second and 16.7 million color combinations (Sorry, did I lose you?). Anyway, that's pretty cool. Here's a quick view from that night.

Eddy, Stephanie, Joanne and I then took some pictures in front of the 4 Queens. Cheese!




I had a great time and I'm ready to go back.