Jon Kalmar says...

WSOP Day 5 - Jon Kalmar

I had said on this trip I was not drinking or gambling till the 25th of June. Barring a few bucks in a poker machine while waiting for my supper I have stuck to this. However due to Trev’s imminent departure and James Aikenhead’s birthday I decided to make an exception. I’d had a little result so I think I deserved it anyway.

We booked a bungalow at the MGM’s Wet Republic Pool (Basically a fancy Kebana) and about thirteen of us were in attendance. Kebanas and bungalows are basically free but you must commit to a minimum spend, and on a weekend this was $3000 plus tips and tax. We all chipped in $300 that easily covered it.

The Wet Republic pool is one of the grooviest and ‘Hip’ places to be in Vegas on a weekend afternoon. I have been before and frankly its very loud and crap ravey davey gravey music just doesn’t do it for me, however, the good company and the scenery meant I would put up with it for one day.

The group attending were in the main young successful poker players - most of whom were single. With a pool full of nubile young ladies you’d expect them all to be steaming in with their best chat up lines. No, they joined the volleyball game.

With about an hour to go we checked out the bill to see what the current spend was. $1100 bucks, hmmmmmm better start drinking boys. We order several bottles of champagne and a bottle of vodka and we were soon over the required $3k. The champagne was basically used to re-enact a winning formula 1 drive. It was at this moment that the girls began to flock round our bungalow. It then dawned on the lads that the girls by the pool were not in attendance with their boyfriends but mostly were on the lookout for free drinks and attention from young men with money to splash about. Most were probably strippers there to drum up business for their club that night. Had they bought the champagne on arrival then maybe volleyball would have been the last thing on their mind.