Early on New Year’s Eve I visited the Bellagio with my Canon 30d and produced this time lapse with my SLR camera. The show lasted about two minutes and 15 seconds total and this is the fountain condensed into ten seconds. I shot this in the early afternoon of New Year’s and will have more to come from my week in Las Vegas soon.
Well I sat down early which ended up being a big mistake I think. I started imaging my first hand would be A/A and losing horribly. Well ironically it was my first hand, I went 3x the big blind with no callers. Phew…. still alive in this one. After making a great run up to 8200 chips I got moved tables.
Second hand the A/A is back and second from the button goes all-in. It is sort of automatic for me to call and I do. Everyone else folds and I flip over my A/A to his 10/10. The flop started with a 10 and never got much better for me. Now I sit with 2500 and unfearhered. Well I think unfearheted because I push a move I know I shouldn’t make very soon. After going back and forth on small pots I find K/9 H on the buttonand raise to 300.
I get one called who is the big blind. The flop is Q / K / 6 and I bet 300 again. He moves all-in and barely has me covered with around 4k. After saying “you should fold” in my head 10 times I call. He flips over Q/6 and after two dead cards he takes the win. Now did I make the right play or was I influenced by getting my Aces cracked..Not sure but I will think about it and report back if I shed light on the play. Right now Fiodor is at the end of hour two with 8k hanging strong. About 7 more out and he is in the money!!
After a couple hours Fiodor took home a victory marking our cashes up to two in the first two days. Not a bad average! The day of poker got cut short by us heading over to Mandalay Bay’s House of Blues for the Girl Talk x Dan Deacon x Wallpaper concert. It was totally amazing and a great way to finish up the second night of Las Vegas.
As you all know if your a frequent blog follower that we produce NOS Energy Drink’s NOS TV series. To close out the 2007 season we headed to Miami, Florida for Hot Import Nights. This is our quick trailer from the show and we have a full version from the event coming out soon. The black Bentley in our video looked amazing. We had a blast in Miami Beach and enjoyed some amazing weather and food for December. Love to hear some feedback from everyone.
So every Miami trip doesn’t even come close to being complete without a stop at Pizza Rustica in South Beach. Located in the heart of the party scene this place is insane on the weekend late nights and the first thing I did when I hopped off my flight at Miami International was drive here. After a check on their website tonight they have one open in West Hollywood on Sunset which I will be visiting promptly upon my return. Myself and Will Roegge are out here shooting a NOS TV episode at Hot Import Nights tomorrow and we are pumped up and ready to go. We swam a ton of laps in this crazy pool at our resort that changes colors from yellow/green/blue/red/purple with tons of lights within the pool. The thing always tripped me out a little when the pool went red for a minute. Here is my Yelp review of Pizza Rustica in South Beach:
This place is a must stop for me every time I come to Miami Beach. I prefer this one since it’s the original location and love to just order more food than I could ever eat and hope for the best. Once you cram into this New York sized place you will be greeted by a glass display full of pizza. Huge square sicilian style pizza ready for your order. A friend and myself ordered a Hawaiian slice, Pepperoni, and Sweet Sausage.
Three slices and drinks out the door for under $20 (which could feed three easily) and we sat down enjoying ourselves and people watching in the crazy part of South Beach. Each slice of pizza was top shelf as always which is a combo including minimal sauce and a ton of dough. It’s an interesting approach for pizza and it works, Pizza Rustica knocks it out of the park.
While eating someone spotted us for non locals and picked up that we could never finish these four huge slices among us. We brokered a deal to sell two squares for $1.00 so this man wouldn’t have to “wait in the long line he claimed” and we were happy to receive some return on our pizza investment. My buddy wanted to hang out and sell the rest of our leftover pizza but I was ready to check in to our hotel at this point. Our left over pizza didn’t make it to the trash can outside as a homeless person asked if he could finish it. Mission accomplished, we ate amazing pizza, people watched in South Beach, made a return on our pizza investment and fed the homeless all in twenty minutes.
No where else are you going to find this kind of silly entertainment while gorging yourself in delicious pizza. A+ for atmosphere, location, and taste by me. The only issue your going to run into is PARKING. Especially if it’s a weekend night note that this is a huge post night club scene here. This is the South Beach fourth meal (not Taco Bell) and things can get a little crazy. If your flying in for some food and Washington has no street parking my approach is always to go one block over onto Pennsylvania and park in the residential permit parking (illegally) and hope people take pity on me with my rental car decals! Even though parking will be a battle you will realize it was worth every moment of frustration when you step inside.
Now the huge appeal of moving to Los Angeles from Atlanta for me aside from the car industry, amazing food, and friends was by far the weather situation. Well I got shown by the weather God’s what is up by trying to live in paradise and escape the cold. Anything below about 65 degrees and I think I am going to die so not sure what is going on in Los Angeles. Plus the rain, I thought it never rained here people!? All these lies perpetuated to me from MTV reality shows! Hopefully when get back from Vegas it will have warmed up so I can get to work. I mean it’s even snowing in Malibu today!?
We finally made it to Los Angeles and Urbanracer snagged the wrap up story of our cross country mission in the Infiniti G37. This photo above I took at White Sands, New Mexico after a good 2,000 miles on the trip. She doesn’t looks so bad considering we never stopped to was her off. We swung by Phoenix and hung out with Jarod DeAnda and his family in Phoenix for the evening as well which was a super blast.
The third of my more four installments is up over at UrbanRacer. We hit the Cadillac ranch in Texas, an abandoned hotel in New Mexico, and the open road. Don’t miss some great photos and memories I typed up in this article.
Will Roegge flew out to Atlanta and came on the drive to Los Angeles and probably had no idea what he was getting himself into. Four days later we wound up in Los Angeles and I got moved into my new place already. He did a great job capturing some good memories of our travels except cut all the good stuff about aliens because he doesn’t believe in them…but Will is still good by me, he will believe one day. Check out the video and stay peeled to UrbanRacer as more of the story goes live soon.
For day two we rolled out of Mississippi and found this abandoned motel called the Journey Motel Court and did a mini photo shoot that is on Urbanracer.
This photo I snapped on a local highway in Arkansas as we detoured and explored around Little Rock, Arkansas.
Then in Oklahoma we caught the sunset right off I-40 and camped out for the night. Day 3 of the trip we really hit the open roads and have some fun in our G37 which is right around the corner. To read the full day two story just head on over to UrbanRacer.com or click this link: http://www.urbanracer.com/articles/anmviewer.asp?a=3568&z=2
The first day was a short one due to some horrible weather in Mississippi. Before leaving I had to have a last meal of just some southern food goodness which I scored at Daddy D’z, I recommend it to any Atlanta traveler.
After finally leaving Atlanta we headed east on I-20 until veering off at night on Alabama 78. Then quickly onto the future 22 and into Tunica, Mississippi. Here are some snaps from along the way.
Would love to hear any feedback on photos/story at Urban by comments on the blog. You can read my full story over at Urbanracer.com by going to this link:
