{"id":544,"date":"2009-01-20T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=544"},"modified":"2009-01-20T12:29:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T19:29:41","slug":"vegas-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2009\/01\/20\/vegas-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from Vegas.  <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/\">Many pictures were taken<\/a>.  A small amount of money was lost, more was spent.  Some highlights from me:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p>We had a meal, and took many <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/food\/\">pictures at L&#8217;Atelier de Joel Robuchon<\/a>.  My favourite courses were probably the <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/food\/img_1956.jpg.html\">lobster carpaccio<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/food\/img_1965.jpg.html\">sea bass<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Now that I think about it, I might have been up slightly.  I have <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/gambling\/\">photographic evidence<\/a> of being up a total of $85. I only lost money when I sat at a slot machine a couple of times.  The dollar slot that Kat told be was good was the worst of it.  I reckon I&#8217;m up $20&ndash;40.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>At one point, Kat wanted to play a dollar slot for a while.  I said I was going to see if there was a quarter slot or something nearby.  I circled a couple banks of slot machines and came back.  Kat was done, having lost $40 in like two minutes.  Stay away from the <a href=\"http:\/\/vegasclick.com\/games\/slots\/\">slot machines<\/a>, kids.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>My best gambling experience was when we found a <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/gambling\/img_2075.jpg.html\">roulette table with a $5 limit<\/a> (as opposed to $10) at the MGM.  I sat down and started playing pretty randomly.  Every bet on the roulette table has a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roulette#Bet_odds_table_.28American_roulette.29\">house edge of 2\/37<\/a>, so it&#8217;s not like my decisions meant much anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The dealer was nice and very helpful (since all of us cheapskates at the $5 table were amateurs).  I got a free drink while sitting there, and happened to come away $43 up (actually $48, but I left $5 with the dealer).  That was pretty much everything I wanted from the casino.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/mgm\/img_8554.jpg.html\">best picture I got in the casino<\/a> was right before a pit boss walked up to me and told me that &#8220;for future reference, pictures are allowed anywhere else on the property, but not in the casino.&#8221;  Polite but firm.  Very good.<\/p>\n<p>There are probably 27 ways to cheat at the tables using a digital camera, none of which I would be able to figure out.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neonmuseum.org\/\">Neon Museum\/Boneyard<\/a> was really good, and a great <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/neon\/\">opportunity for pictures<\/a>.  Definitely recommended for anybody going to Vegas.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>My 30mm f\/1.4 lens did come through very well for some <a href=\"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/gallery2\/2009\/vegas\/strip\/?g2_page=3\">night shots on the strip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back from Vegas. Many pictures were taken. A small amount of money was lost, more was spent. Some highlights from me: We had a meal, and took many pictures at L&#8217;Atelier de Joel Robuchon. My favourite courses were probably the lobster carpaccio and the sea bass. Now that I think about it, I might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,6,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-life","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":550,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}