Lazy post Vegas update

So wow, I'm already a few days back from a week long trip to Las Vegas. I spent four days on the strip and three days hanging out with some cousins I hadn't communicated with for somewhere near a decade. While on the strip, three friends from Austin and I stayed at the Excalibur hotel. It was a nice inexpensive place and I'd recommend it to anyone. The poker room there isnt exactly top knotch but I was there to sleep. There are plenty of great poker rooms at other casinos we found. The first day I spent some time playing $1/2 (meaning $1 small blind and $2 big blind) at the MGM and then a long stay at the Venetian's new poker room playing $2/5. I'd have to say that my ten or so hours at the Venetian was the craziest game of poker I've ever seen. For the first few hours it was "normal" but then a couple guys showed up and raised the stakes. They were dropping down from a $5/10 game to "donk" it up a bit. About half the hands were raised to anywhere from $30 to $95 preflop which is pretty big for standard raises. There was even one hand where I even goaded one of the crazies into making a $420 preflop raise blind! I really wasnt expecting anyone to call him but little did we know that the guy after him had pocket Aces (which held up to the blind raiser's 77). I was down about $600 in the game at one point but made a nice double up with an ace high flush vs a king high flush, so I left the game a $23 loser to get a nice rest after a long day of flying and playing. I'll continue with more stories of the rest of the trip soon.