My Dad and I finally completed our road trip to Vegas yesterday. The drive from Phoenix to Vegas is awesome; there’s definitely a few stretches of winding, empty highway where you can really get going fast and have a blast without having to worry too much about cops on the side of the road. Driving fast is awesome.

About 30 miles outside of Vegas was the Hoover Dam. I’ve seen the dam from the air a handful of times but had never actually been there on the ground until yesterday. It’s a pretty impressive sight to see and I’m glad I got to check it out at least once. Here are a couple photos I snapped along with a short video to give you an idea of what it’s like. You definitely wouldn’t want to fall over this ledge which would actually be really easy to do if you wanted to.

After we got into town and unloaded all of my stuff at the apartment I’m staying at, we went over to the Rio so I could show my Dad around the WSOP (he’s never been) and register for the Saturday $1k. The $10k Stud event was running in the Amazon Room which was kind of an awesome event to rail because there were only like 150 players in this certain spot of the room and like basically every single one of the famous poker pros were sitting there. I was pointing out Greg Raymer and Chris Ferguson to my Dad and kind of explaining a little about them when I realized Doyle Brunson was at their table too! At another point, I was kind of wondering out loud where Phil Ivey was and I realized he was like 3 feet in front of me!

I also met up with Sebastien Sabic (Seb86) who is one of my good friends in the poker world for a few minutes. After that, I drove my Dad down the Vegas Strip and we called it a night. I gotta wrap this blog up because we’re heading out for a little early morning hiking around Red Rock which I’m really looking forward to. Maybe I’ll take some cool pics from that to post later.