FR: Adventure in Vegas

We arrive in Vegas at around 9:30 on Friday night. Check into the hotel and get ready with some pre-partying and head out to Ra (since we're staying at Luxor). I've been to Ra before and I've never seen Ra as dead as it was on this night. The place is maybe at 1/2 capacity. It's actually quite sad and discouraging. No matter, Holiday and I do the best we can and open essentially ALL of the sets that aren't on the dance floor to get warmed up. We're basically the life of the party and the party is on life support, so we decide we're going to try doing some opening on the casino floor. There really isn't much in terms of HBs, so we just walk around the hotel and find no one. We head back into Ra for one last run through. Open a couple more sets, but they're UGs or fat, so we leave to "get drunk and walk on the strip." Our night ends and crash back at the hotel with the sun coming up around 5:30AM.

The next day, we get up around 11AM and since we're there with 3 other guys, we all take turns in the bathroom, watch some of the US World Cup soccer match against Italy, and then head out to Bellagio to eat lunch at the buffet. I'm pretty hungover so I actually don't eat all that much nor am I in any mood to open anyone especially since all the girls at the buffet are fat.

We walk back to Luxor from Bellagio and I pass out from exhaustion. Wake up around 6:45 and we start to get ready to go to Hofbrauhaus, an Oktoberfest themed German and Bavarian restuarant. We proceed to eat and get drunk and have a good time as a group. Afterwards, it's time for Holiday and I to go sarging.

Before getting back to Luxor, we stop at the Hooters hotel where some people were staying that the other guys in our group knew. In my drunken stupor and slight boredom, I sit down and put $20 into a $.25 slot machine. I end up winning $20, find the group, and we head back to Luxor to shower and get ready to go out.

Holiday and I plan to go to Caesars first to try to get into Pure. There's a huge line, as always and we try to buy our way to the front of the line, but the bouncer said that it's $100 per head to get to the front and that doesn't include the $30 cover. So we're like FUCK THAT. We're not paying $130 to talk to hot chicks. We leave and head to Tao in Venetian. Line's shorter and seems like we can get in. We get to the front of the line and the bouncer says we won't be able to get in because we have no girls, but we can go hang out in the Tao bar/lounge, which we do. Holiday gets a drink and I get a water 'cuz I'm freaking dying from drinking so much beer at Hofbrauhaus. We hang around in there and Holiday opens a couple sets, but I'm so miserable, I don't feel like doing anything but going to bed. We proceed to see a couple fights break out and decide it's time we left this "ghetto" establishment. We leave the lounge in search of water for me and a Red Bull for Holiday. We grab that and Holiday tells me to open a set just to do it since he can tell I'm totally out of state and miserable. I do, it kinda helps. I'm still feeling the effects of coming down off my drunkenness. We go outside to sit in front of the Venetian and drink our drinks and then start opening street sets.

After we sit down on the steps, HBOlympicSkiier (since she used to train with the US Olympic Ski team) opens me by asking "so you're already drinking water?" It's on. We talk for a bit and Holiday goes and talks to her friend. He sits on the steps below her. The girls are from the Midwest and don't really have much experience or knowledge about Asians in general, so we're trying to educate them, but at the same time, keeping a fun frame. Holiday's HB has her legs on his lap. Things are going well. I tell my HB to come around the railing and sit on my side of it so we can talk. She does - compliance. We're talking, vibing, building comfort and trust. Start going into deep rapport. She's asking about my family, what type of girls I date, what would my parents think if I brought a non-Asian girl home to my parents. At this point, I can tell Holiday is going through his stack. Then my HB is like, I'm going to go get a drink, do you want one? I'm like, sure, I'll go with you and show you where the bar is - to keep an alpha, being a leader frame and to change venues. So I lead her, I put out my hand to lead her, but she says she's not into PDA because of some issues, I just kind of ignore her response with something like, "oh, that's too bad." I should have done a take-away or used push-pull to gain compliance, but I figured this girl is already going to buy me a drink so I don't think I need to get much more compliance. On the way there, we start talking about masturbation. She actually brings it up and is obviously starting to escalate. We get our beers and we head back up to where Holiday and his HB are. We get back and Holiday's HB is telling me to do the cube on HBOlympicSkiier because Holiday did it on her. I just laugh. I make my HB practically beg me to do it. So I finally do it. (I probably could have built a yes-ladder, but these girls don't need much gaming). It was practically spot on, share a couple of laughs.

Holiday kisses his HB. No make out. Just a peck on the lips unfortunately. Holiday's HB's sister shows up and is obviously drunk. She's not really getting any attention from any of us, so she goes and starts talking to other random guys. My HB decides she wants to gamble some more and go to O'Shea's, but she doesn't know where it is. Of course, I know where it is, so I tell them, let's go, I'll lead (again). We head off, the four of us, but then Holiday's HB's sister tags along and bring a couple of retarded guys with her. We start engaging in some AMOG battles. Well, Holiday mostly. One of the guys talking to the sister apparently works at a restaurant where there are a bunch of Asians of Holiday's ethnicity and they don't like caucasians much, so he's asking Holiday do people of his ethnicity really not like everyone else. He then asks the girls if they even know where the country of Holiday's ethnicity come from. Since I'm Chinese and everyone knows where China is, I'm the one leading the group, and I'm not seen as a cockblock to the sister since I'm with HBOlympicSkiier and not Holiday's HB, I don't receive as much AMOGing as Holiday.

On the way to O'Shea's, I use one of OCWaterBoy's most recommended SOIs: "So when was the last time you had sex?" To which HBOlympicSkiier repsonds, "It's been a long time." We later would talk about how many partners we've had, etc. It sets up a good frame that I'm not shy or asexual but comfortable talking about sex while not actively pursuing it like the AMOGs.

We get to O'Shea's and my HB buys me another beer. Along the way to O'Shea's, I'm trying to teach her the differences in all the Asians facial features, how you can tell the differences. So it's kind of like a game now. We both make guesses and then ask the people. At the bar in O'Sheas there's an Asian guy and his white male friend, so I guess Japanese, she doesn't really know, so she then asks. He's Korean, but it doesn't matter, she's still having a good time with me. We go to the roulette tables to gamble as I figure Holiday should have things under control. (He later tells me the sister was talking to some Australian guys and they started to AMOG him, but that Korean dude at the bar was totally helping Holiday out. Plus, those Australian guys all tooled themselves out, so Holiday's HB kept coming right back to him.)

In the meantime, my HB and I are having a blast at the roulette table. She says she can be anal and she likes to keep her chips in stacks of 5. I tell her that "I love how anal you are. It's so cute." Now, I'm setting up Attainability. We already had Value, now Attainability, and tons of Compliance. VAC. I'm actually doing well in the set AND at the table. From $40, I'm up $60 or so. Then Holiday comes over with his HB and her sister. The 2 girls sit at the table between me and my HB, so I'm like fuck. I ask Holiday what he wants to do and he wants to go to Denny's to get some Oreo Cookie Shakes. Sounds good to me. So I tell the girls we're going to go to Denny's and they should come along with, but they want to stay and gamble, so I #-close (get her number, call it so that I know it's her number and also so that she knows my number) and tell them it was nice meeting them. We leave, basically doing a take-away. As we leave, I can see the vultures and AMOGs move right in. It's hilarious. After the true alphas leave, the betas try to make do.

We get to Denny's and not 5 or 10 minutes after being seated, I get a phone call from HBOlympicSkiier. She's like, where are you? Are you going to come back? Come back! I laugh and tell her ok, we'll come back after we're done at Denny's. I ask her if they're still going to be there. She says yeah, so I tell her, OK, well, if we go back and you're not there, I'm never talking to you ever again. She laughs and says OK, they'll be there. We get our shakes, eat some chicken strips then head back over. Before we get there, I get another call from my HB. She's like, where are you guys? Come save us! I laugh and tell her we'll be there in a few minutes.

Holiday and I are exhausted though. Even if we could extract, we are tired and probably wouldn't be able to bone them. We'd get there, and probably pass out before anything happened. We can't even think straight. We find the girls and hang out with them. I sit down and HBOlympicSkiier sits on my lap. I put my arm around her and we sit like that for a while just talking. The girls want to go back to Aladdin to gamble some more and invite us along. I cannot gamble anymore (little did I know but the girls were trying to extract the two of us!!) 'cuz I'm freaking tired. So I tell them we're in no mood to gamble anymore and we need to drive the next morning back to southern CA. We leave O'Sheas without the sister in tow. She wants to hang out with one of the guys she had met. We say our goodbyes and Holiday's HB and my HB leave to go back to Aladdin while we leave to go back to Luxor to crash. The sun's already up and we get back to Luxor at like 5:30AM. We start getting ready to sleep when I get a call from my HB at like 5:50AM. The conversation goes something like this:

PUA: Hey, HBOlypicSkiier, what's going on?
HB: Hey D, what are you up to?
PUA: Oh, just getting ready for bed.
HB: Cool. Hey, do you want to head over here?
PUA: Um, I don't really feel like gambling anymore.
HB: I know, we're done gambling, but do you want to come over and cuddle. I couldn't get you to come over and gamble, but how about coming over to cuddle since you're going to sleep anyway. Just no sex.
PUA: Alright, we'll be over in a bit.
HB: Ok, see you then. Aladdin hotel room # _ _ _ _.

I come out of the bathroom where I went to talk to my HB so that I wouldn't wake up the 3 other guys in the room with us and tell Holiday, dude, they want us to go over right now. He's like shit, alright, give me a few minutes. So we head over, and find them. They're eating room service. Unfortunately, the sister apparently had come back and passed out on one of the beds, so that killed Holiday's chances with his HB. He ended up just sitting on the bed, then the floor. He didn't know what to do while I layed in bed with my HB and chatted. Eventually, he just excused himself out of the room. I talked to my HB some more, but I couldn't leave my wingman. "You never leave your wingman." So I told my HB that I'm gonna head out with Holiday. She was sad, but she understood. Hugged a long time and then left.

Sooo exhausted. Crashed at Luxor and drove home. We ended up texting back and forth to keep my solid game going and to try to keep her as a friend at least, but she's in Michigan, so have to see how that pans out.

Now, the call at 5:50AM was obviously a booty call. Even tho' my HB said no sex, that was just ASD and social programming speaking. We could have blasted the LMR, but unfortunately, the logistics (the sister) got in the way.

Looking back, there's a lot of things I wish I had done different. For one, KISS HER!! Like Style, I'm finding it difficult to close the gap. It's starting to get annoying.

Secondly, I could have done better with kino escalation leading up to making a kiss easier.

I also could have helped out Holiday more, but all in all, I think we did well. Just wish things would have ended a little better. But it's all a learning experience and I had a blast. That's the most important thing.

Till the next time Vegas...

34

She was 34. But she didn't look 34.

So I went to Highlands on Saturday night with a couple of non-community friends. It actually was a pretty uneventful night. It actually wasn't as crowded as it normally is so the number of hot girls was pretty low and there were no viable sets on the upper floor lounge area where I usually stake out, so my cousin and I just chilled in a booth. My cousin then started drunk calling people.

Then this tall, skinny blonde shows up with her friend and sit in the booth next to us where some of her other friends are sitting. She sits on the edge of the booth and her other friend stands outside the booth to talk to all the people in the booth.

A huge, muscle-bound guy walks by them and the friend standing on the outside starts making fun of the guy after he walks past by holding her arms out to the side and puffing out her cheeks. I then make the comment that she must really likes those type of guys. She says something about it being gross. The hot blonde turns around and says something that I don't catch. I just smile and nod. My cousin is still talking on the phone...

I figure, the set's already open, so I go over and say, "I'm going to join you guys while my friend talks on the phone." They're all, sure, come on over. The HB says, here, let me scoot over so you can sit down. She moves over, and I sit next to her. Awesome. The friend standing and their other 2 friends are chatting so I'm in mini-isolation with the HB. I start off by asking her age. She tells me 34. I'm like, no way, you only look 24 (she seriously did). She says, that's the beauty of plastic surgery. I pretend not to buy in and go, no way, let me see some ID. She reaches for it, then thinks about it again and says, I don't want to show you my ID, I don't look that good in my ID. Let me see yours if you think yours is all that great. I don't give in to keep control of the frame. So instead, I tell her to guess. She guesses 26, I tell her 24. So she's like cool. She seems to be attracted. She starts commenting about my ring, touching my hand and says that my ring is really cool. She wants to see it so I give it to her to check out. She tries it on all her fingers. It's so much bigger than all of her fingers. I can tell she likes that. She then comments that she likes that it's big and likes guys with big fingers. It's totally on.

I then tell her that her rings are cool also. She tells me that she's had them since she was 13, so I tell her to let me see her hands. I start holding her hands and feeling around (kino). Unfortunately, I didn't know that she had just gotten a Henna tattoo on the underside of her wrist so I kept touching it and she started freaking out and finally said, "Ok, that's enough."

Then her friends enter the set again and say let's all go dance, so we all get up (my cousin included) to go dance downstairs. We follow them downstairs but then they go onto the patio downstairs. I'm like screw this. I got bored already. I think I might have ADHD. I tell my cousin let's go find our friends that we came with, so I just leave the girls and we go find my social circle female friends and dance/chat with them for the rest of the night.