After 6 weeks of harassment, this morning i finally got EmpirePoker [empirepoker.com] to admit that they promised to pay my $10,000 buy-in for the World Series of Poker [worldseriesofpoker.com], when i missed the $15.3K Bellagio tournament cuz my brain was broken [livejournal.com]. Moreover, they're unexpectedly giving me the $2000 for expenses that all the other EmpirePoker WSoP players are getting. Being greedy, i asked if they could bump that up to $5,300, since that's the difference between the buy-in i won and the WSoP. Haven't heard back on that, yet. Perhaps i should have waited for the two grand to be transferred before asking for more, lest they revoke that offer...

Anyway, i'll be in Vegas from July 6-16 at The Orleans [orleanscasino.com], in a room with two queen beds so that if friends wanted a free room in Vegas, i've got one. Right now, only punkalicia [livejournal.com] has expressed interest, though she needs to claim what date(s). Well, my brother has expressed interest, too, but as he suffers from severe sleep apnea and wears a Darth Vader mask, he ain't sleeping in my room...or even in the same hotel.

Anyone else want to stake a claim on a bed?

Or my bed, if you're a cute, female-type person?

Finally, if anyone has Vegas advice that wasn't covered in this thread [goats.com], go ahead and give it to me. And no, still no hookers.