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Broke But Baller

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With my WSOP dream over, it dawned on me that there was still a whole bunch of things I wanted to see and do in Vegas. Despite living it up in Vegas, we were essentially broke. We hadn’t intended on even having a summer holiday at all but then I won the satellite in a “freeroll” and Mrs Mak wasn’t going to be left at home so we scraped together the little spare cash we had to cover her flight (the package I won only really covered me) and planned to make the most of it. Mrs Mak and I had spent our first morning exploring the Palazzo-Venetian resort, it's a massive shopping mall, in faux Venice stylings with a fake blue sky painted on the ceiling, with two casinos either side of the canal. Most of the stores were so fashionable or cool that I had never heard of them but the price tags spoke for themselves. I'm not really sure if these shops are just for show because I didn't see anyone shopping in any of them. Eventually we stumbled across the food court, finally somewh...