Yo guyssss

So I thought I would just write about the time I played at the same table as Di Caprio as I think it is a pretty cool story. Sadly back then I had a Nokia with a very average camera so although I did get pictures they are now long gone so #coolstorybro

Anyways It was 6 years ago and I was in Vegas by myself for a month. I used to go every October just to grind cash whilst some events were on. I just liked getting away, grinding and not having distractions. I would play in a few place but 90% of my grind was in the Venetian.

The Venetian to me has the comfiest chairs, incredible service and most of all back then the games were insanely good. They run deep stack events that time of year so many tourni fish were about and it would also drive some retired folks to play in the cash games.

The game was 85% 5/10 and 15% 10/20 but would often have straddles which would pick the game up. Sit downs had no cap. I would buy in anywhere from $5-12k depending on who was at the table. Quite often people would sit down with $50k so trust me this was as juicy as it gets!

So anyways I am sat in seat 7 playing 5/10 on I believe a Saturday evening at around 11pm and this guy in an LA baseball cap sits down. I didn't really take any notice at first until a member of staff was stood over him kinda nervous looking and just pandering to his every need. A guy I was friendly with in seat 3 looked at me and kinda nodded his head in the direction of LEO and mimed "It's LEO". Anyways I soon realise it is god damn Di Cap and he has flown in direct from some LA basetball game.

He sits down with like $4k and has this incredible 6ft odd blonde super model with him and then some random guy and another hot girl. The member of staff bails after spilling Leo's chips due to nervously shaking as does his mate and girls.

He then proceeds to play 0 hands in the next hour and I am just sat there thinking this has to be the best spot of my life and this guy turns out to be a nit! Anyways once thing I will say is his appearance was not great....he looked ill and had pretty bad hands....like super dry and just scabby looking tbh. His hair was long under his cap and yeh he just looked scruffy.

Another 20 minutes pass and he then starts to speak with me and my mate in seat 3 just about where he has been, poker and general chit chat. He then says "I am bored of this why don't we play higher". I think before he finished his sentence I had my chips racked and asking the poker room manager to open a new table. Leo asked for it to be 10/20.

4 of us sit down and I think there is around $70k on the table....20 mins later Leo says he is bored and leaves.....what a waste of a night. No interesting hands to mention at all and overall a bit of a failed meeting.

But pretty cool that I played poker and spoke to the one and only Leonardo Dicaprio

#coolstorybro

Not my picture of him but this is pretty much exactly how he looked: