I was just browsing twoplustwo and came upon Krantz's well. Amazing. And this story comes from about the middle of his post. FYI for those that dont know Krantz is pyr1annid on FTP - highstakes players.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...he+well+krantz

here's a trip report i wrote up about vegas but never posted:

So I arrive in Vegas last Thursday? Sitting here in San Diego following the week in question, all sense of time is lost on me. Two days into my recovery and I barely remember my name. Is there such thing as secondhand coke? There was so much [censored] blow.

I call Noah from the airplane and find that he had just landed from Chicago, so we meet up at the baggage claim and he gets us a car to his apartment off the strip. He�s done very well for himself � the building is a brand new modern high-rise and his condo is pretty [censored] huge. There�s a rooftop pool and a panoramic view of Vegas, but it�s damn cold out. Shouldn�t there be warm weather out here? [censored]. But whatever, I should meet my suitemates.

Noah drops me off at the Venetian, where I�m staying in what are supposed to be baller suites. I meet Snipes in the lobby. He looks and sounds exactly like his Facebook picture. We head to suite 29-106, which is underwhelming to say the least. Someone [censored] up. We�re supposed to be baller poker players and here we have two antiquated suites with beat-ass 19� box television sets and some extra cots. This is what happens when you put card players, who are even lazier than college students (the poker-playing college student is the laziest of all) in charge of making hotel reservations.

I drop off my things and pull out my Dolce and Gabbana sunglasses. Only in the casino can I pull off looking like a total douchebag. Snipes and I head to the Bellagio, where everyone is playing 10/20NL. I meet TJ, Lefort, DJ, Leon and Vishal. Vishal remarks that he didn�t think I�d look like I did, while I think to myself �I pictured him with short hair.� Leon is the most shocking of all � �yvesaint� is his name on twoplustwo, and on the forums he is an outspoken, racist [censored]. But in person he�s a short asian kid with a puffy afro haircut. The Internet is an odd creature. Luego is also present, who has a funny Swedish accent and is as racist as they get. He�s so drunk that I almost get him to jump into the Bellagio fountains for $100, but before he can accept I catch him playing in traffic.

Cole (cts, AKA MUCKEMSAYUHHH) has made dinner reservations at Capital Grille, where we go and ring up a $1500 bill. Cole, who is one of the best young online NL holdem� players in the world, is as nice a guy I�ll ever meet. To give you some examples: he staked Vanessa for $20k without ever meeting her in person and is considering buying a Maserati from the Wynn in straight cash. So it�s ironic but not at all sad that he ends up losing credit card roulette and fronting the entire bill.

Noah surprises me again by securing a table for everyone at Tryst, one of the better clubs at the Wynn. We get dressed and take a limo over, where we skip the line and descend into the trendy underbelly. Noah is at a corner table with many bottles of Grey Goose and my ex-girlfriend's sorority sister. She looks way hotter than I remember. It�s hilarious when she hugs me and starts chatting me up as I think to myself how funny would it be if I took a picture with her and just cold emailed it to the ex (who hasn�t spoken to me in months). But before I can get out my camera Noah brings over new girls and shoves a cocktail into my face. I meet some girls and start making out with one of them. I think I gave her the 3-bet business card (it�s so fantastically cheesy and we were giving them out all over Vegas, booyah). She facebooked me that night. Sweet. The NY girls leave and Noah brings over two, older women to �take care of us� as he�s leaving. They�re obviously hookers. At this point, I�m so [censored] up, so BRING THEM ON. The Spanish one sits on my lap and asks me if we want to have a �good time� tonight. I say �hell yeah, we�re gonna run the train on you girls� and she giggles and squeezes my dick. It�s a shame I hate the idea of banging hookers because I would have nailed like 50 on this trip. Anyway, I round up Cole, TJ, Snipes and Lefort and the hookers and leave Tryst. At this point two more hookers (the four of them work together) join us on the way out. Here�s the conversation that ensues on the way back to the Venetian:

Hooker: I have a Cadillac I can take you back in.
Cole: Are you sure we�ll all fit?
Hooker: Yeah it�s a Cadillac.

We walk through the parking garage.

Hooker: I can�t find my Cadillac.
Me: You don�t have a Cadillac.
Hooker2 (elbows me): Be nice.
Me: What? No way she even has a car, let�s take a taxi.

We arrive at the Cadillac. It�s a black Toyota Camry.
We squeeze in.

On the drive back:
Hooker: Should I call more girls?
Me: Yeah, bring back like 20 whores. We�re gonna [censored] ALL of you.
Hooker: YES!! Just like college!!!
Me (to Cole): Cole, suck on her feet.
Hooker: OOOO, kinky boys! That�s gonna cost a little more.

We get back to the suite. Hookers and johns negotiate prices. One of the hookers tells Cole �you can [censored] my brains out on the table for $2k� and he says �[censored] THAT� and walks out to play 50/100NL online in the other room. Straight street. Meanwhile, I play online poker with BldSwtTrs on Leon�s account (this was really cool, as this guy is probably in the top 5 NL players in the entire world) while someone who will not be named here gets taken to valuetown by two of the hookers in the master bedroom. At one point, he walks out naked with the hooker on his shoulders to get more condoms. Meanwhile, people are trickling in and having conversations/blowing lines in the living room as the blonde, big breasted hooker rides TJ on the pullout couch in front of everyone. I walk by and say �[censored] her harder!!!� and she screams. Lefort walks by and says �this is so gross.� Then he blows some lines. At like 7AM they�ve all gone except for one hooker, Jessica. I�ve drifted off to sleep on the floor but look up to see a shirtless 2p2er grab her and say $400, let�s go to the bathroom. Her face lights up. I pass out again.

When I wake up, I check facebook and take a look at the girl I made out with. [censored]. She�s REALLY ugly. And this was just the first day.

any specific reason why the first time i read this the word "the" was in blue throughout?

I'm guessing he searched for various posters' wells. Hence searching "the well."

Check out Phil Galfond's if you want a really informative one.

Great read.