The Tilted Kilt RIP

Lex

I havent been to Vegas yet, but this place was defo on the list after the hype it got from DeVore et al during last summers AntesUp coverage.

Pauly writes the obituary in his inimitable style here: http://taopoker.blogspot.com/

When do we get him "In the Well"??
His blog is legendary!

Pauly's Tao of Poker wrote:

What I love about having my own blog is the freedom to write whatever I want and when I want. I mentioned blow, hookers, and the Ottawa Senators in the first 300 hundred words and somehow pulled a half-baked correlation to poker out of my ass. Believe me, I could write essays and books on pimps and hookers. Life is a trick. You're either pimping or getting pimped. You're either chugging for a paycheck or paying for a good time. And sometimes in my jaded world, I'm the john, hooker, pimp, and vice cop all rolled into one.

The term "Hooker Bar" is an expression that I use for a specific place but it can also be applied to any drinking establishment where ladies of the night congregate to meet potential clients. The bar at the IP last December was an early morning hooker bar. That's where Daddy offered to show a portly prostitute his "vanilla gorilla" if she paid him. And then there's the Bellagio where 3K barely gets you a lap dance from those top shelf trollops.

At the 2005 WSOP, I spent the majority of my dinner breaks drinking at the Hooker Bar with Otis as he picked up Quads eight hundred and forty-six times on the loosest video poker machines in all of Las Vegas. I ignored all the ladies of the night, those annoying dancing cocktail waitresses, and soaked up every moment away from the madness of media row.

At the 2006 WSOP, I found that the Hooker Bar had been discovered by more media reps and poker people. My time away from work was complicated by the same folks I was trying to avoid. The Hooker Bar became that after-work bar that everyone went to and that wasn't where I wanted to be on my breaks. We could never find a spot to sit so we searched out a new destination to destroy brain cells and add on extra weight due to copious consumption of beer. That place ended up being the Tilted Kilt.

The Tilted Kilt featured a full bar and hot food which was a bonus. The average bar food was served by scantily clad waitresses that may or may not have been strippers in a previous or current life. By the end of the WSOP, we knew a few by name and they loved our generous tipping habits. One even admitted that she read my blog. The best part of the Tilted Kilt was that when you entered, you really felt like you left Las Vegas completely and the entire WSOP nightmare had disappeared, if only for sixty Stella-soaked minutes. You were still in a casino, only thirty feet away from a slot machine, yet you could not help but feel like you were in time's forgotten space.

My buddy JW sent me the sad news in an email. It appears that Harrah's is getting rid of the Tilted Kilt and adding a McFadden's there instead. Rat ass bastards! With the Hooker Bar and the Tilted Kilt no longer viable options for me to get soused during dinner breaks, my future is resorted to hanging out in the parking lot and huffing glue with disgruntled WSOP dealers behind Michalski's car. Oh joy.

Writers and bars have always had an unique symbiotic relationship. I've had a few meaningful moments at places like Dooley's in Atlanta, the Blue Moon in Seattle, and the Cedar Tavern in Manhattan. I spent many hours pontificating the utter absurdities of life while slumped on a bar stool at the end of the bars I just mentioned.

Some days I drank because I was happy. Other days I drank because I was sad. Sometimes I wanted to escape, other days to hide out. Sometimes I drank because I wanted to watch the game with other sports fans and share the highs and the lows. Other times I drank because I wanted to get laid. Sometimes I craved the social scene and wanted to be around people while I drank. Other times I drank alone because I needed time away to sit and think.

And sometimes there's so much stress and you hate what you're working on so much, that it takes a sip of liquor at 6pm to take the edge off. You know you got twelve more hours of that **** to shovel, but at least for a moment, work is the last thing on your mind and your biggest concern is whether or not your waitress is wearing panties or a g-string.

bohsman

This is where I made most of my money last year, hopefully the Golden Tee machine stays. Kilted Tilt RIP

ocallagh

apart from the WSOP this was the only reason I went to the Rio....:(

karlh

Cindy, I know you have a boyfriend and I have fitted your car with a tracking device.

Tilted Kilt
RIP

kpnuts

The criminalisation of online poker in the US was disappointing.

The closing of the Tilted Kilt is a veritable poker tragedy.

See you in the Loose Caboose, Bohsman.

DeVore

OMG... thats actually shocking. lol!

Those girls were tooooo hot. Those skirts should be illegal, they'd take your eye out.

Fnck that was the one nice corner of the white-trash-hole that is the Rio gaming floor.

DeV.

StraddleFor6

Oh dear. The lads are not gonna be happy to hear this.
I may not even try qualify this year. This is bad.

Daithio

That's great news, that place was an absolute dump IMO! And what are you talking about Bohsman, I was the big winner in the golden tee game, although I think most people managed to win against Murray and Reggie. The Loose Caboose is a much better bar though.

NickyOD

Cindyyyyyyyyyy!!! NOOOOoooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

:mad: :mad: :mad:

ocallagh

The Loose Caboose is just beyond the Palms (across the road from the Rio) if anyone is interested. It has no windows, a pool table, a darts board, a juke box and some arcade machines including a variation of Golden Tee which was quite good. The staff are very friendly, $3 a beer, good tequila, open 24hrs a day and serves breakfast. The clientelle range from mad drunk construction workers filling up b4 their 9am shift to drug dealers to burnt out veterans of the slot machines to Irish Poker players off their heads playing pool for most of their Poker BRs. Mike Matusow apparently drinks there but we didn't see him last year.

MrPillowTalk

ocallagh wrote:

The Loose Caboose is just beyond the Palms (across the road from the Rio) if anyone is interested. It has no windows, a pool table, a darts board, a juke box and some arcade machines including a variation of Golden Tee which was quite good. The staff are very friendly, $3 a beer, good tequila, open 24hrs a day and serves breakfast. The clientelle range from mad drunk construction workers filling up b4 their 9am shift to drug dealers to burnt out veterans of the slot machines to Irish Poker players off their heads playing pool for most of their Poker BRs. Mike Matusow apparently drinks there but we didn't see him last year.

Think thats the only time ive gone out for "one pint" and stayed drinking at the same table for over 24 hours. Between local gang bangers showing us their guns and builders buying us rounds of tequila and baileys whilst Daithio remonstrates with them about border immigration politics.

Not to mention the cab with no air conditioning in midday sun that gave a close approximation to what hell is like.

cardshark202

Ah I liked the tilted kilt, I didnt lose as much in golden tee as has been made out, I won some back from mark and karl

karlh

i am so chit at that game ^^^

wp.

Marq

cardshark202 wrote:

, I won some back from mark and karl

easy money. like NickyOD.

karlh

Marq wrote:

easy money. like NickyOD.

buy a craps table for maximum effect.

karlh

can anyone confirm The Tilted Kilt is no more, beyond Pauly's mate telling him they were replacing it?

its still on the Rio site which has recently been updated:

http://www.harrahs.com/casinos/rio/restaurants-dining/tilted-kilt-detail.html

I'm arranging to meet some people and would rather it was there is it still exists.

*sob*