Free Sahara crap!

My friend Las Vegas Michael (@LasVegasMichael), who does content for AllVegasPoker.com, is trying to get himself to over 1000 followers on Twitter. As part of that campaign, he has been doing Vegas poker trivia questions. First one to reply with the correct answer wins one of the many, many pieces of Sahara history that he purchased in the casino's closing sale. As he typically phrases it, winner gets "free Sahara crap."

One of the questions today was, "Name at least FOUR poker rooms that opened AFTER 2004 that have since closed, and NOT re-opened. This is a Med to Hard strength question." I quickly replied with all that I could think of: "Hilton. Rampart. Gold Coast. Fiesta Henderson. Hacienda. Paris. Plaza." I wasn't sure offhand that all of them had opened after 2004, but I was pretty sure that at least four of them had, and I knew that they all qualified for the closure part of the question. I assumed that wrong guesses included in the list wouldn't count against me.

I was apparently both right and first. So when Michael arrived at Treasure Island tonight for the mixed-game extravaganza, he brought me my swag: the Sahara shot glass seen above. It's my first shot glass, of any kind, ever! I'm not sure what I'll use it for, since don't do shots, and it's hard to quench a thirst with a thimbleful of water. But I'm still glad to have my own little piece of Sahara history free Sahara crap.

You can get some, too; I have it on good authority that more trivia questions are coming soon.