Las Vegas | Free Drinks Were Flowing At The Mirage Lobby Bar
You may know the Mirage Lobby Bar as one of the first bars in Las Vegas to install a free drinks ticket system for their video poker/slot machines.
Sunday News | Adele, 000 Roulette, NASCAR Warning And More
As I mentioned last week in Sunday News, we’re in a slow news period in Las Vegas. I expect things to heat up in a week or so but there isn’t anything too serious happening. This might be a little shorter than you’re used to. In The Casino Slot machines When the news in Las […]
Long Live The Appetizer! 3 Great Apps In Las Vegas
Appetizers are the great equalizer when you’re looking to save money but eat quality food when dining in Las Vegas. A single appetizer can often be filling enough for one person. Likewise, appetizers are usually large enough to share. They’re the perfect size for flexible dining. Many times these dishes are as filling as a main […]
Expats | Live Like Royalty In These Countries
We can’t all afford to stay at The Plaza in New York or The Savoy in London, with rooms going for around $600USD a night, at least not very often, but there is a way to live in this luxury for just a fraction of the price. I am a lover of decadence and unfortunately […]
Basics Of Betting | Update On The Presidential Election Odds
Odds on the Presidential election are unchanged more or less from when I wrote the introductory article last week. BetFair.com is my go-to site for determining these odds because they have the largest public volume of wagering on the event, making it the most accurate theoretically. Hillary: 1.46 = 68.49% (a winning bet of $100 […]
Las Vegas | The Lucky Dragon Rises (For Real This Time!)
The Lucky Dragon, the mysteriously intimate property near the now developing corner of Sahara and Las Vegas Boulevard, has teased us with wonderful renderings and beautiful design for quite some time. When I was last in Vegas a few months ago, I snapped a handful of shots showing the progress that had been made, looking as […]
Sunday News | Casino And Gambling News With A Side Of Sake
Ahhhh…The summer is unofficially over. Labor Day weekend is the beginning of the end of summer for tourist season. The day clubs will slowly wind down, then some pools will begin to close and summer concert season will come to an end. There should be a couple of quiet weeks of news in Las Vegas […]
Score Better Comps – URComped Client Interview
A little while ago we had an in-depth discussion with Craig Shacklett, the co-founder of URComped. He gave us great insight into how the company got started and laid out the kind of comps and other benefits gaming fans could achieve. We liked everything we heard and asked Craig if we could speak with a […]
Basics Of Betting | From The US Presidential Election To Baseball
My contacts at TravelZork have been following some write-ups I do about betting on the US Presidential election. I follow the odds of the betting markets more closely than the incessant polls. The betting markets aren’t concerned about personal opinion. Sure there are fans of one candidate or the other who likely make a wager […]
Sunday News | Holiday Edition With Mostly Vegas Hotel News
There was a lot of hotel news last week but not all of it is relevant to your visits to Las Vegas. With that in mind, let’s start with the hotel news that actually matters in the near future. When the Blackstone Group purchased the Cosmopolitan in 2014, they detailed very specific plans to turn around the casino which didn’t have a profitable quarter since opening.
