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The BEST place to eat in Vegas after midnight….
It’s 3am… you just placed 3rd at the stratosphere’s midnight tournament… you’re starving… what do you do? You go here:
Photo by VegasRex
This place has been around forever. I found out about it because I saw it in that god-awful movie Lucky You. But, it’s a regular stop for me when I am in town. I do enjoy playing in that midnight Stratosphere tournament.. mostly because I have a high percentage of getting paid out at the end of it.. .however it is a horrible tourny structure. When it’s done, I always go to the White Cross pharmacy because of this great diner. The cook is a Russian guy, and then there’s always another guy that answers the phone and takes delivery orders. But, this is the only place I know of where you can get fried pork chops and eggs at 4am. So, it’s a definite favorite.
Vegas Tripping one of the best Vegas guides around.
Probably one of the best of the online Vegas review guides… includes hotel, restaurant and gaming review of each of the las vegas casinos.
The Happiest Place on Earth
If you don’t wanna be an average tourist when you visit Las Vegas make a trip to the Double Down Saloon… across the street from UNLV. Try the “ass juice” enjoy the atmosphere…breath in the smoke and thank Jebus places like this still exist.
Winnersbank 200, revisited
As promised… I said before that I would review the WinnersBank200 after returning from Vegas. And as I predicted, I have nothing but great things to say about it.
(check out how it works here before reading on)
I first used the WinnersBank200 on day 1 of my trip. A co-worker of mine was also in Vegas and he hadn’t been to Fremont before so we decided to go over to the Golden Nugget and get some lunch. After eating the $20 buffet (which was only mediocre) we decided to play some 3 card poker. We found a $5 table and started playing.
Dave had won several hands and I wasn’t having much luck. I told Dave “I’m not having any luck so it’s time for me to go…….. ” and after about a 3 second pause “but first I’m gonna do this” and I upped my bet from $5 to $10 on each (in 3 card poker you can make between 1 and 3 bets). It was then that I hit my straight flush (which pays 40 to 1 in the pair plus bet and I’m not exactly sure what the 2nd and 3rd bets pay out)… this was good for over $500. Immediately, I put that $500 chip in the winners bank200. With the key safely placed in my hotel room back at the Luxor, there was NO WAY I could lose that $500 profit during this outing. I would need to go all the way back to my hotel room to get into the handy little safe.
My budget was $500 per day while in Vegas. This would include food, tips, and gambling. I would use the WinnersBank200 on each of my 7 days while in Vegas. On day 2, I won two $300 jackpots on the slots and would immediately put that money in the WinnersBank200 and therefore had $500 essentially to blow.
Later, I would win $1000 on a slot
and that too would go into the personal safe.
Even while playing craps, I would “go south” (going south means to take wi
nnings off the table and put them in your pocket, this is generally not acceptable in poker but ok in games where you play against the casino like blackjack, craps, and other table games). Everytime I won another hundred I would put more chips into the bank. EVERYBODY wanted to know about the Winners Bank200. The pit bosses would give me an akward stare as I safely stored green chips in my handy little safe. Had I taken 50 of those banks with me I could have easily made $40 a pop right there in the casinos. I explained to curious onlookers what the bank was a minimum of 20 times during this trip.
I cannot stress enough how much I recommend this little invention to ANYONE planning a trip to a casino. I am sure that I will be buying a few as gifts for my family and friends.
More poker cheating…
Story by MSNBC located here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/
written by Mike Brunker
Projects Team editor
Phil Hellmuth, the winningest player in the history of the World Series of Poker, makes a grand entry to this year’s event in Las Vegas in his guise as general of the “Ultimate Bet Army.” The company that owns UltimateBet.com has stated that players in high-stakes online poker games were victimized by a vast, long-running cheating scheme.
Allegations that cheaters manipulated the software powering a leading Internet poker site so they could see their opponents’ hole cards have triggered a $75 million claim against a Canadian company, msnbc.com has learned.
The alleged subterfuge on UltimateBet.com — one of the 10 top poker sites — is the biggest known case of fraud targeting an Internet gambling site and its customers, according to the company that owns the site. It is similar to a case of cheating that occurred last year on UltimateBet’s sister site, AbsolutePoker.com, but this time the thieves ran the scheme for far longer — at least from January 2005 to January 2008, it said.
Word of the $75 million U.S. claim ($80 million Canadian) — the first indication of the scope of the alleged cheating — emerged this week when msnbc.com contacted a court-appointed liquidator overseeing the voluntary dismemberment of Excapsa Software Inc. of Toronto, which formerly owned and licensed the poker software to UltimateBet and other gambling sites. The claim was filed by Blast-Off Ltd. of Malta, a private company that currently has an ownership interest in Ultimate Bet.
….read the entire story here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26563848/
I get to see another comedy legend
I’m pretty excited about this one. This will be the third comedy show in a row that I’ve had a front row seat to (along with Artie Lange and Chris Rock). Normally I wouldn’t have much interest in a Don Rickles show. But after watching a recent HBO documentary on him, I’m very fortunate to get to see this show… especially in Vegas. Rickles is one of the last from the “Rat Pack” era and was in fact very close to Frank Sinatra. I think this will be the closest I’ll get to experiencing that old Las Vegas feel.
Where in the world is Tom Meny?
The Tom Meny world tour has come to an end….
Over the past 6 weeks or so I’ve been all over the place. In November I spent a week in Vegas. Shortly after returning I was asked by my company to go to Massachusetts for a week. That turned into 2 weeks. During that trip I would travel to Connecticutt and Rhode Island as well as get stranded in Chicago for a night.
