Las Vegas Local Custom Tips by gkitzmil

If you liked this page, maybe you'd like my San Francisco page! (click here) thanks for visiting :-) Greg

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ALWAYS look for deals in Las Vegas. While a firm has paid well over $100 for me to stay at Caesar's Palace (I was a featured speaker in their event) I normally pay under $100.

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I do have some rules.
If I post a place, I've been there!! If I recommend a hotel, I know that hotel!! AND I only put 'I will be there' next to places I am going SOON. No dreaming -- this is my real life!

I rate exactly as I see it. So, yes I've actually given a 'not very helpful' rating -- but otherwise this is just a game for people.

I love this site but do not want to abuse it.
your friend in Travel. -- Greg

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Elvis Presley first played Las Vegas at the New Frontier in 1956, but surprisingly, his show was not exactly overrun by fans. After only one week of a two-week engagement, Elvis got the boot. The great entertainer was only at the forefront of his career. It would be 13 years later when Elvis would make his “comeback” performance in 1969 at the International Hotel (renamed the Las Vegas Hilton in 1970), the first of many standing-room-only performances to delight his fans.

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Even though Las Vegas is known as Sin City, there are actually more churches in Las Vegas, per capital, than in any other city in the United States. Over 65 religious faiths are represented in more than 500 churches. The churches don't have neon signs either.

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not sure gambling (or gaming as it is officially called) can fall under 'culture'.
Yet IF you intend to gamble here are a few additional tips<br?

Slot machines do not have good odds.
-- Why is it that the same people who will seek out a bargain hotel will then spend $20 to $50 a night on slot machines?
There is NO SUCH THING as a 'hot machine' everything is controlled by a computer chip and it will determine mathematically when the slot with pay. Some slots are set to pay smaller amounts frequently and some are set to hold for bigger payoffs


read signs carefully. If a sign says the slots pay 99% -- (1) see if it says in small print 'up to...' (2) regardless, the sign may mean that just ONE of the slots in the row pays 99%!

the three table games with better payoffs are...
Blackjack
Bacarat
and Craps
for each game learn the basic strategy and you can AT LEAST play for awhile without losing all of your money. Strategy cards are sold in most casino gift shops.
ask a dealer before using a strategy card at the tables.... some allow it and some don't. I try to remember the strategies and I usually practice on the computer before I go

Bacarat is slow, ritualistic, and fairly easy

Craps puts all players rooting for a number and is also pretty simple

Blackjack requires thought but thus you can feel like you are a bit more in control!


BY THE WAY -- roulette may look easy but is WORSE ODDS for the player

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