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Tired of the same old ‘’gamble your life savings away'’ thing in Las Vegas?

Well, there’s this ‘’alternative'’ you’ll definitely dig. Apparently, somewhere deep in the outskirts of all these gambling activities, there lies a brothel that takes advantage of Nevada’s legalized prostitution crap.

Yep, apparently, prostitution is legal at the Moonlite BunnyRanch brothel and owner, or should I say, ‘’King Pimp,'’ Dennis Hof is having, ‘’a lot of fun'’ in Nevada for sure.

Heck, if he was able to pull this off, then Hugh Hefner ain’t got shit on this dawg. This guy even has his own HBO series for crying out loud, entitled ‘’Cathouse,'’ featuring Dennis Hof’s beloved brothel where countless hot whores call home.

Oh yeah, Dennis Hof found his ‘’wife'’ there too.

Dennis and his ‘’bunnies'’ will be flying into NYC to do some major media concerning the next season of Cathouse, including many radio stations on The Sirius Network, like Eminem’s Show, Shade 45, Alex Bennette, Rude Jude, Derek & Romaine and The Howard Stern Show.

It is Dennis Hof’s goal to see prostitution become a major economic force in society’s mainstream, if you can imagine that. He’d like to help sanitize the sleazy ‘’street corner hooker'’ image. He foresees a coming cultural atmosphere in which those seeking female companionship can easily find a safe, legal place to get laid.

‘’The BunnyRanch is an example of how sex-for-sale is going to be in America within the next 30 years,'’ Dennis Hof said. He tells his girls…

And no, unlike what Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. started years back, there won’t be any guns involved whatsoever.

The NBA’s ‘’mid-season classic'’ returns for it’s 2007 offering as the best players from the Eastern Conference meet the towering giants of the Western Conference. Yep, it’s the East going up against the West and judging by this year’s starting line-ups, the East will get their asses creamed good.

This year, unlike last season’s Detroit Pistons theme, the East will only have two Pistons on their roster. Yep, they actually snubbed Tayshaun Prince again. And to make matters worse, Rasheed Wallace wasn’t even asked to return.

Richard Hamilton and Chauncey Billups were selected as East reserves but c’mon, snubbing Sheed and Tayshaun for a struggling Miami Heat tandem of Dwyane Wade and Shaquille O’Neal? Puh-leaze…

Yep, you read it, D-Wade and Shaq made it to the starting line-up yet again, despite all their struggles this season. Hell, Shaq did not even played MOST of the first half of the season for chrissake. Something’s definitely wrong there.

Joining the pathetic Miami Vice wannabes are the likes of LeBron James, Gilbert Arenas and the much improved Chris Bosh.

The West is where it’s at this year. They were able to form one solid starting five, and that’s saying with or without a Yao Ming at the starting center spot. For all ya’ll who don’t know it yet, Yao Ming won’t be playing in this year’s NBA All Star game in Las Vegas with him nursing an injury.

NO PROBLEM. The likes of Memo Okur and Dirk…

What happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas right?

Well, what if the NBA All Star Game happens in Las Vegas, will it stay there? Can we see a professional NBA basketball team from Las Vegas after hosting it’s first NBA All Star weekend? Hmm… this year’s hosts sure hope so.

February 18 is the NBA All Star game, following NBA All Star Saturday that will feature the three-point shootout and the slam dunk contest just to name a few. Oh yeah, it’s shaping up to be one heckuva’ weekend all right.

An event as big as this, the city of Las Vegas definitely wants its own NBA Basketball team now. However, sending a team to Las Vegas would require NBA commissioner David Stern to change his stance on gambling. He was quite clear on the subject last year, ‘’We are not going to go there while they have betting on NBA games.'’

Uh oh… As far as I know, Las Vegas and betting is like milk and cookies, bread and butter, panties and… well, you get the idea.

‘’I guess all I’d say is that we’ve been having these discussions now for somewhere over 20 years,'’ NBA Commissioner David Stern said. ‘’But on the other hand, our owners are the ones that ultimately…'’

Las Vegas abounds with teacher-student scenarios, many with spanking involved.

However, if your kind of playtime involves betting, at least learn the games before throwing yourself at the tables. Off-Strip or on, numerous Las Vegas hotel casinos offer free blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker lessons, among others. Pole dancing and strip poker lessons, too, but we’ve reserved those for another time.

Las Vegas casinos with gambling & poker lessons

Barbary Coast lessons: craps. Master the betting strategies and then show off at the four craps tables of the quaint, 30,000 sqft casino. With the money you’ve won, feast like royalty at the swanky Drai’s restaurant, by celebrity restaurateur Victor Drai.

Circus Circus lessons: poker, blackjack, craps, roulette. Expect no child’s play at some 75 gaming tables in three separate casinos, at a cumulative 107,500 sqft. Hone bluffing at 9 smoke-free poker tables, mostly low-limit, with a free mini-buffet nightly.

Excalibur lessons: poker, blackjack, craps, roulette. The well-attended card room has 20 smoke-free poker tables. Offering daily lessons, it sports a friendly vibe suited to poker beginners. The 100,000 sqft casino has 83 gaming tables where to check your talents.

Gold Coast lessons: craps. Most frequented for its bingo room, the 120,000 sqft casino has gaming tables perfect for testing the waters. Spend winnings at the…

When Landry’s Restaurants of Texas dining joined Golden Nugget of Vegas gaming, who took the bigger gamble?

Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino has been a gold standard of Downtown Las Vegas casino gaming long before it changed hands to Landry’s, a super name in restaurants but perhaps less so in casinos. It swings both ways, and the Houston-based new owners tackled no lesser odds when it acquired in 2005 its first Las Vegas casino hotel.

Gauging the changes made to Golden Nugget Casino ever since Landry’s joined in, the mutual gamble is paying off. A major upgrade to casino amenities, locations and capacities, and services is gaining points not only for the hotel casino but also for all gaming in Fremont Street and Downtown.

Golden Nugget Las Vegas received a total of 29 awards in the Strictly Slots ‘Best of…’ 2006, and 14 of these were to its casino gaming, including Best Overall Hotel Casino and Best Overall Casino in the downtown categories. Out of 28 awards from the Casino Players ‘Best of…’ 2006, 16 were on casino gaming, including Best Overall Hotel Casino and Luckiest Casino in the downtown categories.

Casino. The 38000 sqft Golden Nugget Casino is treated to an elegant makeover this year. Retiring the gilded latticework that had dominated the ceilings, the renovated and updated casino floor is now garbed in rich woods and lush carpeting that makes for a classier ambience. With the enhanced overall layout, players need not have to pass through a maize of over 60 gaming tables and other gaming areas to…

How does a card room go from pioneering to non-existent to poker celebrities hotspot?

The fate of poker at Golden Nugget Las Vegas Hotel and Casino is as dramatic as cinema; little wonder it is now attracting poker celebs as the setting of a hot new poker movie. The story so far involves Sin City history, a changing of hands, and Shannon Elizabeth.

Golden Nugget casino hotel was the place that would change the way Las Vegas poker is played. From 1946, when it opened in what is now Downtown Vegas, to 1950, it was the gamblers who dealt their own cards in no-limit poker games here. Golden Nugget was the first to introduce the center deal, in which a dealer deals the cards to players. Hence, the leap from home poker to casino poker involving dealers.

Poker had a long good run in Golden Nugget Las Vegas, and then it was dropped. For close to 18 years until April 2004, the casino hotel did not have a poker room, which makes it an even bigger deal that the card room has returned. New owners Landry’s Restaurants, which acquired Golden Nugget in 2005, spurred on a wave of improvements that includes a new poker room as well as casino, high limit slots salon, sports and race book, and keno room, plus hotel amenities.

The new Golden Nugget poker card room has relocated from the…

The Beatles and Las Vegas. Don’t really ring a bell as Sinatra and Elvis.

But the new generation of Beatles fans, and those very young to even have a f@#*ing idea that the band’s music has been reused to the point of sacrilege by many in today’s sounds, will have the chance of a close Beatles encounter. Vegas style.

Next month a new club will be opening at The Mirage. It’s a Beatles themed night spot to be called The Revolution. It was said that the dig will feature “cutting edge, interactive experiences to create a psychedelic sensory environment and a contemporary interpretation of the Beatles’ era. Each night will be an evolutionary journey, where both the music and interior transform, resulting in an eclectic nightlife adventure.”

That’s kinda like the Fab Four’s state of mind whenever they record an album. Sure John Lennon insists Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds was inspired by Little Sean’s drawing. But you gotta be too stoned to actually believe that.

News reports added that each night at the club will “have a specific musical direction, with the club’s DJ’s featuring various types of music, from Beatles music to funky lounge remixes, house, rock, electro, new wave, and Brit pop.”

Yeah, that’s just the perfect way to alienate…

It’s not just celebrity impersonators or tribute acts that make up the concert acts at the top Las Vegas casino hotels. Some of them are the real deal.

Big celebrity names that add glitter into the Vegas nightlife include top comedians like Jay Leno, Ray Romano, Dave Chappelle, Don Rickles, Dennis Miller, the fiesty Joan Rivers, and other names fast climbing the stand up comedy food chain.

But most importantly, it’s the concert acts that bring in huge ticket sales.

Legendary concert artists have been part of Vegas’ history and tradition. Old Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra, led his Rat Pack — consisting of equally venerated figures of the time, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, and Joey Bishop — in staging memorable performances around Vegas in the ’50s and ’60s.

In the 70s, it was The King, Elvis Presley’s turn to bring down the house.

The Rat Pack and Elvis’ love for the Sin City even spawned two of the greatest movie hits in history, the original Ocean’s 11 and Viva Las Vegas.

Other artists who made denting marks in the City of Lights include Barry Manilow, and glamor gurus Cher and Elton John.

Today, the undeniable queen of Vegas concerts is Celine Dion. You won’t miss it. Everywhere you go in Vegas you’ll encounter gigantic billboards and posters of the Canadian diva. Even if you try to avoid her face, it’ll end up right in front of you when you least expect it.

The Clean Indoor Air Act bullshit just had one absolute solution.

Yep, apparently, slot machine bars and convenience store owners are hoping to defeat the almighty ‘’Clean Indoor Air Act’’ crap. The Clean Indoor Air Act would ban smoking (for obvious reasons…) in almost every goddamn indoor public area EXCEPT for casino floors.

Now, convenience stores that offer gambling and slot machines (and doesn’t have anything that can be called a casino floor whatsoever, by the way…) had a slight glimmer of hope. They’re hoping that the Clean Indoor Air Act would be blown away by another bill, dubbed, ‘’Responsibly Protect Nevadans from Secondhand Smoke Act.’’

The ‘’Responsibly Protect Nevadans from Secondhand Smoke Act’’ would restrict smoking in restaurants to adult-only areas. And yeah, the bill will ALLOW smoking in slot machine zones, even if they’re on convenience and grocery stores.

Nice bill eh?

Well, some Nevadans doesn’t think so. Some people who hail from the great state of Nevada are baffled why the state has allowed these ‘’mini casinos‘’ in convenience stores in the first place.

Although I personally think that these people, probably new residents, should just shut the fuck up and accept the state’s somewhat peculiar traditions. After all, this IS Nevada and this IS the ‘’Nevada Way.’’

Well, Nevada Way or not, these guys think that grocery stores with…

Tourist traps for freeloaders? Why not? It’s eyecandy, it’s free, it’s Vegas.

Sure, on our way to Las Vegas, we think we’ll hit the casinos and clubs first thing. But once we get there – past the airport slots anyway, we almost always take a detour. Bets and booze get side-stepped when we’ve fallen trap to the most glaringly hypnotic thing to glue our eyes on: the biggest damn fuss ever made over skylines and replicas, caged fauna and controlled flora, light slash sound slash water shows.

For Las Vegas first-time visitors with time to burn, the itinerary of the first few days is to walk around, stare, gape, and pose for a photo. You can’t possibly not stop and stare at Parisian mimes, Buckingham guards, or Venetian gondoliers right smack in the middle of an American desert. At least, unless hot girls playing strip poker have already caught your eye.

Here, we’ve traced your Strip walkaround from Mandalay Bay to Wynn, and Las Vegas free attractions to grab your attention along the way.

Mandalay Bay, Luxor, Excalibur, Tropicana, New York-New York, Aladdin, Bellagio, Paris Las Vegas.

Caesars Palace. Fall of Atlantis. It is a free show at The Forum Shops featuring sfx and animatronics of King Atlas, and his two kids in a fire vs. water feud as to who gets the throne. You’ll never pose by so many Classic Roman columns as the ones you’ll find on the vast outside, with faux-marble Classic Roman statues and Italian cypresses thrown in. There are replicas of Michelangelo’s David, and the Brahma Shrine, one of Thailand’s best-known Buddhist shrines…

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