Las Vegas Gaming

Eastside Cannery on the Boulder Strip

Boulder Strip delivered the best numbers  while the Nevada gaming industry statewide pulled in almost 6% more than last year.  Boulder Strip trumped the bunch with a 23% year-over-year increase.  Boulder Station, Sam's Town, Eastside Cannery, Joker's Wild, Green Valley Ranch, Sunset Station and M Resort are included in the Boulder Strip stats.

Have dinner at the Red Rock resort's colorful CABO Meixcan Restaurant as you play for free cookies

If you’re a Girl Scout, consider peddling to Las Vegas casinos.

Station Casinos has purchased over $100,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies to give away to their Boarding Pass players.

Player points for  money you'll spend while attending AVN AEE, late January 2013 hosted by The Hard Rock

Another day, another revamped casino player loyalty program.

This time it’s Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, whose Backstage Pass will now earn you points for not just playing slots and tables but by spending money throughout the casino.

So now you’ll receive 1 point for every $1 coin-in on slots, $2 coin-in on video poker, or 10 cents in purchases (which includes hotel, clubs, spa, etc.).

Wendeen H. Eolis

Ace investigative reporter, Wendeen H. Eolis, has once again returned from the quagmire that is online poker with another breaking story.  This time she's the first to tell the world that PokerStars CEO Gabriel Campos Woslovsky would be leaving the troubled online poker company after a two year hitch.

Today starts a new poker promotion at Red Rock Station.
 
From 2 a.m. to 10 a.m. daily, the high hand of that period in the poker room receives $1,000.
 
The hand must be at least Aces Full and you must play both cards.
 
If you share the same hand, you’ll split the prize.
 
The flier takes care to mention that this prize does not come from the jackpot drop, it’s funded entirely by Red Rock.
 
A nice extra, eh?
 

Wendeen H. Eolis

With the holidays rapidly becoming a fading memory, Wendeen H. Eolis, our favorite bearer of facts concerning the state of Online Poker's uphill trek to legitimancy, is back to work.

Cosmopolitan Las Vegas

The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas has a special $100 freeplay signup offer, good through the end of the year, though they may extend it.

All you have to do is sign up to be a member (or if you’re already a member, visit the Identity booth) to activate the offer.

Then you play any slots at Cosmo you’d like (including video poker).  If you lose $100, return to the Identity booth and you’ll get $100 in freeplay loaded to your account.

Wendeen H. Eolis

She's back.  Wendeen H. Eolis delivers the third segment in a continuing series of in-depth articles that looks at the big picture of online poker's legal/illegal status.  Included in the analysis of the game is the age old argument of poker's classification of a game of skill or nothing more than a game of chance, no different than buying tickets in a government run lottery.

In slot machines, wide-area progressives (affectionately known as WAPs) are funded by the coin-in of all players playing on that link throughout every casino, the guts of which are in secret labs in Reno, Nev.
 
That’s why the progressive numbers are going up so fast in the middle of the night.  Because it’s not the middle of the night somewhere, and even if it was, at least someone is playing that game.
 

The M Resort, which often mimics promotions of its direct competitor Station Casinos, is offering an 11/11/11 deal of their own that trumps Station.
 
At all the Station and Fiesta casinos, play cash games of hold’em on Nov. 11 and flop quad Jacks (while holding pocket Jacks) and you’ll get $11,111.  Get quads on the turn or river and you’ll get $1,111.