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Cali Cardrooms Spent $3M Attacking Lawmakers Who Supported Gambling Bill — AFTER it Passed!
In an extraordinary display of political vengeance, California cardrooms spent more than $3 million this year punishing lawmakers who supported a bill allowing their competitors, the state’s tribal casinos, to sue them for offering illegal card games. Senate Bill 549, also known...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: The Strip is the Brightest Place on Earth
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Oct. 30, 2023. On May 25, 2022, the “Cubby and Christine in the Morning” show on WLTW-FM/New York asked its listeners...
Top 10 Las Vegas Lies & the Truths They Hide
Las Vegas is a town predicated on pretend realities (and we’re not even talking about the one in which the Oakland A’s relocate to the Strip!) A unique language of pervasive mistruths must be penetrated to comprehend some of what's really being...
Remembering Las Vegas Legend Dean Martin on the Anniversary of His Death
December 25th isn’t only Christmas. It’s also the day, 29 years ago, that the world lost Las Vegas icon Dean Martin. Martin, who came to fame playing the straight man to cutup Jerry Lewis in one of the most successful comedy duos...
TEXAS CHOKEHOLD ‘EM: Man Put to Sleep by UFC Fighter to Settle Poker Debt
Was former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman being merciful or cruel when he agreed to choke out one of his friends to forgive his $5,000 poker debt? We’re not sure. Weidman recently posted a video to Instagram of the strangest way we’ve...
LOST VEGAS: Spring Fever Spa (aka The Soak n’ Poke)
Rarely does a town’s most notorious sex hotel so blatantly advertise what it is, but this was Las Vegas. Not only that, it was the ’80s. “Romantic private spa suites,” the steamy postcards, billboards and even TV ads for Spring Fever Spa...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: Why Nevada Was Admitted to the Union
The 1859 discovery of silver and gold in the territory of Nevada spurred its admission as a US state, so the riches could finance Union forces during the Civil War. Local schoolteachers have taught this for more than 60 years. Many still...
WSOP Sets Dates for 2025 Return to Las Vegas
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) set the dates for the 2025 championship, which returns for a fourth consecutive year to the Horseshoe and Paris on the Las Vegas Strip. The series will take place May 27 through July 16, with the...
Top Las Vegas Casino News Stories of 2024
This year will go down as the one where two of the most legendary casino properties ever shut their doors for good. But plenty of other national stories put Las Vegas casinos in the headlines in 2024. And some of those weren’t...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: The Traveling Welcome to Las Vegas Sign
EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes new entries every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Jan. 22, 2024. We busted the myth that the Las Vegas Strip has official boundaries last month. In that...
