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ECHELON PLACE: Site preparation is underway to make way for major construction to restart soon on the unfinished hotel, casino, shopping, and convention complex on the old Stardust Casino site on The Strip.
 

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HARD ROCK: Ben Affleck, Oscar-winning actor, has been banned for life from the Hard Rock's blackjack tables for counting cards, using perfect basic strategy and winning hundreds of thousands of dollars at their blackjack tables.
“You’re too good at the game,” Hard Rock security managers are said to have told him as they escorted the actor and his wife, Jennifer Garner, the actress,from the blackjack tables.Casinos have been deemed private property and so the casinos can evict and ban players at their whim.
 

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HARD ROCK: Ben Affleck, Oscar-winning actor, has been banned for life from the Hard Rock's blackjack tables for counting cards, using perfect basic strategy and winning hundreds of thousands of dollars at their blackjack tables.
“You’re too good at the game,” Hard Rock security managers are said to have told him as they escorted the actor and his wife, Jennifer Garner, the actress,from the blackjack tables.Casinos have been deemed private property and so the casinos can evict and ban players at their whim.
 

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NEVADA GAMING CONTRL BOARD: Revealed that they arrest about 500 people a year for trying to cheat. About a third of those arrests are casino employees. Modern-day feats of subterfuge are infrared contact lenses that let the wearer see marked cards.
 

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FONTAINEBLEAU: This $3 billion project, a 68-story, 3,889-room hotel-casino on The Strip across from Circus Circus, was two-thirds complete when the economy crashed. The construction crane on its roof has now been removed indicating that plans are to dismantle the structure and sell it for scrap.
 

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FONTAINEBLEAU: This $3 billion project, a 68-story, 3,889-room hotel-casino on The Strip across from Circus Circus, was two-thirds complete when the economy crashed. The construction crane on its roof has now been removed indicating that plans are to dismantle the structure and sell it for scrap.

Wow. Thought this wouldn't have done that well. To far down the the strip IMO.
 

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I have spent many a day playing craps at the Stardust back in the 80s and 90s. Never stayed there but the casino had the best odds in town for a crap player for awhile.

Pass line...two come bets and take full odds on a good table or same method using the Don't come with a cold table.

Akillies, what's the economy like in Vegas now and whatever happen to the threaten strike that was in the news recently?
 

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MGM RESORTS AND AEG LIVE: Started construction on a sports arena. The project will cost around $350 million and is a
20,000-seat indoor arena which will serve as a venue for boxing matches, sporting events, shows and special events. Its opening is slated for spring 2016 and will be located between New York-New York and the Monte Carlo.
 

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COSMOPOLITAN: Deutsche Bank has agreed to sell the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas hotel and casino to the Blackstone Group LP for $1.73 billion in cash, ending a six-year money-losing venture for Deutsche Bank into casino development. Deutsche Bank foreclosed on the property after developer Ian Bruce Eichner defaulted on a construction loan in January, 2008. The new owners have stated that there will be changes to ensure the property’s profitability in the short term.
 

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THE CROMWELL (formerly Bill's Gambling Hall & Saloon, the Barbary Coast before that):
1. Drai's Beachclub/Nightclub opened on the rooftop.
2. BOUND by Salvatore, circular lobby bar, now open.

THE LINQ:
1. TheTilted Kilt, an Irish-themed pub and sports bar, with sexyly-clad employees, opened.
2. F.A.M.E. (the letters stand for “Food,” “Art,” “Music” and “Entertainment”) opened. In addition to the music, it features a culinary bazaar with the offerings from Asian night markets and street food from cities like Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong etc., gathered together in one place. Also featured are live DJs, dragon dancers and taiko drummers.
 

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I have spent many a day playing craps at the Stardust back in the 80s and 90s. Never stayed there but the casino had the best odds in town for a crap player for awhile.

Pass line...two come bets and take full odds on a good table or same method using the Don't come with a cold table.

Akillies, what's the economy like in Vegas now and whatever happen to the threaten strike that was in the news recently?
found this

UNDERWATER: Las Vegas’ underwater housing crisis keeps abating, even as the valley remains ground zero for upside-down borrowers. Almost 34 percent of Las Vegas homeowners with mortgages were underwater — meaning their debt outweighed their home value, down from 48 percent a year earlier, according to a new report from Zillow.
At its peak two years ago, 71 percent of Las Vegas-area borrowers were underwater.
 

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UNEMPLOYMENT IN L.V.: The unemployment rate in the Las Vegas metropolitan area plummeted in April to 7.4 percent from 8.8 percent the prior month and 9.9 percent a year ago, the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation reported.
 

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Jun. 1= Restaurant workers, hotel housekeepers, cocktail servers, bartenders, and other members of the unions at unsettled casinos will walk off their jobs and start 24/7 picketing unless agreements are reached.
Downtown casinos without a bunion contract are:
Golden Gate , Four Queens, Binion's. Contracts at all the casinos expired June 1st, 2013!
With five-year agreements are the Golden Nugget, Fremont, Las Vegas Club, Main Street Station,Plaza, The D and El Cortez
 

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