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NBA Announces Return to Las Vegas at Worst Possible Time
The NBA's Emirates Cup will return to Las Vegas in December The announcement comes less than a week after the league was rocked by betting scandals that allegedly involved current and former players, and a former coach Those accused reportedly passed nonpublic...
Las Vegas Poker Player Accused of Running Illegal Brothel
Bing Du, a low-stakes Las Vegas poker tournament player, was arrested for allegedly running a brothel from within a local home Du was arrested while playing in a tournament in a Strip casino While prostitution is legal in parts of Nevada, it...
Circus Circus Now Reportedly Renting Original Jay Sarno Suite to Public
In 1972, Caesars Palace founder Jay Sarno built a two-story suite for himself in his second Las Vegas property. It was located on the 14th and 15th floors of Circus Circus' first hotel tower. And that's where it still is. Since MGM...
VEGAS MYTHS BUSTED: More Evidence that Zak Bagans is Full of Sh**
Zak Bagans' Haunted Museum in downtown Las Vegas claims to house a satanic six-string guitar The accursed acoustic axe is claimed to have caused the death of its 13-year-old owner by electrocution Once again, it appears that Bagans didn't let the facts...
SPHERE OF THE UNKNOWN: Vegas Venue Now Hunting UFOs
At the same time new technology began helping thousands of fans inside the Sphere re-experience Dorothy dreaming of another world, new technology on top of the Sphere began tracking objects that might actually be from one. The Galileo Observatory -- designed by...
Boyd to Demolish Eastside Cannery in Las Vegas
The Eastside Cannery, a Boulder Strip casino that has remained closed since the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak, will be demolished. "It has been more than five years since we closed Eastside Cannery, and there is not sufficient market demand to reopen...
Las Vegas Antique Dealer Acquires Historic Casino Statues
When it opened, nine fountain statues greeted guests as they entered the original MGM Grand The statues were in place on Nov. 21, 1980 -- the day of the worst hotel fire in the US The fountain was removed during a renovation...
VEGAS MYTHS RE-BUSTED: Dead Nevada Senator Kept on Ice for Reelection
EDITOR’S NOTE: A new “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s edition originally ran on April 21, 2023. Nevada’s US Senator Key Pittman died a few days before the November 1940 reelection that he was favored...
Coming to Vegas: Slots That Withdraw From Your Bank Account
Las Vegas slots players who run out of money during a session may soon be able to reload without ever getting up from their favorite machines A new payment system will let players link slot machines directly to their bank accounts sometime...
AI Shows Signs of Gambling Addiction, Study Finds
A new study finds that AI internalizes human gambling cognitive biases In a slot machine simulation, four different large language models bet until they were broke The AIs chased their gambling wins and losses exactly like gambling-addicted humans A new study finds...
