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Photo by Las Vegas Review-JournalOne of the hottest nightclubs in Las Vegas is Tryst (at Wynn Las Vegas), but what always turns us off is the admission fee. Not to mention the discrimination against men -- women are $20, men are $30.But if you have an unwrapped gift in hand on a Thursday this ...

If you signed up to Excalibur's room rate special email list, you would have received an email offering a buy-1-get-1-free hotel room stay from now through Jan. 3, 2007.Those special people would be staying Sunday-Thursday and would book before Dec. 6, with excluded dates Dec. 3-7, Dec. 10, and Dec. 24-Jan. 1.Those people would also ...

Want to know where Vegas locals go on vacation?So would we, because every day that we wake up to the neon lights is like a vacation to us.But for those jonesing for the Colorado River, take a gander at Laughlin with this River Palms offer of two nights for $20 per night.The offer runs through ...

A Nevada resident who chose to remain anonymous became a multi-millionaire during his lunch break.Yesterday, he stopped by the Pahrump Nugget Casino (Pahrump, Nev.) and had a hunch to play Penny Megabucks instead of his usual video poker. After losing $44 of his $100, the Penny Megabucks jackpot went off for $18,799,414, making it ...

Tonight begins The Producers, an intermission-less 90-minute version of the musical with The Hoff (as in David Hasselhoff) playing the flamboyant producer.For the next week of previews, Las Vegas locals who purchase tickets at the box office can see the show for a flat $60, including taxes and service charges. Not quite a pay-what-you-can ...

So you say you can't deposit or withdraw to an online poker site but want to play in the National Heads-up Poker Championship beginning March 1?Well, you can't win a seat to it online anyway.But you can play a live satellite.Caesars Palace offers you the chance to win a seat through a satellite for only ...

To our Southern California readers who may not want to fight I-15 traffic and sudden freaky Nevada snowstorms, we came across this offer that we would take advantage of if we could.For new players of the Barona Resort and Casino (San Diego), if you play two hours of slots and lose, you'll get reimbursed up ...

On Thursday, Feb. 1 at 5 p.m., The Mirage is holding a special charity poker tournament, with half the prize money going to Mirage floorperson Dennis Jackson, who's been ill.The tournament is limit hold'em with a $130 buy-in and unlimited $40 rebuys in the first hour.A full 50 percent will go to the Jackson family, ...

Being fired by Donald Trump could've been the best thing for former Miss Nevada Katie Rees.First, she signs a reported two-year $2 million deal to co-host the new incarnation of Beacher's Madhouse at Hard Rock (we're still scratching our heads at this figure, because for a show that's to take place once a month, admission ...

photo by FlipChip/LasVegasVegas.com Wynn Las VegasThe dealers at the Wynn Resort Las Vegas voted to retain representation from the UAW. Upset over the recent toke grab to subsidize supervisor's pay apparently allowed the big Union the leverage it needed to finally open the door to the lucrative Las Vegas gambling business. The Las ...

photo by FlipChip/LasVegasVegas.com Deja Vu's Love Boutique.What better way to spend a Saturday night in Las Vegas than playing in a poker tournament? Of course, taking a card drought early out early in the evening called for a different plan. After a quick caffeine fix I decided to cruise by some of the ...

If you don't have anything else to do on Valentine's Day, why not spend it with Dennis Hopper?On Feb. 14, CineVegas is hosting a special charity screening of Hoosiers with Hopper and director David Anspaugh presenting the film.The show takes place at Brenden Theatres (The Palms) and begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35 and ...

This weekend, Imperial Palace holds their Sinsation Poker Classic, so named because the Girls of Sinsation will be ever-present to distract you from your pocket Aces.Buy-in is $500 with $100,000 (based on number of participants) to the first place winner.Prizes are awarded to the top 30 players, with a prize for last place and four ...

Slot manufacturer WMS is promoting their new Monopoly Big Event slot machine with an online drawing designed to educate the player about community gaming.The Cliffs Notes on community gaming: the Big Event goes off at random times and awards one of six bonuses. Whatever credits are won are then awarded to each eligible player, ...

The book's been thrown at Crazy Horse Too owner Rick Rizzolo.Under a racketeering charge, the gentlemen's club was fined $250,000, forced to pay $10 million to a patron who was beaten and paralyzed by staff, and finally is being forced to sell the property. The current leaseholder is Mike Signorelli, who will be offered ...

Michael Gaughan's South Point (formerly Boyd's South Coast) celebrates their first anniversary this week with special offers today through Friday.You must be a club member, which is free to sign up. If you're a Coast Club member, you'll trade in your blue card for a South Point card.Wednesday, Jan. 24: free t-shirtThursday, Jan. 25: ...

Yesterday, District Judge Douglas Herndon laid down the smoking law in Nevada.In November, voters passed the Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act, and just as it was being enacted, businesses complained that it was unconstitutional, not to mention hurt their bottom line.The Act states there can be no smoking in places that serve food, including restaurants ...

Full-page ads of the above have been splashed all around town the past week.It advertises Jenna Jameson (fresh off the AVN Awards) hosting a surprise birthday party for boyfriend Tito Ortiz tonight at PURE (Caesars Palace).Ortiz has a habit of wearing t-shirts describing what he intends to do to his UFC victims. We can ...

If it hasn't yet made your radar, the Pinball Hall of Fame should be added to your list of must-sees in Las Vegas.Tucked away in the same complex as the Tropicana Cinemas at 3330 E. Trop (near Pecos), the museum is the brainchild of the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club and Tim Arnold, who moved ...

In a surprising move, NTH Advisory Group LLC has made an unsolicited bid to purchase the one-year-old Hooters Hotel and Casino for $95 million.Currently in development to build a 500-room, 100,000-square-foot Mayan Casino Resort, as well as 144 condos at Desert Oasis Condominiums, NTH is a casino/hotel development advisory firm run by Richard Bosworth and ...