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Problem is probably finding a seat during March Madness for a group. Plus don’t think food is as good or affordable as a place like Sporting Life. Those local sports bars are going to be busy though.

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03-12-2021 , 12:25 PM

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I guess if smoking cigs is your thing you wouldn't want to be at WG. But the screens are the nuts. Just get there early.

Trooper says the burger is great! lol

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03-13-2021 , 12:01 AM

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For some reason (Circus Circus was next to Stardust so maybe Lefty did not like the competition) about a year later the Circus Circus book was closed and became an extension of the casino space.

Circus Circus was KINDA next to Stardust. In between was Slots-a-Fun, home of the $1 foot long hot dog. And the McDonald's made famous in Showgirls is there, where the hero met the showgirl assistant chick.

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By the early 80s most casinos had their own books in house. Some succeeded, but many failed due either to poor management or lack of betting volume. Over time casinos figured out that independent bookmaking was not very profitable, so those that were able to network across their properties, such as MGM-Mirage and Stations survived.

Similar to the poker boom, there was a sports betting boom, and you weren't a real casino unless you had a book.

I spend way too much time and money betting sports back then. The only way you could find out what the lines were was to go check them yourself. There were line services but they were expensive and impractical. I used to stay at Stardust, walk over to Circus Circus to check their lines, and then walk across the Strip to check the Riviera lines.

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03-13-2021 , 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by parisron

I guess if smoking cigs is your thing you wouldn't want to be at WG. But the screens are the nuts. Just get there early.

Trooper says the burger is great! lol

You can even play Trooper Thursday, lol.

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03-13-2021 , 12:45 AM

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Why not just go to Westgate.

We’ve done Westgate for MM before, love to find hole in the wall dives, and also want to support somewhere local with our business.

Some place like this I went to today:

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03-13-2021 , 12:50 AM

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To each his own, but seems you could hit places like that a dime a dozen where ever you live.

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03-13-2021 , 12:52 AM

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We’ve done Westgate for MM before, love to find hole in the wall dives, and also want to support somewhere local with our business.

Some place like this I went to today:

About 15 years ago, I was a band manager and booked a gig at the Double Down Saloon. Google image search it and see if that’s the kind of place you’re thinking. I hope they’re still open.

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03-13-2021 , 12:58 AM

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That place looks like about 20 or 30 places I have been back in my drinking days. My friends and I played on a pool and dart league and were always playing in places like this. Plus all the random places we tried over the years.

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03-13-2021 , 01:56 AM

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About 15 years ago, I was a band manager and booked a gig at the Double Down Saloon. Google image search it and see if that’s the kind of place you’re thinking. I hope they’re still open.

Oh yeah we’ve been to the double down, that place is legendary.

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03-13-2021 , 01:57 AM

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To each his own, but seems you could hit places like that a dime a dozen where ever you live.

Unfortunate the place I live doesn’t have sports betting or video poker in the bar tops

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03-13-2021 , 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by shaft88

We’ve done Westgate for MM before, love to find hole in the wall dives, and also want to support somewhere local with our business.

Some place like this I went to today:

Wow, man speaking to my heart. Definitely looks like the type of bar back home years ago. If back home years ago was a rust belt shithole.

Try Moondoggies Bar might be what your looking for.

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03-13-2021 , 10:50 AM

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That pic could be Castaway's in Phoenix, a place I've spent many an afternoon/evening wasted, err, wasting away the time watching sports and drinking big pitchers of macro-brew.

I'm thinking the Naked City location on the westside might fit OPs criteria. Only picked up 'za there a couple of times, but the dive-bar aspect made me feel right at home.

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03-13-2021 , 11:32 AM

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damn that harry belafonte and lena horne show must have been fire

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03-13-2021 , 12:44 PM

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The Stardust book was awesome, saw Don Adams playing the ponies there, and got to shake Jim Brown's hand and chat with him briefly after the radio show he co-hosted there for a while ended. Also remember they would always page "Bart Starr" over the intercom endlessly

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03-14-2021 , 12:00 AM

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Jim Brown was one of the easier superstars to approach/talk to. I golfed at a public course he frequently played at, a lot of people there knew him.

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03-14-2021 , 12:10 AM

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We’ve done Westgate for MM before, love to find hole in the wall dives, and also want to support somewhere local with our business.

Some place like this I went to today:

Babylon?

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03-15-2021 , 11:38 AM

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Originally Posted by Da_Nit

Try Moondoggies Bar might be what your looking for.

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I'm thinking the Naked City location on the westside might fit OPs criteria. Only picked up 'za there a couple of times, but the dive-bar aspect made me feel right at home.

Naked City is no longer at Moondoggies. Been gone about 6 months.

Honestly there is a locals bar on every corner in this city that looks like that screenshot.

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03-15-2021 , 12:13 PM

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What no Naked City wings, can’t recommend it than. Damn COVID.

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03-15-2021 , 03:34 PM

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A part of my early to middle-aged adulthood has died. Naked City (I guess at Moondoggies?) was one of my must-hit spots while in town for the pokers. It's probably been 2+ years since I been, though. I forget I cancelled my WSOP 2019 trip, for... reasons.

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03-15-2021 , 05:21 PM

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There are 2 or 3 other locations but that was the only centralized one. There is one on Paradise by the Hard Rock if you're staying or playing on the strip.

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03-15-2021 , 05:26 PM

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Hard Rock is no more. It's Virgin now and opening at the end of this month.

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03-16-2021 , 08:08 PM

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I thought they were already open?

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03-16-2021 , 08:11 PM

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3/25/21
https://virginhotelslv.com/

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03-17-2021 , 02:43 PM

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Hard Rock is no more. It's Virgin now and opening at the end of this month.

I read of a seemingly bizarre decision to actually brand the casino as Mohegan Sun Las Vegas, instead of simply Virgin.

https://mohegansunlasvegas.com/about...SAAEgLd7fD_BwE

"Mohegan Sun Casino at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas."

That would be a monumental mistake in my view.

I guess we will have to wait and see if it sticks....