I finalized my plans about a month ago. Will be in town for 10 days and staying downtown for the cheap rooms and lower stakes table games. Staying 10 nites at the 4 Queens for $450 including tax (No bogus resort fees).
Plan to play cash as well as some tourneys, including the WSOP Crazy 8, the Golden Nugget series, and the Binion series.
I'll also do some low stakes gambling in the pits ($5 tables) and plug some $.25 video poker machines at the bars.
I have trouble walking any kind of distance so I rent an electric scooter when in Vegas. It's the best money I spend each year. Not only does it make it easier for me to get around, but I always have a seat when on breaks, in lines, or simply people watching on Fremont street.
My cost for 10 days is $129 and they deliver direct to your hotel. When your trip is over just drop it off at the front desk.
https://yellowscooters.com/
One side trip I'll be taking is to the Pinball Hall Of Fame. The Pinball Hall of Fame is an attempt by the members of the Las Vegas Pinball Collectors Club to house and display the world's largest pinball collection, open to the public. A not-for-profit corporation was established to further this cause. The games belong to one club member (Tim Arnold), and range from 1950s up to 1990s pinball machines. Since it is a non-profit museum, older games from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s are the focus, as this was the 'heyday' of pinball.
A great and inexpensive way to spend an afternoon and relive some of my misspent youth.
http://www.pinballmuseum.org/
Gourmet meals at world famous restaurants are available in Vegas but cheap and delicious meals are still offered if you hunt around a little. At least once on my trip I'll enjoy a full rack of ribs, baked beans, corn on the cob, coleslaw, and cornbread at Binion's for $13.99
http://www.binions.com/pdf/dining/bennys_bbq_menu.pdf
Also downtown is the world famous Heart Attack Grill. Good for a laugh and a decent burger, if a little overpriced.
The menu includes the Single Bypass Burger®, Double Bypass Burger®, Triple Bypass Burger®, Quadruple Bypass Burger®, Quintuple Bypass Burger™, Sextuple Bypass Burger™, Septuple Bypass Burger™, and the Octuple Bypass Burger™ (with 40 bacon slices).
These dishes range in weight from half a pound to four pounds of beef. Also on the menu are Flatliner Fries® (cooked in pure lard) and the Coronary Dog™, Lucky Strike no filter cigarettes, alcohol, Butterfat Milkshakes™, full sugar Coca-Cola, and candy cigarettes for the kids!
No salads, no diet drinks.
The waitresses are dressed as nurses and customers must wear a hospital gown. If you don't finish your meal a nurse will paddle your butt, hard!
If you are over 350 lbs (and prove it by getting on their cattle scale) you get unlimited all you can eat food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zFUfg1vc5Q
http://www.heartattackgrill.com/
I'll spend some time ogling the bikini clad waitresses as they dance on the bar at Hogs And Heifers, an iconic dive bar just off Fremont street. I'll nurse my overpriced PBR as the bartenders harass and berate the customers with megaphones and cajole the female customers to remove and add their bra to the collection above the bar.
http://hogsandheifers.com/
I plan to play the WSOP Crazy 8 tournament at the Rio and while there, ride the Voodoo zipline. This zipline travels from the corner of the Masquerade tower to the Ipanema tower. 400 feet high and 800 feet long, it takes a little over a minute and then travels backwards to the starting point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNh_8FSz0Ek
http://voodoozipline.com/
I plan on playing in the poker series going on at Binion's and the Golden Nugget, including their $570 Event #50 with a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool.
Speaking of the Golden Nugget, I'll be parked outside their main entrance several nights during my stay, sipping a drink and listening to Carl "Safe Sax" Ferris as he performs free as part of the Fremont Street Experience. I'm a sucker for the saxaphone and he does not disappoint.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osv2Guju2EI
I wish everyone well on their poker exploits if they're not at my table and recommend they get out of the cardrooms at least a little and see what else Vegas has to offer.