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LAS VEGAS CENTRAL
by jim on October 21, 2008
Las Vegas is known for many things, but it's also a city for new beginnings, and that's what it appears is in the cards for Britney Spears.
Throughout all her personal travails Britney Spear...
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LAS VEGAS CENTRAL
by jim on October 20, 2008
I always say you can find anything and everything in Las Vegas and now you can celebrate Halloween here too.
As time moves on people's perception of what something, "is", sometimes cha...
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CASINO NEWS
by jim on October 19, 2008
I know it's October and the pool season is long over, but hey, that's not the case in Las Vegas where the highs are still in the upper 80's to the mid-90's.
So you can still sunbathe...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 16, 2008
There were a lot of injuries in the NFL the week before last and their effect has been felt by the teams and those who bet on them.
It would seem that waiting until the last possible moment before ...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 15, 2008
Another weekend and another number 1 team gets knocked off. I said last week that I had a bad feeling about the Oklahoma - Texas game; but I took it anyway.
About the only thing that's predictab...
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CASINO NEWS
by jim on October 14, 2008
Despite the need for the federal government to bail out most of the nation's banking system Business is starting to pick up again in Las Vegas.
There will be a record number of new mega casinos ...
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CASINO NEWS
by jim on October 13, 2008
Despite being a relatively small town, Las Vegas, in the middle of the hot, dry Mojave Desert, attracts millions of visitors every year, so there must be a reason why.
In fact there are innumerable ...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 12, 2008
Starting today Justin Timberlake and several other high profile celebrities are participating in the "Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open, a charity golf tournament.
The eve...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 9, 2008
I somewhat redeemed myself last weekend with a 5-1-2 showing, and now my season to date is 18-18-02, so it's time to start over again.
The better teams are starting to flex their muscles and the...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 8, 2008
OK, that's 2 weeks in a row of good picks, and last weekend's 6 and 2 showing takes me up to 24-14-01 season record.
Since last week, when Oklahoma took over the top spot, and held on to it,...
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POKER UPDATE
by jim on October 7, 2008
The Las Vegas Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino is one of the last of a breed that is best classified as "Old Vegas."
It's the kind of a place that you know was thought of as "swan...
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LAS VEGAS TRAVEL
by jim on October 6, 2008
Discretionary income is hard to come by these days, and because anyone with something to sell is aware of that, there should be las vegas travel deals galore from which to choose.
That's true, o...
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DINING/SHOPPING
by jim on October 5, 2008
As the Las Vegas Strip casinos continue going even more upscale so does everything else connected to them.
This includes the current bunch of Strip restaurants most of which are featuring celebrity ...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 2, 2008
1 and 7 again, if I were a betting man I'd be very upset with that performance two weeks in a row.
That's how it goes with football sometimes, all or nothing, and I'm stuck in a "no...
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SPORTS STUFF
by jim on October 1, 2008
5-2-1 last weekend and I'm feeling pretty good about that and my 18-12-01 overall record.
This season is starting to look like, "2007 The Rerun", with seemingly no one wanting to be nu...
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LAS VEGAS TRAVEL
by jim on September 30, 2008
There are all kinds of "guides" to gambling, or one thing or another, about Las Vegas.
Some of these guides are good, and many of them aren't worth the paper they're printed on, an...
