Word: blackjacks
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...Vegas. At the Mandalay Bay, the House of Blues' new lounge has a Friday party for swingers. The hotel has a pool called the Moorea Beach Club where European-style bathing is encouraged. Some dealers at the Rio wear thong bikinis at night, and the Hard Rock has blackjack in the pool. The newest Cirque du Soleil show at New York-New York Hotel & Casino, called Zumanity, is a virtually naked gymnastics event in which men make out and the rest of the cast simulates acrobatic sex. "I had the vision of some couple seeing one of the acts...
...loose inside a giant clear balloon at the poolside bar, Maloof is approached by a parade of personalities: a guy who wants him to invest in a pizza restaurant; a middle-aged Arab who wants to be reimbursed for part of the $10,000 he just lost in blackjack; a singer who wants Maloof to hear his act; a scary-looking guy who needs to borrow $500 for 24 hours. Not only does the guy not pay him back the next day but he also pops up on FOX's The Casino the following week. His name is Ernie...
...struggle replicated in most families, Vegas is changing faster than the older, more conservative gaming-control board wants. Two billboards that the Hard Rock put up this year--one had a naked woman lying on a blackjack table with a card in her mouth above the line THERE'S ALWAYS A TEMPTATION TO CHEAT--were yanked by the board. The casino agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a complaint that claimed the Hard Rock's ads had damaged the state's image. This, remember, is a state where some cities have legal whorehouses...
...played in smoky back rooms with battered cards and grimy stacks of chips. The game reeked of flop sweat, cheap whiskey and chewed cigar stubs. And not long ago, in Las Vegas casinos, at least, it came close to dying out, eclipsed by other, more fashionable games like blackjack and roulette. No one, it seemed, played poker anymore. No one bright or fashionable, that...
...preferred horse races, slot machines and lotteries to their country's casinos, which are either snobbishly high-end or seriously seedy. At both ends of the spectrum, the casinos "are very small," says James Hipwell, editor of the gambling magazine Inside Edge. "The Mirage [in Vegas] has 150 blackjack tables; I go to a casino in London that has only three." With that kind of room for growth, Vegas has responded with a flurry of U.K. deals. The MGM Mirage plans to build a handful of midsize casinos, Harrah's seeks to sprinkle 8 to 10 smaller facilities throughout...