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...dealers in Vegas." The hotel has a Sunday daytime pool party called Rehab, a Mexican restaurant called the Pink Taco and live webcams at the pool for its website. (What happens in Vegas goes right up on the Internet--the way everyone likes it.) The penthouse contains the giant Boom-Boom Room, which has a bowling alley, sauna and--like seemingly every party bus, large hotel suite and open flat space in town--a stripper pole. Las Vegas is on orange alert as far as emergency stripping preparation is concerned...
...poker room opened in 1949 at the Golden Nugget casino. In the early 1960s, the big action shifted from downtown to the Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their...
DIED. EDWARD KILLINGSWORTH, 86, pioneer modernist architect; in Long Beach, Calif. Along with Eero Saarinen, Richard Neutra and others, he designed six of the important Case Study Houses, a seminal Los Angeles--based project promoting modern design and cost-effective materials for the postwar housing boom...
...earn more in tips than any other dealers in Vegas." The Hard Rock has a Sunday daytime pool party called Rehab, and live webcams at the pool for its website. (What happens in Vegas goes right up on the Internet - the way everyone likes it.) Its penthouse boasts the Boom-Boom Room, with a bowling alley, sauna and - like seemingly every party bus, large hotel suite and open flat space in town - a stripper pole...
...poker room opened in 1949 at the Golden Nugget casino. In the early 1960s, the big action shifted from downtown to the Strip, where casinos such as the Dunes and the Stardust offered a variation of the game called Seven-Card Lowball, also known as Razz. Then came the boom in blackjack and the beginning of poker's decline. By the late '80s and early '90s, during Las Vegas' ill-fated attempt to turn itself into a family destination, tourists seemed to have lost patience with the game's sleazy Wild West flavor. With revenues declining, several casinos closed their...