Help planning Las Vegas holidays - leading to trip reports!

Hi everyone, I've been coming to Vegas for over 25 years now, and I've been an LVA member on and off for the last 10 years or more - I love it!  To help others going to Vegas, perhaps for the first time, I've made an ebook for Amazon (free to read with Kindle Unlimited, or very cheap to purchase) called "The Ultimate Guide to Planning Your Las Vegas Holiday". 

 

It's available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZRX5Y1R

 

I look forward to you reading it, and then visiting Las Vegas and posting your own trip reports!

 

I'm also the writer and founder of https://www.howtobeatthecasinos.com - come and visit!

David, I've looked at your website howtobeatthecasinos.com, and I have some suggestions.

 

There's a lot of good information there. However, I see nothing that will help someone "beat the casinos." Play better? Sure. Lose less? Sure. But this is a Vegas/gambling guide more than a "how to win" guide (which, if genuine, would have to be pretty esoteric).

 

The site needs editing. There's a lot there that's simply not true. For instance, in an article of blackjack strategy, you say you should always split aces because getting a 10 on one of them gives you a blackjack, which pays 3:2. This is incorrect. It gives you a plain old 21, which pays even money IF it wins. Also, you say that if you double on 11, you're "likely" to get a 10-value card. It's actually 9 to 4 against, which I would consider "unlikely."

 

There's some stuff that's not useful at all. In your recent pai gow tiles article, you say the player needs to be familiar with "informed decisions about how to arrange your hands" without saying what those decisions should be based on! There is, in fact, a basic strategy for Pai Gow Tiles (NOT "house way"), but you don't even mention it or how to find it. Then, you say that the player needs to be "aware of the dealer's tiles." WTF? The player makes his decisions BEFORE the dealer's tiles are revealed!

 

"Baccarat: A Game of Luck, Skill, and Strategy": nonsense! There is no skill or strategy to the game at all. You bet one side or the other. That's all. It's like flipping a coin. (And you will NEVER see a single-deck baccarat game. EVER.)

 

The really sad part is that you have a lot of excellent information, such as your list of resources to combat problem gambling (though I doubt anyone with a gambling problem will ever read or heed it) and your articles on tourist attractions. But a LOT of your gambling info just isn't correct.

 

Fix all that and you'll have a great and informative website.

Thanks for the feedback Kevin, appreciated.  I've written the site for 16 years, and there's about 1000+ articles on there.  There's bound to be a few errors on occasion - I appreciate you've found some for me.  I've been coming to Vegas for 25 years and the games have changed so much too.  When I first started visiting it was standard to find 3:2 blackjack - and now look at the disease of 6:5 that's taken over much of the strip...  as a case in point.  You used to be able to go to buffets for $8 a head - and often you'd be able to win free buffets just for pulling a free slot promo machine outside places like the Riviera and the Tropicana.  Sadly those days are gone - but they were great while they lasted. 

 

Pai Gow tiles, in your example, are pretty hard to find in Vegas from my own experience - but I did find some in VIP at Resorts World on my last trip there.  In Macau, this game is all over the place... so regional locations do come into play with games too.  But I appreciate as you say that there is a known strategy for this game (e.g. when to split "joker" tiles) and maybe that's something I should cover.  As said the articles go back over 16 years (each written at the time) - so possible refreshing is in order.

 

Truly appreciate your review and help - and thanks for taking the time to comment. :-) 

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