The Westin

Max Casino at this casino is closing June 30.  Scot Krause’s article in “Gaming Today” gives all the details.

TUSCANY

The 20% senior discount moves to the Pub e65 for the whole month of July.

RAMPART

They are advertising that their newly-named senior “50 Plus PARTY Tuesdays” is “new and improved, offering more benefits.” See the details here.

SOUTH POINT

From a press release: Beginning Monday, July 3, South Point Hotel will introduce “Prime Time Mondays” for our Casino Club Card holders age 50 and older. Prime Time Mondays will offer a $5,000 Free Slot Tournament from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The tournament’s first place winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize and additional places will be rewarded with free play.  In addition, guests who pay with their points will receive half point dining all day at all restaurants (Primarily Prime Rib & Baja Miguel’s are closed on Monday) and half point bingo all day. Movies will also be offered at a discounted rate of just $4 all day (additional fee for 3D & XD). This promotion is not valid on holidays or during special bingo events.

PALMS

The last day for their buffet before they close it for major changes is July 30. The new 24-hour coffee shop, the Lucky Penny, will open to the public on Saturday morning, July 1. I saw it today as it was practicing a soft opening with invited guests. Fancy-dancy!

Watch for machines to disappear or be moved around as they continue to replace carpeting. Hopefully our favorite ones will re-appear and intact.

New parking passes are available at the players club. The old ones expired on June 30.

No plans to put in the check-cashing program available at other Station casinos until after the cage area is renovated. Proposed time for that to start is late summer.

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If you get to missing my gambling chatter here while we are on vacation, you can listen to me talk about gambling and casinos in a couple recent interviews:

1. A podcast from the “House of Cards” radio show

2. An American Casino Guide YouTube video

And if you want to read a funny little story about Brad, it is buried in the middle of a recent long Review-Journal article about casino chairs.  

1.  A new American Casino Guide video made by Steve Bourie and his son, Matt.  On this video I cover the basics of getting comps. 

Steve has made many podcasts on gambling subjects and interviewing a wide variety of many well-known personalities in the gambling field.  These and an abundant amount of casino information can be found on his Web site.

2.  A radio show hosted by Frank Kneeland and Bob Dancer every Thursday evening, covering a wide variety of  unusual gambling subjects.  Listen live at 7:00 PM on KLAV AM 1230 in Vegas or online.  It is also archived at  Frank’s Web site  and Bob’s site. 

To call in LIVE during the show for the giveaways, the numbers are:
(702) 731-1230 & 1-(866) 820-5528.

This week’s show (Feb. 24th) has  interviews with Michael Konik , author of Sharp Money, and Beth Raymer, author of Lay the Favorite.  Both are funny, sexy sports betting memoirs.