Poll - 2019-11-27 | Las Vegas Advisor

This poll comes via a suggestion from a reader that we thought we'd have some fun with. Nothing earth-shattering or life-changing will come out of it and obviously, an infinite number of things will never happen in Las Vegas (trees won't start growing upside down; the city won't be invaded by an army of Yetis; an 84-year-old Elvis won't emerge after decades of living with Jimmy Hoffa in Swaziland, Kevin Lewis probably will never be named director of public relations for the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce), but of all the unlikely choices, we'll be very interested to see which is unlikeliest.

Thanks to everyone who came up with the great selections last week in the poll preview. You can vote for as many as choices as you like -- and feel free to add more in the comment boxes.

4362 Total Votes

Resort fees not only abolished, but refunded in their entirety

7% (296)

6-5 blackjack declared illegal by the Gaming Control Board

4% (194)

Gambling will become illegal

4% (186)

Casinos will impose a dress code in order to enter and gamble

4% (173)

Clocks and windows on every casino wall

4% (166)

Free parking returns to all Strip casinos

4% (153)

Anthony Curtis will give up beer

3% (152)

Monorail extension to airport/downtown

3% (151)

All gamblers will realize that they're throwing away their money

3% (146)

The Heart Attack Grill will become a vegan restaurant

3% (135)

Boyd Gaming returns to old players club VP criteria

3% (132)

The Strip gets a huge dome and a great air-conditioning system

3% (130)

Beverly Hillbillies-themed casino

3% (129)

Smoking will be banned in all casinos

3% (123)

Construction will finally end on all Las Vegas highways, totally eliminating traffic delays and road congestion

3% (122)

Table games where only cash plays, no casino chips

3% (121)

A law will be passed making the maximum total lodging cost per night at all hotels be 1/1000 of the guest's annual salary

3% (115)

Star Trek resort-casino

3% (113)

Airport cabbies will ask you if you do NOT want to take the tunnel.

3% (113)

Public transportation system in tunnels under the Strip

2% (109)

Honey Boo Boo residency

2% (106)

Players will be backed off for losing too much

2% (104)

Titanic-themed casino

2% (99)

Las Vegas will become a heavy-manufacturing metropolis

2% (98)

The Los Angeles to Las Vegas bullet train will be completed

2% (96)

A law will be passed forbidding corporations (or partnerships) from owning or managing hotels or casinos

2% (89)

The Strip will be closed to cars for a pedestrian-only promenade like Fremont Street downtown

2% (88)

Vending machines selling marijuana in the casinos

2% (85)

Vegas and the casinos will get serious about getting rid of the smut peddlers

2% (77)

The county commissioners will make it illegal to drink alcohol on the Strip

2% (74)

The big trucks with the giant advertising signs will be banned from the Strip

1% (65)

The casinos will declare that children are not welcome and ban strollers

1% (65)

Resorts World will resurrect the Stardust buffet

1% (61)

White Castle will close because of a lack of business

1% (58)

Las Vegas will stop being the best place for people watching

1% (55)

A Gaither Family residency

1% (54)

Barbra Streisand residency

1% (52)

You can legally buy a Powerball or Mega Millions ticket

1% (45)

Wynn will reinstate the policy of no strollers, no children

1% (32)

Analysis

This poll garnered more votes than most in the recent history of our polls; it was just a fun exercise in gauging, from a negative standpoint, your sentiments about what's wrong with this (Vegas) picture.

Curiously, more of you believe that resort fees going away and being refunded and 6-5 blackjack being declared illegal are less likely to occur than casino gambling being abolished! We were sure that the delegalizing of gambling would place first, but no.

Similarly, we predicted that the lottery being instituted would place much higher than it did: second-lowest with only 1% of the vote.

And of course, a Honey Boo Boo residency is less likely to happen than even the bullet train being completed. (Who is Honey Boo Boo, anyway?)

But you're right that Anthony Curtis giving up his favorite evening refreshment is seventh unlikeliest of them all -- at least!

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Comments

Pat Higgins Nov-27-2019

Big Tex

Frankly, kind of a stupid poll.  This coming from the peanut gallery

Dan McGlasson Nov-27-2019

I respectfully disagree!

With full respect to all, I do not think this is a stupid poll!  I think the list is hilarious and a funny way to look at the foibles of LV.  We all need a good laugh.  Of course, the obvious "never happen" is the one about Anthony Curtis and beer . . . 

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Rick Sanchez Nov-27-2019

All but 3

I clicked all but 3 choices. Free Parking, Lottery ticket and possibly closing strip to vehicle traffic. I can see these 3 happening.

O2bnVegas Nov-27-2019

vote for what?

I love the poll, but what to vote for?
 - the funniest?
 - wish WOULD actually happen?
 - agree will NEVER happen?

They all deserve a vote for one of those three...LOL

Ray Nov-27-2019

Agree with Candy

I started checking boxes, and then realized that most of them deserved a checkmark for one reason or another. But I have another "never happen but it would be nice". There will be a Las Vegas Advisor Hotel/Casino that will take care of all it's readers. (Free parking, no resort fees, 3-2 BJ, high paying VP, and more)!!

145tech Nov-27-2019

Agree with Ray

Yes, if there was an LVA casino, I’d be their most loyal customer!  3-2 blackjack and 9/6 Bonus Dlx at all the bartops!  And Heineken specials every day in honor of AC!

Texas Transplant Nov-27-2019

Love the Poll!  Could have clicked on ALL of them

Good to step back and laugh. By pointing out what will NEVER happen it drives home the fact that: 

some things are ingrained in the very nature of Las Vegas...like casino chips and drinking on the strip

other items that are on the list have become a laughingstock to all but the people who have proposed them - like the bullet train  Then again, if Elon Musk's Boring Company is successful with their tunneling at the convention center that one may actually happen...in about 2030

BTW - how much beer does Anthony Curtis ACTUALLY drink???  For it to make this poll it sound like a LOT!

Tim Risch Nov-27-2019

Some Additional Thoughts, Serious

Other items to consider:
1) Las Vegas growth will be capped due to lack of water
2) California will widen 1-15 to 3 lanes in each direction
3) Global warming will make Las Vegas uninhabitable in the summer

luck of the irish Nov-28-2019

holy roller

the pope... after a trip  on the strip ... steps out of the popemobile for a  couple hours  of  craps   and roulette.......

rbelding Dec-04-2019

Please clarify

What exactly are we voting for?  Is it what we want?  Is it what we need?  Is it what we think will happen?  Is it what we think won't happen?

Somebody should actually put a question in the Question Section.

O2bnVegas Dec-04-2019

Unlikeliest

Rbelding, I had the same thought initially.  But on rereading, in the last paragraph they said they would be "interested to see which is unlikeliest."  So that is how I voted, things I believe there is no way something will happen, ever.

Poll : 27 November - 10 December 2019

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