We've been playing Let It Ride since the game came out several years ago. Is there any way that the new shufflers can determine the hands, because for the past two years it seems like there are a lot fewer good ones being dealt, especially at the Indian casinos. Is there any way the odds can be determined by the shuffler? We play it at least 15 hours a week.

Any idea what the Gulf oil spill is going to do to the price of shrimp cocktails in Las Vegas, especially at the Golden Gate?

How old was Howard Hughes when he died? And what was the official cause of death?

I have a client coming to town. Do you know of anywhere she can stay with her three dogs?

I will be returning to Vegas in late June. Does anyone offer video poker lessons? There are so many different games, how does one choose?

I just returned yesterday from Vegas. Great time! I heard from a reliable source that the Rio has been sold and while the World Series of Poker is starting, the final table is planned to be at Planet Hollywood due to the sale. Could the buyer possibly be George Maloof?

Do any of the hotel-casinos on the LV Strip have tennis courts anymore?

With the current epidemic of bedbugs prevailing in this country, what steps are the hotels taking to ensure that they are bedbug-free (and remain bedbug-free)? And what are the hotels doing when guests report such instances? What compensation are they providing to their guests who may not have discovered the problem with bedbugs until they returned home? Do the hotels use bedbug-sniffing dogs to find any bedbugs and then take the necessary steps to eradicate them? Along the same lines, how often do hotels changes the mattresses? Are there laws governing the frequency of changing the mattresses? I would think if the mattress was bedbug infested, it would be changed, but I am also interested in the "normal" frequency of change. And with the high number of hotel rooms, what happens to the mattresses once they are removed, since the number of mattresses is significant in each hotel.

A year or so ago, The Bellagio Conservatory was decorated with a 100-year-plus Banyan tree that had been moved from Florida. I know the tree had died, but it was very beautiful. What happened to the tree after the Bellagio was done with it? Did it hit the wood chipper?

If I buy the stock of a casino company, will I get any perks, such as specials on rooms, meals, gambling, etc.?