There have been emails circulating stating that you should never return your hotel card keys because the magnetic strip contains your credit card number and other personal information and with a scanner this information can be retrieved. True or False?

I keep reading that casinos in Atlantic City are having a hard time these days. How long has Atlantic City had casino gambling?

I have heard that at the Bellagio buffet, if you don't want to wait in line, you can jump right past the line and sit at the bar. Is this true and if so how exactly does it work? Do you just walk by and tell the hostess that you want to sit at the bar? Do you still have to pay the cashier in advance? Are there any other buffets where this works? I am a big buffet fan, but hate lines, so this is very interesting knowledge.

Could you furnish a list of casinos and what company owns them along with the ticker symbol on the stock exchange? I was trying to research a couple and am having a hard time finding this info.

In place of today’s previewed question about hotel key cards and identify theft, we’re running a different security-oriented question. The reason for the substitution is that this one’s topical, so we wanted to run the answer while it was still in the news. We’ll run the key card answer on 5/7/09. This question was also submitted by a journalist whose work we greatly admire, so we wanted to help out with the answer to his query asap – and we got a QoD out of it in the process!

How did Laughlin come to be? It seems an odd place – a bunch of high-rise hotels in the middle of nowhere.

When a casino is placed for sale, how do they determine the value of it? Do they go by cash flow or land value or what? If its cash flow why would somebody like MGM consider selling something that brings in money and helps pay the bills?

I have stayed at the Wynn/Encore the last few times I visited LV. I had a view of the golf course on all occasions and despite good weather never saw a soul on the course. Who can play there, how much are the fees and how many rounds of golf have been played in the last 12 months on the course?

We read that there is a place in Vegas that has fried Twinkies. If so where it is ?

I enjoy collecting casino playing cards and was just wondering how many decks of cards does any one casino go through in a day, week, month, year?