Why do I get shocked every time I'm in Las Vegas?

This year, we may decide to visit over New Year's Eve for the first time. I've heard rumors that, for crowd control and security, casinos may only allow their own hotel guests to enter for some period of the holiday. Can you review any special restrictions usually imposed on New Year's Eve?

Any plans for the ESPN space after it vacated NY-NY earlier this year?

Is there any daily return bus trip from Las Vegas to Los Angeles?

We were in Las Vegas last Dec. around Christmas and were disappointed the Strip was not Christmas decorated. In fact, most casinos had no decorations, except Bellagio. Is this the norm or are there some casinos we missed that do decorate?

You often talk about how much easier it is to beat futures, props, and derivatives in sports betting, compared to pure sides. Can you explain this further with some concrete examples?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Can you please repost your answer from around a year ago about how four-walled shows work? I was trying to explain it to a friend who just returned from Las Vegas and raved about George Wallace, and I remembered that, according to your answer, he's one of the kings of four-walling. Thank you.

I visit Vegas at least once a year. Many times when I walk down the halls of the hotel(s) I am in, the smell of marijuana will waft out of rooms. I assume at one time, like in the ‘60s and the early ‘70s, this might have got you kicked out and maybe even smacked around a bit. At what point did this change? The eighties/nineties? When corporations took over ownership from the mob? Also, what role did Hunter Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" play in widening the definition of "partying" in Vegas.

Have Las Vegas home prices bottomed out yet?