What do a casino host's duties include besides booking rooms and dining reservations for his clients? How much can he "give" a property visitor and is there a ladder he can climb in corporate gaming?

Is Clark County named after Ed Clark and is Cashman Field named after James Cashman?

Without further ado, here are the results of the feedback from the Christmas Eve QoD on the length of answers to Questions of the Day.

What does it mean when you refer to a slot machine as a 9/6 machine (as in a recent QoD answer)?

Have you run into blackjack dealers who want to play your hand for you? I'm no expert but I have a pretty good grasp of basic strategy. Can you suggest a tactful way to tell the dealers that you want to make the decisions?

My friends and I are flying out to Sin City in a month and need you to settle a small bet we have: I say it is against the law to have open alcohol containers in the vehicle and in public places such as on the Strip and downtown; my friends all say you can have open containers anywhere within city limits, even inside of a moving vehicle! Can you please tell us how the REAL law(s) read, and settle this bet once and for all?

What is the timeline for Fontainebleau and is it on schedule?

I was recently reading a trip report about Treasure Island and saw a picture of the hotel signage. It said "Curfew Laws Strictly Enforced." What type of curfew is this and to whom does it apply?

Whenever I visit Vegas, I rent a car but it still ends up taking me a long time to get from point A to point B. And my feet hurt at the end of the trip from all the walking I do. Any tips?

I’m not in the casino business, but I understand a little about blackjack and decided to take a flyer on your book Casino-ology (I went with the e-book at the lower price). Good stuff! But I have a question. In chapter 25, "Marked Card Play in 21," Bill Zender writes: "I possess some video footage of cheaters denting the 10-value cards [on a 21 game] with the intentions of busting the dealer once all the 10 cards were marked.Recently, I was talking to a gaming acquaintance who mentioned a similar scam that happened many years ago. He told me that a group of cheaters marked all the 10-value cards on several games at a casino that utilized a curtain-type shield over the front of its dealing shoes. Because of the shields, the casino wrongly assumed the shoes were safe from all types of marked cards. Over the course of the day, the cheaters dented the bottom edge along the length of all 10 cards. Later that same day, the cheaters used that information and the damaged curtains to beat the casino out of a good deal of money. Once the cards were marked, the cheaters used both a top-card bettor and a third-base "anchor" to beat the 21 games that had the defective curtains." I understand that it would take the amount of time you cite —- "the course of a day" -— for the cheat to get all (or even most) of the 10s. But the money player could start playing immediately, with some advantage, from the first shuffle after at least a couple of cards were marked, right? So why would they waste all the opportunity on the way up by waiting till all the 10s were marked?