Tamares' animal cruelty

Man about town Steve Friess has all the gory details, plus video:

Now that new owners have actually made the ex-Tamares Group dump the Gold Spike actually rather spiffy and friendly, the Vegas Club now takes the wilted palm of being Downtown's most depressing casino. It's a no-frills, charmless grind joint, utterly devoid of atmosphere. Casino play, even on a Friday night, was desultory, as though the customers were so despairing they didn't care where they played.

The much-hyped "fetish" pit is a joke. It's tamer than any Britney Spears video and the costumes look like they were bought at a Halloween store. It's cheap — and not in a good way. The wife-beater-wearing female dealers at the Gold Spike are much, much sexier … some of the hottest in Vegas, if that's your thing.

The sports book, once the pride of the Vegas Club, has been turned into a pretty spacious showroom, but that's about the nicest thing you can say for the place. Downtown needs entrepreneurs but Tamares is content to be a slumlord.

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