{"id":16597,"date":"2015-08-17T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16597"},"modified":"2020-05-14T06:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T14:25:24","slug":"so-long-las-vegas-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/so-long-las-vegas-club\/","title":{"rendered":"So long, Las Vegas Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown has begun toward a Wednesday closing of the <strong>Las Vegas Club<\/strong>. It&#8217;s surprising that <a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/blogs\/kats-report\/2015\/aug\/15\/some-demolition-overhaul-expected-las-vegas-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">it took five years<\/a> for new co-owner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vegasclub-pic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-16598\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vegasclub-pic2.jpg\" alt=\"vegasclub-pic2\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vegasclub-pic2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/vegasclub-pic2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><strong>Derek Stevens<\/strong> to persuade <strong>Tamares Group<\/strong> to part with the casino, considering how flummoxed Tamares was at what to do with it.\u00a0\u201cThere will be some demolition and renovation,&#8221; Stevens says, &#8220;several months down the line.\u201d Reopening the Club will be complicated by the fact that Stevens bought neither <!--more-->its casino equipment nor even its name (another Vegas icon bites the dust), making one wonder at his endgame.<\/p>\n<p>* <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> won&#8217;t be getting any campaign donations from <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ggbnews.com\/issue\/vol-13-no-32-august-10-2015\/article\/donald-trumps-online-gambling-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">considering his personal involvement<\/a> in <strong>Internet<\/strong> gambling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The countdown has begun toward a Wednesday closing of the Las Vegas Club. It&#8217;s surprising that it took five years for new co-owner Derek Stevens to persuade Tamares Group to part with the casino, considering how flummoxed Tamares was at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/so-long-las-vegas-club\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,42,51,26,37,12,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16597"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27063,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16597\/revisions\/27063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}