{"id":181,"date":"2009-03-02T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T01:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/3\/2\/Menations"},"modified":"2018-01-03T09:31:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-03T17:31:29","slug":"m-enations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/m-enations\/","title":{"rendered":"M-enations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night’s grand opening of M Resort<\/strong> wasn’t quite your usual Vegas casino debut. The 4,000-7,000 (sources vary) who turned out for the VIP preview were an older, more outwardly affluent and buttoned-down crowd than one expects. Nor is the presence of Sen. John Ensign<\/strong>, Rep. Dina Titus<\/strong> and former Sen. Richard Bryan<\/strong> an everyday occurence at one of these hootenannies.<\/p>\n

Also in attendance, though we missed them in the crowd and the resort’s disorienting layout, were bloggers extraordinaire Hunter Hillegas<\/strong>, Steve Friess<\/strong> and the Queen of Comps herself, Jean Scott<\/strong>. LVA<\/em>‘s David Matthews<\/strong> also turned out, but the Significant Other and I had taken a powder — missing the Son of Cirque umbrella show — before he arrived.<\/p>\n

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Verdicts on M<\/strong> are, suffice it to say, all over the place. Big LVA<\/em> kahuna Anthony Curtis<\/strong> was remarkably impressed and Jean was arguably even more so<\/a>. Our resident poker pro was nearly as upbeat but had a few minor qualms<\/a>. Both Messrs. Hillegas and Friess were pretty ‘meh,’<\/a> although Friess was the less guarded of the two in his summation<\/a>. As the latter is quick to concede, his photos don’t do M justice, whereas Hunter’s gallery gives a very accurate impression of the resort. (And, yes, that is a jolly-looking Friess in the third photo.)<\/p>\n

I do have to agree with Hunter that the casino floor is more than a bit — how shall I say? — generique<\/em>. Those who worry that server-based gaming (or server-readiness in M’s case) will erase much of the idiosyncrasy from the slot floor will have their fears confirmed at M.<\/p>\n

The Las Vegas Sun<\/em> has been all over the M opening<\/a> like a tight-fitting suit, complete with photo gallery and video. Coverage by the Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> has been somewhat more restrained<\/a>. The R-J<\/em> does have an attractive slideshow. Over at the “multimedia” department (where we hear they’re still struggling with a newfangled concept the kids are calling “fire”), they couldn’t manage any video footage — just the breathless declaration by Nathan Tannenbaum<\/strong>, “How ’bout the Sunday night fireworks way<\/em> on the south end of the valley … ?” over a lame graphic. (“How about it?” I wouldn’t know — because you don’t have any f***ing footage<\/em>.) There is some pre-opening video video<\/a>, if that’s any consolation, though it leaves an unfairly “blah” impression.<\/p>\n

With Matthews and Scott “pro,” and Hillegas and Friess “con” on M Resort, I was hoping Richard Abowitz<\/strong> or David G. Schwartz<\/strong> would weigh in with tiebreakers … but nothing yet. And why all the fascination with the last wheeze of Siegfried & Roy<\/strong>? The charity bash they headlined looks like it cost more<\/a> than it could have garnered.<\/p>\n

Or maybe I’m just grumpy because nobody succeeded in taking any snaps of Kristin Davis<\/strong>. Oh well …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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