By Wesley Juhl and Richard N. Velotta
Las Vegas Review-Journal
There are some things you need to know if your plan is to party in Las Vegas on New Year’s Eve.
Yahoo! named Las Vegas the top place in the world to ring in the new year, and anyone who has witnessed a Vegas New Year can attest that it gets wild. Officials are expecting more than 300,000 visitors to come to the valley for the long holiday weekend.
By Anthony Curtis | VegasSeven.com | TheMysticGambler.com
December is traditionally prime time for Las Vegas Christmas values, and this year brings some of the best deals I’ve seen in quite a while. Topping the list is a powerhouse offer from SLS Las Vegas. Now through December 23, locals with a CODE card get 50 percent off at all SLS restaurants except Bazaar Meat. That means you can eat for half price at Umami Burger, Northside Café & Chinese Kitchen, the 800 Degrees pizza joint, the sushi restaurant Katsuya and Cleo. The discount applies to the entire bill, including alcohol (excluding select bottles of wine). There’s enough time to
By Thomas Moore
Monday, Nov. 21, 2016 | 12:20 p.m.
The old world of themed slots and the new world of skill-based video games may not be as different as it seems now that one company is unveiling a series of movie-themed skill-based gambling machines.
Skill-based gaming developer GameCo announced Monday it will develop games based on three popular movies: “Mission: Impossible,” “Paranormal Activity” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
By Tony Raap, The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (TNS)
Saturday, Nov. 26, 2016 | 2 a.m.
Slot machines have always ruled the gaming floor at Rivers Casino on the North Shore.
But casino executives are betting on arcade-style games and so-called party pits to attract younger gamblers.
The thinking is that the industry will need to offer games that look and feel different to engage the millennial generation.
Playing at a Keno lounge has the distinction of being the casino game with the highest house edge. But it also plays the slowest, so the player’s per-hour expected loss is in line with the other games. If you’re going to play keno, be sure to play the live game at a keno lounge to take advantage of this slow pace. Video keno has a lower house edge, but the speed more than makes up for this to make it a more expensive option.
By Ed Komenda
THE TAXMAN COMETH
Imagine: You just hit a $33 million jackpot on Megabucks. If you’re lucky, you’ll see half of that after taxes. It’s a cruel world, but Uncle Sam wants his cut. How you choose to receive your payout helps determine exactly how much you’ll cash in. Here’s how it works:
TheMysticGambler.com receives many emails requesting the best patterns and the luckiest numbers to play. My normal reply to such questions is to remind them that Video Keno numbers appear in a perfectly random manner. And while the Charts and suggestions that we offer in the e-booklet do offer some ideas about patterns and where to pick your numbers, the focus is on increasing returns and bigger jackpots. Having said that, there are numerous articles written about picking ‘lucky’ patterns and numbers, one of