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So it was worth it.  We did two choppers and threw extra girls on a party bus. It was 2 hrs each way.  Chopper worth it.  Here’s a pic of the party bus at 9am.  

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I!m shooting craps with TJMiller at El Cortez. We both  had good  runs throwing. I  walked away +$1000. We killed it.    20220410_050405.mp4

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15 minutes ago, gernblansten said:

"Those lessons are really paying off!  I drove three par 4s!  Still work to do though, as I had a few where I must not have hit my driver clean because it only went 130 yards."

Now tell us about the back 9.

Seriously, it was so bad when I was out there last week you couldn't see Strat Tower from Container Park. Mega dust. Takeoff was interesting, too. The plane was shaking sitting at the gate.

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NFL Draft update:

LAS VEGAS [April 21, 2022] – The NFL announced today the headlining acts for the NFL Draft Concert Series presented by Bud Light to take place as part of the 2022 NFL Draft in Las Vegas, April 28-30.

GRAMMY award-winning, American rock band, WEEZER will take the stage following the conclusion of Round 1 on Thursday, April 28. The band recently released SZNZ – a four EP project and will embark on the European leg of the Hella Mega tour, which sold out stadiums in America throughout 2021.

ICE CUBE will headline Day 2 following Round 3 on Friday, April 29. An award-winning musician, actor, director, producer, civil rights leader and CEO and co-founder of the BIG3 professional 3-on-3 basketball league, Ice Cube is currently on a nationwide tour.

GRAMMY-nominated, chart-topping artist, MARSHMELLO will close out the 2022 NFL Draft Concert Series on Day 3, following Round 7 on Saturday, April 30. Ahead of his performance he will release a new song with Tokischa.

All performances as part of the Draft Concert Series will take place at the Draft Theater which will be located behind the High Roller and The LINQ, adjacent to CAESARS FORUM.

General fan viewing is FREE with NFL.com/OnePass registration. Viewing is on a first-come first-served basis and standing room only.

Performances will also be streamed in full on NFL.com, in the NFL app and live on NFL Facebook and YouTube pages each night. Portions of the performances will also be televised across NFL Network and ESPN.

In addition, the Draft Red Carpet Stage presented by Gillette Labs at the Fountains of Bellagio will host exciting local Las Vegas acts throughout all three days of the Draft.

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NFL Draft viewing:

There are a variety of options to watch the NFL Draft in downtown Las Vegas. There are watch events inside casinos and even outdoors at different pools.

Circa: Reserve seats to watch indoors at the sportsbook all three days of the NFL Draft or outdoors at Stadium Swim on April 28 and 29.

Downtown Grand: Enjoy the NFL Draft Watch Party outside at the Citrus Grand Pool Deck on April 28 starting at 11 a.m.

Golden Nugget: Troy Liquor Bar will have a nightly “Get Your Draft On” party from April 28-30. Entry is free and doors open at 9 p.m. A DJ will drop dope beats starting at 10 p.m.

The Fremont Street Experience will have an NFL-themed production show called “Grid Iron Girls” throughout the NFL Draft. The mall of casinos will also have free entertainment on various stages throughout the long weekend until 3 a.m. nightly.

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Not travel related, and probably not deserving of its own thread,  but the WSJ ran an article on Elaine Wynn today, and some of her efforts cleaning up Wynn Resorts after Steve's mess a few years back:

 

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elaine-wynn-interview-las-vegas-11651062170

 

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On mornings in one of her four homes, Elaine Wynn likes to take her coffee beside Francis Bacon’s triptych Three Studies of Lucian Freud. She bought the paintings for $142.4 million at a Christie’s auction in 2013. That purchase, made anonymously at the time, smashed the record for the most expensive piece of art ever sold at auction and created a frenzy of speculation as to the buyer’s identity.

In the hours after the auction, Wynn says reporters called her ex-husband, Steve Wynn, to ask if he was the mystery buyer. “They were saying it will probably be on the wall of a hedge fund guy or in the desert in Arabia,” Elaine Wynn recalls. “I remember being offended that speculation centered on men, and nobody thought that a woman would either have the money or the balls.”

On this February morning, she is wearing an old Giorgio Armani blouse and newish Gabriela Hearst slacks. To her right, the shimmering copper-tone towers of the Wynn Las Vegas casino resort dominate the view from her limestone-walled dining room. She recently redid her condo with the decorator of the Obama-era White House, Michael Smith. It sits in a complex that has been home to numerous casino titans and power hitters, including the former heads of Harrah’s Entertainment (now Caesars Entertainment), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Fontainebleau Resorts. It goes almost without saying that those titans have been men.

Wynn’s panorama is metaphorically rich. Wynn and her ex-husband designed and operated one Las Vegas casino after another for nearly 50 years. They brought fantasy to the desert town in the form of Mirage’s volcano, Treasure Island’s pirate battle, Bellagio’s fountains and the Wynn’s luxury. While she watches over the Wynn from her aerie, her ex lives far from his high-powered former life after having been ousted in a cloud of sexual harassment allegations from the company they co-founded. These days, he can often be found in Palm Beach, Florida, with his new wife, Andrea. Las Vegas itself has changed too, its founders replaced by hired fund managers and marketing executives.

Though Elaine Wynn is no longer an executive of the empire she co-founded, she is its biggest and most active single shareholder. This makes her the last of the dreamers whose gambling parlors transformed a small town into a global resort destination while they became high-profile casino moguls with political and financial clout ( Kirk Kerkorian bought MGM film studios; Steve Wynn became fundraising chair of the GOP). In one of the most testosterone-driven cities on earth, a woman outlasted and outmaneuvered them all.

Wynn, who has held a Nevada casino license since 1978, is worth an estimated $1.8 billion, according to Forbes, based largely on the value of her 8 percent share in Wynn Resorts. Yet for most of her adult life she has been known more for her philanthropic work in education, and as a supreme hostess with friends in high places (one of her former homes featured a mini Oval Office for visits from George H.W. Bush).

As she turns 80 in April, Wynn is coming to terms with the hand she was dealt when her husband divorced her, in 2010, and then left Wynn Resorts amid allegations of sexual harassment and rape (which he has repeatedly denied), revealed in a January 2018 Wall Street Journal article. Elaine Wynn became a primary catalyst in the company’s reform. She established new leadership on the board and testified in support of Wynn Resorts keeping a vital license to operate a new casino in Boston.

She has remade herself as a world-level art collector and a force in public art, supporting the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and using her influence to help create a national monument designation to protect land around Michael Heizer’s City—a 1.25-mile-long earthwork sculpture in Nevada. She has taken her work in Nevada education to the national level: She is chairman of Communities in Schools, which provides resources to disadvantaged children. It recently received a surprise $133 million gift from MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezos’s ex-wife.

She laughs that her taste is evolving as she learns to create spaces that aren’t mega casinos, and without pressure from her design-obsessed ex. Smith, she says, rejected some of her fabric choices as “too hotel” as they designed her Las Vegas home, which ended up, she says, without a single fabric that she chose herself. “There is a Wynn style that’s very much based on the hotels,” says Smith. “Elaine has a personal style also that we wanted to explore.”

She is more confident in her fashion choices, and those have evolved too. Once a loyal client of Oscar de la Renta, she recently purchased a colorful oversize sweater from Christopher John Rogers and a zany embellished Libertine coat. “Fashion is the new art,” she says, pulling the looks from her room-size closet and describing her pursuit of an asymmetrical satin Balenciaga dress that she saw on a client at the brand’s flagship store in New York. When she’s in New York, she likes to shop at Linda’s, a boutique curated by Bergdorf Goodman’s well-known fashion director, Linda Fargo.

 

“I was really distraught by the behavior and the history that was unveiled.”

— Elaine Wynn

The Wynns have two daughters: Kevyn Wynn, a sometime fashion designer who was famously kidnapped in 1993 and released after her father paid a $1.45 million ransom, and Gilian Wynn, an entrepreneur and philanthropist. They have seven grandchildren, including 23-year-old Marlowe Early, who has begun working on an oral history of her grandmother, with whom she sided in the family split. Early says she believes that “Mouchie”—Elaine’s family nickname—has been under-recognized for her achievements in the face of dramatic personal and professional turmoil.

“I don’t think it’s fair that he gets to go on with his life,” Early says. “She is the person who has conducted herself with grace, value, consistency. Who is the real superhero in my eyes?”

Elaine Wynn had worked in and served on the board of the Wynns’ companies since 1967, maintaining an office and focusing her energy on everything from human resources to training to catering. She directed the Chanel-style uniforms for front desk employees when the Wynn resort opened in 2005 and persuaded Oscar de la Renta and Manolo Blahnik to open their only Las Vegas boutiques (at the time) there. But she has been credited only in recent years as a co-founder. Steve Wynn, as chairman and CEO, sometimes called himself the casinos’ “dada,” but her management roles didn’t fall into the standard executive titles.

“I was always the wing lady,” Wynn says. “It wasn’t part of the push for me to be concerned about gender equity or recognition. I always viewed our work as partners.”

Michael Govan, director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, says Wynn was a key figure in the 2015 creation of Basin and Range National Monument, which protects the 704,000 acres surrounding Heizer’s City. President Barack Obama approved the designation. “When [Elaine] started making calls to Congress,” Govan says, “somehow I was received in a different way.”

Wynn was one of the first major donors to support a controversial new LACMA building designed by reclusive Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. When Govan, hoping she would donate, invited Wynn to tour Zumthor’s work in Europe in 2015, they wound up that August on a four-day road trip from Cologne, Germany, and Bregenz, Austria, to Haldenstein, the tiny Swiss mountain village where the architect works, with Govan behind the wheel of a rented station wagon. Marlowe Early and Govan’s daughter Ariana came along, the teenagers lending a National Lampoon’s Vacation vibe.

Wynn soon pledged $50 million without requesting that the building bear her name. “Without that initial 50 there would be no project,” says Govan. Music mogul David Geffen later pledged $150 million, securing the naming rights. Wynn is now co-chair of LACMA’s board.

The Wynns once had Picasso’s famous Le Rêve in their dining room (Steve Wynn later put his elbow through the painting by accident), but Elaine Wynn says her own tastes ran to the crafty, such as basketry and weaving. At a cocktail party at Donna Karan’s home in New York, Wynn saw a Francis Bacon work on display that sparked her interest. “It got me by the gurgle,” she says.

“I decide I’m going to enter into the auction business myself and get me a Bacon,” she says, conceding she failed at her first attempt. She began fleshing out her collection with works by Édouard Manet and Lucian Freud, as well as contemporary artists including Lauren Halsey, Adrian Ghenie and El Anatsui.

Wynn was working with art dealer Bill Acquavella in 2013 when the Bacon triptych showed up in a Christie’s auction catalog. “I always do my 48-hour test where I leave the darn thing on a credenza somewhere and go about my business,” Wynn says. “Well, this thing just didn’t leave me alone.”

 

A basketball fanatic, Wynn was in Chicago for the Duke versus Kansas game at the State Farm Champions Classic tournament the day of the auction. She bid anonymously from her hotel room with Acquavella on the phone. “There’s a lot of action until we get up to $100 million,” she recalls wryly. When the gavel smacked at $142.4 million, “I had this moment, like, OK, OK,” Wynn says. “I get in the car to go to the game, and I am having the worst buyer’s remorse. What have I just done?”

Much has been written about Steve Wynn, Wynn Resorts and the aftermath of the 2018 sexual harassment and assault allegations. Little is known about Elaine Wynn’s aftermath.

In 2018, she found herself an outsider, having been ousted from her office and the Wynn Resorts board after the divorce. She was now the largest individual shareholder, however, while the company was being investigated by Nevada and Massachusetts casino regulators. She was also locked in litigation with her ex and the company involving the control of her shares. Then she began to hear from women making the allegations about her husband. In a sign of the complexities of the relationships and notions of responsibility, Wynn says some described their experiences and apologized for not coming forward earlier.

“I don’t know how many other victims confess to the wives,” Wynn says. “But because of my unique situation, as being their employer-slash-mentor-slash, you know, mom—there were departments in that place that I helped put together…so I knew those people.

“People will always say, ‘How could she not have known?’ ” Wynn says. “Did I suspect that my husband could be mischievous and be, you know, a playboy?” She pauses. “All I did was apologize.”

Steve Wynn, who has said that any suggestion that he assaulted a woman is “preposterous,” declined to comment or answer any questions for this article, according to his attorney, Reid Weingarten.

Wynn’s face clouds as she discusses that year—the shame felt by her family, and the recognition that her net worth was tied up in a company that required wholly new corporate governance.

“I was really distraught by the behavior and the history that was unveiled,” Wynn says. When a longtime friend of Steve Wynn, John Hagenbuch, opted to remain on the board with the support of management, Elaine Wynn went rogue against the company she co-founded, waging a proxy fight to remove him that she says cost her “several” million dollars.

“Everybody, even her children, told her to stop,” Marlowe Early says.

Michael Klein, a banker and founder of the consultancy M. Klein & Company, was one of the advisers who accompanied her on a road trip to make the case to investors. He notes that Wynn was often received with suspicion, more as a vindictive ex-wife than a founder and shareholder. The proxy battle was bruising.

“To sleep at night, I’d say, I know I’m killing myself, but I can’t let this story end on their terms. I am the only one that’s being held accountable,” Wynn says.

In May 2018, Wynn won the proxy battle after investors and the three largest institutional investor advisory firms voted in her favor. But with critical regulatory investigations underway in Nevada and Massachusetts, the role of Wynn Resorts chairman was held by another of Steve Wynn’s longtime friends, D. Boone Wayson. Wynn saw that as a risk.

 

Wynn reached out to Phil Satre, the former chief executive of Harrah’s casinos, who had a reputation as the casino industry’s altar boy and was respected by regulators, whose support Wynn Resorts desperately needed. Satre was by then chairman of the board of Nordstrom Inc. Satre says that Wynn phoned him, then flew to Seattle, where he was attending a Nordstrom directors’ meeting, and convinced him to consider joining the Wynn board.

“The remarkable thing about Elaine is that a lot of people in her situation, in my opinion, would have taken her shareholder position and gone off and had a good time in Sun Valley and L.A. That’s not what she did,” says Satre, who resigned as chairman from Nordstrom and left other commitments to join Wynn Resorts that August. Wayson retired, and Satre became chairman in November.

“To sleep at night, I’d say, I know I’m killing myself, but I can’t let this story end on their terms.”

— Elaine Wynn

“Her ability to finalize that last play on the chessboard—I’ve watched some fantastic tacticians in the corporate boardroom, but no one was thinking of Phil until Elaine,” Klein says.

Wynn says she is now pleased with the direction of the company. “The stock’s in the toilet but that’s OK. I’m here for the long term. We’re doing fine. And I do like the management now.”

With the casino drama settled, Wynn has turned her focus to her children and grandchildren, her life in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York (her Sun Valley, Idaho, house was under contract to be sold in April) and her work in education.

She continues to trade and collect art but says she will never sell the Bacon triptych. Yet she wishes to assuage her guilt, she says, for keeping such a valuable artwork to herself, so it will be part of her estate, destined one day for an as-yet-unnamed museum. “I’ll have had the pleasure of being a steward for a while,” Wynn says. “And that will clear my conscience.”

How much does Govan want it for LACMA? “What’s the scale?” he responds. “From one to 10? Eleven.”

Wynn recently watched a CBS Mornings interview in which Melinda French Gates reflected candidly on exiting her 27-year marriage to Bill Gates, and on the ways women are often left to answer for the men in their lives. “I had a lot of tears for many days. Days when I’m literally laying on the floor on the carpet,” French Gates told interviewer Gayle King after parrying several questions about her husband’s infidelities. “Days I certainly was angry.”

“Man,” Wynn says. “There I was right in that woman’s body, feeling what she was describing.”

 

 

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Coming to Vegas in October for a conference and bringing the wife, who’s never been. Planning on staying a couple nights extra and looking for recs on shows and hotels on the strip. I haven’t been in Vegas for about a decade so I know things are different. 
 

I was leaning towards a place like Caesars or MGM- thoughts?

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Anyone have Italian recs?  Would prefer authentic Italian over an American version of Italian food.

The last few times out we've had dinner at Ferraro's.  Nice restaurant with good wine selections.  I always have the osso buco.  They had a huge discounted wine list when I was there in March.  Probably not as nice as 2dahorns rec's but it's a solid can't miss. 

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Coming to Vegas in October for a conference and bringing the wife, who’s never been. Planning on staying a couple nights extra and looking for recs on shows and hotels on the strip. I haven’t been in Vegas for about a decade so I know things are different. 
 
I was leaning towards a place like Caesars or MGM- thoughts?

Just depends on what vibe you are looking for, any price range thoughts, and then would you prefer to be close to any potential activities or picking the place based on everything you can do right at your hotel/casino.

Narrow it down to high end, nice but not super expensive or more on the budget side. Go from there.

Caesars is great. Big place with lots of good food options on site. Can’t beat the center Strip location. Many of the rooms have been refurbished. I like the pool there. Best buffet in LV.

MGM Grand also large footprint. Nice pool area and some decent food options in that part of the Strip.

Lots of good traditional options and also consider something like Vdara if you like non-smoking hotel with no casino (much quieter) and easy walk to Cosmo and Aria. Vdara has nice rooms.

Cosmo could be the choice if you want younger crowd, more vibrant pool scene, lots of fun food choices, and if you wanted a unique room with a balcony and Strip view.

On the high end it’s hard to beat Wynn/Encore.

Let us know if you have some questions . . .
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My go to hotel rec is always Cosmo. Actually headed there now.

Same, just got in. Planning on hitting Jaleo and Zuma while we’re here this trip. See what else comes up. I’ll make sure to walk through the casino asking everyone if they are from the internet.

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Last night on the earnings conference call, MGM said it would likely take 90 days up to 1 year to integrate the Cosmo fully into their systems/policies/etc so assume it’ll take a few months before being able to book Cosmo under the MGM Rewards plan. If true, something like in the summer timeframe possibly.

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Having one and actually paying one are two different things. 
 
(oh, we all pay… )

With MLife, I’m usually getting the room for “free” but then get charged the resort fee. At most locations, though, I also get a $100-200 resort credit which makes it a wash (though that money has to be spent on restaurants)
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I'm the lowest level of MLife (MGM Rewards now I guess) and have only been to Vegas once since COVID.  Made a reservation at Mirage last week and go the normal free room and no resort fees.  Got some resort credit too, but don't remember how much.  Usually stay at Bellagio with the same perks.

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Wynn Las Vegas Unveils New Luxury Accommodations

New Look Will Transform More Than 2,600 Guest Rooms

Todd-Avery Lenahan Leads The Resort's Largest And Most Extensive Design Evolution

LAS VEGAS (May 3, 2022) – Wynn Las Vegas, the largest Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star resort in the world, unveils details of a new room concept that will transform its luxury guest accommodations across Wynn Las Vegas and Wynn Tower Suites. Currently under construction and scheduled to be completed by June 2022, the project is the largest and most extensive design evolution ever made to the tower's 2,674 guest rooms, suites, elevator lobbies, and resort tower corridors.

"Wynn sets the standard for luxury experiences and unparalleled service by continuously evolving to meet and exceed the needs of our guests," said Brian Gullbrants, President of Wynn Las Vegas. "Our thoughtful and intuitive new room design provides a more integrated in-room experience, giving guests greater control and choice over how they wish their room to function as they relax, enjoy, work, and entertain during their stay."

At its heart, the new guest room design intends to give travelers a sense of escapism that feels instantly comfortable and familiar. Rooted in a polychromatic palette of soft hues, layers of pattern and texture abound. Each room is highlighted by wood accent walls, a range of functional and atmospheric illumination, luxurious textiles and linens, and accents of natural stone, decorative metal, and original artwork.

New furniture, fixtures, lighting, and artwork – all exclusive to Wynn Las Vegas – were either custom designed by Lenahan or commissioned from a diverse collective of global master artisans. Focal points include a dramatic four poster canopy bed exclusive to the Wynn Tower Suites, a collection of commissioned artworks consisting of refined, modern pieces, as well as a lighting design created to enhance the ambient experience both day and night.

"As guests' needs and tastes evolve, we are constantly advancing details that not only meet but exceed their discerning tastes," said Todd-Avery Lenahan, President and Chief Creative Officer of Wynn Design and Development. "Our redesigned rooms are equal parts warm and dramatic, intimate and sophisticated. The guest rooms are meant to be your personal space while we are hosting you and are designed to be a respite, an exhale at the end of your day."

Each guest room, from the standard 640 square feet Wynn Resort King to the 1,817 square feet Wynn Tower Suite Salon, offer a retreat-like environment and feature a bespoke iteration of the new theme, which is decidedly more residential. Although individual touches have been created to suit differing room layouts, the most notable changes include a reconfiguration to the washroom in the standard guest room to introduce separate vanities and double the storage space; an expanded dressing area with mirrored walls and upgraded closet with new wardrobe; and an extended multi-purpose table in the main living room for working and dining. Additional power and data ports and advanced touchless in-room technologies complete the project.

Under the direction of Todd-Avery Lenahan, the new guest room design propels the resort's signature style ethos of elegance, artfulness, and comfort into a new era of artistic expression. Over the past months, Lenahan debuted original designs including the instantly iconic supper club, Delilah at Wynn Las Vegas, a lavish cinematic masterwork hailed by Forbes as "the evolution of Vegas' future"; The Cocktail Collection on the Lake of Dreams, including Overlook Lounge, Aperitifs & Spirits, Bar Parasol, and Aft Cocktail Deck; and the resort's newest restaurant, Casa Playa, an energetic confluence of coastal Mexican architecture and timeless cultural iconography.

Prior to joining Wynn Resorts, Lenahan was a key collaborator in the creation of more than 50 spaces for the Company's global portfolio of luxury resorts and casinos and is credited with originating several Wynn-brand design tenets referenced to this day. Among his many contributions are Encore Tower Suites in Las Vegas and Macau; SW Steakhouse at Wynn Palace, Cotai; the Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas; and The Spa at Encore Las Vegas, which is widely recognized as a tour-de-force and one of the most beautiful spas in the world.

https://press.wynnlasvegas.com/press-releases/all/wynn-las-vegas-unveils-new-luxury-accommodations/s/fb2e833a-79bf-47b9-ade4-c4eb9c90acf6

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Recently went to Vegas for 3 nights and hit up Julian Serranos based on a recommendation on this thread. Fantastic suggestion. Just an outstanding meal and great service. Question for regulars. For this trip I arranged casino credit since (i) table minimums are continuing to go up and (ii) I don't want to carry that much cash for the craps table. After a couple of rough sessions at the table the first night I rebounded and made enough to pay off all my markers and then some. What do you do with the markers when they give them back to you? Should you keep them in case they try to claim you didn't pay them back or just shred them? Sorry if this belongs in the dumb question thread, but I couldn't find any info online.

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Recently went to Vegas for 3 nights and hit up Julian Serranos based on a recommendation on this thread. Fantastic suggestion. Just an outstanding meal and great service. Question for regulars. For this trip I arranged casino credit since (i) table minimums are continuing to go up and (ii) I don't want to carry that much cash for the craps table. After a couple of rough sessions at the table the first night I rebounded and made enough to pay off all my markers and then some. What do you do with the markers when they give them back to you? Should you keep them in case they try to claim you didn't pay them back or just shred them? Sorry if this belongs in the dumb question thread, but I couldn't find any info online.

Tear them up and hand back to the pit boss to throw away, they ask him to send the cocktail waitress over.  One of the best feelings you can have on a casino floor.

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Just scheduled a trip in June the weekend after Father's Day. I'm pretty, pretty excited.

(Long-winded) Question for anyone interested in offering an opinion:

We're going to do Piero's and Le Cirque for two of the dinners. I assume Mon Ami Gabi for a brunch and hopefully Bardot, not giving a shit that they're both French. The only other breakfast or lunch target will be a jaunt over to Giordano's for pie and pitchers one day, then gambling and fucking around at the Cromwell and other shit over there. We're staying at Aria, it's me and wife. We normally do a steakhouse for the 3rd dinner. We've done most of them, so I'm curious - Is there a better choice than one of the nice steakhouses? Like, something pantydropper excellent similar in scope to Le Cirque?

TIA and +rep for any productive recs. 

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