CASINO EXECUTIVE PAY: Total for 2012 casino executive compensation:

Venetian= Robert Goldstein $24 million.
Wynn Las Vegas= Steve Wynn $17.7 million.
Caesars= Gary Loveman $12.8 million.
MGM Mirage= Jim Murran $9.6 million.
Boyd= Keith Smith $2.3 million.

The House always wins for a reason.

A blonde went to Las Vegas. She had been in the casino for about an hour, and realized she was thirsty. So she went to the pop machine in the hall. She put $1.00 in an a Pepsi came out, she put another $1.00 in and another Pepsi came out, she put one last $1.00 in and another Pepsi came out.
A man saw her, and he said: “What are you doing?”

And the blonde said: “Duh!! Winning”
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Outside of a Vegas casino, a man walks up to a stranger and says,

“Excuse me sir, may I borrow $500 dollars? It’s an emergency!”

The stranger says, “$500 dollars?! I don’t even know you!”

The man says,”It’s really important. My wife is suddenly very ill and I need to take her to the emergency room. I’ve called and they say it will be $500 dollars to admit her.”

Stranger says, “How do I know you won’t take my $500 dollars and go inside the casino and gamble with it?”

The man says, “I’ve GOT gambling money!”
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A hooker walked up to a guy, told him her price and asked if he was interested.

“Hell, no, I just got screwed by Caesar’s!”

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If an earthquake ever strikes in Vegas, head straight to the Keno lounge. Nothing has ever been struck in a Keno Lounge.

Maybe not the biggest jackpot on the strip but still a win.

Vegas IHOP’s are serving free pancakes today for its National Pancake Day celebration.

The eatery will be appealing for donations as part of the free pancake promotion for the Children’s Miracle Network programs at St. Rose Dominican Hospitals.

Enjoy your free short stack, and lets hope you can turn it into a big stack just like the poker table.

Hey Ladies, Join the Las Vegas today at Riviera 1pm-3pm. Show your assets and celebrate 25 years of the famous Crazy Girls.

A new edition of the sexiest and most sensuous revue ever to grace a Las Vegas stage. This sexy topless revue is a fun-loving adventure through the world of beauty, music, dance, and comedy, featuring the most stunning showgirls in Las Vegas.

I wasn’t sure what to expect from the new Chuck Jones Experience located at Circus Circus but was truly excited since I was a big fan and had met Chuck Jones several times over the years at gallery openings. Chuck Jones was a legendary animator and if you have ever seen Bugs Bunny, Tom & Jerry or Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, then you are familiar with his work.

The day we were there it was empty and the theater part of exhibit was broken so they were offering 50% off to get in that day. You enter the theater which was modeled after the one, the only, Michigan J. Frog, but since it was broken we had to miss this part of the experience and moved on to the next room. “How do you Measure Up?” was the next room, where you can stand up with your favorite characters like Bugs, Elmer Fudd, Tasmanian Devil and take photos with your favorite characters. I just wished that had more characters for photos; the selection wasn’t that great.

As we moved on through The Experience we saw evidence of his life, career, and his creative passion. The walls were covered with various sketches and drawings by him, including pictures of his desk and EMMY award.

Next up was “The Acme Workshop”, where you can create your own sound effects and voice overs for a Rikki-Tikki-Tavi cartoon. This was pretty cool and as an added bonus, we were able to use it for a while since we were the only ones there.

The “Chuck Jones Center for Creativity” was just sitting empty waiting for some young artists to use it. I was kinda shocked since Circus Circus is filled with kids but no one using the art center.

The gift shop had a art gallery containing some amazing works by Chuck Jones that are for sale. They were nice to look at but not something we felt like buying.

All in all, it was interesting and informative but not worth the money. We spent more time in gift shop looking in the art gallery. It’s not a good sign when there were more employees working than people in the exhibit.

We went through all 8 rooms at the experience within 15 minutes so we were disappointed. Add to that, no movie, so maybe we missed the best part. We will never know.

We were really hoping that there was more to the Chuck Jones Experience, but that’s all, folks.

After walking the Strip all night we decide to hit the Bally’s Tequila Bar for $2.00 tacos and Margaritas. Then we saw it, A THREE POUND Angus Grade-A Burger Charbroiled. Served with Six Slices of Cheddar Cheese, 12 Strips of Thick Cut Smoked Bacon, BBQ Sauce, Lettuce, a Whole Tomato and Red Onion, all Piled High on a Artisan Hamburger Bun. It was a monster and there was a new contestant for Stripwalker vs. Food.

The challenge is simple, the manager came out with the burger and went over the rules as the crowd took pictures and cheered. If YOU can finish this burger in 30 minutes or less, it’s FREE! You will also get a Souvenir T-Shirt and your picture will go up on the Tequila Bar and Grill Wall Of Fame! So here we go the Texas 3-POUND Challenge started, the latest victim started off strong cutting the burger into 4 equal parts, dipping every bite in mayo and ketchup the fight continued for a good 15 minutes but this night belonged to the burger. The young man threw in the napkin and it was over, the man tapped.

The Burger Wins and latest victim had to pay $35.00 for the burger that KO’d him.

O’Shea’s is closing today and it brings a 23 year run to an end. What a run it was, the Vegas Strip will not be the same, from beer pong, low table minimums and a leprechaun named Lucky. The Linq project caused the closing of O’Shea’s but relocation will bring beer pong back in the future. Here are a few thing this Stripwalker will miss about O’Shea’s.

1. Strip Poker – Great way to play hold’em and people watch, the tables were only a few feet from the Strip.
2. Craps – With low table minimums it made the Crap table a must stop and play, great energy and great times.
3. Dirk Arthur – A great magic show plus you will never be so close to leopards, and snow tigers again. A truly great experience.
4. Lucky – The face of O’Shea’s a Leprechaun and Lucky was a fixture at O’Sheas for years having fun.
5. Burger King – No, not a Whopper but BK served great soft serve ice cream cones for only a $1.00 great for those hot stripwalking days.

Irish eyes are smiling but sad. Thank You O’Shea’s. Hope to see you again.

So there you are at 7am on Saturday morning stumbling out of [insert your favorite Strip casino here], still drunk from the all-nighter when you are almost run over by a pack of thirty joggers all of whom suddenly drop to the ground and start doing pushups. On the Strip. At 7am. On Saturday morning. They are all groaning but they blast through the pushups, get up and start running again.

What the hell just happened? Boot Camp Las Vegas, that’s what.

I spent the last half of 2011 in a rut and just couldn’t get myself motivated to exercise anymore so I signed up for Boot Camp Las Vegas about a month ago. I haven’t done the Saturday Strip workout yet, but I have shown up at 6am every weekday at a park in my part of town and pushed myself to the limit with a group of fellow boot campers for a solid hour – no breaks. If you’re not doing an exercise, you’re running. If you’re doing a circuit workout, you run to the next exercise station. “There’s no walking in bootcamp!” barks John, our trainer, and he stays on us for the entire hour, forcing us to give it everything we’ve got and then some. He watches us closely and really gets to know each and every person’s fitness level so that when he has us do competitive activities we are matched against people who are equal – or very close to – our own level. It’s a very smart system and it works like you wouldn’t believe.

There’s a common misconception that programs like this are filled with mostly young people, primarily male, who can handle the intensity of the workouts, but the reality – at least in my experience – is that the group consists mostly of women of all ages from early twenties to late forties (maybe older, but I’m not about to ask…). There was even a seventy-year-old woman who did Boot Camp Las Vegas for a while then went on and traveled the world. Besides myself there are three to five other men aged from early thirties to early fifties. Most of these people have been coming to this class for years. Y-E-A-R-S. And it shows. The spirit of these folks is amazing and the endurance they demonstrate every morning is humbling and very motivating to me. Many of them tell me, when asked, that they’ve lost thirty or forty pounds or they’ve increased their 5k time by five or ten minutes. It’s really astonishing what a person can do when they put their mind to it.

On my first day (a “legs” day), after doing a half-mile warm-up jog around the park (which is nice because it’s usually chilly), I was immediately told to wrap a tow-strap around my waist and pull the tractor tire on the other end as fast as I could for as long as I could across the empty parking lot. Because of that workout I could barely walk for the rest of the week. In fact, I avoided stairs as much as possible and opted instead for handicap ramps and elevators as much as I could as I went through my week. It was hell, but in a good way. Now, nearly a month later, I’m able to handle the tractor tires a little better and I don’t get quite as sore, but every day, without fail, I wake up feeling the workout from the day before, no doubt about it. It’s totally worth it though because I’ve never felt better physically and mentally and I sleep like a baby for eight full hours every night. It’s exactly what I needed.

Yeah, I hear you; this is absolutely nuts. I won’t argue with that. Boot Camp Las Vegas is definitely not for everybody. It takes a special, almost warrior-like, mental toughness that most people, frankly, just don’t have – or at least they don’t think they do – to keep coming to these workouts, but if you’re willing to just show up, the rest takes care of itself. You’d be surprised what you can actually do, especially when you’re part of a group that is doing it right along with you. It’s a very liberating feeling when you finally beat that voice in your head that says you can’t run any farther and instead of stopping to rest you break out into a sprint and pass the person in front of you. Your body can go much farther than your mind says it can, trust me. Why just this morning my mind was telling me that I couldn’t carry that medicine ball up and down the hill another two times, and it was right; I did three more.

If you’re ever in town and you feel like maybe you want to work off that week-long Strip bender or, more realistically, if you’re in town on business and need a better workout than you’d get at your hotel’s gym, I strongly suggest you check out Boot Camp Las Vegas. You can drop in for a single day if you want or hit it up every day while you’re here if you think you’re, as they say, “boot camp tough.” In the meantime, enjoy your Stripwalking and I promise we’ll try not to run you down on Saturday morning.

You can learn more about Boot Camp Las Vegas at their website or on Facebook.

Super Bowl Sunday is the busiest gambling day of the year in the sports book and the game has over 300 prop bets.  Here are some prop bets for a Stripwalker, place your bets.

What color will your first foot long margarita be?
Blue    7/2
Red     7/2
White   5/2
None- 3/2

After partying all night on the strip chances of spelling NY Giants Osi Umenyiora name.
1000-1

Over/ Under -4  Trips to the ATM during your trip.
Even

What will be higher?
Tom Brady TD Passes -140
Miles you walk on the strip in one day -Even

Over/ Under -10  Casinos that you will gamble in during your trip.
Even

Busiest Sports book on the Strip during the game.
Mandalay Bay -5/2
Aria-5/2
Caesar’s-5/2
Bally’s-5-1
Harrah’s -5-1

Over/ Under -300lbs- The weight of Big Elvis
Even

 

Enjoy the game. 

 

The Harmon Hotel owned by MGM Resorts International that has been troubled by construction and structural problems before it has even opened, is trying to get approval from Clark County to implode. Work was stopped in 2010 and the building was planned for 47 floors but then stopped at 26 floors when defects in structure were discovered. As of December 2011 the issue is now in courts, MGM needs approval and wants to implode, but Tutor Perini Corp the building general contractor says the problem can be fixed. The hotel is part of the 8.5 billion City Center project it was planned as a boutique hotel. The Harmon legal battle continues with more than 200 million in disputes and leaves three options deconstruction, implode or to fix the structure.