Check it out, Man Gil Alexander. This is the fourteenth annual, fourteenth annual Vegas Lifestyle podcast on the Beating the Book feat and the Betting Dork feed before that, and this is the one podcast of the year that we do that is not singularly sports betting focused. We always save it for the week between the championship games and the Super Bowl because it's a dead week. So we talk about for the fourteenth straight year just Vegas shit. And what I mean by that is when we were younger, that meant nightclubs and things like that on day clubs. But now we're old, so we don't really talk about that so much anymore. But we do talk about restaurants, sports, books, apps. Steve is here. By the way, let me just introduce Mark Meltzer. First, the megapod, the Beating the Book podcast, and Betting Dork before that has existed. It's the year twenty eleven. Only one person has been on at least one podcast every single season, and that is this particular show every year, and that's Mark Meltzer. Everybody, they're on the bottom left at Meltz Vegas Meltzer like Seltzer, what's happening Mark, I look.

Check it out, Man Gil Alexander. This is the fourteenth annual, fourteenth annual Vegas Lifestyle podcast on the Beating the Book feat and the Betting Dork feed before that, and this is the one podcast of the year that we do that is not singularly sports betting focused. We always save it for the week between the championship games and the Super Bowl because it's a dead week. So we talk about for the fourteenth straight year just Vegas shit. And what I mean by that is when we were younger, that meant nightclubs and things like that on day clubs. But now we're old, so we don't really talk about that so much anymore. But we do talk about restaurants, sports, books, apps. Steve is here. By the way, let me just introduce Mark Meltzer. First, the megapod, the Beating the Book podcast, and Betting Dork before that has existed. It's the year twenty eleven. Only one person has been on at least one podcast every single season, and that is this particular show every year, and that's Mark Meltzer. Everybody, they're on the bottom left at Meltz Vegas Meltzer like Seltzer, what's happening Mark, I look.

Forward to the numerous text messages that quote. You're saying, Meltzer like seltzer because you're the only one left. Everything is male to last pole day in Vegas. I'm heading back east and just did some laundry, cleaned out my knit caps and my jacket for the first voyage back east for seven years.

Forward to the numerous text messages that quote. You're saying, Meltzer like seltzer because you're the only one left. Everything is male to last pole day in Vegas. I'm heading back east and just did some laundry, cleaned out my knit caps and my jacket for the first voyage back east for seven years.

So Meltzer and where can people find your stuff? Let's get that out of the way first. Where can you be found most often?

So Meltzer and where can people find your stuff? Let's get that out of the way first. Where can you be found most often?

Most often you'll find me at casinos dot Com. That's regular news and views, so to speak. You'll find me at travels orc once a week and that's either Vegas news updates or like a hot topic that's regarding players, clubs and rewards programs as a release to Vegas and casinos. And then you'll find me here there, and you know, and everywhere. I have a bunch of stuff coming out on covers this week, maybe next week, so then that'll be based on basically some cheap gambling things. Where to play cheap blackjack, where to roll where to roll the bones for cheap and get good odds at the same time. So that's where I'm at today.

Most often you'll find me at casinos dot Com. That's regular news and views, so to speak. You'll find me at travels orc once a week and that's either Vegas news updates or like a hot topic that's regarding players, clubs and rewards programs as a release to Vegas and casinos. And then you'll find me here there, and you know, and everywhere. I have a bunch of stuff coming out on covers this week, maybe next week, so then that'll be based on basically some cheap gambling things. Where to play cheap blackjack, where to roll where to roll the bones for cheap and get good odds at the same time. So that's where I'm at today.

Mark is going to represent the everyman here, whereas Steve Fezick, the only back to back winner of the Hilton Super Contest, might be for the more diehard folks who I don't know, maybe have a little more cash on him. He Steve will teach us how to chinse Vegas out of every dollar that he possibly can. How you do it, Steve? Good? Is that accurate presentation?

Mark is going to represent the everyman here, whereas Steve Fezick, the only back to back winner of the Hilton Super Contest, might be for the more diehard folks who I don't know, maybe have a little more cash on him. He Steve will teach us how to chinse Vegas out of every dollar that he possibly can. How you do it, Steve? Good? Is that accurate presentation?

I'm good.

I'm good.

You know all of us are going to go to like the Pass and get a players card. This is an old town Henderson and get the nine to ninety nine Prime Rib Special together, or Ellis Island with all the Cupons and get the steak dinner for thirteen dollars to show I'm just not an elitist country club bowl.

You know all of us are going to go to like the Pass and get a players card. This is an old town Henderson and get the nine to ninety nine Prime Rib Special together, or Ellis Island with all the Cupons and get the steak dinner for thirteen dollars to show I'm just not an elitist country club bowl.

This is where Mark and Steve ran a foul last year on this kind of thing. By the way, Steve unprovoked, I said, everybody, we're doing Vegas lifestyle today on a numbers game, and a lot of tweets came in They're like, yeah, could you tell Steve, like we don't have that kind of do what he has.

This is where Mark and Steve ran a foul last year on this kind of thing. By the way, Steve unprovoked, I said, everybody, we're doing Vegas lifestyle today on a numbers game, and a lot of tweets came in They're like, yeah, could you tell Steve, like we don't have that kind of do what he has.

So I got something for every budget, even for a budget the size of crack Man's Wow.

So I got something for every budget, even for a budget the size of crack Man's Wow.

Speaking of whom Bill Krackenberger everybody on the fourteenth annual Vegas Lifestyle podcast, What's Happening to Billy?

Speaking of whom Bill Krackenberger everybody on the fourteenth annual Vegas Lifestyle podcast, What's Happening to Billy?

Thanks for having me on. You know, I've never met Mark, but however he's a great follow I just looked up his and of course we follow each other for years at Mark at Meltz Vegas on Twitter and a great follow and like you said, the sites he works for puts up things, it's fantastic. So it's great to meet him. And of course I follow Steve. I follow Steve. I like his everyday ramblings on Twitter, and and of course Gil you I do your show from since day one. We've been together on Thursdays on VSON, and I appreciate the invite here. Listen, I'm out every single day. I'm out to eat, I'm out around town. I just know that I put, you know, twenty seven thousand miles on my car a year, and I don't go out of town with it, so that's pretty hard to do. So there we go.

Thanks for having me on. You know, I've never met Mark, but however he's a great follow I just looked up his and of course we follow each other for years at Mark at Meltz Vegas on Twitter and a great follow and like you said, the sites he works for puts up things, it's fantastic. So it's great to meet him. And of course I follow Steve. I follow Steve. I like his everyday ramblings on Twitter, and and of course Gil you I do your show from since day one. We've been together on Thursdays on VSON, and I appreciate the invite here. Listen, I'm out every single day. I'm out to eat, I'm out around town. I just know that I put, you know, twenty seven thousand miles on my car a year, and I don't go out of town with it, so that's pretty hard to do. So there we go.

Well, and that's why that's why you all are here, because all are experts on what we're about to get into. And I want to start with we did this last year too. But I hate to say that we got to start with the bad stuff, which is melter. I go to you, come on, you know where I'm going. You know where I'm going with this. No, when we were kids, when we were kids, and but I mean when I mean kids, I mean like ten fifteen years ago. In earlier I would say I always give the hard rock. Example. Used to be able to go down to the pool with rehab early in the day. I'm the first person to put my towel on a lounge chair. It's mine for the whole day, me and my buddies. But through three more on three more lounge shares, those were our chairs for the rest of the day. That is old Vegas. Old Vegas is long gone. Day clubs, nightclubs. And you texted me during when Fezek and I were doing a numbers game yesterday, no Monday. You texted me during that show to let me know what the super Bowl, oh no, March Madness pricing was. Can you explain to folks who are thinking about coming into town for the Super Bowl or March Madness what the prices are these?

Well, and that's why that's why you all are here, because all are experts on what we're about to get into. And I want to start with we did this last year too. But I hate to say that we got to start with the bad stuff, which is melter. I go to you, come on, you know where I'm going. You know where I'm going with this. No, when we were kids, when we were kids, and but I mean when I mean kids, I mean like ten fifteen years ago. In earlier I would say I always give the hard rock. Example. Used to be able to go down to the pool with rehab early in the day. I'm the first person to put my towel on a lounge chair. It's mine for the whole day, me and my buddies. But through three more on three more lounge shares, those were our chairs for the rest of the day. That is old Vegas. Old Vegas is long gone. Day clubs, nightclubs. And you texted me during when Fezek and I were doing a numbers game yesterday, no Monday. You texted me during that show to let me know what the super Bowl, oh no, March Madness pricing was. Can you explain to folks who are thinking about coming into town for the Super Bowl or March Madness what the prices are these?

Yeah, it's pretty insane price wise, So there's essentially you could still get a general admission seed in sports books, I would say ninety five percent of a year, So don't freak out. But when there's a large event like the super Bowl, like March Madness, because he knows are looking to you know, their corporations. They have to make more money every quarter of every year. So when you think about in that mindset, they're going to look to nickel and dime wherever they can. In the sports books, you know are our target number one for major events because they know people are going to go, and they know people are going to pay, which is the worst thing, because the best thing you can do if you don't want prices to continue rising is not pay that. However, people don't seem to care. So what I said you on Monday was the Caesar Palace sports book for March Madness. The prices start at five hundred dollars per day per person.

Yeah, it's pretty insane price wise, So there's essentially you could still get a general admission seed in sports books, I would say ninety five percent of a year, So don't freak out. But when there's a large event like the super Bowl, like March Madness, because he knows are looking to you know, their corporations. They have to make more money every quarter of every year. So when you think about in that mindset, they're going to look to nickel and dime wherever they can. In the sports books, you know are our target number one for major events because they know people are going to go, and they know people are going to pay, which is the worst thing, because the best thing you can do if you don't want prices to continue rising is not pay that. However, people don't seem to care. So what I said you on Monday was the Caesar Palace sports book for March Madness. The prices start at five hundred dollars per day per person.

And that's that's intercession per session.

And that's that's intercession per session.

In the yes, correct per session. Thank you for clarifying that. And that's inside the main sports book. And you get three beers with that every day. You know, that'll that'll that'll feed, that'll give you enough drinks for a few hours. I guess not. Whatever you can sit behind the bar at the USUS Palace sports Book for under two hundred bucks, which normally is a walkway from you know, the casino area to the Forum shops. It's outside of Omnia, so you're sitting like what I'll feel like a mile away. But they're not the only ones that charge that much money. If you go to Top Golf, you can get Bay packages that are going to start at like one hundred bucks a person and per day for four you know, it's it's insane. The Cosmo Party, it's it's open booze. You can play hoops there. It's one of the better parties, but it's going to cost you three hundred bucks a day. Found Blue has their theater. They're going to charge you a couple hundred bucks a day. Westgate's one of the great bargains where you can actually get in there for probably around one hundred to one hundred and fifty bucks a day in the International theater just for a seed. You know, you can get the good lines, you get fair lines there. South Point remains one of the best deals. You know, it's off the strip, but they've got the ballroom. They've got the ballroom with free entry, cheap eats, good odds, So that's always a good thing for groups. I think, you know, and we're looking March ban'szek mentioned Ellis Island earlier. I was looking at prices at Ellis Island for March Madness, and they start at one hundred and seventy five dollars per day for their March Badness party.

In the yes, correct per session. Thank you for clarifying that. And that's inside the main sports book. And you get three beers with that every day. You know, that'll that'll that'll feed, that'll give you enough drinks for a few hours. I guess not. Whatever you can sit behind the bar at the USUS Palace sports Book for under two hundred bucks, which normally is a walkway from you know, the casino area to the Forum shops. It's outside of Omnia, so you're sitting like what I'll feel like a mile away. But they're not the only ones that charge that much money. If you go to Top Golf, you can get Bay packages that are going to start at like one hundred bucks a person and per day for four you know, it's it's insane. The Cosmo Party, it's it's open booze. You can play hoops there. It's one of the better parties, but it's going to cost you three hundred bucks a day. Found Blue has their theater. They're going to charge you a couple hundred bucks a day. Westgate's one of the great bargains where you can actually get in there for probably around one hundred to one hundred and fifty bucks a day in the International theater just for a seed. You know, you can get the good lines, you get fair lines there. South Point remains one of the best deals. You know, it's off the strip, but they've got the ballroom. They've got the ballroom with free entry, cheap eats, good odds, So that's always a good thing for groups. I think, you know, and we're looking March ban'szek mentioned Ellis Island earlier. I was looking at prices at Ellis Island for March Madness, and they start at one hundred and seventy five dollars per day for their March Badness party.

It's Ellis's Island, Ellis Island.

It's Ellis's Island, Ellis Island.

It's everywhere, so it's not even it's it's not even that. It is just the Vegas Strip, which is the predominant place where you're gonna have to pay money, but it's reservation fees and such. It's literally everywhere, serga. You know, the prices are off the charts. You can walk into stadiums, swim for the Super Bowl, you know, pay under two hundred bucks, but that's standing room only. If you want to see, you're gonna pay more.

It's everywhere, so it's not even it's it's not even that. It is just the Vegas Strip, which is the predominant place where you're gonna have to pay money, but it's reservation fees and such. It's literally everywhere, serga. You know, the prices are off the charts. You can walk into stadiums, swim for the Super Bowl, you know, pay under two hundred bucks, but that's standing room only. If you want to see, you're gonna pay more.

So, uh, you know, it's just the reason I start with for.

So, uh, you know, it's just the reason I start with for.

March sticking with March Bandess though, it's insane because it's the first two days are more money than the next two days. Sunday is pretty much getaway day for visitors, so there are there are very few parties and you could probably just walk into the book on that day. One thing I recommend to people is a look off strip. If your budget conscious, b if you don't really care, just walk around and you can walk, you know, from book to book, from casino to casino, from bar to bar and catch enough of the games, you know. But if you do want to see it's gonna you're either going to have to get there super duper early. When I moved here, you talk about fifteen years ago. When I moved here, they were the legends of people paying homeless to stay overnight in a sportsbook so they had a seat for tip off at eight am. You know, for the first game of March Madness. That's no longer the case because the books will be closed.

March sticking with March Bandess though, it's insane because it's the first two days are more money than the next two days. Sunday is pretty much getaway day for visitors, so there are there are very few parties and you could probably just walk into the book on that day. One thing I recommend to people is a look off strip. If your budget conscious, b if you don't really care, just walk around and you can walk, you know, from book to book, from casino to casino, from bar to bar and catch enough of the games, you know. But if you do want to see it's gonna you're either going to have to get there super duper early. When I moved here, you talk about fifteen years ago. When I moved here, they were the legends of people paying homeless to stay overnight in a sportsbook so they had a seat for tip off at eight am. You know, for the first game of March Madness. That's no longer the case because the books will be closed.

I just you know, the Caesars thing. Just the first day of March Madness and the second thurs name Friday, one session is over five hundred dollars. When we say one session, that's a half day, so it's the early games, you know how it kind of breaks up in the middle of the day. The first and second day of March Madness, the full day is almost nine hundred dollars.

I just you know, the Caesars thing. Just the first day of March Madness and the second thurs name Friday, one session is over five hundred dollars. When we say one session, that's a half day, so it's the early games, you know how it kind of breaks up in the middle of the day. The first and second day of March Madness, the full day is almost nine hundred dollars.

If you want to a question, I'm looking at some tweet that it's full day is eight to fifty early session five point fifty. In late session is is six fifty.

If you want to a question, I'm looking at some tweet that it's full day is eight to fifty early session five point fifty. In late session is is six fifty.

There you go, Okay, So I just I just throw that out there because I think that's the way to start, because I think that's the biggest sort of sticker shock for anybody. And when it comes to the super Bowl, then it's not quite that expensive, or is it.

There you go, Okay, So I just I just throw that out there because I think that's the way to start, because I think that's the biggest sort of sticker shock for anybody. And when it comes to the super Bowl, then it's not quite that expensive, or is it.

It's yes and no. Your super Bowl is one day, so you're obviously only paying for that one day. South Point as I, as I mentioned, always always has their free party in the ballroom. Great option. But if you're at a casino, you're going to be paying, you know, somewhere around five hundred bucks a seat. If you're an Aria, you get it's three point fifty for a lounge chair and that in that sportsbook that needs very new screens because I feel like they've been here since day one. But you get a free buffet with that, so you know, yeah, you get a little something with it. Uh, one of the sorry, go ahead.

It's yes and no. Your super Bowl is one day, so you're obviously only paying for that one day. South Point as I, as I mentioned, always always has their free party in the ballroom. Great option. But if you're at a casino, you're going to be paying, you know, somewhere around five hundred bucks a seat. If you're an Aria, you get it's three point fifty for a lounge chair and that in that sportsbook that needs very new screens because I feel like they've been here since day one. But you get a free buffet with that, so you know, yeah, you get a little something with it. Uh, one of the sorry, go ahead.

I I don't mean to start with the bad stuff, but that's I mean, most people, I think Mark, you and I are simpatico on this. We come from the East Coast our buddies from the East Coast, right, And you know, we've talked about this before on this podcast, where it's like, hey, go to Circa. It's fun and everything, and they go once and they love it and it's the most wonderful thing they've ever seen in their life. But they're stripped people. Right, So if you say, are you going to go back to Circa, right, They're like, yeah, well it was great. Don't get me wrong. I love the experience, but I'm just gonna go back to the strip against I think people are just locked into the Strip. And when we sit here and we say, oh, yeah, you can go to the South Point, which are all great recommendations, right, you go to the South Point, you can go to the West Gate, and you know this, I know my buddies just don't have the bandwidth for that for whatever reason, right, they're just gonna be like, nah, we're staying on the Strip, so we're gonna pay out the the booty hole. Yeah.

I I don't mean to start with the bad stuff, but that's I mean, most people, I think Mark, you and I are simpatico on this. We come from the East Coast our buddies from the East Coast, right, And you know, we've talked about this before on this podcast, where it's like, hey, go to Circa. It's fun and everything, and they go once and they love it and it's the most wonderful thing they've ever seen in their life. But they're stripped people. Right, So if you say, are you going to go back to Circa, right, They're like, yeah, well it was great. Don't get me wrong. I love the experience, but I'm just gonna go back to the strip against I think people are just locked into the Strip. And when we sit here and we say, oh, yeah, you can go to the South Point, which are all great recommendations, right, you go to the South Point, you can go to the West Gate, and you know this, I know my buddies just don't have the bandwidth for that for whatever reason, right, they're just gonna be like, nah, we're staying on the Strip, so we're gonna pay out the the booty hole. Yeah.

And you know what, when you're younger, you're a little bit more willing to spend you know, the twenty you know they the ten to fifteen dollars for an uber off the strip, to save a few bucks. But when you're older, you definitely are sort of stuck in your ways. That's how I am with restaurants nowadays. You know, I go to the places I like, and I've tried almost everything that I want to try at this point. You know, when there's a new restaurant opening, I definitely want to explore. But for the most part, I'm sticking with the try, you know, the trying true things. And the people that Dad love Circa have a good reason to love Circa. It's fantastic, But I though it's fantastic, you know. But like you said, you know, the majority of people that visit Las Vegas stay on the Vegas Strip, and and they are they're less apt if you stay Think about it the way I like to think about it is that you're here for seventy two hours. You don't want to spend one of those hours in a cab going back and forth to and from the Vegas, your hotel and casino. You really just want to spend five minutes to walk to the next property four five to difte mins, depending on how fast you walk through Aria to get to park MGM.

And you know what, when you're younger, you're a little bit more willing to spend you know, the twenty you know they the ten to fifteen dollars for an uber off the strip, to save a few bucks. But when you're older, you definitely are sort of stuck in your ways. That's how I am with restaurants nowadays. You know, I go to the places I like, and I've tried almost everything that I want to try at this point. You know, when there's a new restaurant opening, I definitely want to explore. But for the most part, I'm sticking with the try, you know, the trying true things. And the people that Dad love Circa have a good reason to love Circa. It's fantastic, But I though it's fantastic, you know. But like you said, you know, the majority of people that visit Las Vegas stay on the Vegas Strip, and and they are they're less apt if you stay Think about it the way I like to think about it is that you're here for seventy two hours. You don't want to spend one of those hours in a cab going back and forth to and from the Vegas, your hotel and casino. You really just want to spend five minutes to walk to the next property four five to difte mins, depending on how fast you walk through Aria to get to park MGM.

Billy, I'll meet you Ellis Island for one hundred and fifty bucks each to spend a Sueral Sundata. So it's island.

Billy, I'll meet you Ellis Island for one hundred and fifty bucks each to spend a Sueral Sundata. So it's island.

So this is actually even shocking to me hearing this. I didn't know this. I didn't know that a local casino like Ellis Island is charging for parties. And I just didn't know this. I didn't know this went on. I thought it was I thought the locals were all free. I believe now I could be wrong about this. Mark would don't like the local casinos like stations and stuff. They're not charging for a long Boulder Highway and stuff. They're not charging for people to sit down. I wouldn't think for super Bowl or March vandas are they Mark.

So this is actually even shocking to me hearing this. I didn't know this. I didn't know that a local casino like Ellis Island is charging for parties. And I just didn't know this. I didn't know this went on. I thought it was I thought the locals were all free. I believe now I could be wrong about this. Mark would don't like the local casinos like stations and stuff. They're not charging for a long Boulder Highway and stuff. They're not charging for people to sit down. I wouldn't think for super Bowl or March vandas are they Mark.

Correct, that's correct. What they what they are charging though, is for parties, like we're saying the off Strip. You can definitely get a general emission seat, you got to arrive early. But if you want a secured seed reserve seat, you can also Westcat do the same thing. You could pay two hundred bucket to preserve a seat during the Super Bowl at the Westgate, or you could take your chance and just show up. You know, it's really a matter of what are your priorities. But you're right. The offstrip books you could sit for free, but the parties like stay. Every station casino property has about five different has about five different parties in their different restaurants and bars. So you can check out their blog they have. They detail everything from Green Valley Branch to Durango to Red Rock and sun Says Station. You know, every property of theirs, you know has multiple parties.

Correct, that's correct. What they what they are charging though, is for parties, like we're saying the off Strip. You can definitely get a general emission seat, you got to arrive early. But if you want a secured seed reserve seat, you can also Westcat do the same thing. You could pay two hundred bucket to preserve a seat during the Super Bowl at the Westgate, or you could take your chance and just show up. You know, it's really a matter of what are your priorities. But you're right. The offstrip books you could sit for free, but the parties like stay. Every station casino property has about five different has about five different parties in their different restaurants and bars. So you can check out their blog they have. They detail everything from Green Valley Branch to Durango to Red Rock and sun Says Station. You know, every property of theirs, you know has multiple parties.

So Zik is chomping at the bit because I know where he wants to go with.

So Zik is chomping at the bit because I know where he wants to go with.

Well, you probably do, so all I'm hearing is complaining and bitching and everyone's upset about like all this costs, So how do I gain the system so I can sit and watch my Super Bowl and drink and have a good time. And it goes back to don't be the peanut butter approach guy. Don't be walking around if you're in Vegas or not in Vegas. Don't gim with thirty different casinos and they all think that you're like a real low level gambler and you're not gonna get any perks. Focus specialize. I mean, it's not gonna do any good at Bolaggio, But go to a place the size of say the Palms or Treasure Island or downtown. You know, go ahead and play in the Four Queens and be a little mini whale there. Give show them the play, Billy'll be what first got to tell you about four Queens and all the promotions, video poker things like that. Don't try to score these great comps. I mean, I'll use an example. So I barely play at the Poms, but I had a good bet size. So what's this? Boom? The Poms wants me and an invited guest to go to their super Bowl party. And I get these all the time, and it's not like I'm playing that much. So if you are a gamble and you're gambling already, why spend an hour here, an hour there, walk over the Cosmo walk to Bolagia. No, take a mid level strip property and become a mini whale there so you get invites and you don't have to pay nothing, and you just show up in there and you talk to your host and boom, you can get a seat.

Well, you probably do, so all I'm hearing is complaining and bitching and everyone's upset about like all this costs, So how do I gain the system so I can sit and watch my Super Bowl and drink and have a good time. And it goes back to don't be the peanut butter approach guy. Don't be walking around if you're in Vegas or not in Vegas. Don't gim with thirty different casinos and they all think that you're like a real low level gambler and you're not gonna get any perks. Focus specialize. I mean, it's not gonna do any good at Bolaggio, But go to a place the size of say the Palms or Treasure Island or downtown. You know, go ahead and play in the Four Queens and be a little mini whale there. Give show them the play, Billy'll be what first got to tell you about four Queens and all the promotions, video poker things like that. Don't try to score these great comps. I mean, I'll use an example. So I barely play at the Poms, but I had a good bet size. So what's this? Boom? The Poms wants me and an invited guest to go to their super Bowl party. And I get these all the time, and it's not like I'm playing that much. So if you are a gamble and you're gambling already, why spend an hour here, an hour there, walk over the Cosmo walk to Bolagia. No, take a mid level strip property and become a mini whale there so you get invites and you don't have to pay nothing, and you just show up in there and you talk to your host and boom, you can get a seat.

That's a great strategy. And it's I always tell people, do you want to be the big fish in a small pond or the small fish in the big pond? You know that's that is, those are words to live by for me when you're looking at rewards and maximizing your dollars. And uh, back when I was a East Coast gambler, my old original handle, back when I first met you, Gail, I used to go to show Boat, not the greatest property, but my bank girl went so much farther there, and you did it uses Palace, which at the time Caesars owned both of them. But because I played it their lesser property, I got everything. I got the greatest comps, the greatest suite, you know, all for the same budget that I would spend at Borgata and get nothing at ES's Palace get nothing. So it really doesn't matter where you play and what you what your goals are is really what matters is my friends are busy. Their goals are not the same as mine, and they do want to go to the nice, fancy place, the news thing. They're not looking for rewards. That's their trip, you know. When I'm not with them.

That's a great strategy. And it's I always tell people, do you want to be the big fish in a small pond or the small fish in the big pond? You know that's that is, those are words to live by for me when you're looking at rewards and maximizing your dollars. And uh, back when I was a East Coast gambler, my old original handle, back when I first met you, Gail, I used to go to show Boat, not the greatest property, but my bank girl went so much farther there, and you did it uses Palace, which at the time Caesars owned both of them. But because I played it their lesser property, I got everything. I got the greatest comps, the greatest suite, you know, all for the same budget that I would spend at Borgata and get nothing at ES's Palace get nothing. So it really doesn't matter where you play and what you what your goals are is really what matters is my friends are busy. Their goals are not the same as mine, and they do want to go to the nice, fancy place, the news thing. They're not looking for rewards. That's their trip, you know. When I'm not with them.

I'm not like that though, right, which is why I mean, the reason we do this podcast is partially for Physic's advice on that, because I think it's great actionable stuff. But I do think the whole time you're saying that, Steve. The whole time I'm thinking, yeah, my buddies, I tell them that. Right. If I'm like, okay, guys go to the poems like as soon as I in any way inconvenience them or what they'll deem as an inconvenience, they'll just be like, ah, shut up.

I'm not like that though, right, which is why I mean, the reason we do this podcast is partially for Physic's advice on that, because I think it's great actionable stuff. But I do think the whole time you're saying that, Steve. The whole time I'm thinking, yeah, my buddies, I tell them that. Right. If I'm like, okay, guys go to the poems like as soon as I in any way inconvenience them or what they'll deem as an inconvenience, they'll just be like, ah, shut up.

It's very difficult. Basic strategy. Don't have eight guys go to the strip together because you're never going to agree on where to go to dinner and to do it. If like three is a great number, I found like two to four is a good number. Most people you know can reach a common ground. And I will say this if it's become in Vegas. If you're not a VIP of some status at a casino, you are at the bottom. So even if at like a world class resort like Win, I love the Win, But if you're just going into the wind without any status, you're waiting in the long lines, it's not going to be as enjoyable as say you're as having the royalty treatment at a four star or three and a half star restaurants and experiencing the casino you go in and just being a diamond member and it's easy to become a diamond member or platinum member. Boom. Now you're checking in in the Diamond lounge. You're not waiting in an hour line, maybe an hour and a half line to get into Vegas. Once you do that, you'll you'll look at that line and you'll say, I'm never going through that again. Mark's mentioned he doesn't even want to be in a cab for ten minutes. Imagine waiting in line for an hour and a half to check in at Caesar's or Bollaggio.

It's very difficult. Basic strategy. Don't have eight guys go to the strip together because you're never going to agree on where to go to dinner and to do it. If like three is a great number, I found like two to four is a good number. Most people you know can reach a common ground. And I will say this if it's become in Vegas. If you're not a VIP of some status at a casino, you are at the bottom. So even if at like a world class resort like Win, I love the Win, But if you're just going into the wind without any status, you're waiting in the long lines, it's not going to be as enjoyable as say you're as having the royalty treatment at a four star or three and a half star restaurants and experiencing the casino you go in and just being a diamond member and it's easy to become a diamond member or platinum member. Boom. Now you're checking in in the Diamond lounge. You're not waiting in an hour line, maybe an hour and a half line to get into Vegas. Once you do that, you'll you'll look at that line and you'll say, I'm never going through that again. Mark's mentioned he doesn't even want to be in a cab for ten minutes. Imagine waiting in line for an hour and a half to check in at Caesar's or Bollaggio.

By the way, a twenty dollars bill still works on those. Just go to the front, somem of twenty you'll go to the front of the line. Just the most actionable advice I can give you. But I'm curious all three answers to this. So Stevie, I know you like for you Caesar's. The key point that I don't think people know from year to year, even though we mentioned that, is this status stuff is transferable to other properties. So what is Steve in your opinion? Then we'll ask for Bill and Mark Xelso what is your opinion the casino to do that at to elevate quickest.

By the way, a twenty dollars bill still works on those. Just go to the front, somem of twenty you'll go to the front of the line. Just the most actionable advice I can give you. But I'm curious all three answers to this. So Stevie, I know you like for you Caesar's. The key point that I don't think people know from year to year, even though we mentioned that, is this status stuff is transferable to other properties. So what is Steve in your opinion? Then we'll ask for Bill and Mark Xelso what is your opinion the casino to do that at to elevate quickest.

Yeah, So Caesar's is the best one to start with because they have ten times tier credit days and seven times tier credit point days, so you can become a platinum in like twenty minutes on a ten time point day. And by the way, just you know, gamble responsibly. Get Here's Bob Danswers. Jack's are better video poker. You're playing at ninety and a half to ninety nine and a half percent game like you put through if you want to become a diamond, I think you have put fifty thousands through. That sounds like an insane amount, but you're at your disadvantage. It's like seven hundred bucks. You might you might I get unlucky, you might lose fifteen hundred. You know what, you got three buddies in town. You all want to become a diamond, pull it, sit down together, say we're all going to you know, we're all going to share in this and we're all going to get a diamond card. Now boom, we're going to be going to the Bahamas. If you're on the East Coast, you get to go to the Bahamas in the wintertime for free. I've done it. It's like you can't believe it. This is actually working. They're not charging me nothing, you know, to stay, you know, down there at Great Vacation. And then once you have that diamond card. Gil you mentioned the matching status, so I got my seven stars. I go over to the wind. They're like, oh, we match, we'll give you a win black. I'm like, what are the benefits. They're like, well, you get two free rounds of golf, and I'm like, there's no way this is going to work. It's eight hundred dollars per person. I walk up to my host, I'm like, uh, can I have two rounds of golf? And he punches me up. I have hardly any play and he's like, when would you like to play, mister Fasick. I'm like, I can't believe it. Yeah, so you get the idea. I mean, it's so valuable to have these matching stats. Fump Blue gave me two free nights just for being a font Blue Royal, and I never play there, Billy, you got I agree.

Yeah, So Caesar's is the best one to start with because they have ten times tier credit days and seven times tier credit point days, so you can become a platinum in like twenty minutes on a ten time point day. And by the way, just you know, gamble responsibly. Get Here's Bob Danswers. Jack's are better video poker. You're playing at ninety and a half to ninety nine and a half percent game like you put through if you want to become a diamond, I think you have put fifty thousands through. That sounds like an insane amount, but you're at your disadvantage. It's like seven hundred bucks. You might you might I get unlucky, you might lose fifteen hundred. You know what, you got three buddies in town. You all want to become a diamond, pull it, sit down together, say we're all going to you know, we're all going to share in this and we're all going to get a diamond card. Now boom, we're going to be going to the Bahamas. If you're on the East Coast, you get to go to the Bahamas in the wintertime for free. I've done it. It's like you can't believe it. This is actually working. They're not charging me nothing, you know, to stay, you know, down there at Great Vacation. And then once you have that diamond card. Gil you mentioned the matching status, so I got my seven stars. I go over to the wind. They're like, oh, we match, we'll give you a win black. I'm like, what are the benefits. They're like, well, you get two free rounds of golf, and I'm like, there's no way this is going to work. It's eight hundred dollars per person. I walk up to my host, I'm like, uh, can I have two rounds of golf? And he punches me up. I have hardly any play and he's like, when would you like to play, mister Fasick. I'm like, I can't believe it. Yeah, so you get the idea. I mean, it's so valuable to have these matching stats. Fump Blue gave me two free nights just for being a font Blue Royal, and I never play there, Billy, you got I agree.

Now I'm more I'm more stick to local places myself, because I like what the Mark said, being a big fish in a little pond. I'm just looking at my just a recent mail like this, this is just recent mail that I have, and it's just local places Tuscany. I like the restaurant. I'm sorry, I don't know the name of it, but there's a Goodisseca Bistecca is over there. I think it's great. They give me one hundred bucks every month to go spend there. Plus I earn a lot of dollars there and on Mondays and Thursdays they have matching points. I'm seeing here, so you can get double that. I mean, so I like going over there. I think that has some decent video plob for nothing crazy many almost ninety nine percent, but they have bonus days and I love going there for that. This is the South Point. I absolutely love the South Point. I go there, you know, three or four times a week. Stations casinos, I like going there too. I like going to some of the cascine. By the way, Todd just text me and said that Red Rocket is charging for seats for both events. But I also have like the Venetian because I went there and gave them a big play on a bonus that my buddies found and they didn't have enough money for it. By the way, I went partners with Randy McKay over the phone over video. Those things always don't work out. It was a giant machine. The one hundred and thirty five dollars will spend. We were in stupid money, stupid put it this way. We hit an eighteen thousand dollars bonus at the end and lost money. So you don't always wins. But they've been. But they've been sending me some good bounce back offers since then. Give me about two thousand in cash. Food there. I go to the Mediterranean restaurant there constantly and mark what's that name to the met the place. It's been there for years. It was over at Cosmo first, now it's over at the Venetian. It's famulous milos. Thank you Milos. I've been I I get free melos every month. I've been going there once a month for free. So I like going to the local casinos. But let me, let's not fool around. The win is the class of the town. My favorite casino to go to. It's just the ambiance, the restaurants overlooking the golf course there. They have some overlooking the pools. They have so many good restaurants and it just you just feel like you're walking into Royalty there. I've seen Steve win there. I've seen a Lane win there multiple times. Back years ago when when the when the pandemic came and everyone was having fifty nine dollars and twenty nine dollars rooms to Win also had seventy nine dollars rooms. There was a giant fistfight. It was videotaped by the pool at the encore. It was unbelievable and Elaine Win said, that's enough of that. We will now be the highest rack rate on the strip. Basically, what I'm getting to is they keep the riff raff out of the joint, so you're gonna pay for that. Though you're gonna pay more for a cup of coffee. If you're paying, you're gonna pay more for an ice cream cone than almost anywhere else. But you're paying for the safety of the place. You're playing for the class, the elegance, the marble, the Carrera marble from Italy, and the tiles. And I love the Wind. I don't. I'm the sports book there. It's a yes, it's much smaller, but Doug is very good to myself, He's very good to Steve. The Wind is my favorite place in town.

Now I'm more I'm more stick to local places myself, because I like what the Mark said, being a big fish in a little pond. I'm just looking at my just a recent mail like this, this is just recent mail that I have, and it's just local places Tuscany. I like the restaurant. I'm sorry, I don't know the name of it, but there's a Goodisseca Bistecca is over there. I think it's great. They give me one hundred bucks every month to go spend there. Plus I earn a lot of dollars there and on Mondays and Thursdays they have matching points. I'm seeing here, so you can get double that. I mean, so I like going over there. I think that has some decent video plob for nothing crazy many almost ninety nine percent, but they have bonus days and I love going there for that. This is the South Point. I absolutely love the South Point. I go there, you know, three or four times a week. Stations casinos, I like going there too. I like going to some of the cascine. By the way, Todd just text me and said that Red Rocket is charging for seats for both events. But I also have like the Venetian because I went there and gave them a big play on a bonus that my buddies found and they didn't have enough money for it. By the way, I went partners with Randy McKay over the phone over video. Those things always don't work out. It was a giant machine. The one hundred and thirty five dollars will spend. We were in stupid money, stupid put it this way. We hit an eighteen thousand dollars bonus at the end and lost money. So you don't always wins. But they've been. But they've been sending me some good bounce back offers since then. Give me about two thousand in cash. Food there. I go to the Mediterranean restaurant there constantly and mark what's that name to the met the place. It's been there for years. It was over at Cosmo first, now it's over at the Venetian. It's famulous milos. Thank you Milos. I've been I I get free melos every month. I've been going there once a month for free. So I like going to the local casinos. But let me, let's not fool around. The win is the class of the town. My favorite casino to go to. It's just the ambiance, the restaurants overlooking the golf course there. They have some overlooking the pools. They have so many good restaurants and it just you just feel like you're walking into Royalty there. I've seen Steve win there. I've seen a Lane win there multiple times. Back years ago when when the when the pandemic came and everyone was having fifty nine dollars and twenty nine dollars rooms to Win also had seventy nine dollars rooms. There was a giant fistfight. It was videotaped by the pool at the encore. It was unbelievable and Elaine Win said, that's enough of that. We will now be the highest rack rate on the strip. Basically, what I'm getting to is they keep the riff raff out of the joint, so you're gonna pay for that. Though you're gonna pay more for a cup of coffee. If you're paying, you're gonna pay more for an ice cream cone than almost anywhere else. But you're paying for the safety of the place. You're playing for the class, the elegance, the marble, the Carrera marble from Italy, and the tiles. And I love the Wind. I don't. I'm the sports book there. It's a yes, it's much smaller, but Doug is very good to myself, He's very good to Steve. The Wind is my favorite place in town.

I got the win yeah, ahead, I was gonna just follow what you guys are saying on the reward stuff.

I got the win yeah, ahead, I was gonna just follow what you guys are saying on the reward stuff.

But go see everything Bill said about the Win. I've never had a bad meal, and think about it's not just about the food, It's about the ambiance. It's about raising your spirits in life. So if you're staying with your family and maybe you get a casino rate and you're paying eight hundred a night, you know what, if there's four of you, you're all paying two hundred a night for a life experience. That is just tremendous. Best buffet in town in my opinion. If you're a carnivor, you might prefer Caesar's, but that Win is just outstanding. And from the low end, well they have no low ends, but like the coffee shop or a leg Gros, the Italian place to if you have never gone to Delilah's their supper club, that is like a world class experience. You will literally go home, like a year from now you're like, oh, I remember that night I had at Delilah's. Wow, that was just outstanding. And just personally, I've always found like when I'm at Aria or a Venetian or palazzo and I go to a really nice restaurant there is just not the same for whatever reason. Then going to Wingley or Mazuma's or all these restaurants at the.

But go see everything Bill said about the Win. I've never had a bad meal, and think about it's not just about the food, It's about the ambiance. It's about raising your spirits in life. So if you're staying with your family and maybe you get a casino rate and you're paying eight hundred a night, you know what, if there's four of you, you're all paying two hundred a night for a life experience. That is just tremendous. Best buffet in town in my opinion. If you're a carnivor, you might prefer Caesar's, but that Win is just outstanding. And from the low end, well they have no low ends, but like the coffee shop or a leg Gros, the Italian place to if you have never gone to Delilah's their supper club, that is like a world class experience. You will literally go home, like a year from now you're like, oh, I remember that night I had at Delilah's. Wow, that was just outstanding. And just personally, I've always found like when I'm at Aria or a Venetian or palazzo and I go to a really nice restaurant there is just not the same for whatever reason. Then going to Wingley or Mazuma's or all these restaurants at the.

Wind will we will circle back to the Wind because all that you're saying is right. It's the only place I still feel like I'm on vacation when I'm in town. The last thing on the rewards mare.

Wind will we will circle back to the Wind because all that you're saying is right. It's the only place I still feel like I'm on vacation when I'm in town. The last thing on the rewards mare.

Yeah. Oh so there's a couple of things, and don't disagree with anybody at all. There's a great website called Miles Talk where they talk about points rewards nationally as well or entered worldwide as well as Las Vegas. He has a thing called the Status Status Match Merry Go Round where you can take like Steve said, you could take your Caesar's rewards, then whenever there's promotions with other properties, take your diamond card. I did it. I went from Caesars to Fountain Blue, got my upgrade there, tried to go to their Vexian Venetian rewards. I was not matching Fountain Blue at the time, but they were doing other programs, and besides, they weren't giving out any of the good stuff with their new rewards program, which a whole other issue about satisfacching. But you can always do this kind of merry go round. So if you focus your play on one, you can always find promotions to dabble in other properties explore them. When I did my upgrade over I had Felt in Blue. They gave me one hundred dollars free dinner or food credit. I combined them with a friend of mine. We had a wonderful night out two hundred and fifty dollars in comp states, wine, drinks. Everything was fantastic time. So that's another way to go if you're looking just to maximize and get everything from everywhere that you can. Another way you could do that is with what they call the Founder's Card. It costs about four hundred bucks a year, and previously they would give you they would give you upgrades, a different rule travel rewards program, so it could be your worldwide hotel programs, it could be a casino. They previously met gave you diamond to Caesars, So essentially you're paying four hundred bucks to get diamond to Caesars. In order to keep it, you have to spend the money to keep it. But you can use that to match elsewhere, which is fantastic, but they're no longer with Caesars there with a WIN, so you're going to be able to get an upgrade, pay to get an upgraded rewards program at Win, which I totally agree, is the top of the top. It's top of the food chain in the Las Vegas. There are luxury resorts in Las Vegas, Venetian, Bolagio, Cosmo, but there nothing comes close to the service and the atmosphere Wind and I still love it. And also, if you want a great cup of coffee, Earth Cafe in the little shopping promenade, fantastic massive cups of coffee that gilly.

Yeah. Oh so there's a couple of things, and don't disagree with anybody at all. There's a great website called Miles Talk where they talk about points rewards nationally as well or entered worldwide as well as Las Vegas. He has a thing called the Status Status Match Merry Go Round where you can take like Steve said, you could take your Caesar's rewards, then whenever there's promotions with other properties, take your diamond card. I did it. I went from Caesars to Fountain Blue, got my upgrade there, tried to go to their Vexian Venetian rewards. I was not matching Fountain Blue at the time, but they were doing other programs, and besides, they weren't giving out any of the good stuff with their new rewards program, which a whole other issue about satisfacching. But you can always do this kind of merry go round. So if you focus your play on one, you can always find promotions to dabble in other properties explore them. When I did my upgrade over I had Felt in Blue. They gave me one hundred dollars free dinner or food credit. I combined them with a friend of mine. We had a wonderful night out two hundred and fifty dollars in comp states, wine, drinks. Everything was fantastic time. So that's another way to go if you're looking just to maximize and get everything from everywhere that you can. Another way you could do that is with what they call the Founder's Card. It costs about four hundred bucks a year, and previously they would give you they would give you upgrades, a different rule travel rewards program, so it could be your worldwide hotel programs, it could be a casino. They previously met gave you diamond to Caesars, So essentially you're paying four hundred bucks to get diamond to Caesars. In order to keep it, you have to spend the money to keep it. But you can use that to match elsewhere, which is fantastic, but they're no longer with Caesars there with a WIN, so you're going to be able to get an upgrade, pay to get an upgraded rewards program at Win, which I totally agree, is the top of the top. It's top of the food chain in the Las Vegas. There are luxury resorts in Las Vegas, Venetian, Bolagio, Cosmo, but there nothing comes close to the service and the atmosphere Wind and I still love it. And also, if you want a great cup of coffee, Earth Cafe in the little shopping promenade, fantastic massive cups of coffee that gilly.

Yeah, if you don't, if you don't gamble, just go into the MGM sign up for that for that credit card. Boom, you're pearl. Now that you're pearl, you can start doing this Merry Go round that mister Seltzer has told you how to do. And and and just I love that you mentioned that Earth Cafe because the Wind has so many little Easter eggs. As you're walking around, you know, you know, through the shopping area and even the convention center area. I would never, of course walk through the convention arey wall convention is going on and sample the food or the coffee especially. No, not me, but like one of my favorite hidden secret walks is you walk back by the conventionary and the wind and you can go into the back area and just walk right out and get that view of that golf course. So if you're not you know, if you're not a golfer, you can walk out and actually be you know, on the you know, the teeing areas of a hole and get the view and the sphere and it's just spectacular. It doesn't cost you anything.

Yeah, if you don't, if you don't gamble, just go into the MGM sign up for that for that credit card. Boom, you're pearl. Now that you're pearl, you can start doing this Merry Go round that mister Seltzer has told you how to do. And and and just I love that you mentioned that Earth Cafe because the Wind has so many little Easter eggs. As you're walking around, you know, you know, through the shopping area and even the convention center area. I would never, of course walk through the convention arey wall convention is going on and sample the food or the coffee especially. No, not me, but like one of my favorite hidden secret walks is you walk back by the conventionary and the wind and you can go into the back area and just walk right out and get that view of that golf course. So if you're not you know, if you're not a golfer, you can walk out and actually be you know, on the you know, the teeing areas of a hole and get the view and the sphere and it's just spectacular. It doesn't cost you anything.

Okay, let's let's move on. We'll circle back to the win or our favorite sportsbooks and that stuff, but real quick before we get to that. Last year, at this time, we were a bunch of complainers. We were fetching about a whole bunch of stuff, not just the prices for Super Bowl and March madness. We were complaining about the Fountain Blue which came into town, did everything wrong, the way that they tried to whatever the opposite of ingratiate themselves is to the town right. And the other thing we complained about hugely and justifiably was f one for tourists and residents alike who were here for a five month period before the F one race at the end of November of twenty twenty three, we were still smarting from that and we're like, holy crap, this thing's going to happen nine more times. God help us. Am I correct in saying that F one wasn't nearly as bad this year, right, that that is not as big of a problem as it was, and that the Fountain Blue is kind of like, okay, well we know what it is, and some people actually like that is that fair.

Okay, let's let's move on. We'll circle back to the win or our favorite sportsbooks and that stuff, but real quick before we get to that. Last year, at this time, we were a bunch of complainers. We were fetching about a whole bunch of stuff, not just the prices for Super Bowl and March madness. We were complaining about the Fountain Blue which came into town, did everything wrong, the way that they tried to whatever the opposite of ingratiate themselves is to the town right. And the other thing we complained about hugely and justifiably was f one for tourists and residents alike who were here for a five month period before the F one race at the end of November of twenty twenty three, we were still smarting from that and we're like, holy crap, this thing's going to happen nine more times. God help us. Am I correct in saying that F one wasn't nearly as bad this year, right, that that is not as big of a problem as it was, and that the Fountain Blue is kind of like, okay, well we know what it is, and some people actually like that is that fair.

Spot on, mister Alexander. In fact, thank you. I hate F one more than anyone, as you know. Yes, and that's why the Drop of Canada has been under construction Tropicana Road for eighteen months because they got all the projects. You know, no problem building up and down all these bridges for F one, But I have done a one to eighty on the font Blue. Now, part of it could be that, you know, they caught me for a couple of nights, which isn't going to hurt you know, their status. But they do a lot of things, right, I mean, those those restaurants, that Mama Wolf restaurant, that's my second favorite restaurant, I would say, no boo. And the top three I'd say no bo and Caesar's font Blue and Delilah's in the wind, you know, as far as overall experiences. But if you go to the video poker bar area by the sports book, you can get a premium like old fashioned, like a twenty five dollar Old Fashion. Just throw on like Meltzer. Just put one hundred dollars into the video poker machine markets you've done it right, and then drink like you are a.

Spot on, mister Alexander. In fact, thank you. I hate F one more than anyone, as you know. Yes, and that's why the Drop of Canada has been under construction Tropicana Road for eighteen months because they got all the projects. You know, no problem building up and down all these bridges for F one, But I have done a one to eighty on the font Blue. Now, part of it could be that, you know, they caught me for a couple of nights, which isn't going to hurt you know, their status. But they do a lot of things, right, I mean, those those restaurants, that Mama Wolf restaurant, that's my second favorite restaurant, I would say, no boo. And the top three I'd say no bo and Caesar's font Blue and Delilah's in the wind, you know, as far as overall experiences. But if you go to the video poker bar area by the sports book, you can get a premium like old fashioned, like a twenty five dollar Old Fashion. Just throw on like Meltzer. Just put one hundred dollars into the video poker machine markets you've done it right, and then drink like you are a.

Like you're done aristocrat. Right.

Like you're done aristocrat. Right.

I have some bad news for you. Fez. The change their policy and now they cap the drinks at eighteen dollars. I will not say, I will not say what I drank, but I did have a one hundred dollars glass of bourbon when they first opened, just because they were still figuring out their policies. But now they're just sort of the bar there is sort of the same as every other video poker bar where you can get up to eighteen to twenty seventy dollars.

I have some bad news for you. Fez. The change their policy and now they cap the drinks at eighteen dollars. I will not say, I will not say what I drank, but I did have a one hundred dollars glass of bourbon when they first opened, just because they were still figuring out their policies. But now they're just sort of the bar there is sort of the same as every other video poker bar where you can get up to eighteen to twenty seventy dollars.

You know, Gilly before pre production we uh market we're talking about. You go into the high limit area and a lot of them have double deck blackjack, so know how to play basic strategy and you sit down one hand into the double deck. Well, there's no midshoe entry. You can't play, that's the rules, but you can still order drinks. So coincidentally, the cocktail waitress might be right there when you sit down after one hand. It's going to take a good eight minutes to cycle through that double deck. And so you go out and order your old fashion, your apple martini, whatever you like, it'll be in your hands, and then the shuffle happens, and you know what you can do. You can and people do this all the time.

You know, Gilly before pre production we uh market we're talking about. You go into the high limit area and a lot of them have double deck blackjack, so know how to play basic strategy and you sit down one hand into the double deck. Well, there's no midshoe entry. You can't play, that's the rules, but you can still order drinks. So coincidentally, the cocktail waitress might be right there when you sit down after one hand. It's going to take a good eight minutes to cycle through that double deck. And so you go out and order your old fashion, your apple martini, whatever you like, it'll be in your hands, and then the shuffle happens, and you know what you can do. You can and people do this all the time.

You can.

You can.

You can just you get up and go. Actually, but you can play one hand, and you just say as soon as you lose one hand, and so that costs you a dollar, you're at a half percent disadvantaged basics brategy player, it's going to cost you one dollar. You lose a hand, you're like, oh, I got a bad feeling about this. Deal me out and just walk with your old fashioned.

You can just you get up and go. Actually, but you can play one hand, and you just say as soon as you lose one hand, and so that costs you a dollar, you're at a half percent disadvantaged basics brategy player, it's going to cost you one dollar. You lose a hand, you're like, oh, I got a bad feeling about this. Deal me out and just walk with your old fashioned.

The big surprise with this tip is that Zick doesn't look for an eight card shoe or an eight deck shoe, so we can sit there longer and not play.

The big surprise with this tip is that Zick doesn't look for an eight card shoe or an eight deck shoe, so we can sit there longer and not play.

Rights the mid deck.

Rights the mid deck.

Yeah, but that's better.

Yeah, but that's better.

I like that.

I like that.

There are some that.

There are some that.

Strategy also works at the video poker bar in the high limit rooms as well. You could you know, throw throw some money and play a few hands, get a high quality drink that year. Not gonna got a casino four and uh, you know, if that's how you want to roll, God bless, have a great time, not how I roll my bath room play it. That's my issue.

Strategy also works at the video poker bar in the high limit rooms as well. You could you know, throw throw some money and play a few hands, get a high quality drink that year. Not gonna got a casino four and uh, you know, if that's how you want to roll, God bless, have a great time, not how I roll my bath room play it. That's my issue.

Never ever use a bathroom a community bathroom in Las Vegas. Always going bill, you've done this right, You've especially had something, you have the wrong thing to eat. You eat a big buffet boom going going to the high limit that no one's ever in those bathrooms and and and they're pretty nice.

Never ever use a bathroom a community bathroom in Las Vegas. Always going bill, you've done this right, You've especially had something, you have the wrong thing to eat. You eat a big buffet boom going going to the high limit that no one's ever in those bathrooms and and and they're pretty nice.

Yeah, how about those highlights when you go in the high limit rooms. Uh, Caesars used to have it. And in the back of their high limit table games area they have, you know, a little food set up and no one's checking for your seven star card. Just there's probably all over town. Now I don't do this, but I know that all over town they have these little high end especially on the weekends, clubs set up on the weekend for the higher players. You know, you're addressed nice here, you act as if I mean they had homeless people in these places. Years years ago, and people suing that they couldn't and then they want Actually you're allowed to walk into any high limit pit and watch the players. Some people don't like that. Now there's those private rooms and stuff, but they have the high limit areas set up with a little buffet like snacks and little like little mini cheeseburgers or whatever sliders, and you can just walk right in if you just act as if.

Yeah, how about those highlights when you go in the high limit rooms. Uh, Caesars used to have it. And in the back of their high limit table games area they have, you know, a little food set up and no one's checking for your seven star card. Just there's probably all over town. Now I don't do this, but I know that all over town they have these little high end especially on the weekends, clubs set up on the weekend for the higher players. You know, you're addressed nice here, you act as if I mean they had homeless people in these places. Years years ago, and people suing that they couldn't and then they want Actually you're allowed to walk into any high limit pit and watch the players. Some people don't like that. Now there's those private rooms and stuff, but they have the high limit areas set up with a little buffet like snacks and little like little mini cheeseburgers or whatever sliders, and you can just walk right in if you just act as if.

That's why Palms has so Palms by the registration area, just walk in. There's a couple hosts there. Just just act like you know them, wave to them and just get your coffee. Go ahead and get your muffins. Get with you and I will do that.

That's why Palms has so Palms by the registration area, just walk in. There's a couple hosts there. Just just act like you know them, wave to them and just get your coffee. Go ahead and get your muffins. Get with you and I will do that.

It's fun, do you guys?

It's fun, do you guys?

Wait, let me let me just clarify that. So are you saying, like, you know how the Tower Suites at the Aria has like a little buffet at the bottom there, but you're not necessarily staying in a Tower Suites room or at the bellagio, there's that when you walk into the beautiful lobby. You know, if you go right to the right there there's like a door with all kinds of shit in there too. Are you saying you just walk in there.

Wait, let me let me just clarify that. So are you saying, like, you know how the Tower Suites at the Aria has like a little buffet at the bottom there, but you're not necessarily staying in a Tower Suites room or at the bellagio, there's that when you walk into the beautiful lobby. You know, if you go right to the right there there's like a door with all kinds of shit in there too. Are you saying you just walk in there.

Yeah, no too, you need to get in some of the wind medium and place doesn't have a a what do they call that someone at the door. They don't have a doorkeeper. Basically to check.

Yeah, no too, you need to get in some of the wind medium and place doesn't have a a what do they call that someone at the door. They don't have a doorkeeper. Basically to check.

Just check out. Let's get to the good stuff. Well, crescendo to restaurants. But let's let's drift back into sports and sports betting. Let's talk about brick and mortar sports books, and then we can talk about apps brick and mortar sports books if you had to watch a game there. Let's not talk about Super Bowl March Matis. Let's just talk about a on a normal day in Vegas. Let's say a football weekend. I'm on a college football Saturday or even like a Wednesday watching NBA. What are your favorite sports books to hang out in.

Just check out. Let's get to the good stuff. Well, crescendo to restaurants. But let's let's drift back into sports and sports betting. Let's talk about brick and mortar sports books, and then we can talk about apps brick and mortar sports books if you had to watch a game there. Let's not talk about Super Bowl March Matis. Let's just talk about a on a normal day in Vegas. Let's say a football weekend. I'm on a college football Saturday or even like a Wednesday watching NBA. What are your favorite sports books to hang out in.

Bill Okay for fandom. If I'm with my friends and you know they love to hang out, you know their East Coast guys from back to back East, and they want to come into town, I'll go to a circa or West skate where they're getting experience like they've never seen before, Giant screens all around them and it's just like the Mega of the world. Now, if I'm just with one friend and I want to hang out and get some free drinks, and I'll go to the Wind because the Wind Sports book is great to me, and you know, I get drinks and stuff. But if I'm in a group, I like going to like the West Gate, I'll hit up John Murray or someone there and they'll get me into a even one of the Boots or something. They're very good to me over there at the West skate with with a group. But like I said one friend, I'm probably going to go to the Wind Veez, I'm.

Bill Okay for fandom. If I'm with my friends and you know they love to hang out, you know their East Coast guys from back to back East, and they want to come into town, I'll go to a circa or West skate where they're getting experience like they've never seen before, Giant screens all around them and it's just like the Mega of the world. Now, if I'm just with one friend and I want to hang out and get some free drinks, and I'll go to the Wind because the Wind Sports book is great to me, and you know, I get drinks and stuff. But if I'm in a group, I like going to like the West Gate, I'll hit up John Murray or someone there and they'll get me into a even one of the Boots or something. They're very good to me over there at the West skate with with a group. But like I said one friend, I'm probably going to go to the Wind Veez, I'm.

Going to the Wind. I love that deep boutique feeling there. But Circa I'm gonna I'm gonna Spiller. I'm gonna say Stadium swim is kind of part of the casino watching games and stay in swim. You don't need a seat, don't pay for a seat, just jump in the pool and watch the games. It is just tremendous. Caesars Palace. You know, we've Todd, Todd, Gilly and I have hung out there. Just then those recliners in the back. It's it's so dark and it's very relaxing. It so yet stations Westgate, they it's cavernous. It's they do a nice job.

Going to the Wind. I love that deep boutique feeling there. But Circa I'm gonna I'm gonna Spiller. I'm gonna say Stadium swim is kind of part of the casino watching games and stay in swim. You don't need a seat, don't pay for a seat, just jump in the pool and watch the games. It is just tremendous. Caesars Palace. You know, we've Todd, Todd, Gilly and I have hung out there. Just then those recliners in the back. It's it's so dark and it's very relaxing. It so yet stations Westgate, they it's cavernous. It's they do a nice job.

Uh.

Uh.

And and I think stations the high end stations, Green Valley and Red Rock, and certainly South Point. I like south Point separates the race book from the sports book. That is really nice because those two groups don't always play nice together.

And and I think stations the high end stations, Green Valley and Red Rock, and certainly South Point. I like south Point separates the race book from the sports book. That is really nice because those two groups don't always play nice together.

They don't, that's right. I will also concur that Circa for those who don't know Circa's sports book, downtown casinos are I mean, resort properties are known for things Circa is known for, Like when you think of it, it's the sports book, the world's largest sports book, and of course what Steve said, stadium swim as part of that adjunct to that. And I agree with the with the Wind call. We don't usually talk about the Wind sports book, but it's like a stock Market times squarish kind of look. It's super well lit. You just feel, just like the Wind brand, that you're in the best place. Though, I will say, like another sort of hidden gem on the strip when you can't get a seat somewhere else or the other places are too smoky or whatever. I think I brought this up last year too, The Cromwell, which is right in the middle of the strip, corner of Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard, it's only about twenty seats. Like the Cosmo, it's small Cosmopolitan, but both of those books have great screens and are usually accessible. Cosmpolitan maybe not as much, but the Cromwell's kind of a hidden gem that there's all always a seat available in.

They don't, that's right. I will also concur that Circa for those who don't know Circa's sports book, downtown casinos are I mean, resort properties are known for things Circa is known for, Like when you think of it, it's the sports book, the world's largest sports book, and of course what Steve said, stadium swim as part of that adjunct to that. And I agree with the with the Wind call. We don't usually talk about the Wind sports book, but it's like a stock Market times squarish kind of look. It's super well lit. You just feel, just like the Wind brand, that you're in the best place. Though, I will say, like another sort of hidden gem on the strip when you can't get a seat somewhere else or the other places are too smoky or whatever. I think I brought this up last year too, The Cromwell, which is right in the middle of the strip, corner of Flamingo and Las Vegas Boulevard, it's only about twenty seats. Like the Cosmo, it's small Cosmopolitan, but both of those books have great screens and are usually accessible. Cosmpolitan maybe not as much, but the Cromwell's kind of a hidden gem that there's all always a seat available in.

You know, let me talk about the Cromwell. Also because Paris Flamingo horseshoe. These are dumps.

You know, let me talk about the Cromwell. Also because Paris Flamingo horseshoe. These are dumps.

Sorry.

Sorry.

The Cromwell used to be the Barber Coast. It is tremendous. So if you're like a seven star and you go in there, they're going to upgrade you to their suites. I've stayed there numerous times. They have a pinball machine suite. They in the book Koenix book The Sharp Money. He's like Doldale says, we got sweites and they're nice, and he says, and they're not kidding. Those are some of the best suits in the most easily accessible suites. Just book a normal room. You got some status, you're like, go to see a host. They're like, I'll give it. I'll let you upgrade for one hundred nights. Sometimes they give it to you for free.