Las Vegas

Las Vegas is a walhalla for anyone who loves to gamble in a casino, as the American city has as many as 75 different casinos. The casinos are therefore often a target for a robbery. On February 27, 2022, it was hit again and the Rio Hotel & Casino was raided. The police officers were quickly notified of the incident and were present at the casino within no time. However, the arrested robber turned out...

On september 24, 1980, a masked gambler walks into Benny Binion's casino in Las Vegas. He carries two suitcases and takes a seat directly behind the craps table in the middle of Binion's Horseshoe Casino. The man opens one of the suitcases. It contains all dollar bills. The man says he wants to do it all at once. The floor manager walks with the story to his boss. "What did I say," Benny said...

Vegas is obsolete by Stephen King in his novel. When we read that, we naturally wonder what kind of thought is behind that short sentence. "Vegas is obsolete." It is about the casinos, not about the city itself with people and activities that have nothing to do with gambling. Stephen King Stephen King is best known as a writer of horror stories, and for...

The month of March 2021 turns out to have been Nevada's best month in eight years for its gambling industry. Thanks to the American Rescue Plan, many residents received a sum of money to stimulate the economy. The U.S. recovery plan is an economic stimulus law. The Biden administration adopted it to restore economic activity. People were given money to run the economy again by buying products. However, it turned out that the majority...

In a small square of a Spanish-style shopping center, about twenty young people play blackjack. They play the game and look in their books. "Las Vegas is crawling," one man says. He turns out to be their teacher from the school for croupiers. "Las Vegas crawls out of a deep valley. Thanks to careful reopenings and vaccinations’" These young people show the positive development, he believes. They are the lucky ones who got a place at the school, drawn from several thousand applications. The...

Michael Barron came up with the idea for the X-train casino. A train had to be taken from Los Angeles to Las Vegas and back. In addition to the casino, all kinds of other activities would take place, both on the train and at the stations. In 2009, Barron released his ideas. A year later, with a business partner, he founded Las Vegas Railway Express (LVRE), the company that would realize the X-train casino. Went with that...

The famous "Venetian Resort" in Las Vegas was sold last week. Sheldon Adelson's company withdraws completely from the American gambling city and focuses its Arrows on the Asian gambling market. The legendary resort and casino was sold for $ 6.2 billion to Apollo Global Management and VICI Properties. Adelson passed away just two months ago. Las Vegas Sands for many years, Las Vegas was the gambling mecca of the world. However, it turns out that other gambling cords...

"Viva Las Vegas man, I really like Las Vegas," Elvis told a reporter. He returned to Memphis in 1956 after his first visit to Vegas. “I'll be back as soon as possible.” And he does. Later that year, he returned to Las Vegas. That's right after the premiere of his first film, Love Me Tender. Elvis does not perform, but entertain himself in the theaters and casinos of...

If we see a book with the title ‘The Gambler’, then we should pay attention to it. The fact that it turns out to be about Kirk Kerkorian of course makes it extra interesting. Kerkorian is the man who worked his way up from imigzodiacson to top casino boss with three times the largest casino in Las Vegas. The bulky book, with the subtitle ' How the impoverished Kirk Kerkorian became the greatest dealmaker in the history of capitalism’, turns out to be a solid biography. And...