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One time way back in 1990 or so, we went to try a burger special at the little Nob Hill casino, located at center Strip. It was a great deal and we were excited that it could fill a spot in the Top Ten in the upcoming Advisor, due out in a week or so.
Well, between the time we sampled the burger and the newsletter deadline, not only did the deal disappear, but so did the whole casino! The joint closed that same week and reopened a few years later as Casino Royale.
Moral of the story: Things change fast around here.
Which is why we’re starting an Updates page. Rather than having to wait ’til the newsletter is published on the last day of the month, we’ll be posting as these things occur. You can check back here to see what might have happened to deals, meals, promotions, Top Tenners, even entire casinos since we last covered them.
This page also gives you a preview of the way we’ll be handling and presenting information after the switch to the new paid-subscription website — posting content regularly as we learn about, and/or experience things that we want to write about and review. And we’re out there, going and doing, every single day.
May Updates
Updated May 6, 2024
G.O.A.T. is now running a play-$20-get-$20 bonus all day on Sundays.
Scoundrels Bonus Discontinued
The Scoundrels Sun.-Tues. bonus has been discontinued.
Updated May 3, 2024
Vic’s Bonus
Vic’s has moved the days of its play-$100-get-$20 bonus; it now runs Sunday-Wednesday.
Peyote Happy Hour
Peyote’s downtown has closed, rendering the happy hour listed in the May LVA unavailable. It’s not confirmed, but it appears the closure is permanent.
Gambling Updates
Updated April 8, 2024
Vic’s Bonus in April
In April, the Vic’s play-$100-get-$20 bonus is running Fri.-Sun. only. On other days there’s 10X points, which isn’t worth much given the poor base schedules.
Updated April 4, 2024
G.O.A.T. Sports Bar Bonus Discontinued
After making several adjustments to its bonus offer in March, G.O.A.T. has now eliminated it completely. There’s still a weekly bonus based on play, but it doesn’t overcome the expected loss to earn it.
Updated March 27, 2024
G.O.A.T. Sports Bar Bonus Adjusted Again
The play requirement at G.O.A.T. is now $1,000 for a $75 bonus. This is still a positive play, but marginal for the time required and added variance.
Updated March 23, 2024
G.O.A.T. Sports Bar Bonus Adjusted
G.O.A.T. has upped the play requirement to $750 for a $75 bonus. It continues to run daily.
Dining Updates
Updated March 19, 2024
Twofer Breakfast at PKWY
Here’s one we missed, but it’s still available. PKWY Tavern at Decatur and W. Flamingo is offering BOGO breakfast Mon.-Fri. from 7 to 11 am. That works out to about $5 per with several choices. The deal is currently scheduled to run through the month. We haven’t checked the other PKWYs, but it appears to be available at all of them.
Updated March 18, 2024
Fremont Shrimp Cocktail Price Increase
The price of the Fremont shrimp cocktail has been raised by $1 again and is now $2.99 ($3.24 after tax). There are no signs anywhere even advertising that it’s available.
Gambling Updates
Updated March 8, 2024
New G.O.A.T. Sports Bar Bonus
G.O.A.T. is running a play-$500-get-$75 bonus daily, from midnight to 4 p.m. Good bonus, plus quad 5-K gets a wheel spin. Also, bring in a taxable within 24 hours of hitting and get $100 in free-play.
Vic’s Bonus Back
After being down for a few days, the play-$100-get-$20 bonus is now active again. It’s offered daily, but you can’t play it on successive days until 24 hours has passed.
Updated March 5, 2024
New Jackpot Bonus
Jackpot Bar and Grille is running a play-$750-get-$75 bonus Monday/Wednesday/Friday. Wednesdays is runs concurrently with additional wheel-spin bonuses.
Vic’s Bonus Missing
Vic’s claims that it’s continuing its play-$100-get-$20 bonus in March along with the March Madness squares, but we’ve been there twice and the free-play isn’t registering. They claim it’s a programing glitch and that bonuses will be added on if you give them your name. But those kinds of promises are 50/50 at best.
MRO Updates
Updated February 16, 2024
There are two updates of note for Member Rewards Online offers. The redemption process for the Palms buffet twofer has been altered slightly in that you must now go to the club booth to have the voucher stamped before taking it to the buffet to redeem. The instructions in the Terms & Conditions on the voucher have been updated. Also, the Rio’s offer for 30%-off the base room rate and waiver of the resort fee is now live. Click here for details.
Gambling Updates
Updated January 20, 2024
Vic’s Squares
Here’s more from Vic’s. Along with the daily $100/$20 deal, you get a Super Bowl square for every 4-of-a-kind. The equity in the square is $11. That raises the return on 6/5 Bonus Poker to 99.47%. Good play for beers in a cool setting and they’re liberal on food comps, though the action required isn’t defined. Parking is a problem; you usually have to park in the adjacent garage, but the charge is usually $1-$2 after validating at the bar.
Updated January 13, 2024
New Jackpot’s Bonus
Vic’s Bonus Sketchy
Vic’s continues to run its daily play-$100-get-$20 deal. The appetizer is no longer included, though they comp liberally for action.
Updated December 21, 2023
Vic’s Bonus
Vic’s, the downtown-area jazz club (355 Promenade Pl.), is running a play-$100-get-$20, daily in December. You also get a free appetizer. Excellent deal, but if you to do it on consecutive days, it has to 24 hours apart. It had been running a similar deal for a sign-up bonus, we don’t if that’s still in force and if they can be done in tandem.
Updated December 4, 2023
Jackpot Bonus Altered
The Jackpot Bar and Grille play-$500-get-$50 bonus is now play-$1,000-get-$50. This is a weak 5% bonus It’s a still a positive play, but only marginally, and with a lot of risk for the big coin-in requirement.
Updated November 27, 2023
Rosati’s Sign-Up Bonus
Rosati’s Pub (8001 N. Durango Dr.) has a play-$20-get-$10 sign-up bonus.
Updated November 8, 2023
Jackpot Bonus Interrupted
The Jackpot Bar and Grille play-$500-get-$50 bonus wasn’t available for a week, but not because it was discontinued. Something was apparently off in the slot-route operator’s programming. The bonus is back as of today, running on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays.
Tavern Wednesdays
The Tavern (1113 S. Rainbow) runs “Wheel Spin Wednesdays.” Join the players club and get the ongoing play-$20-get-$20 sign-up bonus, then also get one free wheel spin every Wednesday when you play $20. We spun twice for $15 and $25 prizes.
Updated October 3, 2023
Jackson’s Bonus Extended
Jackson’s has extended its Sunday play-$300-get-$50 bonus until the Super Bowl. It runs from 9 am to 9 pm and you have to have had at least four previous visits to qualify.
Molly’s Bonus Adjusted
The Molly’s lose-$20-get-$20 promo runs on Mondays and Wednesdays in October.
Chubby’s Bonus Adjusted
The Chubby’s lose-$20-get-$20 promo runs on Mondays and Wednesdays in October.
Atomic Bonus Discontinued
Atomic Tavern has discontinued its daily play-$250-get-$25 bonus.
El Dorado Bonus Discontinued
El Dorado Cantina has discontinued its Monday play $100-get-$20 bonus.
Mango’s Bonus Discontinued
Mango’s has discontinued its play-$500-get-$50 bonus; the daily play-$200-get-$20 bonus is still running.
Updated September 18, 2023
The Monday bonus at El Dorado Cantina Sunset has resumed, but is now play-$100-get-$20.
Updated September 5, 2023
The 20/20 bonus at Atomic Tavern is now 250/25, Mon.-Fri. from noon to 5 p.m.
The bonus at El Dorado Cantina that ran on Mondays has been discontinued.
The 500/50 bonus at Flowing Tides has been discontinued.
Updated August 28, 2023
El Dorado Cantina (8349 W. Sunset) is running a play-$20-get-$20 bonus on Mondays. It’s open 24 hours.
Atomic Tavern (1404 S. Third St.) is running a play-$100-get-$20 bonus daily from noon to 5 p.m.
Mango’s has added a play-$500-get-$50 bonus Sun.-Fri. from 11 p.m. to 11 a.m. The previous daily $20/$200 remains and you can do both the same day. The $500/$50 offer is also available at other bars in the Lodge chain.
The bonus at the Kopper Keg Rainbow that ran daily from midnight to 5 a.m. has been canceled.
Dining Updates
Updated October 24, 2023
South Point Garden Buffet: All buffet prices have gone up by $1. The Friday seafood and prime rib dinner buffet is half an exception, staying the same at the regular price ($49.95), but club members pay $1 more than before at $45.95 . The seafood buffet’s opening time has also been moved up an hour to 3 p.m. and we hear the line is a lot shorter due to the change; it still closes at 9 p.m.
Updated October 23, 2023
Peter Luger steakhouse at Caesars Palace was supposed to debut a week from Wednesday, but to everyone’s surprise, it opened on Thursday, two weeks early. One of the oldest restaurant brands in the country, it dates back to the 1880s in New York, where it has two locations; the Vegas venue is the first beyond the Empire State. The prices are stratospheric: appetizers $15-$35; seafood cocktails $30-$40; seafood towers $96 (for two); chicken $45, lamb chops $75, Dover sole $90, and steaks starting at $72; sides and desserts $15. The restaurant is open daily to 10 p.m. and for lunch Wed.-Sun. at 11 a.m.; two lunch specials are a burger ($25) and steak sandwich ($30).
Updated August 29, 2023
Bacon Nation, the one-of-a-kind “coffee shop with a bacon hook” at the D downtown, has shortened its hours. When it opened last year, it was 24/7. Now it’s only 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Still 16 hours a day, but no longer a late-night play. We reviewed it in the January 2023 LVA and gave it a good one.
Updated August 28, 2023
The price of the shrimp cocktail at the Skyline casino on Boulder Hwy. has been raised by 99¢ to $3.49. This offer will be removed from the Top Ten.
Updated August 24, 2023
We wrote about Sgrizzi Pizza in the January 2023 Advisor. It was in the Ahern non-casino hotel (formerly the Lucky Dragon), a small pizza outlet next to Marc’s Trattoria, run by Marc Sgrizzi, owner-chef at several well-known eateries in town, including Marc’s World Cuisine and Parma. We liked the Sgrizzi pizza so much that we returned a few weeks ago and sure enough, both Sgrizzi and the Trattoria were gone. The room is now called Ottimo and against our better judgment, we tried their pie. We should’ve trusted our intuition; the pizza was instantly forgettable and that’s putting it mildly. Marc’s Ristorante & Bar will reportedly open by the end of the year at 9250 S. Rainbow Blvd. #130.
Entertainment Updates
Update November 6, 2023
Rod Stewart Announces Final Dates for Long Residency: British rocker Rod Stewart launched his residency at Caesars Palace in 2011 and after 13 years is calling it quits. “Rod Stewart – The Hits” will conclude with the performer’s 200th show next summer. The final dates that have just been added are July 24, 26, 27, and 31 and Aug. 2, 3, and 7. Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. PT. A few tickets also remain for Stewart’s dates this month: Nov. 10, 11, 15, 17, 18, and 22 (though we don’t recommend coming to Vegas for the last four shows during the height of the FU F1 misery).
Update November 4, 2023
Scorpions Announce New Residency: The hard-rock and heavy-metal German band Scorpions is returning to Las Vegas for a second residency at the Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood. The Scorpions played nine shows, all sold out, in Vegas in March and April 2022 and will put on another nine shows to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the band’s classic album Love at First Sting (with the hits “Rock You Like a Hurricane,” “Still Loving You,” and “Big City Nights”). The dates are April:11, 13, 18, 20, 24, 26, and 28; and May 1 and 3. General-public tickets go on sale next Thursday.
Updated October 21, 2023
LIOZ Show Closing: The LIOZ Show, a one-man parody-magic performance at the Venue at the Orleans by Israeli illusionist-comedian Lioz Shem Tov, will be closing on Saturday October 29. We offer a $20 discount with our Member Rewards Online coupon, so use it by a week from tomorrow or lose it.
Updated October 19, 2023
RIP Dirk Arthur: Dirk Arthur, a mainstay Las Vegas headliner, illusionist, and big-cat performer of days gone by, died in Las Vegas last Friday at age 63 of an apparent heart attack. Arthur began his career in Las Vegas in the 1990s and continued to perform up until 2015 at Westgate in Dirk Arthur’s Wild Illusions. After that, animal-rights activism pretty much ended any chance he might have had to ply his big-animal trade on stage here. Still, he kept his big cats at his home, struggling to care for them and himself without much income. A fellow performer and animal-refuge proprietor told VitalVegas’ Scott Roeben, “I do not believe my friend Dirk died of a heart attack, but rather of a broken heart.” Scott knew Arthur personally and you can read his eulogy and see a few photos here.
Updated October 16, 2023
Christina Aguilera Plays Voltaire: Following Kylie Minogue at the Venetian’s new “intimate” 1,000-seat concert venue Voltaire, singer-songwriter Christina Aguilera, who’s sold 75 million records and won six Grammys, will do a 10-show residency to launch the new year. The shows will be on Dec. 30 and 31, January 5 and 6, February 2, 3, 9, and 10, and March 1 and 2. Tickets are on sale now starting at $424.