[Buzz123]

Originally Posted by MadManofBethesda

Okay, I'm officially confused.

Are you giving me a history lesson or are you telling me that grocery stores still have slot machines (as opposed to VP) and I just haven't been observant?

Yes.

[tr00th]

Thanks for much for the info I've gotten from you guys so far, hopefully I can more opinions from other people. Learning all kinda of new things I didn't know.

[LVPoker1]

Originally Posted by jfkIII

Source, please. I've never heard this.

The VP machines that were all over the south a decade ago, that AFAIK are banned in every state but WV now, were like that. You could set the game two ways as an owner. One was an honest, random RNG/shuffle. The other was called "Pull Tab" where it essentially played like a slot and you set the payback %. If you got dealt 4 of a kind and threw it away it would give you 4 of a kind back.

I moved here from South Dakota where they have video lottery which is similar to LV VP bars. The machines were legit shuffles, they just had terrible paybacks. Montana used the same machines.

[LVPoker1]

I can think of a few misconceptions:

1. It seems half the world thinks prostitutes are legal in Las Vegas. State law forbids it in the entire county. Of course that doesn't stop anything in LV.

2. The strip is not actually in Las Vegas like most people think. I believe the only strip casino in the city of Las Vegas is Stratosphere.

3. People hear so many horror stories about the unemployment and housing problems here that they picure homeless people sleeping on the streets everywhere and endless businesses and neighborhoods abandoned. While times are tough you don't really notice it driving around. The exceptions are some of the fringe areas where building stopped halfway.

[JonathanLB]

The Strip isn't in Las Vegas? News to me, yes it is -- check the addresses. The Strip isn't DOWNTOWN, which is a huge misconception, a lot of people think there is no downtown Las Vegas, that the Strip is in fact downtown, haha, which is wrong. The Strip is its own entity and as you head closer to the North Strip (Stratosphere, Allure, etc.) you are getting closer to Downtown. I don't live there so I'm not perfectly sure but that is what it seems like.

The biggest misconception I think is sheer tourist idiocy, which is basically like nobody could live in Vegas because they'd party all of the time and it's crazy. Umm, just because you go to Vegas for 4 days and act like a drunken idiot the whole time (which is cool, hey, have fun!) doesn't mean that you somehow automatically have to do that if you live in Vegas. There's something called discipline I'm sure a lot of people move to L.A. even and go crazy, but this is a work city and most people here work hard.

Which is why I was puzzled by the OPs comments. Uhh, there are a lot of stereotypes about L.A., but not that people here are lazy. Nobody would think that. In fact just the opposite -- people here work much harder than most places in the country because so many people have two jobs to support themselves if they're at the low end of the spectrum and at the high end, you have the entertainment industry people who bust their butts to get to the top. It's highly competitive and nobody lazy makes it long in L.A., trust me. Maybe you are referring to Long Beach and surfers or something, but that ain't L.A. The stereotype here would be that everyone is an actor, actress, writer, director, or producer, and that's actually not far off the truth. I mean, it's a huge exaggeration but I promise you if you go to a bar or restaurant, almost everyone working there has a script or is an actor. It's not like that in any other city that I know of. It's the norm here but if you asked someone in my home town who worked as a bar tender, "Hey, are you an actor?" They'd look at you like you were insane and say, "Uhh I'm a bartender. Duh." Here, I once asked this guy who was a bartender at a catered event, "So do you do any acting work?" It was just the opposite, he looked at me like I was crazy for even asking, "Uhh, yeah, we are all actors." I figured that because the two chicks were really hot and these guys weren't bad looking, so it's a good bet anyone here in food services or valet is an actor

I hate a lot of things (most) about L.A., but NOBODY would say people in L.A. are lazier, this is the craziest most hustle-bustle city on the West Coast and probably second only to New York in how much people are willing to deal with and put up with for their careers. Everyone I know works so hard and often for very little money.

[LVPoker1]

Originally Posted by JonathanLB

The Strip isn't in Las Vegas? News to me, yes it is -- check the addresses.

The name Las Vegas is often applied to unincorporated areas that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip. The 4.2 mi (6.8 km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard known as the Strip is mainly in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester, while a small portion overlaps into Las Vegas and the unincorporated community of Enterprise.

Las Vegas, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On this link you will see that the city does not go south of Sahara on Las Vegas Blvd.

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As for addresses my address is Las Vegas too but I live in unincorporated Clark County. When an address isn't in a city the post office typically uses the closest city as the mailing address.

[olecapt]

The strip has a Las Vegas postal address but it is not in the City of Las Vegas. It is in the County of Clark. Geographically it is in the Las Vegas valley. Then again so is Henderson and NLV.

In the most important terms the strip revenues flow to the County of Clark...not the City of Las Vegas .

[Exaday]

I'll tell you a couple of local ones.

Many gamblers believe a slot machine is luckier than others so they will only play on "their" machines getting upset if someone is at it. I've even had people catch attitude with me at a PT's when I was at their machine.

On the same note people believe that if they just left a machine and the person who sat in their seat wins, that they would have one if they had not let the seat.

Machine that just hit the jackpot will go cold for a while/ some believe opposite.

Odds are better on Max Bet

New hotels loosen their slots and will pay out the megabucks.

[tr00th]

Originally Posted by JonathanLB

The Strip isn't in Las Vegas? News to me, yes it is -- check the addresses. The Strip isn't DOWNTOWN, which is a huge misconception, a lot of people think there is no downtown Las Vegas, that the Strip is in fact downtown, haha, which is wrong. The Strip is its own entity and as you head closer to the North Strip (Stratosphere, Allure, etc.) you are getting closer to Downtown. I don't live there so I'm not perfectly sure but that is what it seems like.

The biggest misconception I think is sheer tourist idiocy, which is basically like nobody could live in Vegas because they'd party all of the time and it's crazy. Umm, just because you go to Vegas for 4 days and act like a drunken idiot the whole time (which is cool, hey, have fun!) doesn't mean that you somehow automatically have to do that if you live in Vegas. There's something called discipline I'm sure a lot of people move to L.A. even and go crazy, but this is a work city and most people here work hard.

Which is why I was puzzled by the OPs comments. Uhh, there are a lot of stereotypes about L.A., but not that people here are lazy. Nobody would think that. In fact just the opposite -- people here work much harder than most places in the country because so many people have two jobs to support themselves if they're at the low end of the spectrum and at the high end, you have the entertainment industry people who bust their butts to get to the top. It's highly competitive and nobody lazy makes it long in L.A., trust me. Maybe you are referring to Long Beach and surfers or something, but that ain't L.A. The stereotype here would be that everyone is an actor, actress, writer, director, or producer, and that's actually not far off the truth. I mean, it's a huge exaggeration but I promise you if you go to a bar or restaurant, almost everyone working there has a script or is an actor. It's not like that in any other city that I know of. It's the norm here but if you asked someone in my home town who worked as a bar tender, "Hey, are you an actor?" They'd look at you like you were insane and say, "Uhh I'm a bartender. Duh." Here, I once asked this guy who was a bartender at a catered event, "So do you do any acting work?" It was just the opposite, he looked at me like I was crazy for even asking, "Uhh, yeah, we are all actors." I figured that because the two chicks were really hot and these guys weren't bad looking, so it's a good bet anyone here in food services or valet is an actor

I hate a lot of things (most) about L.A., but NOBODY would say people in L.A. are lazier, this is the craziest most hustle-bustle city on the West Coast and probably second only to New York in how much people are willing to deal with and put up with for their careers. Everyone I know works so hard and often for very little money.

I know that people in the West work very hard to make a living. You guys are some of the smartest and brightest people in America. You guys lead in technology, medicine, entertainment, etc.

I've lived on the East coast all my life now, and the tone I get mostly from people who live in NY, Boston, Philly is that they work harder then you guys, cause they got to do "real" work and you guys just play with computers all day, drinking coffee and trying to be the next big thing. I know this isn't true, but it's what I've been told is true from some of people on this side of the country.

My opinion on the West coast, honestly is that it's one of the most beautiful parts of our country, the people are unique, very mellow and innovated and it's just a wonderful area.

I'm not trying to diss the West coast, trust me....If anything I'm trying to get CLOSER to the West coast, well as close as Vegas is, cause when CA falls into the ocean, NV will have a nice cool beach! :P j/k

[macgeek]

Originally Posted by Exaday

I'll tell you a couple of local ones.

Many gamblers believe a slot machine is luckier than others so they will only play on "their" machines getting upset if someone is at it. I've even had people catch attitude with me at a PT's when I was at their machine.

On the same note people believe that if they just left a machine and the person who sat in their seat wins, that they would have one if they had not let the seat.

Machine that just hit the jackpot will go cold for a while/ some believe opposite.

Odds are better on Max Bet

New hotels loosen their slots and will pay out the megabucks.

Good one!
also casino personnel know where the 'hot machines' are

if you have a cheap room reserved and give the check in person $50 you will get upgraded to a suite

Valet's / Porters know how to get you a prostitute

A casino host can get you anything you desire

You have better odds of winning in a high stakes room

If you hit a jackpot, your room will be comped

Jonathan