The daily special at Subway today is Tuna...except that they don't run the specials down at the Subway on the strip so I pay full price for a half tuna on honey oat bread. Delicious!
While I was at MGM, I stepped across the street and checked out the Hooters hotel/casino. The rates on Expedia were in the "too good to be true" category since they had weekend rates as low as $40/night. Embarrassingly cheap. The guy in Seat 8 who stacked me said he was staying over there and the rooms were nice. I asked the front desk to see a room and I was given a key to a room upstairs. Checked it out. Small but nice. Nicer than the Flamingo rooms I would say. Lot of music and noise coming from the pool area so you'd have to ask for one facing out of he courtyard. Next trip down, I'd have no problem staying there plus it's right across the street from MGM Grand.
Another thing that I noticed this trip in the Flamingo casino is a hybrid live/computer roulette game. They have a real dealer spinning a real wheel but they have about a dozen computer kiosks surrounding the table for entering bets. Everyone can pick their own numbers while the ball is still rolling and lockouts happen auto-magically I'm sure. Looked plenty popular as well. This one I like. Not as bad as the computer Hold'em tables that were introduced but not well accepted.
Another observation: I think that the 1/3 game at Caesars is slowed down by the chips that they use. Instead if just 1s and 5s, they throw in a $2 chip as well so posting a red in the BB will get you a green double instead of two singles so a ton of time pre-flop is spent by the dealer trying to get change right. I think it would move a lot faster if they just cut out the pale green $2 chips...but who made me floor director at Caesars? Guy at the MGM said that they play their 1/3 table with just 1s and 3s! So betting is all in multiples of 3s! Jason would LOVE it! Making it $20 to go would be replaced by seven trip chips. $50's closest thing is 17 chips but at that point you are probably shoving out a stack of 3s for a $60 bet. You all know how I like using "units" for chips but this one is a bit of an odd duck.
While I was at MGM, I stepped across the street and checked out the Hooters hotel/casino. The rates on Expedia were in the "too good to be true" category since they had weekend rates as low as $40/night. Embarrassingly cheap. The guy in Seat 8 who stacked me said he was staying over there and the rooms were nice. I asked the front desk to see a room and I was given a key to a room upstairs. Checked it out. Small but nice. Nicer than the Flamingo rooms I would say. Lot of music and noise coming from the pool area so you'd have to ask for one facing out of he courtyard. Next trip down, I'd have no problem staying there plus it's right across the street from MGM Grand.
Another thing that I noticed this trip in the Flamingo casino is a hybrid live/computer roulette game. They have a real dealer spinning a real wheel but they have about a dozen computer kiosks surrounding the table for entering bets. Everyone can pick their own numbers while the ball is still rolling and lockouts happen auto-magically I'm sure. Looked plenty popular as well. This one I like. Not as bad as the computer Hold'em tables that were introduced but not well accepted.
Another observation: I think that the 1/3 game at Caesars is slowed down by the chips that they use. Instead if just 1s and 5s, they throw in a $2 chip as well so posting a red in the BB will get you a green double instead of two singles so a ton of time pre-flop is spent by the dealer trying to get change right. I think it would move a lot faster if they just cut out the pale green $2 chips...but who made me floor director at Caesars? Guy at the MGM said that they play their 1/3 table with just 1s and 3s! So betting is all in multiples of 3s! Jason would LOVE it! Making it $20 to go would be replaced by seven trip chips. $50's closest thing is 17 chips but at that point you are probably shoving out a stack of 3s for a $60 bet. You all know how I like using "units" for chips but this one is a bit of an odd duck.
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