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Tips from our SportsBook expert
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Max Bling Vegas
With a rockin' run at the craps table, you, too, can live the sick Vegas lifestyle. Here's what to do with your killing:
• Check into the MGM Grand's brand new Skylofts, reserved just for high rollers like you. The 51 two-story layouts are sweet with ultra-modern digs, plasma HDTVs everywhere, Web radio hookups, even a butler to operate your espresso machine. Did we mention the hottest bathrooms we've ever seen? They ain't cheap, but what do you care. The smallest suites are huge and cost $800 a night--but the big boys are about the size of a small-city airport and'll set you back 10,000 big ones every night.
• Go see KA, the mindblowing new Cirque du Soleil show, also in the MGM Grand (your Skylofts butler can take care of this, too). The best seats for this $200-million cross between martial arts epic and Lord of the Rings fantasy are worth every cent of the $150 they cost. This may be the coolest stage production ever, anywhere. In Vegas, that's saying something.
• Order the $175 Kobe beef steak at Bradley Ogden's in Caesars Palace, voted best new Vegas restauarant. Yeah, it's good.
• Scope the beautiful babes go-go dancing and performing in the new-fashioned burlesque show at Tangerine in the TI  (which is what Treasure Island is called now). Go late. Stay later.
• Swag left over? Check out Regali in the Bellagio, probably the coolest store a guy could drop big money in. Maybe on an old-school guitar signed by Elvis ($30,000), or an MTT Turbine Superbike ($150,000), the first turbine powered, street legal motorcycle, with a top speed of 227 mph. That should take the edge off, bro.
| Going public?: The Hard Rock in London.
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London Casinos Unplugged
Explaining Great Britain's archaic gaming laws is a lot like explaining Utah's liquor laws, where you have to become a member of a "club" before you can belly up to the bar. No country has stranger rules regulating its casinos.
Though the British Casino Association lists 23 member casinos in London-including the Hard Rock Casino--you must be a member or accompany a member to enter any of them. (A thorough rethinking of the laws is currently under way, so this may change in the near future.) And while most casino clubs are in fact really public, a few require hefty membership fees. One of these, the Ritz Club in the hotel of the same name, bends those rules by allowing hotel guests to become temporary members without having to cough up the $1,500 or so it would otherwise require.
Ah, but no worries, old chap--obtaining free "membership" to most gaming clubs is a matter of simply applying. If you apply in person (addresses are listed on the Website), you will be required to wait 24 hours before entry. Or you can request and submit your application by mail, so your membership will be waiting in London. The Hard Rock Casino streamlines the process even more, permitting online applications
Hey, isn't that Jimmy Bond over there at the baccarat table?
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