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Visit the bizarre side of Vegas with 'Getting off on Frank Sinatra'

Sure, it's a murder mystery. But it's not all doom and gloom. Here at Casino City, our coverage of Las Vegas tends to focus on its gaming industry, since that's sort of our wheelhouse. And anything not strictly gaming-related is still usually geared toward tourists.But there's a lot more to Las Vegas than its casinos, and it's these aspects of the city that we see explored in Megan Edwards' debut novel Getting off on Frank Sinatra, a cozy-ish mystery about an aspiring journalist who finds the corpse of a prominent Las Vegas philanthropist and gets caught up in — and, to be fair, inserts herself into — the subsequent investigation."Las Vegas is full of so many bizarre things," Edwards tells Casino City...read more

Top 10 Las Vegas sportsbook etiquette mistakes

The new sportsbook at The Cosmopolitan Las Vegas (photo by Erik Kabik)With the Super Bowl just two weeks away and March Madness on the horizon, Nevada sportsbooks are preparing for some of their busiest days of the calendar.So, before you make your next pilgrimage to a sports bettors' Disneyland, avoid being "that guy" and don't break the simple — yet often ignored — rules of etiquette below.Trust me, your sportsbook employees and sports betting brethren will thank you.10...read more

MGM Grand's LEVEL UP raises the bar for modern gaming

Skill-based games are slowly but surely establishing themselves as the "new thing," waiting to change the face of the gaming industry.Casinos are looking to integrate this new breed of gambling machine into their repertoire to entice young customers and to add a new spin to the traditional gaming floor...read more

Top 10 highest house edge casino bets

The casino floor of the Atlantis Casino Resort. (photo by Jim G. on Flickr)One of the biggest advantages a gambler has when walking into a casino is the number of options available to put his or her hard-earned money into play.Yes, it's true that you will be at a mathematical disadvantage no matter what game you decide to play, thanks to the inescapable and almighty house edge, which represents the "long run percentage of the wagered money that will be retained by the casino." But that doesn't mean there aren't some options that are much more player-friendly than others.So, since we've already covered the 10 lowest house edge casino bets available, today let's delve into the games offering wagers that will, quite frankly, drain your bankroll if you play them with regularity, with a tip of the hat to WizardofOdds.com for providing the all-important data.10...read more

Top 10 gambling-related books I read in 2016

Mike Sexton: your buddy during a layover. After discovering how much fun televised poker is at the end of last year, I decided that 2016 would be a good year to actually learn a thing or two about the gaming industry outside of what I was picking up during the 40 or so hours a week I spend here at Casino City, because work-life balance is a myth.To that end, I read arguably 20 gambling-related books this year, if you count works of fiction with gambling-related themes...read more

Top 10 most-read top 10s from 2016

With 2016 coming to a close, now is the time for us to take a look back at some of our greatest hits. Throughout the year, we've covered must-sees, must-visits, must-wagers and more. Below, we present the most-read top 10 articles from the past calendar year.But we're sure you've already got these bookmarked...read more

'The Total Poker Manual' is a collection of industry, culture information

Under that glossy cover is a wealth of gorgeous full-color photos. Last week I received an early Christmas present in the form of Eileen Sutton's new book, The Total Poker Manual: 226 Essential Poker Skills, published by Weldon Owen in conjunction with Card Player Magazine.It was a good Christmas present, and I think other people will also find it a good Christmas present, if you're looking for something poker-related to give to the recreational player or poker-curious newbie in your life...read more

Top 10 things I learned attending an eSports event

BOSTON, Mass. -- We've been hearing a lot about eSports over here for the past year or so. While there's been some overlap between the eSports and poker communities for quite a while, casino operators have more recently started to look to get in on the scene: The Downtown Grand in Las Vegas opened up an "eSports lounge" earlier this year, and other casinos are looking to follow suit...read more

Top 10 facts and figures from MGM National Harbor casino

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Move over, Capital Wheel, you've got company.The illuminated 180-foot Ferris wheel, built in 2014 as part of the National Harbor development in Maryland, used to be the dominating landmark that would catch your eye on the way from Washington, D.C., onto the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, which crosses the Potomac River.That all officially changed last week when MGM National Harbor opened its doors and simultaneously took attention away from the Capital Wheel...read more

MGM National Harbor brings Las Vegas to Maryland

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- The clock was just minutes away from midnight on Thursday when Shanelle Rainey strolled into the brand-new MGM National Harbor with wide eyes and a beaming smile. She worked her way through the main entrance that was bottle-necked with thousands of other excited guests and held her iPhone up high as she videoed her maiden voyage to the stunning $1.4 billion resort that sits on the banks of the Potomac River.It didn't matter that Rainey lives nearly an hour away in Woodbridge, Virginia, and was due at her job as a postal worker is less than eight hours...read more