The 15th annual
Extreme Thing Sports & Music Festival will be back in Las Vegas
next Saturday, March 27, 2010 at Desert Breeze Skate Park, for an
exciting day of rock and extreme sports, including a Pro BMX dirt jump
competition, professional wrestling, roller derby, as well as the Vegas
AmJam amateur BMX and skate competition.

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Here is an offer for
golfers that is worth taking a look at. Just book two rounds of golf at
Royal Links Golf Club and Desert Pines Golf Club and you will receive
two nights stay in Las Vegas, absolutely FREE. This offer is good until Friday, February 19th, 2010.

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The hugely successful online poker website FullTilt.com is taking the coverage to the next level with the 2009 World Series of Poker with their 2009 World Series of Poker Coverage Page, a new website dedicated to give players on everything related to the WSOP 2009, including players views, players’ insights, players’ coverage, minute to minute updates, poker stars’ blogs and more.

FullTiltPoker.com’s new 2009 WSOP Coverage Page is not the same ol’ news section provided by tons of other sites. The site is broken down into three areas, and includes a daily highlights part in where viewers can get access to the WSOP 2009 events info, results, players and more in a series of articles written by the FullTilt.com staff members Roy Winston and AlCantHang. Besides the typical daily updates and results on all of the event, FullTilt.com’s WSOP Coverage Page also features two poker blogs, Poker from the Rail Blog, which highlights comments, covering news, insider info from Full Tilt star players, comments from FullTiltPoker.com’s players and authors and guest posts from guest bloggers, and the Pro Blog, which highlights commentaries from members of Team Full Tilt participating in the World Series of Poker 2009, including Andy Bloch, Jon “Pearljammed” Turner and Roy Winston.

Also, Full Tilt Poker’s new WSOP Coverage Page has a Twitter section that provides live updates and notes from different poker players. Poker players involved in the Twitter portion include, Beth Shak, Jennifer Harman, Andy Bloch, Howard Lederer, Mike Matusow and Rafe Furst. The Twitter portion allows players to send short messages allowing people from around the world to stay informed. These updates known as “tweets”, can be forwarded from anywhere through a cellular phone or other portable device.

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Vegas industrialist Steve Wynn undeniably has a reason to be keyed up about this holiday time. With an investment of around $2.3 billion, the spectacular hotel named Encore will be open for business this coming week.

This plush hotel and casino is joined to the tremendously fashionable Wynn Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip. As tons of LV hotel owners are doing the best they can to come across a direction to keep their hotels from closing, Wynn is doing pretty well with his $billion hotel-casino investments.

This 2,000 room hotel and casino is a great addition to the Wynn Las Vegas. The main focus of this tower will be the nightclub, dubbed XS. Steve Wynn has seen recently that nightclubs are a huge attraction in Sin City, and not predominantly the hotel-casinos like they have been in the past. Wynn says that LV nightclubs for the most part make more riches and are a massive hotspot for the younger pack.

He has also built an extravagant steakhouse adjacent to the XS nightclub. Inspired by the popular Colombian painter, Fernando Botero this circular restaurant has a gigantic Botero carving as the focal point. Not quite impressive as the nightclub which it is joined to; the Botero steakhouse is designed to complement quite well with the ostentatious Sin City nightclub.
The design behind XS and Botero is a sort of St. Tropez air, where the bash goes on 24 hours a day and the main part of the party occurs close to a swimming pool or beach-type setting. Things are not the same in Vegas, where most people favor parties to slots in this day and age.

Following almost 1 year of resting, the Mirage Hotel’s renowned volcano will be reborn larger and more stunning than ever before. The popular Sin City casino and hotel is doing their best to attract as many vacationers as feasible to explore their transformation.

This upcoming New Year’s Eve, the daredevil and stuntman Robbie Knievel will attempt a motorbike leap over the Mirage Casino’s manmade volcano. This act will mark the conclusion of a three-year restoration of the LV hotel-casino. Over the course of this period, the Las Vegas casino has put in over $110 million enhancing their accommodations and suites.

The upcoming New Year’s Eve feat is supposedely Knievel’s final stunt in the U.S.. The stunt will last for 5 minutes and present fireworks and a high-tech music recording. The music for the act has been performed by Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart. Robbie Knievel is the son of the deceased Evil Knievel-the world’s first and most renowned daredevils.

The Las Vegas Mirage was constructed in 1989 by Sin City mogul Steve Wynn and was regarded as Sin City’s first megaresort. This improvement is one of a large cluster on the Vegas Strip recently. This casino desires that this presentation will pull a large amount of sightseers to the Sin City hotel and casino. The scheme behind the improvement is to compete with other popular Sin City hotels like the Bellagio resort.

The Las Vegas, Nevada event the majority of boxing aficionados have been waiting for is right around the corner. Oscar De La Hoya will face one of boxing’s current greatest fighters, Manny “Pac-Man” Pacquiao. This boxing match is on schedule for Sat. December 6th in the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Without a doubt there has been much conversation in Las Vegas regarding this bout. De La Hoya has cut his weight down to 147 lbs. to contend as a welterweight, and people say that Oscar might not be as sturdy since the drop in weight. Pacquiao has already competed one time as a lightweight and wishes to fight in the welterweight category. Pacquiao is also the current lightweight champion , and is regarded by many professionals to be the best boxer at the moment.

This is The Golden Boy’s first visit back to LV for a bout since he fought Floyd Mayweather Jr. in May of last year. This match is without a doubt a sell-out for the MGM Las Vegas. Tourists to Las Vegas, Nevada have decreased recently, but Vegas events like this boxing match really have a way of attracting people to Las Vegas.

This match will unquestionably be one to remember for years to come as it brings together the two top fighters of these past few years in a twelve round welterweight match. Oscar “Golden Boy” De La Hoya vs. Pacquiao tickets are being sold right now. If you were to see only one Las Vegas event during 2008, this is definitely the Las Vegas Event to attend.

Enthusiasts of next year’s C.E.S. Las Vegas could be in for a pleasant shock. Regularly, close to this time it is almost unheard of to discover a vacant Las Vegas hotel room anywhere near Las Vegas, Nevada, but the approaching C.E.S. Las Vegas, Nevada is shaping up to be an exception to the rule. A good number of the best resort hotels on the Vegas Strip have astoundingly cut their prices as much as 20%.

Nearly 100,000 tourists invade LV each year to check out the innovative electronics exhibited by the C.E.A.. The LV event is held from Jan. 8-11 with the big part of the events on display in the Venetian Hotel Resort and the Sands Vegas. This ends up being a season when finding a good hotel price becomes practically an impossible job.

The C.E.A. stated last week that a bunch of the Las Vegas Strip hotel resorts have slashed their hotel room rates, most of them by a pretty large percentage. If you already booked your hotel room, you may want to research some of the Vegas deals on Las Vegas hotel rooms. A good example of this is: the Tropicana hotel has slashed their room rate by nearly seventeen percent. The majority of the LV hotel resorts in use by the C.E.S., have begun offering exceptional C.E.S. rates to the guests of the LV event.

Many professionals state that this reduction in Sin City hotel and casino rates is based on the fact that many of the electronics enterprises have had to cut back on the number of workers they are flying out to the event. This makes the Sin City resort hotels to slash their prices to interest more tourists to their hotel casinos during this event. Others suggest that it is due to the current scarcity of sightseers to LV in comparison to the past few years.

Despite the fact that you are short on cash and want to get away for the weekend, Las Vegas, Nevada can be an inexpensive escape if you make reservations in advance and do some research. It is definitely important to have a clear picture of what you want to see, how long you want to stay, and which hotel you are going to stay at. If you have a clear idea of these issues, then your escape to Sin City will certainly be one to remember.

As far as flights are concerned, this will probably take the most effort on your part to find the best price. Many airline companies are cutting back flights, due in part to the economic and fuel condition in the U.S.. It may be a good idea to compare travel packages from a number of different companies; a good example of these kinds of packages could be hotel + flight + car rental for a set price. You may find in some cases that it is cheaper to pay for these separately. The difference in cost you may find could be big.

One suggestion that you may find valuable is to sign up for e-mail notifications from the hotels and airlines you are interested in. You will receive an e-mail when their best deals are available somewhere around two months early. A good tip is to make sure that if you have already booked a Las Vegas hotel room, continue to check the rates that they are publishing all the way until the date of your trip. The rates might drop so if you see a price less expensive than the one you reserved, go ahead and talk to the hotel about changing the cost of your room.

Try to remember that the number of people visiting Vegas is less these days, Sin City hotels and casinos are looking to attract clients. Right now is a perfect moment to take a weekend trip to Vegas.

Along with the unbelievable success of the Tao Las Vegas at the Venetian Hotel, the creators of this Vegas nightclub are inaugurating a spanking new Roman/Mediterranean designed eatery called Lavo which can be found in the Palazzo resort hotel. This radical plan is inspired by the Roman bathhouses of ancient times. A great deal of effort has been put into the historical accuracy of this nightclub and into the small details as well.

This restaurant has enough seating for 300 people and includes a menu chock full of Mediterranean cuisine. Their menu is intended to encourage the sharing of appetizers and small servings, as opposed to large one-person meals. The restaurant segment also has an outdoor deck which can hold 100 guests and overlooks the well-known Las Vegas Strip.

The nightclub part has a state of the art audio and video system while live DJs are always available to keep the crowd entertained. The nightclub stays open six nights a week opening its doors at 10:00 pm and closing about 5 am. What the club doesn’t have is a VIP area, which the owners say is to have a more communal atmosphere.

Lavo always has lots of eye candy for the visitors (especially the male visitors). There is a model endlessly bathing herself in the restaurant, female dancers, and other models acting out different historical scenarios. On the patio, you will find a stash of hookahs with a “hookah master” helping you make the best choice.

This restaurant/nightclub is administered by the same group that opened Tao nightclub in the Venetian Resort in 2005. Ever since the opening of this nightclub it has been one of the most popular clubs in Las Vegas, visited mostly by celebs. Along with the Tao Asian Bistro and Tao Beach, these have been the highest grossing destinations in the U.S. since 2006. This new space will definitely be a huge draw for The Palazzo Vegas. It already has 3000 luxury suites, the best shopping stores, and Sin City’s finest restaurants and entertainment.

Although all the big casinos are doing their best to attract more Vegas visitors this year with price cuts and vouchers, their slot machine business is dropping. And while Vegas slot machine business creates about two thirds of Sin City’s profits, it’s not such good news for the Las Vegas casinos.

According to the Gaming Control Board, Sin City gamblers wagered $1.1 billion less in slot machines than last year. Slot machines on The Sin City Strip are down half a billion dollars. This corresponds to a drop of 12% compared to 2007. With drivers shelling out more than $4 per gallon for gas, gamblers are really having to count their pennies nowadays. Although with the cost of gasoline going down, these numbers may change in the near future.

Casinos aren’t really bothered about this drop in slot machine proceeds, the latest reports show that table game play is actually going up. On The Strip the volume for Las Vegas table games is up 5 percent, with baccarat play up 15 percent and blackjack on the rise at 7 percent. This might seem like good news but, the truth is that Las Vegas hotel casinos won 21 percent less in July as a result of some lucky gamblers as well as bettors taking home a larger percentage than usual.

The famous saying, “The house always wins”, may have been true in the past. But as these reports tell us, Sin City casinos are having a harder time making a profit than in the past. This could be a great time for bettors to start using their hotel casino coupons, taking advantage of rebates, and using their frequent flyer miles. With the Las Vegas, Nevada casinos having a run of bad luck, this could be the most convenient moment for you to take a trip to Las Vegas.