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Go out to bars and nightclubs in Las Vegas

In May 2009, I spent three nights in Las Vegas. I thought I had time to do a little poker, test slots and possibly nightclubs. In fact, the latter proved to be so awesome that I have done nothing!

For information, each hotel in Las Vegas (among large, like the Bellagio, the MGM, the Cae sars Palace, Luxor, etc..), You can usually find a casino (poker / slot machines / wheels), a dance bar and a nightclub. If you do well, early evening, the streets of Las Vegas, you can get free tickets for any of the various hotels!

In three nights, we could test with five pals different clubs:

  • The Playboy Club and Moon:
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Playboy Club

Our first evening. Personally, I was not super keen on the idea of ​​going there (Located in the Palms). A nightclub Playboy, "mouais" I said to myself, if it is to get together with the readers of this magazine (while imagining the old American bald and fat, perspiring in front of a pin-up disguised as rabbit) ... Having a power of persuasion apparently quite limited with my three friends, we enter the queue of the club.

Pulled up to the bouncers, we must leave our passports. They check that we have 21 years. At 25, it seems flattering! But no. It's just routine, in all places where alcohol is sold. So a council, to save time, prepare your passport, open to the page of your photo.

We arrived at a charming saleswoman at checkout. Re-verification of the passport, and $ 20 for entry. She sticks a stamp on his arm and explains that this allows us to enter two evenings. Ok Directorate the elevator, which brings us within a few seconds to about fifty floors above.

Large room full of slot machines and roulette. Shit, where's our box?! We take a drink, $ 12 cocktails. Of waitresses dressed in pink playboy rabbit run across. She is pretty but nothing more. Looks like Coluche, "Yes they are cute, good enough to be announcers, but they might well have been sellers of waffles!". It is still far from the pin-up magazine. Well we came to dance! We therefore ask the bartender "Hey uh ouai're Zair's Roume waire éveuribodi déne'se? ".

Finally we have to go down the elevator, board a team of bouncers, then climb by another elevator. The idea was to force us to go through a room "casino" to try to make us spend a little money. Hmm ... It's a walk! In short, we finally arrived in LA room, which is the Moon. And there ended the disappointments: A design worked, waitresses more than guns sexy outfits, and most importantly, a magnificent view of Las Vegas at night.

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Moon

At the back of the room a beautiful terrace, spacious, on which many vacationers dressed chic admire the view and sip their cocktails. We are moving towards them. Surprise at the end of the terrace, the floor is transparent. The feeling of walking in space is not to go, but I have rarely seen one as beautiful carpets. The room fills with more and more, the MC up the sound ... and follows a pleasant evening.

We are initially surprised by the immobility of people. The music is loud, the full house, and yet, nobody moves. Regardless, we came to have fun: We Dance! This has the merit to entertain U.S. ... We know that we remain a short time in Las Vegas. Around 3am, we decide to change background: Back on the Strip.

  • The RockHouse:
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Rockhouse

One reason will be enough to bring us into the RockeHouse: € 5 entry. The hotel does not look, but at this price point, we're getting. We realize immediately that we have radically changed environment. Chic outfits, we turn to baggy, sneakers, t-shirts. Classes of designs, and wanted us to spend mundane walls, black / gray a little dirty. A scantily clad Asian dancer sways in the middle of the room, in a huge tire attached to a chain. The advantage: everyone dances. What to do in the late evening if you want a little fun, but it is better to go in the many boxes classes of the city first.

  • Coyote Ugly:
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Coyote Ugly

We have moved quickly in this bar, referring to the movie of the same name, in the early evening (19h). The principle: Waitresses in sexy outfits involve customers (men and women, all ages) in various games that let you earn free drinks. Not my kind of favorite bars, but some seemed to have fun.

  • The Beatles Revolution Lounge (Mirage)
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Beatles Revolution Lounge

Bar / box carefully designed, we had an early evening (22h - midnight) very nice. Class but casual atmosphere, perfect for a drink, and begin to dance on the floor in the early evening.

  • The Pure (the best!)
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Pure Nightclub

Nightclub at Caesar Palace hotel where we were staying, it is the clubs most spacious in the city where we went: 3 or 4 rooms downstairs (I remember getting a little old), and a large terrace, very nice, upstairs. In each room plays well on a different music. Of dance / cabaret are given in a room at set times. We spent two very pleasant evenings! In prices, this memory was correct, below Paris prices: $ 7 beer and $ 10 consos the 'hard'. "The Best"! :)

In May 2010 I returned to Las Vegas, where I still had a great evening:

  • The LAX
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LAX Nightclub

For me the best night I spent in Las Vegas, but I must admit that I was in very good company. This may have affected my judgment :)
The box is not as great as the Pure, but the room is class 2 floors and the sound quality is. As I tried to focus only on the nightclub, I still say it's one of the best that I could go to USD. Atmosphere much like the Duplex in Paris. Price level, it takes $ 10 for a classic consolidated, $ 15 for a vodka - redbull.

Cheating at Poker

Occasional poker player, I just came across videos of pretty impressive card manipulation. This helps to remember that cheating in poker is indeed possible!

The first 2 Stephane Vanel:

Then another of Jean-Jacques Sanvert:

Imagine the damage that could cause these magicians if they reconvertissaient by professional cheats!

Finally, poker online, ca avoids at least to be plucked at this level :)

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