For visitors
11 ways Las Vegas takes your money before you've placed a bet
The casino floor is the honest part. Everything between the airport and your first hand of blackjack is where the real house edge lives.
Las Vegas is undefeated. Survive it anyway.
Vital tips and true stories for visitors, and for the people who moved here and never left. 1 or 2 a day. No fluff, no sponsors telling us what to say.
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For new residents
You moved to Las Vegas. Here's what nobody warned you about.
The Strip is not the city, the cold tap runs hot in August, and the casino 3 miles from your house is about to become your living room.
True story
Las Vegas exists because a railroad needed a place to stop for water
Nobody planned this city. A spring, a land auction, a dam, and a state that legalized gambling in the middle of the Depression did it by accident.