We chat about various listener-submitted topics:

• Marking down the days til Vegas
• Terrbile Blackjack
• Making and breaking travel rules
• Overlooked downtown eateries
• Vegas pool vacation
• Trip report from HatC favorites
• Using your player's card on a work trip

And Jack has an upcming trip to vegas!

And thank you to all our new patrons!

On this action packed Hour 1, we chat about:

• Vegas Pet Peeves
• "One Good Thing"
• Video Poker Gimmicks
• Standalone Properties
• "Where can I Find?"
• Tipping

We start with some listener questions:

• Best spots downtown?
• Bellagio worth the hype?
• Vegas before consuming Vegas content

And then we talk about some:

• Outdoor dining
• Premium economy
• Vegas airport
• Continuous shuffle machines and other blackjack ideas

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We've got a lot of Vegas packed into hour 1!

• Guessing trends in the 2025 Visitor Profile Summary
• First-time vs. repeat visitors
• NBA Expansion All-But-Confirmed
• What's worse: worse payouts or worse odds?
• All-inclusive deals

You can find the 2025 stats and report here: https://www.lvcva.com/research/reports/post/las-vegas-visitor-profile-studies/

It's the listener feedback hour!

• Where are we under- and over-comped?
• Betting smaller for longer?
• North end of the strip woes
• Playing someone else's freeplay
• Chandy blackjack investigation
• Winning too big too soon
• Giving unsolicited advice
• Lessons learned from group trips

We wrap up James's 40th!

• M Resort
• Wynn
• Rampart at The Resort at Summerlin
• The Strip Club
• The Strip
• Lots of winning?

Hour two is packed with goodies, we start off with listener feedback:

• Enjoying vegas with a non-vegas-enjoyer
• ADT miscellany
• Putting in a "big day of play" at VP at a new casino
• Sending money to us, your hosts

And then we jump back in to the trip report!

• Guy Fieri's
• Slot Golf
• Vegas Knights
• Can you get drunk off Busch Light?
• Chandelier red-light/green-light controversy
• Simultaneous Handy

We go over the finer points of the first weekend of James's 40th birthday party in Las Vegas.

• PHo High Limit
• Pier 17 Yacht Club
• Wynn vs Bellagio
• Palazzo Cigars
• Cosmo Barbershop (music venue)
• The Point of No Return
• Cosmo Barbershop (haircuts)
• Roy Choi Best Friend for 10 persons

And we end by answering the age old question: "is it better to win early in the trip or at the end? (or in the middle??)"

We dive back in to listener feedback and questions:

• Checking casino websites for deals
• Service consitency
• Casino credit rules and guidelines
• Bartender's questionable choices
• Swim-up VP bar?
• What matters most when picking a hotel?
• Face-up vs. traditional pai gow poker

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The three of us are going to Vegas! We preview the whole James 40th Birthday Ganza and talk about planning for:

• Palazzo cigar lounge
• Pier 17 Yacht Club
• Haircut date
• Roy Choi Best Friend
• Guy Fieri all-you-can-eat brunch
• Slot Golf
• Vegas Golden Knights Game
• Steak dinners
• Cabanas

And more? Maybe actually thats it.