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The Five Best Sports Books in Las Vegas for 2010
Now that it's winter, it’s high time to head to a Las Vegas sports book. Between The Super Bowl and March Madness, there’s no shortage of reasons to spend inordinate amounts of time in these gambling Meccas.
In addition to being the best places to bet on sports, books are arguably the biggest and baddest sports bars in town—the perfect spot to grab a cold one (or six) and sit back to watch your team bring it home.
Not all sports books, however, are created equal. We created a list of the best Vegas venues to place your sports bets back in 2005, but this is a different city in 2010. Places have changed and so has the technology.
So after years of taking points, giving points, parlaying and teasing, yours truly has pulled together this list of the best of the best. Here are the Best Five Sports Books in town, with a rundown on what makes each of them worth your time.
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Make Time for Football Promotions Under the Pyramid
Sports bettors accustomed to spending time and money in some of the Strip’s biggest sports books may want to consider adding a new destination to their list: the book at Luxor Las Vegas.
The book itself is nothing particularly special: with seating for 110 and a total of 128 televisions (including four projection-screens and 110 individual monitors), it’s just about average size for Vegas resorts.
The promotions, however, can’t be beat—especially during this year's pro and college football seasons. During Monday Night Football on Monday nights, bettors enjoy $4 draft beers and can enter a drawing to win prizes such as authentic jerseys and tickets to games in either San Diego or Arizona.
Gamblers earn drawing entry tickets for each $20 football parlay bet or $50 straight bet. Drawings are be held at the end of the third quarter.
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Best Sportsbooks to Watch The World Series
Okay, okay – the matchup for this year’s World Series isn’t set in stone just yet (Go Yankees!), but you don’t need to know who’s playing to know which Vegas sportsbooks to support.
Betting on baseball is easy—unlike basketball and football, the two basic wagers are moneyline bets (which wager on the outright winner) and over/under wagers on the total number of runs scored. Sure, there are proposition bets (dubbed “props”) at some casinos, but those are generally crapshoots anyway.
Watching baseball, however, now that’s another issue. Because the ball is so small, because the camera angles are so wide, it’s important to pick a sports book with big, unobstructed televisions to maximize viewing pleasure.
(Of course you also want books that mute the sound, because Fox's announcers, Tim McCarver and Joe Buck, can be insufferable.)
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The Palazzo and Venetian Unveil PocketCasino for Sports Bets
In sports books at both the Palazzo and Venetian, it appears that ticket writers are getting some stiff competition from elsewhere in the sports book.
The casino resorts, both owned by Las Vegas Sands Corp., recently unveiled In-Running Wagering, a mobile gambling system that allows gamblers to place wagers during games on whether a team will make the next first down or make a field goal.
The system, branded as “PocketCasino,” also enables bettors to throw money behind point spreads and money lines for selected games. Las Vegas-based Cantor Gaming developed the technology.
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Football Bettors Seek to Get Lucky at Lucky’s Sportsbook
How well do you know your National Football League teams? If you think you know them pretty well, perhaps it’s worth entering a free, $100,000 football contest at Lucky’s Race & Sports Book in the Plaza Hotel & Casino in downtown Las Vegas.
The contest, which doles out a progressive weekly prize of up to $6,000, started Sept. 13 and ends when the NFL regular season ends on Jan. 3, 2010.
Here’s how the contest works. Participants pick winning teams for each week’s NFL football games. There’s no point spread, no over/under—just winners. The player who selects every winner correctly will receive a purse of cash.
Most weeks, the purse is $6,000. Last month, however, because nobody won the weekly jackpot for three weeks in a row, the purse ballooned to $18,000.
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Five Best Sports Bars For Watching The Gridiron Games This Sunday
After talking a whole lotta smack during the Pittsburgh Penguins vs. Detroit Red Wings Stanley Cup play-off game and placing a downright risky bet (which we narrowly won), we’ve kept a safe distance from Sportsbook, but not from being our usual boisterous sports spectator self. With pigskin season kicking off this week, we’ve busted out the Terrible Towel and are bringing you our Top Five Vegas ppicks for watching the games.
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Las Vegas Hilton Lowers ‘Juice’ on Thursdays
Sports bettors likely will say "Thank God It’s Thursday" this fall, thanks to a new point-line bet promotion in the sports book at the Las Vegas Hilton.
The promotion, which started Sept. 10, lowers by one-half percent the vigorish, or “juice,” that the casino charges bettors on point-line bets. In most casinos, the juice is one percent of a standard bet, which means that on a $10 point-line bet, you’d need to lay $11, and the house keeps a buck no matter what.
Under the new promotion at the Hilton, the casino is lowering its “vig” from 1 percent to 0.5 percent, meaning that for every $10 laid on a point line bet, gamblers only have to pay $10.50.
The deal is only available on Thursdays between 3 and 11 p.m., and is applicable only to football (pro or college).
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Are You Ready for Some Football and Chili Cheese Fries? Lagasse's Stadium is Now Open
It's the night that many, many men (and a good amount of women) have been waiting for all across the country--opening night of the NFL. And the sportsbooks in town will be flooded with NFL fans hoping that this year will be the year their Fantasy Football team kicks ass.
Just in time for all that pigskin madness, Lagasse's Stadium is now officially open.
We popped into the sportsbook/sports bar earlier this afternoon and while the layout of the old 40/40 club has not changed, the place has been reorganized so that from every nook and cranny of the space, folks can be watching the game on one of the 100 flat-screen TVs throughout.
Today, we saw servers walking about in football jerseys and the sportsbook clerks were taking bets behind what used to be the main bar, below the giant projector screen. Luxury boxes were also open for private parties. We saw one that even had its own pool table inside. Very cool.
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Wynn's Bookmaker Sets Odds On Top Chef Las Vegas Contestants
By now it’s no secret that the newest season of Top Chef was filmed in Las Vegas. We've been keeping track of rumored and confirmed locations for the past few months and we've just started doing re-caps of each episode. (Stay tuned for tomorrow's recap!)
But less well-known are the odds on the show hung weekly by Johnny Avello, executive director of race and sports operations at Wynn Las Vegas.
The fast-talking native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., runs the only sports book in all of Sin City that sets odds on entertainment. Though you can’t actually bet money on any of the lines (the Nevada Gaming Control Board only allows books to take wagers on events played in sporting arenas), Avello's insights offer interesting indications of who are the favorites and who aremost likely to be asked to pack their knives and go.
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Bally’s to Re-open Race and Sports Book on Aug. 26
True to its promise, Bally’s will re-open its Race and Sports Book on August 26, just in time for the all-important NFL betting season. If you recall, Bally’s shuttered its sports book right before the NCAA Final Four games this past spring and any sports bettors were relegated to moseying next door to Paris if they wanted to make a wager.
The reopened sports book will feature a new VIP Lounge outfitted with HD screens and “comfy couches and sports memorabilia,” and guests can enjoy special prices on Absolut vodka cocktails and Miller beer buckets. Also, the press release teases that sports celebs will be stopping by throughout the season, although no specifics on this promo have yet been disclosed.
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Emeril Lagasse is Turning the Palazzo Sportsbook Into Lagasse's Stadium
Last month when we hit up the Palazzo Las Vegas for the Hardbat Classic, we actually spent some time chillin' in the Palazzo's Sportsbook and Grill, which used to be called by another name--40/40, a sports bar/nightclub from rapper Jay-Z.
The food being passed around that night was done by chef Emeril Lagasse who has a Delmonico Steakhouse and a Table 10 restaurant inside the Venetian/Palazzo complex. But little did we know that the food we were noshing on would be part of the new menu inside the revamped sportsbook. Just in time for the football season, The Palazzo has announced the sportsbook will now be known as Lagasse's Stadium.
