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Casino to raise gambling age from 18 to 21 Saturday, Dec. 23, 2000 10:23 a.m. 1, the minimum age for people allowed to gamble at the casino will be raised from 18 to 21. You can only be in the casino to get from point a to b. Security is on the lookout for anyone who appears under age and if they card you, you will be 86'd. You may get away with it but there is a.
Las Vegas is constantly reinventing itself. The city once run by the mob (*supposedly – I don’t want to get whacked) is now run by billion dollar corporations. The Vegas Strip is especially corporate with two casino operators, Caesars Entertainment and MGM Resorts International, owning 18 of the 28 casinos.
The people visiting Las Vegas have changed too. Visitors don’t want the same things that their parents and grandparents wanted when they visited Las Vegas. The casino operators understand this and restaurants, bars and shows seem to rotate every few months to meet the demands of those visiting today.
New Vegas isn’t the same as Old Vegas and that’s a good thing for many people. However, there’s always a little love for the past. Earlier this year we said goodbye to one of the oldest casinos on the Vegas Strip. The Riviera was imploded to make way for an expansion of the Las Vegas Convention Center in the next few years.
The next casino to go away won’t be erased from the landscape like the Riviera. Monte Carlo will undergo a major renovation to become Park MGM and NoMad Las Vegas. Not all older casinos are closing or have plans for a complete makeover. Here’s a look at the 4 oldest casinos on the Vegas Strip:
Flamingo (Photo: Wikimedia)
The Flamingo is the oldest casino on the Vegas Strip. It first opened in 1946 and has undergone many changes over the past 70(!) years. There have been rumors floating around that another major makeover will begin by the end of the year. Time will tell about the rumors. The iconic property could certainly use a little TLC.
Tropicana (Photo: Wikimedia)
This was the 3rd oldest casino on the Vegas Strip until the Riviera was imploded. It’s now the second oldest casino on the Vegas Strip having opened in 1957. The Tropicana has undergone a few ownership changes in the past 10 years. Every owner tries to reinvent the casino while keeping the south beach feel. Expect more changes next year from new owner Penn National Gaming.
Caesars Palace (Photo: Wikimedia)
This iconic casino-resort has been celebrating its 50th anniversary all year long. Caesars Palace is a much larger property than it was in 1966. There are now 5 hotel towers, a mall, massive nightclub, grand pool complex, a huge casino floor and more. This property has come a long way over the years and shows no signs of slowing down.
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Circus Circus (Photo: Wikimedia)
The family friendly casino at the north end of the Vegas Strip opened in 1968. Circus Circus has been a go-to location for two groups of people over the years. The circus theme with rides and attractions is a great option for families visiting Las Vegas with children. More recently this older casino has been home to many bargain hunters just looking for an inexpensive hotel room on the Vegas Strip.
There have been rumors about changes happening to Circus Circus for the past 5 years or so but nothing more. Those rumors will eventually come true. If there’s any old casino that could see the end of days in the near future it might be Circus Circus.
A large variety of casino games are offered in Las Vegas from Slot Machines to Video Poker; Sports betting to Bingo.
Age Restrictions[edit edit source]
The minimum age of gambling in Nevada is 21 and the law is strictly enforced. Casinos can be fined heavily by the state or have their license revoked for allowing anyone under age 21 to gamble or loiter in gaming areas. Adults cannot play Slot Machines with kids looking over their shoulder, nor can they park infants in strollers beside slot machines or Table Games. Security guards will inform violators of the state law one time and escort them from the premises for repeatedly ignoring warnings.
If a minor should win a jackpot, the casino will NOT pay it, according to state law. It is wise to have a valid ID when playing. If you should win a jackpot of $1,200 or more, the casino may ask to see your social security card.
Most casinos offer a slot or player's club and some casinos offer free, informal gambling classes.
Gambling Lawsuits[edit edit source]
In 1987, a 19-year-old boy won a slot jackpot of more than $1 million at Caesars Palace. The boy's family lost a lawsuit, pursued through a federal appeals court, to keep the prize. Caesars wasn't fined for allowing the boy to gamble. I. Nelson Rose, a California-based attorney and gaming expert who represented the family, argued in court that the boy and other children were gambling because the property had no economic incentive to refuse them.
'Caesars had this unwritten rule that if a kid won $5,000 they'd pay the kid and kick him out, and if it was over $5,000 they'd keep the money and kick the kid out,' Rose said. 'Either way, they weren't being fined. The Gaming Control Board was leaving that decision (about how to handle kids) up to the casinos.'
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Los Angeles attorney and gambler Ernest Joseph Franceschi Jr. has sued MGM MIRAGE, accusing casino officials of ejecting him in 2003 after he won thousands of dollars at the company's New York-New York casino playing blackjack.
He sued MGM and its casinos in Los Angeles Superior Court for invasion of privacy, defamation and allegedly violating California's unfair business practices laws.
The complaint says casino officials photographed Franceschi while he played high-stakes blackjack and circulated the photo to other Las Vegas casinos after he left the table with his winnings. When he returned later to resume playing, casino officials escorted him out of the property and said he was barred for life from MGM MIRAGE casinos, the suit said.
Franseschi, who describes himself in the lawsuit as a 'better than average blackjack player,' said he was ejected from three other Vegas casinos on the same day within minutes of sitting down at the blackjack tables.
Franceschi is requesting $74,000 in damages and is asking a judge to require the company to include a disclaimer in its California advertising warning gamblers that they can be barred for winning.
An MGM spokesman said, 'This lawsuit has no merit and we are confident we will prevail.'
Source: Las Vegas Sun, 'Attorney sues Las Vegas casino over ejection' March 3, 2004.
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The Las Vegas Sun reported that a California man is suing the Las Vegas Hilton and the Mandalay Bay hotel-casino claiming the casinos were at fault when they allowed him to gamble away over a million dollars when he was intoxicated. In his suit, Stephen Roel claims he had been a customer of the Las Vegas Hilton for 15 years and during a weekend in September the Hilton paid for his roundtrip airfare, food, beverages and lodging in exchange for his gambling at the casino. He is considered a skilled player and has a credit line of $50,000.
The lawsuit states that over the weekend of Sept 29th Roel was drinking heavily and after losing $117,000, the Hilton casino executives extended him an additional line of credit for $840,000, despite the fact that the executives should have known he was drunk.
The suit also claims that someone at the Mandalay Bay arranged for Raol to stay there the same weekend. He was extended a credit line of over $100,000, despite the fact that he was drunk. It is claimed that the executives continued to give him credit after his wife and sister flew in and asked them not to accept his bets. Mr. Raol has entered a treatment center since that weekend and is seeking unspecified compensatory and punitive damages, recovery of the money he bet that weekend and forgiveness of the debts.
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Hollywood producer Jamie Gold won the $12 million first prize in the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event August 10, 2006 in a field of 8,773 players. An acquaintance of Gold, Crispin Leyser, surfaced shortly after the WSOP ended and went to court in Las Vegas asserting that Gold reneged on a deal they had to split evenly any money that Gold won in the Main Event. Leyser said the pact was made after bodog.com offered one seat in the world championship, valued at $10,000, if either of them would line up celebrities to play under the Bodog banner. Leyser said he recruited actors Matthew Lillard and Dax Shepherd to play in the tournament and Bodog awarded a free seat to Gold, placing them in contention as 50/50 partners. Such side deals among poker players are not uncommon.
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Clark Co. District Judge Kathy Hardcaste froze a portion of the prize money August 22 pending future court proceedings.