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KISS at the Pearl
The Pearl at the Palms
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UNLV Rebels vs. Louisville at the Thomas & Mack Center
The Thomas & Mack Center | 1 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
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Stevie Wonder at MGM Grand
MGM Grand Garden Arena | 8 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Joe Perry Project at the House of Blues
House of Blues | 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m.
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Vicente Fernandez at the Mandalay Bay Events Center
Mandalay Bay Events Center | 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
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Jay Leno at The Mirage
Terry Fator Theatre
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Kenoman, I'm with you! Me and the misses have been going to Vegas every year for the past 20 years, but no more!!....the casinos have outpriced our ability to come without spending a small fortune....and the comps suck!! The problem the casinos now face is that once the decision was made to move from modest casinos to mega resorts, there was no turning back....the overhead to run these mega resorts is far too high and the casinos have little wiggle room to significantly reduce room rates, meal rates, etc. Even before this crisis, I wondered where all the people were coming from that could afford $200 and up hotel rooms and $25 minimum and up black jack tables???? And comps are a thing of the past!!...I sat and played black jack for 5 hrs, consistently betting between $50 and $200 a hand. The next day I learned I earned $9 in comps.....what a joke!! When I queried this, a very frank marketing employee informed me that table players are not rewarded like slots players because the slots bring in much more profit....therefore comps for table players have been dramatically reduced. And what's with all these freakin night clubs!!....another part of the casinos failed transformation in my opinion. Good luck trying to squeeze any significant cash out of the twenty somethings. All in all, yet again a sad tale of horrendous corporate greed. Unfortunately the solutions requires a reversal of greed, but that's not human nature....so the ship will continue to list for many years in my opinion. Viva Las Vegas!!