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It seems like everywhere you look on the internet (including this website) there is a list of things to do in Las Vegas. It's important to have such a list as you plan your trip to Las Vegas. Equally important is a list of things not to do as you plan or when you get to Las Vegas.
We have put together a list of the 10 things you shouldn't do in Las Vegas or while you plan your Las Vegas vacation. Every visitor should read through this list in order to have an enjoyable Las Vegas vacation.
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Do not book a hotel room without checking and understanding the hotel's daily resort fee. A resort fee is a fee you are charged for things like using the fitness center, local telephone calls, internet access, etc. Resort fees range between $20 and $50 per day on top of room rates and any parking fees. Most Las Vegas hotels impose this mandatory resort fee and you will be charged for it daily, whether you use those amenities or not. Check here to see how much your hotel will charge you in addition to their low rate.
Do not walk the Vegas Strip in tight or uncomfortable shoes. Your trip to Las Vegas will entail a lot of walking while you sightsee. The average visitor will clock in approximately 3 - 4 miles walking. Plan to arrive in Las Vegas with the most comfortable walking shoes you can get. If you don't, you will pay dearly for it when you get home.
Do not Jaywalk. In the US, Jaywalking is when you cross the street through the middle and not at the intersections pedestrian crossing where you are supposed to. In Las Vegas, the practice is illegal and extremely dangerous. If you are caught jaywalking, you will be cited. The minimum fine is $350
Do not buy water from unlicensed street vendors. These vendors are not legally licensed/permitted to handle food or drink for public consumption. Anyone selling cold water from a portable cooler on the Vegas strip is doing so illegally. Metro police has also determined that some of that water could be unsafe. Some street vendors have also been caught with bottles repackaged and resold with tap water to thirsty tourists. There are convenience stores along the strip where you can buy cold water.
Do not use casino ATM machines. Though this might look like a convenient way to get cash when you need it, there is a high price to pay for that convenience. Casino ATM's charge a fee between $3.50 to $8.00 in addition to any fees your bank charges. That might not seem like a lot if you are withdrawing $500, but if you need $20 for lunch, that's a different story.
Don't worry, you'll get a prompt asking if you're sure you want to pay the fee, and you will know what the fee is before you complete the transaction.
Tip: Need a few dollars, walk down to the corner Walgreens or CVS, buy a bottle of water and take some cash out with your debt card.
Do not open or treat yourself to the mini-bar in your hotel room. Most frequent travelers are aware that mini-bars are pricey. In Las Vegas, they are extra pricey. Your room mini-bar has a sensor that registers when an item for sale is removed for more than 45 seconds. Expect a charge on your credit card after the 45 seconds expire, even if the item is placed back in the 'minibar' after that given time. The bottom line: Do not open, move or store personal items in your mini bar.
Also watch out for that complimentary-looking bottles of water sitting next to the TV as you walk into your room. There is nothing complementary about that bottle. 'DO NOT OPEN IT'. You will be charged between $6 and $8 for that dusty, expired Evian bottle of water.
Educate yourself about Clark County Code: CCO 12.33.010 before you get to Las Vegas and do not violate it. Just because you are in Vegas doesn't mean there are no laws. By the time most tourists find out about the local laws, it's a bit too late. Besides jaywalking, Disorderly Conduct - CCO 12.33.010 is the next offence most tourists fall a victim to. Disorderly conduct in Las Vegas in most cases are alcohol related.
According to Clark County Code: CCO 12.33.010 it is unlawful for any person to engage in any of the following acts of disorderly conduct:
(a) Participate in a fight;
(b) Challenge another person to fight;
(c) Use profane, indecent or obscene language in addressing another person;
(d) Commit a breach of the peace;
(e) Incite a disturbance;
(f) Accosting, interfering with or harassing, another and thus creating a disturbance.
Don't Get Long-Hauled. Do not let your airport taxi driver take you on the I-215. Despite what your cab driver might tell you, the use of the I-215 tunnel from McCarran airport is NEVER the shortest route to ANY Las Vegas Strip hotel and this route will result in higher fare. Click here to get an idea of the approximate cab from the airport to your hotel.
Don't gamble just for comps. Comps, which is short for 'complimentary' is a way Las Vegas casinos rewards its frequent gamblers by offering them free complimentary rooms, buffet passes, show tickets, and so on, as a way to encourage players to gamble.
While it's great to receive comps while you gamble, going out of your way to gamble just for comps is a bad thing. Chances are you're going to lose a lot of money at the tables in exchange for those comps.
Do not venture off the Vegas Strip. Las Vegas for the most part is a very safe city for tourist. The major tourist area (the Vegas Strip) is well light, patrolled by metro police on bicycles and horse back and have cameras at every corner looking out for the safety of tourists.
However, when in Vegas, you should always have your guards up. Use common sense safety practices in Las Vegas as you would in any big city.
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NEVER, NEVER venture off the Vegas strip especially at night. Those side streets are not well lit and can be dangerous. Also on the Vegas Strip, the section north of Encore can also be dangerous at night.
YES! No.11 & 12.... Nevada voters legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, but the law prohibits public consumption of marijuana in all public places. Use of marijuana (weed), including but not limited to smoking, inhaling, ingesting, or using oils, lotions, or other transdermal introduction of, is not allowed on the Strip, in your hotel room, casino floor, bars, nightclubs, concerts, festivals, parks, sporting events, moving vehicles, marijuana facilities or while you're walking down the street or anywhere in the city except in private residences. Anyone who violates this law is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than $600.
Persons in possession of more than one ounce of marijuana, or more than 1/8 ounce of concentrated marijuana, and persons under the age of 21 in possession of any amount of marijuana or concentrated marijuana, are subject to arrest and prosecution under NRS 453. Simple possession is prohibited under NRS 453.336 and for the first offense is a Category E Felony
For more information, please visit http://marijuana.nv.gov
Despite what you have heard, Prostitution and solicitation is NOT LEGAL in Las Vegas or anywhere within Clark County (NRS 201.354). In Las Vegas, being caught for solicitation carries a mandatory court appearance and a court fine of up to $1,000, and/or a maximum six months in jail. You will also be required to take an HIV test.
There are laws, don't assume because it's Vegas you can do whatever you want. What happens in Vegas, doesn't always stay in Vegas. Be aware that the undercover police often disguise themselves as prostitutes or 'johns.' They do this in order to trick suspected sex workers or customers into soliciting prostitution so they can then arrest them.
This law is to help to cut down on litter and the ability to use the glass as a weapon. If caught by police drinking from a glass container you will be asked to dispose of the beverage. If you refuse, police can confiscate the drink and, if necessary, arrest you on a misdemeanor charge that carries a maximum fine of $1,000 or up to 6 months in jail.
The word “comp” is short for “complimentary.” In the gambling industry, comps are free stuff you get from casinos and other gambling companies to incentivize you to gamble with them. Generally, you get more comps based on how much you’re gambling.
When discussing comps, it helps to understand the expression “action.” Being “in action” just means that you have money riding on a bet of any kind.
But “action” also refers to the amount of money you have wagered. It can refer to the amount of money you wager over a period of time, too.
For example, if you’re playing slot machines and betting $1 every time you spin the reels, you’re putting $1 into action every time you spin. If you make 600 spins per hour, then you’ve put $600/hour into action.
Based on the odds behind the game and the payout odds, casinos can estimate the long-term expected losses based on your hourly action. They can then calculate a percentage of that to return to you in the form of comps.
When you’re dealing with traditional land casinos, if you bring much action to the casino at all, you’ll be assigned a casino host. This is the person at the casino responsible for keeping you happy so that you don’t take your action elsewhere. Comps are the main tool a host uses to keep you happy.
Of course, not everyone has a host. You can also get comps almost automatically by signing up for the players’ club and inserting the card into the machines as you play. Pit bosses also have the authority to reward you with comps when you’re playing table games. In fact, the simplest and most common type of comp is the free drink. As long as you look like you’re playing a slot machine, a cocktail waitress will bring you free drinks all night. (She’ll be more attentive if you tip her well, though.)
This post explains the different kinds of gambling comps and what they mean to you as a gambler.
The Different Kinds of Comps Available
Comps are awarded in a hierarchy based on your value to the casino. The most basic comp is the free drink. Casinos have multiple motivations for gving you free drinks.
For one thing, a gambler who’s inebriated has lower inhibitions. He’s more likely to gamble more money longer. And the #1 factor affecting how much profit a casino makes from a gambler is the amount of time he spends playing.
That’s because casino games have an innate mathematical edge. This edge doesn’t have a huge effect in the short term, because in the short term, anything can happen. But the law of large numbers suggests that the more bets you make, the closer your actual results become to the theoretical results.
Here’s an example:
The mathematical expectation at blackjack is for you to lose roughly 1% of each bet you make on average over time. (This assumes you’re using basic strategy while you play.) That means the casino expects you to lose an average of $1 every time you place a $100 bet.
In the short run, that’s impossible. If you place a single bet at blackjack—which is the ultimate example of the short term—it’s impossible to lose $1 on a single $100 bet. You’ll lose $100, win $100, or win $150 most of the time. If you double down or split, you might win more–$200, $300, or even $400 wins are possible. You might also face a “push,” which is a tie. Your bet is returned, but you don’t win any money… that’s a loss or win of $0.
None of those outcomes come even close to a loss of $1.
That $1 loss is an average over time–over a huge number of bets. If you make 10,000 bets at $100 each, you’re likely to lose close to $10,000. Even with that many bets, it’s possible to deviate wildly from the mathematical expectation.
If you’re the casino, you want to get into the large number range as soon and as often as possible. This ensures your profit. The way to do this is to get players to make lots of bets for lots of money.
And providing free alcohol helps with that. In fact, it’s a small price to pay for the extra action they see.
You can expect more than just free drinks, though. Free food is a small step up from free drinks. At a casino of any respectable size, you’ll find multiple restaurants on site. The 2nd most common type of comp is free food at one of the on-site restaurants.
The free food comp is usually awarded in the form of a coupon. You might have to put more money into action than you think to be awarded free food, but it sometimes depends on the generosity of the pit boss. It can also depend on what kind of rapport you have with the casino staff.
I once got into a spirited conversation with the cardroom manager at Planet Hollywood Casino in Las Vegas. They had a hot dog joint there called Pinks—I guess it’s popular on the West Coast. Anyway, I was trying to convince the cardroom manager that he should buy everyone at the table hot dogs.
Apparently, at the limits I play, you don’t get free hot dogs.
If you qualify for free food and free drinks, you’re not far from qualifying for free lodging, too. Most casinos are also hotels, but even casinos which don’t have attached hotels will get you lodging nearby—if you’re gambling enough.
You can also get upgraded to a nicer room by virtue of the action you bring the casino. (You might also be able to get upgraded to a suite or a nicer room by tipping the desk person $20 when you check in, but that’s not really related to comps.)
In fact, these 3 comps—room, food, and beverage—are so common that they have an abbreviation for it. Bettors who qualify for all 3 are called “RFB” customers.
Notice something about all these comps, too. You’re getting comps that seem to have a certain value. A drink is probably $5 at the bar at a casino. A meal is usually $15 or $20. A room can vary wildly in price, but is often at least $50, $100, or more.
But those are the retail prices for these comps. The casino doesn’t pay $5 when they mix you a drink. Their cost for that shot of Crown on the rocks is probably closer to $1. The meal at the buffet that the public pays $15 for probably only cost the restaurant $5 to make.
And a hotel room that’s sitting empty generates no money for the casino at all, so they might as well give it away. In fact, the Winstar in Oklahoma has such low occupancy rates during the week that almost anybody can get a comped room. You don’t have to bring them much action at all, really.
Those are just the standard comps for regular down-to-earth players like you and me. High rollers, or “whales,” as the industry calls them, are eligible for all kinds of free stuff. Many of these comps are customized based on what the host knows about the gambler’s interests.
It’s not unusual for a casino to pay for airfare and transportation to and from the airport for a big player. In fact, that’s expected for any high roller.
But entertainment is another popular comp. If you like golf, shows, or sporting events, you can usually get a “free” ride from the casino to go to those outings, too.
Rebates are common, too, even if you’re not a high roller. For low rollers, rebates are often awarded in the form of coupons or free play. High rollers can receive cash or a check as part of their rebate.
The comps program is part of the casino’s marketing plan. Most casinos make heavy use of direct mail to entice gamblers to return to their casino and play. If you’re a member of the players’ club at the casino, you’ll inevitably receive standard comps in the mail.
Based on your interests and betting tendencies, you’ll also get free offers for other perks in the mail, too.
Even low rollers can get free transport to and from the casino. I see buses taking groups of gamblers to the Winstar all the time. Many of the people riding those buses pay nothing for the ride, although they lose enough money at the casino to more than make up for that cost.
But calling these comps “free” is inaccurate. You pay for these comps in the form of gambling losses, even when you’re winning.
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Other than the free drinks and occasional free coupons sent in the mail, most casinos award comps based on your actual time spent playing. They account for how many bets per hour you make and at what amount when deciding how much to award you and when.
But comps aren’t based on how much you actually lose. Instead, casinos calculate your comps based on your theoretical expected loss. This is a function of the house edge for the games you’re playing, the time you spend playing, and how many bets per hour you’re making.
Over the long run—and casinos serve thousands of customers per day—the casino has an excellent idea of how much your play is worth. If you’re on a winning streak, you still get comps based on your action. The calculations are based on your expected losses, not your actual losses.
Here’s how the casino calculates this:
You play slots exclusively, but you bet $3 per spin. You’re an average player, so you’re making 600 spins per hour. That’s $1800 per hour you’re putting into action.
If the casino knows you like the machines with a 95% payback percentage, they figure that in the long run they’re going to make 5% of your hourly action—or $90 per hour. (5% of $1800 is $90.)
If you spend an average of 4 hours a day playing slots, the casino assumes you’re going to lose $360 a day while you’re there.
They then award you comps based on a percentage of that $360 per day.
How Can You Best Take Advantage of the Casinos’ Comps Programs?
If you’ve heard of the books The Frugal Gambler by Jean Scott or Comp City by Max Rubin, you probably already know a little bit about becoming a “comp hustler” or “comp wizard.” These are players who learn to maximize the amount of comps they receive in exchange for their action.
One way to maximize the comps you get for the money you lose is to play a game with a tiny house edge. If you can play blackjack with perfect basic strategy, you can get the edge in the game down to 0.5%. The average player loses about 4% at blackjack, because the average player doesn’t know perfect basic strategy.
When the casinos calculate your expected loss at the blackjack table, they assume you’re an average player losing 3% or 4%. Since you’re only expected to lose 0.5%, you’re getting comps based on a theoretical loss that’s actually overstated by a factor of between 5 and 10.
Another way to maximize the comps you get is to bet big when you’re being rated by the dealer and the pit boss. “Rating” players is how they estimate your hourly action. Fooling the pit boss is harder than you think.
I was playing blackjack in Kansas City for between $10 and $100 per hand, depending on the count. They rated me as a $10/hand player, even though I was betting more than that on a lot of hands. I complained, but I’m sure they realized I was counting. The last thing they were going to do is rate me higher when they knew I was counting cards.
(I was also a little drunk, so I didn’t notice immediately when they started shuffling the deck after every hand. Counting cards does you no good if the dealers shuffle after every hand.)
Taking lots of breaks can result in fewer hands per hour than the casino estimates, which reduces your expected hourly loss by a lot. If you’re at a blackjack table dealing 60 hands per hour, you could realistically only play 45 hands per hour by taking frequent bathroom breaks.
What effect does that have on your expected hourly loss?
It reduces it by another 25% or so. Instead of losing $10/hour, you might only be losing $7.50/hour. The casino might be estimating that you’ll be losing an average of $40/hour and base your comps on that.
Expert video poker play can also result in smaller expected losses per hour. In fact, with certain video poker games, the combinations of comps with the tiny house edge can result in an overall positive expected value for the player. That’s an advantage gambling technique, but it’s not one you can realistically make a living at. The edge is too small, and games with those pay tables are usually only available for small stakes. You’d be lucky to make minimum wage playing video poker for comps.
How much of your expected losses can you expect back in comps?
It varies, but the casino calculates that they can afford to give you back 40% of your expected loss in the form of comps. You’ll more often see 20% through the players’ program if you’re a low roller, but you can even increase that amount by taking advantage of coupons and “happy hour” type promotions where you get 2X or 3X your standard comp rate.
How Do Online Casino Bonuses Work? Isn’t That Another Form of Comp?
Online casinos can’t serve you drinks or free food. They can’t really provide you with a free room for the night, either. And since you’re playing from home, they’re unlikely to offer you free show tickets, either.
Instead, online casinos offer you sign up bonuses and ongoing deposit bonuses. These amount to free amounts of money awarded to your account just for making a deposit—either as a new player or as an existing player.
Bonus hustlers used to take advantage of these offers to generate almost guaranteed profits. A friend of mine once bought a jukebox by taking advantage of casino bonuses at a dozen different casinos and cashing out his winnings.
Online casinos have responded to this by instituting wagering requirements that make it almost mathematically impossible to come out ahead when taking advantage of a bonus. They also watch player behavior closely, and if that behavior resembles that of known bonus hustlers, the casino might refuse to pay you based on “bonus abuse.”
The concept of wagering requirement seems more complicated than it is. Here’s how it works:
You sign up at a casino that offers you a 200% matching bonus on your first deposit of $1000. You deposit $1000, input your bonus code, and the casino adds $2000 to your balance.
You now have $3000 to play with.
But the casino requires you to wager this amount 35 times before cashing out. They also restrict your play to slot machines. You can play blackjack, too, but only 10% of your blackjack wagers count toward fulfilling your wagering requirements.
And you can’t cash out before fulfilling these wagering requirements.
Let’s assume you want to play the slots. A good ballpark estimate for the house edge on a slot machine game is 6%, but who knows? (The casino does, but you don’t.)
To wager $3000 35 times means you must put $105,000 into action.
The expected loss on that much action is 6% multiplied by $105,000, which is $6300.
Since you started with $3000, the mathematical expectation is for you to go broke before fulfilling your wagering requirements.
On the other hand, if you play blackjack, the house edge is only 0.5%. But since the casino only counts 10% of those wagers toward your wagering requirements, you need to make $1,050,000 in wagers before cashing out.
0.5% of $1,050,000 is still over $5000.
Again, that’s more than your starting bankroll, so it’s unlikely that you’ll have money left over after fulfilling your wagering requirement.
You can, of course, get lucky and win more than you’re expected to. I claimed a bonus at an online casino once for $1000, and I hit a $6000 jackpot on my 5th spin of the reels on a slot machine game.
I was able to fulfill my wagering requirements and still have $2000 in profits.
But that’s because I got lucky—not because I took advantage of a mathematical edge given me by the bonus.
In fact, had I eschewed the signup bonus, I could have cashed out the entire $6000. I wouldn’t have been required to finish fulfilling the wagering requirements.
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Conclusion
Casino and gambling comps are really cool, but they’re also a tool that casinos use to get you to lose more money than you’d otherwise lose. Understanding how those comps work is the first step in making sure you don’t get taken advantage of.
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Some people learn how to take advantage of the comps system in such a way that they gamble practically for free. It’s even theoretically possible to come out ahead because of the comps program. That’s too much work for most people, but it’s nice to know that it’s possible.
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The bottom line about comps is that the casino doesn’t have your best interest at heart. They want your money.
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