John Mehaffey

Green Valley Ranch Poker Room Returning to Action in 2025 The Green Valley Ranch poker room will reopen by the end of 2025. It will host 16 tables of cash game and tournament action and offer many promotions.

We confirmed this morning that the Green Valley Ranch poker room will reopen by the end of the year. Here are the details: vegasadvantage.com/green-valley...

Quadruple Zero Roulette Debuts on the Las Vegas Strip Las Vegas now has a quadruple zero roulette game. Four gems replaced zeros. Gem bets have a bonus round with multipliers while acting like zeros for 1-36 bets.

For the first time, we discovered a quadruple zero roulette game. It is on the Las Vegas Strip. Gem symbols are used instead of zeros. Our story includes video of the game and how we computed the 9.25% and 10% house edges.

Golden Game to Remove All Live Table Games Golden Gate in downtown Las Vegas will remove all live table games in August 2025. This will leave 68 Las Vegas casinos with pits.

Golden Gate will remove all live table games later this month. That will drop the number of Las Vegas casinos with live games to 68, which will become 67 when Poker Palace closes in late September. In March 2020, 80 Las Vegas casinos had pits.

Most or all of them will be fine. This seems like a sale, maybe to Dotty's or similar. I'd worry more about large operators with massive overheads and few customers.

Farewell to Poker Palace in North Las Vegas Poker Palace in North Las Vegas closes around October 1, 2025. That will leave North Las Vegas without poker and end the last 3/2 blackjack game under $5.

Poker Palace in North Las Vegas will close in two months. That will leave North Las Vegas without any poker rooms. The Las Vegas market will also lose its cheapest 3/2 blackjack game.

How to Remember Good Video Poker Paytable Returns It can be difficult to understand video poker paytable returns. This guide makes it easier to find the best games and the lower returns on bad ones.

The most important rule for video poker players is finding the best paytables. This guide helps you learn a simple trick to determine the payback on inferior machines and how that affects returns.

Kristina’s Birthday Trip Report July 2025 We celebrated Kristina's birthday in downtown Las Vegas, followed by a craps session at Rio. We also had two great meals and a royal flush.

This past weekend was Kristina's birthday. We saved up our Plaza comps and got the Jonny Suite, named after its CEO. Plaza was also kind enough to give me a royal flush. Our trip report includes pictures and videos.

Two downtown casinos are offering a summer promotion you don't want to miss where you still have a chance to earn up to $640 in free slot play. Here are some tips for getting the best value: youtu.be/vYk4jzZYMjY?...

How to Play Casino Table Games - YouTube Learn how to play some casino table games. Demonstrations may involve live or electronic table games. These videos explain how to play various casino table g...

Our latest video compares Heads Up Hold’em and Ultimate Texas Hold'em, including which starting hands are checked preflop in Heads Up Hold’em but not Ultimate Texas Hold’em. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Video Poker Games Ranked by Variance No two video poker games are alike. Some have much larger swings than others. Find out which ones are the best to play based on your preferences.

No two video poker games are alike. Some have bigger swings than others. In our latest article, we ranked video poker games by variance. uscasinoadvantage.com/video-poker-...

Terrible's in Jean, once known as Goldstrike, closed for COVID and never.reopened. A storm collapsed the casino ceiling during closure. Jett Gaming didn't think it was worth repairing, so they sold the land to a warehouse developer. It's demolished except one hotel tower. We drive by it in video.

Buffalo Bill’s Casino in Primm Closing Buffalo Bill's closes on July 7, 2025. This comes after Whiskey Pete's December 2024 closure. Primm Valley Resort will be the last open Primm casino.

This is the article we ran on Monday with all the details: vegasadvantage.com/buffalo-bill...

YouTube video by Vegas Advantage Buffalo Bill's Casino in Primm Is Closing

Here is our video covering the Buffalo Bill's closure. It covers what we knew when we broke the story Monday and some Primm history. youtu.be/z09xnPrwbKI?...

YouTube video by Vegas Advantage $1 Blackjack Games in Las Vegas

Our latest video covers all the ways to play $1 blackjack in Las Vegas, including live tables, electronic ones, and bartops.

YouTube video by Vegas Advantage How to Read a Video Poker Paytable

Kristina and I have been making videos. Our latest covers how to read video poker paytables. We also discuss strategy and which 9/6 paytable to avoid. You can watch this video and subscribe to our YT channel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dGu...

BetMGM Deceives Players and Steals From Advantage Media BetMGM continues to deceive players and steal content. This includes copying our content and telling players to cheat at craps and play blackjack incorrectly.

Here is our article about some of the unethical behavior we uncovered at BetMGM. This includes giving players bad strategy advice that causes them to lose faster, encouraging cheating, and stealing our content. Two videos are included.

YouTube video by Vegas Advantage We caught BetMGM plagiarizing our content to compete against us, again!!

In 2021, Kristina and I invested $10,000 and 17 days on an East Coast casino tour to create content. BetMGM stole some of that content. It's the third time we caught them copying a US Casino Advantage article. The BetMGM authors don't underrated what they are stealing so they always mess up.

YouTube video by Vegas Advantage BetMGM encourages players to lose faster and sometimes suggests cheating

BetMGM repeatedly publishes bad strategy information that causes players to lose faster if followed, like recommending doubling down on a dealt blackjack. The company also suggests actions that require cheating like hole carding and past posting. Our video on it is here:

Rampart. It even holds a backup. It reset to $1045.

It's playing my favorite song on a sequential royal flush.

Caesars Palace Poker Room to Reopen in Retail Area The Caesars Palace poker room is scheduled to reopen in May 2025. Poker may also return to Planet Hollywood, just in time for the World Series of Poker.

Caesars Palace's poker room is expected to reopen in the Appian Way retail area weeks before the 2025 WSOP:

Las Vegas Speedflation Is the Next Shrinkflation Las Vegas casinos are finding ways to speed up games to increase hourly house win from players, increasing revenues. Here are some of the ways this occurs.

We invented a new word to describe how casinos speed up games to increase the house win per hour. We call it "speedflation." It is likely happening at a casino near you. This is how casinos are doing it.

After the city got shredded in the comment section of its Facebook post doing a victory lap, they closed comments to anyone who didn't follow the page until now.

A 14-mile urban hike may be the answer. Kristina's ankle is better but she has not fully recovered yet. I hope all is well with you.

Best Pure Luck Las Vegas Casino Games Many Las Vegas casino games require no skill. These table games and machines offer the best chances of winning by pure luck without learning a strategy.

If you prefer casino games that require no strategy to learn, this article shows the best ones to play based on the house advantage:

Avoid These Worst Blackjack Games in Las Vegas Blackjack conditions continue to decline in Las Vegas at lower limits. There are eight carnival blackjack games that are worse than a traditional 6/5 game.

We recently updated out worst Las Vegas blackjack article. There were a few updates since last year, including the game in the featured image disappearing from Alamo.

Downtown Casino Deals Six Worst Las Vegas Table Games One downtown casino deals all six of the worst Las Vegas table games due to forced side bets. It includes blackjack, pai gow poker, and Top Card Flush.

Golden Nugget added mandatory side bets to two more live table games. It now deals the six worst table games in the Las Vegas market. No other Las Vegas casino deals more than two.

Sportsbooks Offset November 2024 Las Vegas Revenue Decline Sportsbooks helped offset some of the Las Vegas casino revenue decline in November 2024 attributed to the second Strip F1 race. Downtown benefited the most.

I analyzed the Las Vegas November 2024 gaming and tourism data. It was mostly down big against 2023, mostly up against 2022, and a mixed bag versus 2021. The big Nov 2024 sportsbook win concealed some of the casino floor bad news, especially downtown. vegasadvantage.com/sportsbooks-...

Have you been able to find the detailed report? It's missing from the PR and reporting link, at least that I see.

Get the Best Value from Video Poker Progressives • US Casino Advantage Most video poker games have a house edge, but players can use progressive jackpots to their advantage. Learn about the best starting royal flush meter values.

If you have ever wondered what the royal flush progressive must be to make a video poker game return over 100%, you can find that information in our latest article: