He vegas It’s not just a gambling house anymore, that’s been pretty clear over the years. Obviously we are talking about a city, an area of 352 square kilometers where there are 72 casinos, hundreds of thousands of slot machines, hundreds of table games and many poker tables that swell to thousands with the arrival of summer. world series of pokerThe World Championship of Hold’em and its variations that just concluded. The game is out there, and it’s important. But Sin City has always been a center of entertainment, perhaps only for concerts and other shows, but it has always been of lesser proportion than gambling.
In any case, Elvis Presley revolutionized it and started making events spectacular. When we started talking about gaming and following poker we heard about the daily concerts of Celine Dion or Britney Spears, artists on the crest of the wave, however, who went to Nevada to “winter”. It was an original certification almost at the end of his career and many refused it. That was the real fun though.
This year, pure coincidence with the drafting of this piece, It’s a momentous thirtieth anniversary to celebrate. In fact, it was 1993, when Cirque du Soleil launched its first permanent production with Mystère at the Treasure Island Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Then founder Guy Laliberte, a fire-eater who built an empire and then came under investigation and was wanted for drug possession and production, said: “This nascent circus company of mine wants to grow a flower in the desert”. all true. “O” rushed to the wonderful Bellagio Theater, Casino, then to the water shows at Zarkana, The Beatles Love, KA, Zumanity, Michael Jackson One, RUM and others. Needless to say, Covid-19 has affected poor circuses who, without animals, manage to present spooky entertainment that keeps spectators glued to their seats.
Then concerts, evenings, gentlemen’s clubs, restaurants of the best chefs in the world (Gordon Ramsey above all), the best fast food chains, superheroes with Avengers Station, the famous Pay Shops (for those who have never seen Skye, Pawn Shop) and super-luxury and very convenient shopping with two outlets, Northern and Southern, where American brands are offered at really cheap prices.
That is why when they ask me: what would I come to Las Vegas to do if I didn’t like gambling, I would answer by listing this range of entertainment. And to dispel the common “Las Vegas equals gambling”, all that’s left is to listen to a luxury guide we’ve interviewed for you and who will show us what entertainment means in Sin City now. Please!
“I’ll explain everything to you – he attacks Max Pescatori, four-time World Poker Champion, who has lived in Las Vegas since 1994 Where did he start his professional career in the world of gaming – all the entertainments you listed, I have seen them being born and they are still there. However, the real change was the arrival of the Golden Knights, the Las Vegas team of the NHL, of the American National Hockey League. The city did not have a team until 2017 because of a law banning betting on teams playing here. Then this ban was lifted due to pressure from one of the owners of the Palms, which also had a basketball team under its auspices. In fact, you couldn’t even play it even though it was outside Nevada. So there was a series of requests and pressures and based on these pressures they changed the law and here we are.
We have to make an effort to understand the phenomenon of the Vegas Golden Knights: indeed, think of being in Serie A, and suddenly a new club comes from a city with a great stadium and within a few years it manages to compete and win the Scudetto. You will say we are crazy. Well, the Golden Knights won their first Stanley Cup this year but they have been competing for the title only a few seasons after their inception.
“Undoubtedly the vision of building the Vegas Golden Knights has been such a huge success that other investors in other regions and other sports have followed in the same footsteps – explains Pescatori – the Raiders have really arrived. In 2020 the franchise moved to Las Vegas and inaugurated its new stadium: Allegiant Stadium. Thanks to this unique facility (more than 70,000 state-of-the-art seats costing nearly $2 billion, ed) the team is now another regular attraction And is already in its third season. It ushered in a new era. But between the two most important events, the Knights and the Raiders, came lesser-known teams like the WNBA, women’s basketball, and before that there was indoor soccer and minor league baseball. But they were never very successful.”
And that’s not all: “Now major baseball will come, the Oakland A’s will come and they might change their name to the Las Vegas A’s”, Pescatori always points out.
right at the end of june Governor Joe Lombardo signs stadium bill into law According to which the state has committed $380 million in public funds for $1.5 billion in development.
Subject to Major League Baseball approval, the Oakland A’s will develop their new ballpark at the Tropicana Las Vegas site, which will be owned and operated by Bally. Another move that divides as it did for the Raiders, for example, with fans who want to stay in Oakland as would be normal for any group of supporters, but also with those excited to fly to Nevada to support their team, who will also get incredible sports incentives due to the new business. Such concepts are unimaginable in Italy, as if Milan or Rome were going to play in another arena.
But the arrival of these franchises has not only encouraged sports tourism: “by building incredible stadiums concerts and other previously unimaginable events have arrived – assured our guide – I was able to enjoy the Pro Bowl and Menskin who opened the Rolling Stones concert and it was very exciting for me to hear them sing in Italian in Las Vegas. All this has supported the advent of world class music festivals with stadiums that are far more advanced than our structures.
And there are other games: “These days (we’re in mid-June, ed.) CONCACAF was played with the USA-Mexico match while Italy was playing the Nations League in Europe. Here, for my interest, the arrival of a Major League Soccer team would be perfect, I would be very happy. In addition, the first Formula 1 Grand Prix is expected to be held on a street circuit in November. This is making it very inconvenient to do many things, Las Vegas is a disaster and will be for weeks to come”, Max concluded.
And there are still two areas to watch: food and martial arts Which we remember is very important in terms of appeal to tourists: “MMA and UFC are not decreasing at all, on the contrary, the fights attract many visitors to Vegas (tickets cost too much for us guys, ed.). Even one of our fighters, Marvin Vettori, came to challenge Jared Canoneri and I never noticed how it happened. We’ll answer Max: unfortunately he worked hard in the ring despite Az Blackened the Euros.
but we forgot Where to eat in Vegas. There is everything, if you want to eat a nice plate of pasta and then an amazing steak in New York, we remember the Italian restaurant Regiano at The Palazzo, Sushi Samba at The Venetian. But we know Max’s taste, they are excellent but very mixed! Here are their top 4:
1. Market Meat (Sahara)
2. Raku
3. Samurai Japanese Barbecue
4. Jaleo (Cosmopolitan)
(TagstoTranslate) Max Fisher