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Vegas is known mainly as the city of fun that never sleeps, the paradise of gambling and extravagance, home to the biggest casinos in the world. Whether it is poker, slot machines or roulette – casinos are one of the most popular entertaining ways on the planet. Annually, over 35 million tourists spend almost $ 6 billion dollars in casinos distinguished by sophistication, style and unique atmosphere. Las Vegas is an overwhelming city; a conglomeration of attractions worldwide. Everything is gigantic, bright, a condensed planet, where at a distance of 10 minutes you can find world stories of Camelot - EXCALIBUR, Egyptian mystic world - LUXOR site, you can walk through beautiful France - PARIS, you may feel the romantic flavor of Italy – Bellagio, CAESAR PALACE, its Venetian hotels, or you can contemplate the wonderful world of pirates and sirens - TREASURE ISLAND and many more.

--- 1. Venetian Hotel and Gondola Rides ---

The Venetian Hotel is a 5-star resort on the Las Vegas Strip, designed with Italian-inspired themes and offers spacious rooms, 19 international restaurants, a modern casino and a poolside terrace with an area of ​​2 hectares. The complex includes Grand Canal Shoppes shopping center where you can find more than 80 boutique shops. Each spacious suite at the Venetian Resort Hotel complex and Casino has an ecological seating area with the table below the floor level. Venetian resort guests can stroll the Italian style streets or the Grand Canal with authentic Venetian gondolas driven by gondoliers. The property includes Madame Tussauds wax statues museum in Las Vegas. The Strip, as it is known mainly from Las Vegas Boulevard, the infamous thoroughfare full of hotels and casinos in the city, bathe in a real bathroom light.

--- 2. Paris Hotel and the Eiffel Tower ---

Located on the Las Vegas Strip, this hotel casino offers a rooftop pool, an indoor shopping center and replicas of several attractions from the city of Paris, including the Eiffel Tower. Rooms at Paris Las Vegas have a French décor and a marble bathroom. The Paris features 11 restaurants and 5 bars. The Napoleon's Dueling Piano Bar offers a full-service bar and hosts shows with pianists playing in tandem. Guests can enjoy fine dining at The Eiffel Tower or choose the relaxed ambiance of the Le Village Buffet restaurant. Thousands of square meters of slots, poker tables, blackjack, roulette, wheel of fortune and a whole series of mechanical games, which all show you the right jackpot amounts delights everyone playing in Las Vegas.

--- 3. Caesar's Palace and the Colosseum ---

Caesars Palace sends you back in time, in years of the Roman Empire domination. Aptly named “Caesar's Palace”, it has massive columns, sparkling fountains and statues imposing impresses at first sight. At this hotel casino, you'll not know what to play first. Large amount stakes draw you in all games. Games that you might not heard of, or you have not seen before. With high stakes, low stakes, for all budgets, The Colosseum is one of the biggest events scenes from Las Vegas, being located in Caesar’s Palace. In Las Vegas, concerts and performances are at superlative, however famous you are, you still feel like you got the leg up on God when you sign a contract to perform in the Colosseum (Celine Dion performed for about 2 years every day at Caesars Palace; Cher and Elton John as well; even the magician David Copperfield did his magic tricks at the Caesar's Palace Casino).

--- 4. Bellagio Resort and Fountain Show ---

Bellagio Casino isn't compromising when it comes to luxury and extravagance. The complex includes a luxury hotel on the Las Vegas Strip and features stylish rooms with marble bathrooms, a full-service spa, and a famous fountain show. Cirque du Soleil performs here regularly. Bellagio Hotel guests are offered a wide range of treatments in the spa or they can enjoy a massage beside one of 5 beautiful pools. You can visit the lush botanical gardens and an art gallery.
 --- 5. Helicopter Rides over Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon ---

In Las Vegas, you can try an exclusive ride over the city and the Grand Canyon via helicopter. The tour is for 2-3, maximum 4 hours, at a price between 150 and 400 dollars. From the sky you can admire the city, the near Lake Mead - Hoover Dam, Colorado River, Route 66 (the road that connects Chicago to Los Angeles, crossing the most beautiful and diverse landscapes of the US. In the Grand Canyon you can see impressive rock-canyons, old trains (over 100 years old) crossing the road and once there, you can take a couple of hours break to enjoy the Grand Canyon Park (fees are $ 20 / family private vehicle or $ 10 / person; a National Park Pass costs $ 50). In the air, you can see the last Californian Condors, which were brought here in the Grand Canyon over 12 years ago.

--- 6. Las Vegas Monorail ---

The Monorail is a suspended train crossing Las Vegas, with a total length of 6.3 kilometers, which is connected to all important places inside the city and offers various extensions outside. Its main target is a vast network of casinos, making a great and affordable connection between them. It is operated by the Las Vegas Monorail Company and carries over 8 million tourists annually, being a not-for-profit corporation.

--- 7. Neon Boneyard ---

The museum of Neon Boneyard is the last place where all city’s neon signs go to die. Here is hosted the famous city entrance neon sign, “Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada”, crafted in 1959 by Betty Willis. Opened in 1996, the museum is located on the Las Vegas Boulevard (east side). Almost 40% of the pieces inside are the result of public donations, hosting thousands of electric and electronic neon fossils (over 120 products, including the La Concha Motel sign). The museum includes Benny Binion’s Horseshoe, The Hacienda Horse and Rider, The Bow & Arrow Motel, The Silver Slipper, The Landmark Hotel, 5th Street Liquor, Society Cleaners, The Normandie Motel and The Lucky Cuss Motel.

--- 8. Atomic Testing Museum ---

The National Atomic Testing Museum is located in Paradise and hosts documents and papers related to the nuclear testing history, being opened in 2005. The entire American nuclear history is stored here, starting with the experiments from 1951 and lately (in 2012) a section dedicated to Area 51 was opened. Also, nearby there is a weather station, which measures the temperature in Las Vegas.

--- 9. Roller coaster atop the Stratosphere Tower ---

You can enjoy Las Vegas sights from the top of the roller coaster located at the Stratosphere Tower (on the Las Vegas Strip), also known as the Let it Ride High Roller, with a height of 277 meters. It is known as the highest roller coaster construction in the world, established on the highest tower in the USA, Stratosphere Tower. The roller coaster structure was re-engineered for several times to ensure a better security for all visitors. Riding in this amazing roller coaster means a unique and courageous experience, mandatory to do when you’re in Las Vegas.

--- 10. Visit the Mermaid Bar and Lounge ---

When you’re visiting Las Vegas, it is absolutely necessary to visit the Mermaid Bar and Lounge, located in the Silverton Hotel and play at the Casino in. Also, here you can enjoy many relaxing moments, before and after playing at the casino. 

Very often, the desire to win at casino games prompted players to resort to different methods, some of them less accurate, which gives them an incorrect, but a winning solution. In this way, many of the cheaters who have won their place in the Hall of Fame of Casino Cheaters have managed to revolutionize the procedures that have  incorrectly mastered the gains they deserved. Here are some of the most famous cheaters known in this field.

--- 1. Tommy Glenn Carmichael ---

Born in July 1950, Tommy Glenn Carmichael turned into one of the casino cheaters kings and, unofficially, is named the “second biggest cheater in the slots field”. After many years of “intensive work” (almost 20), he developed several technologies related to casino slots, i.e. “cheating gadgets”. Either alone, either with a group of crime professionals, he took advantage of the Caribbean and USA casinos.

His first known “hit” was in 1980 when he stole 35 coins (worth 5 cents each) from a casino located near Las Vegas. This caused him a sentence of 5 years in prison, where the 2nd biggest slots cheater met another “brother in crimes”, named Mike Balsamo, with whom he decided to form a team, capable of developing cheating systems for  casinos. But soon after their release, the casino systems have changed their technology and implemented microprocessors and a new operating system named RNG (random number generator). That represented a
challenge for Carmichael, who bought a poker machine to study its inside working system. Then, he developed the “monkey paw”, an interesting device to manipulate the release button, responsible for collecting the coins from the machine.

With a versatile personality, he found solutions for tricking a casino game's systems, even when they were computerized. In 1991, pretending to be an interested customer, he found a solution to get these new machines and developed a laser device. Using a camera battery connected to a microlight bulb, he was able to manipulate the cover sensor from these apparatus. By selling this idea patent to other casino cheaters, Carmichael won serious money. During 1996-1998, when he has used this gadget to steal casino money, he was caught after he tried to cheat some casinos in Nevada. After his phone was put under surveillance and all conversations with other cheaters were recorded, Tommy Glenn Carmichael was sent to prison. After release, he crossed the line and now is working on a device capable of detecting and canceling other fraud gadgets.

--- 2. Richard Marcus ---

Richard Marcus is famous for his multiple cheating actions in all casino fields (starting with poker, roulette, blackjack and finishing with craps). A “rich” activity of 25 years in the casino cheating domain has been implemented in three books: “American Roulette (The Great Casino Heist)”, “The Poker Underworld Exposed” and “The World's Greatest Gambling Scams”. With many television appearances, Richard Marcus is considered among the highest rated casino cheaters. In his books, he presents an original approach about cheating casinos, including various methods and procedures. Especially as Marcus was at the beginning known as an honest casino player, and later, a decent dealer. Being on both sides, he understood how the system is working and developed some incredible cheating methods. This way he created the Savannah movement, which consists in slipping a big chip (worth $500) under three red chips (worth $5 each). Initially, the dealer thinks the gain is lower due to red chip value, but, in reality, it's a winning of $1000. At his retirement from the cheating field, his total “gains” were of $7 million and the title of “World's #1 Casino and Poker Cheating Expert”.

--- 3. Dominic LoRiggio ---

Famous for his intense activity of cheating at blackjack and craps tables, “The Dominator” developed a new technique of “controlling shooting” (it's a method consisting in an agile movement due to which the dice is getting the right direction, with precise tossing in the air and a great precision when it's hitting the craps table wall). He never made it with two dice simultaneously.

--- 4. Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo ---

The man who broke the roulette spinning wheel system and won almost $1.5 million from cheating Las Vegas casinos (in a single hit), Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo it is titled as the uncrowned king of cheating at roulette. In the beginning, he studied the roulette system and developed several probabilities of cheating the game. As he found that some numbers are often extracted than others, Garcia-Pelayo quickly won 600,000 Euros in Madrid and, later over $ 2 million in Las Vegas. Even if his method, legally speaking, is absolutely safe and recognized as not being criminalized by the Supreme Court, his cheating activity ended in 1992. Today, Gonzalo Garcia-Pelayo is a consultant for several casinos and fights against cheating in casinos.

--- 5. The MIT Blackjack Team ---

In the 90s, a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT in short, have made millions of dollars playing blackjack in Las Vegas casinos. After the courses, some students were meeting to plot a strategy to win this game, by counting cards. They formed a very capable team of six students who used the signs of their own language, expressions and gestures only they know. From 1979 ‘till 1993 they have won millions of dollars and when
everything stopped, one of them published in 2003 a book based on their experience named “Bringing Down the House”.

--- 6. Edward Thorp ---

One of the cards counting pioneer and considered the father of this system, Edward Thorp, was an MIT professor, who cracked the blackjack code. Using an old IBM 704 computer, he deciphered the secrets of this game and its many probabilities. Tested in several casinos, including Las Vegas and Reno, his counting card method brought him quick gains. Later, in 1996, he published all his conclusions regarding this method in a book called “Beat the Dealer”. Thanks to his extensive activity in this field, he entered in the Blackjack Hall of Fame (as the developer of the “Thorp count” method).

--- 7. Ron Harris ---

Famous for his activity in the keno game, Ron Harris was a simple technician whose job was testing the slot machines. In this position, Ron Harris broke the RNG of a keno machine and duplicated the calculations, providing useful information for his crime partner, who won over $100,000 in a New Jersey casino. After his partner was caught when he won $ 1 million in a casino, using Harris’s cheating method, he lost his job and ended with such criminal intentions.

In the last fifteen years many films have rolled on the big screen that had the subject of casino robberies. Many of these films have in composition famous Hollywood actors, being directed by well-known directors. What was less known is that the topics of that inspired directors and writers have actually happened in reality, and some of these robberies and robbers remained in forensic history.

--- 1. The MIT blackjack whizz-kids Casino: various worldwide ---

In the 90s, a team of students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT, have made millions of dollars playing blackjack in Las Vegas casinos. After the courses, some students were meeting to plot a strategy to win this game, by counting cards. They formed a very capable team of six students who used signs of their own language, expressions and gestures only they knew.
Thus, two of the students were playing at the blackjack tables the minimum amount and number of cards which are on the table. At one point, making a sign with his hand, stretch and cool at the table sat another student who started playing the big money. In Las Vegas for a particular card they had a word; for certain words had name cards. For example, they use the word “sweet” in a phrase or sentence, or for a card with number 10 they used the word “magazine”.
Another two students were sitting a few tables away to notify them if something unpredictable happens. For example, if one of them put their hand through his hair was a clear signal for rapid withdrawal. Signs that the casino guard caught the trick and is on the verge of taking questions.
From 1979 ‘till 1993 they have won millions of dollars and when everything stopped, one of them published in 2003 a book based on their experience named “Bringing Down the House”.

--- 2. All-seeing eye - Casino: Crown, Perth ---

For a long time now, technology has become the best friend of thieves and robbers not only in the movies. It happened to the Crown Casino, Perth, Australia in 2013, when more than $33 million Australian Dollars were robbed with the help of a surveillance camera. The crime system was simple and involved two persons, plus the camera. One of the partners was hacking the casino surveillance system and manipulated the camera to sneak peak into the dealer’s cards. Via an earpiece he transmitted all the necessary information to an inside man who was playing at the table. Although the inside man was captured by the security team of the casino, the outside hacker is still free and can repeat this procedure all over again.

--- 3. Riches of the sole - Casino: multiple across California ---

In the 1970s under the sunny sun of the California, some students thought they could make big money by tricking the California Casino. With a pure insolence, these students from the University of California crafted two miniature computers. These AI gadgets were able to read a spinning roulette wheel, and were used like a talking system (one emitting, another receiving). The only problem was that the computers short-circuited and the guys ended electrocuted and with empty pockets. 

--- 4. Bonnie and Clyde - Casino: Circus ---

The crime/love story of Bonnie and Clyde inspired many robbers to create new brilliant methods of robbing money from casinos. It happened in 1993, at the Circus Casino, when a couple of lovers have imitated America’s most wanted criminals in the 1930’s. Roberto Solis and Heather Tallchief robbed the casino of $2.5 million and ran into a secured truck. The only problem was that they had too much cash, so Solis ran alone with the money, leaving only $1000 for his ex-sweetheart, Tallchief.

--- 5. Brute force - Casino: Soboba Casino, Las Vegas ---

Sometimes there’s no need for intelligence, brute force is enough to make some criminal money. It is the case of Soboba Casino, located in Las Vegas, where, in 2005, two handy robbers, Roland Luda Ramos and Eric Alan Aguilera have tapped with guns in their hand, like real thieves from the Wild West and robbed the Casino of 1.5 million dollars. The only big problem was that sheriffs and deputies were at the corner and caught them really quickly. 

--- 6. Laser swag - Casino: Ritz, London ---

It is known that criminal minds always find the best solution when it comes to stealing, cheating and robbing. In the UK’s capital, London, in 2004, three brilliant robbers cheated the Ritz Casino of £1.3 million using a simple, but really clever idea: they used the lasers mounted in mobile phones, which had the ability to read the roulette and its winning moves. They have cashed in the money, but were caught and brought to justice. The judge however was convinced that these three guys committed no crime and set them free. 

--- 7. Severance pay - Casino: the Stardust, Las Vegas ---

Sometimes all you have to do to rob a casino is by working in it. For example, at the Stardust Casino, Las Vegas, in 1992, a sportsbook cashier named Bill Brennan took off with $500,000 and disappeared into another state or country. It's still not clear what happened to him, since the person was not identified anywhere in the world. It is assumed to have been killed by an accomplice of his, but, the truth is no one knows precisely.

--- 8. Casino Royale - Casino: multiple across London ---

This is not a James Bond movie, but the facts are somehow related to his action films. It happened in 2000, in London, when more than £200,000 were robbed from 6 casinos from the UK’s capital. This action was performed by three robbers endowed with high intelligence spy technology, who used hidden cameras in their sleeves to film dealer’s cards. Using an earpiece, an inside man made the winning moves. Although they “won” that amount, they were caught by the English police and sentenced to prison. 

--- 9. Third time’s the charm? - Casino: Bellagio, Las Vegas ---

The following robbery happened at the Bellagio Casino, Las Vegas, in 1998, when three Latino machos (Oscar Sanchez, Jose Vigoa, and Luis Suarez) imagined a system capable of fleecing the casino. They won almost $160,000, but with Jose Vigoa face caught on a casino camera, the whole gang was easily identified. Oscar Sanchez betrayed his fellows for a lighter sentence, and Jose Vigoa and Luis Suarez were imprisoned for life. 

--- 10. Plundering Treasure Island - Casino: Treasure Island, Las Vegas ---

Everyone dreams of a Treasure Island, but Reginald Johnson really found one in the Treasure Island Casino, Las Vegas, in 2000. As he said that he should not leave empty handed, he robbed the Casino of $30,000 in his third attempt. A few months later, in January 2001, he was caught by the Police, when returned at the crime scene and sentenced to 130 years in prison.