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I know that had to hurt like hell! 

The Del Mar Thoroughbred Club (DMTC) will close access by computer assisted wagering (CAW) players to its win pools at two minutes prior to the off time for each race beginning with this Thursday’s card (July 31), track officials announced today.

“This is part of an overall effort to ensure an optimal wagering experience for fans on-track, at simulcast locations and those playing via our advanced deposit wagering partners,” said Josh Rubinstein, DMTC president. “We had taken steps to encourage CAW players to process their win wagers earlier in the cycle, but it has become clear that we need to take additional measures. We will continue to do our best to create a racing and wagering product that appeals to all segments of the horseplayer market.”

Del Mar officials indicated that the new measure is a response to multiple late odds changes over the first seven days of racing at the track’s summer meeting.

This is a message to Midnight and ALL of the other veterans on this site, or if you have a Veteran in your family or maybe know one. There is a site that offers us free tickets to shows, sporting events and other things in your area. All it requires is that you sign up, they will verify your service (it's done through ID me, so it's legit), on the day of events they will email you and give the details for what is available. It's found here. Vet Tix - Tickets For Troops - Veteran Tickets Foundation

Hello Midnight! Hope all is well this weekend. Here is something that will keep you busy for a while. ENJOY!

Midnight-

Here is the latest on what's happening in Las Vegas. Complaints are coming at a time when Vegas has seen a sizable drop in visits. In June, hotel occupancy rates fell 14.6% versus the prior year, according to CoStar, a global provider of real-estate data, analytics and news. They were down 12.3% for the current month through July 19th of 2025.

“Very little of the drop is a Vegas issue,” said Steve Hill, president and CEO of the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Hill pointed to a significant decline in travelers from Canada as a critical factor, since Canadians have traditionally been the city’s biggest international market.

Specifically, Hill said the number of Canadian visitors has declined around 20% in Las Vegas. That dovetails with a broader U.S. trend, which shows a decline of nearly 19% in visits by our northern neighbors. The fact that they are not getting the value they used to get for their dollar is also a HUGE factor. 

In 2015, the average daily room rate in Vegas was $124.42, according to CoStar. In 2024, it was $209.54, an increase of nearly 70%.

There’s a reason that Vegas has a $9 cup of coffee, experts say, and that those $10 steak dinner deals of yesteryear are largely gone: Vegas hotels no longer rely as heavily on gambling revenue. Those steak-dinner deals were often loss leaders aimed at getting people inside to play the slots or hit the craps table. The younger generation does not come here to gamble. They come for the clubs and shopping, unlike what the people of our generation used to. 

Lastly the market has corrected itself. During covid a HUGE amount of people visited Las Vegas because things were cheap and normally Las Vegas was out of their budget, those people are also upset because now they are totally priced out. You can't come here for a weekend with less than $1,000 cash and they would and then you'd see them complaining at the hotels front desk about the room and service to get some money taken off of the bill, so they'd have gas money to make it back to California. I still love this city and in living here since 1999, it will re-invent itself again like it always does. 

@Midnight1

 How have you been doing there lately my friend, other than battling the stinking seaweed? 

Another part of my childhood ripped away, the dude was just 11 years older than me. The first and only WWF event ever attended in life was while stationed at Ft Lewis WA in the 80's at the Tacoma Dome, can't remember even one dude that "wrestled" that night, but I do remember buying two "Hulkamania" shirts. Good times! He'll be missed! 

Wow, never seen this before. 

On March 28, a devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake shook Myanmar. By chance, one camera caught a rare video, capturing the moment when the ground cracked and shifted in opposite directions.

CCTV footage along Myanmar’s Sagaing Fault—about 74.5 miles south of the earthquake’s hypocenter—shows the fault as it cracks and slides. This marks the first recording scientists have been able to observe that captures a fault in motion.

Those movements and the short duration suggest the earthquake was pulse-like, “characterized by a concentrated burst of slip propagating along the fault, much like a ripple traveling down a rug when flicked from one end,” Kearse explained.

I found this on a flash drive and this might help someone. 

Let's win some  this weekend guys! 

Found this today, it's worth book marking 

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A change in how, and where, poker players cash out after gambling on the Strip will begin later this week.

Multiple casino operators on the Strip, including Caesars Entertainment, MGM Resorts International and Wynn Resorts, will only cash out poker chips from their properties, ending any preexisting arrangements for accepting poker chips from other gambling parlors. The change at Caesars and MGM-operated casinos on the Strip will take effect Thursday.

A spokesperson for MGM Resorts, which features four poker rooms inside its Strip casinos, confirmed the policy update Monday. A spokesperson for Wynn and Encore confirmed the sister properties’ policy to only cash out its own poker chips.

The Venetian and Palazzo, which operates the Strip’s largest poker room in the Grand Canal Shoppes, did not respond to an email seeking comment or confirmation about its poker chip policy.

Caesars Entertainment, operator of three poker rooms inside Strip casinos and host of the World Series of Poker, did not respond to a request for comment Monday. Stand-up signs posted around the company’s Las Vegas casino properties said,” As of July 17, 2025, Caesars Entertainment properties will not cash other casinos’ chips from poker play, and our own chips from poker play will not be accepted elsewhere. Please redeem your poker chips prior to leaving the premises.”

The MGM spokesperson said poker chips from one company-operated casino can still be redeemed at other MGM casinos. The signage at Caesars properties suggests a similar policy is in place for their operations.

Nevada gaming officials did not respond to questions Monday about whether the changes were the result of regulatory guidance or a response to industry failures as it relates to anti-money laundering compliance. Las Vegas poker rooms are a target for money launderers because AML standards are harder to enforce in an environment where players can, and frequently do, exchange chips for cash (and vice versa) without casino involvement.

As it currently stands, the change to poker chip cash-out policy does not appear to extend to chips from other table games, multiple casino company representatives said Monday.

There are 11 poker rooms on the Las Vegas Strip. They are inside the following casinos: Aria, Bellagio, Caesars Palace, Horseshoe, Mandalay Bay, MGM Grand, Planet Hollywood, Resorts World, Sahara, Venetian and Wynn.