Las Vegas Strip Will Rock A 36-Story Guitar Tower
The iconicĀ Mirage volcano will soon be replaced with a future icon: a 36-story guitar tower!Ā Hard Rock InternationalĀ received approval from the Clark County Commission on Wednesday, March 22nd to build the guitar-shaped hotel structure on the famousĀ Las Vegas Strip.Ā It is scheduled to debut sometime inĀ 2025.
According to an article written byĀ Corey LevitanĀ onĀ Casino.org,Ā theĀ Hard RockĀ guitar tower will probably overshadow many of the other structures on The Strip.Ā It will house 600 hotel rooms, and there are renovation plans in the works to renovate all of the 3,000+ hotel rooms atĀ The Mirage.Ā Of course, these renovation plans also include a 3,000-seat showroom, pools, restaurants and shops.
Per Levitan’s article, the 36-story guitar tower will look very similar to the one that has already been built in Hollywood, Florida at theĀ Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino which is pictured above. TheĀ Seminole TribeĀ ofĀ FloridaĀ purchasedĀ The Mirage fromĀ MGM Resorts InternationalĀ for $1.1 billion dollars in lateĀ 2022.
Having moved toĀ Las Vegas about five years after The Mirage opened in 1989, I was not aware of the interesting history of that property revealed in Levitan’s article on Casino.org.Ā TheĀ Red RoosterĀ was the first licensed casino to open on the futureĀ Las Vegas Strip back inĀ 1931Ā on that site. Years later, aĀ MobilĀ gas station was built on the site of theĀ Red Rooster. Then, inĀ 1987,Ā when construction began on the brand newĀ Mirage Hotel & Casino,Ā they demolished theĀ MobilĀ station and the last remaining private residence on the Las Vegas StripĀ in order to build the volcano and other structures.
So, like all demolitions and renovations inĀ Sin City,Ā the old is torn down to reveal shiny, new structures. We bid a fond farewell to the iconic MirageĀ volcano as we get ready to welcome the newĀ Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, and that shiny, new 36-story guitar tower.
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10 Of The Biggest Real-Life Casino Heists Of All Time
From the moment you enter a casino, a thousand strategic choicesāfrom the sounds of slot machines designed to disguise losses as wins to the perfumed air, which, for one Vegas casino, increased slot machine revenue by 45%āhave been made to keep you playing, and to keep you just hopeful enough to keep paying. It would be bad business for casinos to bankrupt players on a single hand or pull of a lever, intentionally. And for every dangled carrot that a player eventually grasps, the house has already ensured theyāve earned it back somewhere else.
So how do you ever truly get the upper hand against a system that is mathematically designedāwhat is known as the house edgeāto prevent you from doing so? Well, some people have tried cheating. Thereās card counting (which is technically not illegal, according to federal, state, and local laws), card switching, card marking, dice sliding, dealer bribing, and good old-fashioned peeking (or hole carding). But to even have an advantage by cheating, you must play every hand perfectly, like the infamous MIT blackjack team. Determined to beat the house with even more complex mathāif just theoretically, for nowāresearchers at MIT are studying whether quantum entanglement can give players an advantage at the blackjack table.
For the average person without a quantum computer or the skills to count cards flawlessly, any attempt at cheating is almost always noticed, monitored, and in some scenarios, permitted, says data scientist Jeff Jonas. And he should knowāhe developed the programs casinos use to detect even the subtlest hints of fraud. NORA, or Non-Obvious Relationship Awareness, is a software program of Jonasā creation, which uses available data to sleuth out connections like whether a dealer and a player are related, live in proximity to one another, or if a casino employee has any connections to known criminals. Any edge that the house hasnāt already secured through tamperproof mathematics, theyāve accounted for through surveillance.
So, if you canāt gain an advantage by playing by the rules or even by breaking the rules, whatās left to do? Any level-headed person would tell you to reset your expectations or avoid the casinos completely. Some people throughout history have decided they simply werenāt going to play the game at all. Instead, they chose to rob them blind.
Casino heists are the ultimate underdog stories, and as such, it is a favorite subgenre in film. While Hollywood has given us its own edge-of-your-seat, romanticized take on the topic, the reality is arguably more dramatic and more impressive when one considers how unlikely success is. OLBG compiled a list of the 10 biggest casino heists ranging from āOceanās 11ā-style complexity to stunning simplicity.