The Hard Rock Hotel & Casino will be hosting the best New Year’s Eve parties on The Strip and party-goers looking to dine out before the festivities can visit Rare 120 ° for a mouth-watering five-course New Year’s Eve menu. Rare 120 °, which will be open from 6:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., is offering diners a delectable New Year’s Eve menu that starts out with baked oysters with black truffle cream spinach , then a foie gras brulée, oven-dried strawberries and a 50-year aged balsamic vinegar

Hard-Boiled Poker 2009 Year in Review (3 of 3)

We are almost there. The last day of the year. How are things stacking up for you, in terms of your win/loss total for 2009?

Former NBA all-star Antoine Walker, reached an agreement with Clark County to repay more than $900.000 the debts with three Las Vegas casinos and avoid criminal charges. The agreement was made by Clark County Chief Deputy District Attorney Bernie Zadrowski and Walker’s defense attorney, Johnathan Powell, and announced during a pre-trial hearing held on Monday. Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson aproved the deal, and warned Walker about making the payments, saying that if as many as one payment was late or missed, she will send the case to a District Court

NBC’s Poker After Dark will be back on January 4th for a new season featuring thirteen new players and a mixture of regulars from previous seasons.Poker After Dark season 6, recorded in October 2009 at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas , will air thirteen new episodes, seven in the traditional six-handed winner-take-all freezeout format and six in cash games. Ali Nejad will return to Poker After Dark to provide commentary, while the popular and beautiful Leeann Tweeden will returns for her third season as the show’s host. Season 6 will kick off on January 4th, in its regular 2:05 a.m timeslot on NBC

Many Las Vegas Sportsbooks, like the one at the M Resort , have recently adopted a new technology which allows bettors to place wagers from inside the casino on a handheld device similar to an iPhone. Both the Las Vegas casinos and the bettors are benefiting from the new devices, which allow wagering while the game is in progress.