Flights between Atlantic City and Las Vegas are to begin on May 3. A new nonstop flight will connect the nation’s two main gambling hotspots, Spirit Airlines announced Thursday.The added flight is significant for Atlantic City International Airport, which is served by only two commercial carriers: Spirit and Delta Air Lines.

Joe Kelly, president of the Atlantic City Regional Chamber of Commerce, said the service to Las Vegas will be useful for casino executives. Several companies own properties in both cities and need their workers to travel between them frequently. The additional service also makes it easier for travelers all over the West to reach Atlantic City as the resort tries to expand its convention business. Associated Press

Gambling Paradise:40 miles from Hong Kong. The Chinese territory aspires not just to be the Las Vegas of Asia but to beat Vegas at its own game.

Last year, 100,000 Americans visited Macao, most of them taking side trips from Hong Kong, and Macao is building luxury hotels with entertainment and world-class shopping to increase those numbers.

Contrasts make Macao intriguing. Its dozen square miles, including Taipa and Coloane islands, is a pastiche of Portuguese, Chinese and Macanese cultures. And, yes, Vegas-like lights and action.

With $5.3 billion last year in gambling revenues, Macao is poised to surpass Las Vegas, which in 2005 had total revenues, including from off-Strip sites, of $7.6 billion. In Macao, 95 percent of the casino action is at the tables. In Nevada, it’s slots — 67 percent statewide, 52.2 percent on the Las Vegas Strip. Funny if you think that locals used to travel to Hong Kong just to go to McDonald’s

I am planning a trip there myself … I don’t like McDonald’s anyway…

The Supreme Court of Nevada reversed two lower court rulings to establish that no physical contact of a sexual nature is allowed between strippers and customers. This is said to protects society by curtailing prostitution, STD’s, drug offenses and other criminal activity.

The city is world recognized not only as a place to go for gambling but also for other ‘adult’ kind of entertainment. The significance of the blow to Las Vegas will remain to be seen.

It appears as if the Sin City has become a little bit less sinful…we’ll see about that.

Las Vegas - Would anyone sanction a bout between Iron Mike and a female boxer?

Mike Tyson was quoted this week saying he wants to fight a woman in his promotional boxing tour, which is set to kick off on Friday night when Tyson goes ear-to-ear with former sparring partner Corey “T-Rex” Sanders in Youngstown, New York. If the money is right you can bet that someone will try to profit, and that’s why Sportsbook.com is posting odds on whether a battle of the sexes will eventually take place.

The first casino operated by a western hemispheric business in Asia is now the largest operating casino in the world.

After a two year expansion the Sands Macao has finished its casino floor and is now 229,000 square feet. It holds 740 tables, more than any other casino in the world, both factors making it the largest casino the world has ever seen.

The Sands Macaou, owned by the Las Vegas Sands Corporation, is now one of the hottest tourist attractions in Asia.

“The Sands Macao continues to outpace the competition by offering an entertainment experience not found anywhere else in Asia,” stated Bradley H. Stone, executive vice president of Las Vegas Sands Corp. CKX, Inc.

LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - After a lifetime of undressing beautiful women, Playboy now has a new cause — dressing men.

Seeking to expand its lucrative licensing business, Playboy Enterprises Inc. has launched a line of menswear that represents a hip departure from the silk smoking jackets favored by its 80-year-old founder, Hugh Hefner.

At the Magic Marketplace apparel trade show in Las Vegas this week, fashion buyers got their first peek at a 2007 spring line of men’s T-shirts, jackets and swimwear, all emblazoned with variations on Playboy’s iconic bunny logo.

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