They all give free drinks but the most frequent free drink service will be at the smallest casinos.

On the strip, I wouldn’t gamble anywhere except Slots A Fun (next to Circus Circus) and maybe O’Sheas. I was just there last month and walking through the strip casinos was depressing. They all have the same silly stupid machines that look like children’s video games, and high limit table games.

Your best odds are downtown at the lowroller casinos like El Cortez and Gold Spike. 9/7 and 9/6 video poker is a thing of the past on the strip. Nearly all machines are fancy multiplayer games with terrible odds. Table games on the strip are silly… Pai Gow poker, Caribbean Stud, Casino War, blackjack with six decks and 6:5 payoffs on blackjacks.

The one oddity I did notice last month was a new kind of Texas Hold Em game where you play against a dealer like blackjack. What was odd about it is that the dealer can’t fold, even if his hand stinks. I thought that might be an advantage for players. You can’t go “all in” or bet like in a regular poker game though, so I’m not sure if these new Hold Em games are worth trying or not.