The new Aladdin hotel & casino on the Las Vegas Strip opens August 17, featuring 130 shops, 21 restaurants, more than 2,500 oversized guest rooms, a 100,000-square-foot casino, a 7,000-seat theater for performing arts, and a complete health spa and salon.

The $1.4 billion resort features elements from the legendary 1,001 Arabian Nights. It's located directly across the street from the Bellagio and next door to Paris Las Vegas.

One of the wonderful benefits of going to Vegas on a gambling trip is the special deals offered to you by the casinos. Known as complimentaries, or "comps", the object is to entice you to gamble more money at the tables, and hopefully come back time and time again.

Complimentaries can take many forms - whether it's the free alcohol that is served throughout the casino, cashback incentives, free room nights, meals or show tickets, and sometimes even free airfare - comps are enough justification for gamblers to take a trip to Vegas, rather than perhaps a trip to Hawaii, the Bahamas or some other exotic destination. On top of that, it's generally a lot more exciting than sitting on a beach somewhere sipping a margarita.

But many gambling experts tell you to avoid playing for comps - and for good reason - often the value of the comps are not worth the amount of risk you take at the tables or the slots.

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Baccarat is seeing a surge in popularity as high rollers flock to the prestigious card game. One reason for the renewed popularity of baccarat is the improving Asian economy which has lead to more Asian high rollers visiting casinos.

It's not unheard of for baccarat players to have $1 million-plus credit limits, wagering hundreds of thousands of dollars per hand. Casinos reward these high rollers with lavish comps to keep them at the table.

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Dear Mark, On the weekends, do casinos make adjustments on their video poker machines to make more money? Sam K.

Do you mean do casinos take a screwdriver to their slots on the weekends to tighten them up? No way. It is not cost effective for the casino to continually alter the payouts on their machines. To alter the percentage return in their favor on a video game, the casino must, by law, make a hardware change. You do this by swapping out an internal component, the ROM portion of the microprocessor chip. ROM, or read only memory, is a chip the slot manufacturer provides the casino. This is the chip that tells the video poker machine to pay 9 coins for a full house, 6 coins for a flush. Additionally, they would have to physically change the glass payout schedule on their machines. What you could see is a seasonal wholesale change to improve their theoretical hold by making all 9/6 machines to 8/5 bandits. By changing to all 8/5 machines, the house holds an additional 3% edge on each and every machine.

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Ladies and Gentlemen you are formally invited to participate in the RATED PLAYER $20 for $50 new player promotion. Simply register with the casino, download the free multiplayer software and make a deposit of $50 and we will comp you $20. Alternatively we will give you 20% of your first purchase of $500 ($100 in bonus money). Surrender is available on our Blackjack Tables!!!!!

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Eighty percent of online casinos are powered by four major software companies. In the first of this 4-part series we'll look at one of those companies, Starnet Systems, from their legal troubles of the past to their new casino games of the future.

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"Prince" Naseem Hamed will defend his WBO featherweight title against Augie Sanchez at Foxwoods Resort Casino on Saturday night.

The flamboyant Hamed, 26, is considered by some as one of the best pound-for-pound fighters in the sport. As usual, Hamed is confident: "I'm going to dismantle him. I'm going to take him out. I'm going to expose him to the world."

This will be Hamed's 15th defense of the WBO title. He boasts an undefeated record or 34 wins with 30 knock outs.

It was July 15th in Vicksburg, Ms. at my favorite place, the Isle of Capri and I was playing this one nickle progressive. I played it hard like it has never been played before. For one solid hour we did battle. Then I had pre-registered Farraday's reservations, so I turned it loose. I was up $40 bucks on it and I sold my winnings to a man who wanted to play my machine so he wouldn't have to stand in line for change 'cause the bill changer was broken.

When I returned, a friend who was playing next to me said that my machine took every nickle back that I sold that man and it was vacanct so I said, ok -- it's me and you again. I diddled a bit, but I surely knew that it was being stubborn, yes; even with me. A quick ten bucks was swallowed up like the ocean did the Titanic or The Perfect Storm got those fellas. So, I let it be so it could think about what it was going to do next. I let it contemplate it's next move.

I went off, but kept it in eye-balls range. Yes, indeed, there were serious mind games going on. After 2 hours and several hopper fillings later on other machines, I walked over to it, smiled, and with all it's glory, there it was. Vacant and wide open as well as it pleases. I sat down! Wiped the sweat off my brow and said, ok -- let's get it on!

I dropped 10 nickles -- the max! It gave me 4 cards hearts to the Royal minus the ACE. Now I have battled this machines for over 5 hours and look at this, it's looking all simple. I said here's the Royal right here. In a flash of lightening, I made my draw. Bing, bang, boom -- the bells went off and I was up several hundred to the good. It was the first time I had ever hit a Royal on first draw before. I've done it on 5 several times, but never one. So, I proceeded to go hit a few hundred more on my favorite slots, and went to the hotel and drifted off with a smile on my face. -- DanDaMan

Here are a few of the specials offered this week from Las Vegas Reservation Systems at www.lvrs.com

• Las Vegas - Palace Station is now as low as $39 per night!
• Las Vegas - Stay at the Brand New Aladdin, starting from $119!
• Las Vegas - Exclusive Packages at the MGM from $109 per night!
• Las Vegas - True elegance at the Four Season's during August!
• Las Vegas - Stay at the Las Vegas Hilton now from $39 a night!

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Next week SYNGE.com, an online lifestyle and entertainment Web site, will be hosing a live chat with Gayle Mitchell, a leading casino gambling expert, and a contributor to this newsletter. Gayle will share slot secrets, roulette strategy, payout tips, and more. The chat is scheduled for August 23 at 7 p.m. PST at http://www.synge.com. Your editor, Steve Johnson, .

See you next week!

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