Dan Michalski

Oct 9, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Dan Michalski

Travel: By The WayDestinationsNewsTipsNewsletterInstagramTravel: By The WayDestinationsNewsTipsNewsletterInstagramBy The WayThe casino-hotel’s demolition follows the city’s long tradition of imploding its past to make room for the future5 minFireworks go off before the Tropicana Las Vegas towers are imploded early Wednesday. (David Becker/AP)By Dan MichalskiOctober 9, 2024 at 9:58 a.m. EDTLAS VEGAS — If ever there’s a sleepy time in Las Vegas, it’s 2:30 a.m. on a Wednesday.

Sep 6, 2024 | casinos.com | Dan Michalski

Wynn Poker director Ryan Beauregard saw a need to shake up certain cash games, and says so far players seem to like the changes. (Image: courtesy of Ryan Beauregard)In something of a surprise move in late August, the poker room at Wynn and Encore Las Vegas changed their rules for how they run $5/10 and $10/20 No-Limit Hold’em cash games. These stakes were once some of the most popular at the Wynn, catering to a tourist clientele with a few thousand dollars to gamble in a single sitting.

Aug 22, 2024 | casinos.com | Dan Michalski

Assemblyman Max Carter is a retired electrician who claims he helped install the beam atop the Luxor. Now he's writing a bill that he says will wipe out shady marijuana delivery networks while allowing casinos and legal dispensaries to better serve tourists on the Strip. (Image: courtesy of Max Carter)Recreational cannabis has been legal in Nevada since 2017.

Aug 19, 2024 | casinos.com | Dan Michalski

Drs. Riana Durrett (right) and Brett Abarbanel (left) are leading conversations about cannabis and casino gaming in Nevada, which some are saying have been kept apart for too long. (Image: Dan Michalski / Casinos.com) Nevada has held itself as the “gold standard” in gaming regulation for more than three score. And now, for nearly a decade, the state has used that model to claim its stake as a leader in cannabis regulation, too.

Aug 2, 2024 | casinos.com | Dan Michalski

Allen Kessler, in front of his beloved Buffalo Power Pay machine, with a big fake check to prove he wasn’t bluffing when he claimed to be in an unusually good mood earlier this week. (Image: X/AllenKessler) Allen Kessler might’ve been a little on tilt. The Las Vegas poker pro known as “the Chainsaw'' was attending the RunGood poker series at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, California (outside of Sacramento), but was too late to enter the $400 HEROS Ring event.