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06-13-2006, 10:51 PM
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cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
I'm making a trip to vegas for the WSOP and wanted to stop by the gambler's general store. I will not have a car and wanted to take a cab, but i wasn't sure if it is easy to pick up a cab when leaving, since it is not close to any hotels. anybody know if it is easy to hail a cab there?
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#2
06-13-2006, 10:56 PM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
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I'm making a trip to vegas for the WSOP and wanted to stop by the gambler's general store. I will not have a car and wanted to take a cab, but i wasn't sure if it is easy to pick up a cab when leaving, since it is not close to any hotels. anybody know if it is easy to hail a cab there? [/ QUOTE ] It is illegal to hail a cab in Vegas. Well it is illegal for them to stop and pick you up. Your options are to pay the guy to wait, call a cab when you are ready to leave, or walk up the street a bit to the Plaza and get a cab there.
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06-14-2006, 12:05 AM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
I'm confident that if you spent some money in that store, the store-owner would be happy to call a cab for you.
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06-14-2006, 02:48 AM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
is this place really worth the trip? where is it? i assume OP is not talking about the big yellow thing across from the sahara on LVB......
as for the cab? just have your cell phone handy and one of the cab co. nums.. call em for a pickup directly outside if your so scared to take a walk to the nearest main pickup (ie casino)
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06-14-2006, 06:31 AM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
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is this place really worth the trip? where is it? [/ QUOTE ] They have literally anything you can think of: Kem cards, poker tables, blackjack tables, roulette wheels, slot machines, video poker machines, all the genuine article, not cheap knock-offs. And about a billion different types of chips. Besides customized chip sets, they also sell collectable chips (like chips from the Dunes or the Sands). They may also have books--it's been so long since I've visited, I can't recall. They have a website, listing their wares. A quick search should determine its address. The store is on Main Street, near Charleston. Imagine you walked out the front door of the Union Plaza (or whatever it's called nowadays), and instead of crossing Main Street to get to the Fremont Street casinos, you instead decide to turn right, and go south on Main. The first thing you'll see is the Greyhound bus station. You'll notice you've just walked into a slum. Go past the bus station, and the slum gets worse. You're almost there! Just follow your nose, you'll run right into it.
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06-14-2006, 11:18 AM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
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They may also have books--it's been so long since I've visited, I can't recall. [/ QUOTE ] They have a ton of books. Many that you've never heard of that are not widely distributed Walk to the plaza to get a cab. If you call one you'll probably have to wait a while and some companies are very unreliable.
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#8
06-14-2006, 11:21 AM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
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I'm making a trip to vegas for the WSOP and wanted to stop by the gambler's general store. I will not have a car and wanted to take a cab, but i wasn't sure if it is easy to pick up a cab when leaving, since it is not close to any hotels. anybody know if it is easy to hail a cab there? [/ QUOTE ] Hey, my first trip to Las Vegas (I drove) included a pilgrimage to this store. It was 1981 and I thought I might be interested in poker in the future (I was a backgammon junkie). Got a copy of Sklansky's first holdem book for $1.95 and gave it away since the following year I got the same book and it increased in price to $2.95 (fifteen or so years later David offered a couple C notes for a copy in good condition, of course my friend lost it). Also got the original "Theory of Poker" which was called "Sklansky on Poker Theory" (or something like that, it's in storage). There were lots of self published or simply bound poker books on sale back then. I have a collection including some of the worse books ever written, probably as many or more of the old ones than Mason Malmuth has in his collection. ~ Rick
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06-14-2006, 11:39 AM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
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[ QUOTE ] They may also have books--it's been so long since I've visited, I can't recall. [/ QUOTE ] They have a ton of books. Many that you've never heard of that are not widely distributed Walk to the plaza to get a cab. If you call one you'll probably have to wait a while and some companies are very unreliable. [/ QUOTE ] I woudl also walk to the Plaza for a cab. They do have books, but the Gmablers Book Store at Charleston and 11th has a better selection, but they don't have te otehr stuff.
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06-14-2006, 03:41 PM
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Re: cabs at gambler\'s general store in lv?
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[ QUOTE ] I'm making a trip to vegas for the WSOP and wanted to stop by the gambler's general store. I will not have a car and wanted to take a cab, but i wasn't sure if it is easy to pick up a cab when leaving, since it is not close to any hotels. anybody know if it is easy to hail a cab there? [/ QUOTE ] It is illegal to hail a cab in Vegas. Well it is illegal for them to stop and pick you up. Your options are to pay the guy to wait, call a cab when you are ready to leave, or walk up the street a bit to the Plaza and get a cab there. [/ QUOTE ] Holy crap, I've never realized that there was a law. It explains a lot though. Ahh, the many drunken nights where I ended up at the Korean BBQ on Spring Mtn. Road with my gf and we were almost throwing beer bottles at the cabs that weren't stopping for us when we were trying to get back to the casinos.
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