Depends what sort of gambling you're talking about. There are plenty of professional gamblers. But playing slots and games with a house edge, yeah the vast majority are huge net losers.
I've been here 28 years. I see the changes, and do not like them. Thought I would live the rest of my life in Vegas, loved it in the 90's. But thinking of selling my beloved home and going somewhere less crowded. Everything that made Vegas fun is now gone. Greed has taken over.
@@DidntDoonah that’s greed brother. 6:5 Blackjack should be a crime. $50 min on craps it’s double or over double the minimum at other casinos. The big dogs on the strip are some crooks.
Dude fails to explain that the reason mirage is jammed is they must give away $1.6 million remaining bonus $. And you can only qualify is if you are playing on a machine. How do you miss this massive point? Smh.
@@mysticricorok8481it’s not that they didn’t give away hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single day, it’s that they probably made ALOT more than what they had to give away with people forcing themselves to play the minimums all day long
They didnt get it on the machines. It was an hourly drawing. You just had to sit on a machine and stick in your players card and money to be eligible. You didnt even have to actually play, which was the case with majority of the people sitting on the machines.
@@burgroundsslots4811 i was there, people were complaining and security said they wouldn't do anything about it. local police were then called over to quell the crowd.
@@jssekyl. wrong. Payouts are set at the factory and machines are routinely audited by the Nevada Gaming Commission to ensure they are operating as designed.
@@stpaulmercantile lol... like you can't update firmware remotely... it's all set at the factory. Lots of people are gulliable by default. It's in their factory settings.
@calinurse1205 Don't beat yourself up if you mess up. However , remember the situation that made you go back. Have Faith in God. May you be Well and Bless. I still get tempted to gamble 🎰 but I know better. God has brought me through some storms and I promised that I would never gamble again if my life would be spared. I had triple bypass surgery.
I remember in 1990 my wife and I stayed there and we won a jackpot and we went to the show Sigfried and Roy. We still have all the pictures when we were at the show and signatures from them. Best memories in my life with my wife staying there many times.
@@wiseoldowl7625 That how it was when I was going to Vegas for vacations. Even folks going to the club and concert look like they are going to play in the mud.
They gave away $1.6 million and made probably $30 million a day over the six days in the process of doing so. Smart marketing!! Everyone wanted a piece of the $1.6 million.
I went last night! It was 9 pm and impossible to get a machine because they are suppose to be giving all the jackpots away before the 16th. I went back at 2 am to try my luck, and there were a FEW machines open. No luck for me, but a lot of people were winning. Lady I meet there said she put $20 and won $1k.
Saw whaaaat?!? Giving away all the JP’s you say?? I don’t think so!! I work at a casino and they can’t rig the machines so all JP or progressives get paid out!!!
@@amck72 because they are going to be shutting the mirage down and demolishing it so they have a payout threshold that they must payout to everyone before shutting down 😂 it’s crazy
@@entousentous1249 I know what you're saying. Meanwhile, you clicked on it, watch the video, and commented a few times. The algorithm is working perfectly here 😁
I was in Las Vegas last November for my brothers 70th birthday and what a cluster F***. It was the week before the Gran Prix and there was so much traffic it took forever to get anywhere and mapping programs were useless. If you made one wrong turn it took 15 minutes to get back to where you were. I lived there back in the 90's and it has totally changed and from what I saw, not for the better!
That’s what I was gonna say, people walking around , waiting to get to the machine and play .. isn’t that kind of routine for the casinos ??? what else would they do ?
I live in Vegas and I see a lot comments are talking about how in the 90s Vegas was great and people dressed up classy. I wish I could’ve been there but unfortunately I didn’t cause I’m 26. I work as a dealer in downtown. People dress like they’re going to Walmart. It’s a breath of fresh air when I see people dressed up nice at work. Also, rip the mirage I have an amazing memory of the Siegfried and Roy secret garden with my mom, grandma, and sister. I was in middle school. I miss those days. I wasn’t old enough to gamble but I loved the mirage.
I was living here when the Mirage opened. It was so nice to walk through the atrium When you entered the casino. It was a classy place. Along with the original pre-fire MGM. People were actually dressed up in the MGM. It was a time when you felt uncomfortable if you were in jeans there.
It WAS a classy, different, refreshing place when it opened - just amazing. I noticed on a return visit several months later, though, that a lot of the elegant detailing had been damaged or stolen by patrons. I don't think you can sustain a high level of luxury when you're dependent upon sucking in as many tourists as you can get.
The Mirage was a big deal when my ex husband and I came to celebrate our 1st year Anniversay, 1987. We loved the Water/Volcano show, the Tables were packed at $25, Slots always busy. Loved Vegas back in the 80's. I won $350 on Roulette. Took that money real quick and bought a Gucci Watch. Everyone was dressed up. We had the Honeymoon Suite, 2 Floors, and cause my Ex had bucks, he played, and our room was comped. Now, need my money, Casinos always take it.
I was an MGD girl for a few years and did lots of promos and stayed at the Mirage. It used to be a beautiful hotel and very classy, now it looks like trailer trash has taken over and just downright grungy. Vegas was hella fun in the 90’s and 2000’s and then it began to change. Now ? I haven’t been there in over 13 years.
The sad thing about Vegas today is when you look back at the humble beginnings of it when you walked onto a casino floor you wore a suit and tie,maybe even a tux and women dressed really well and now you have people in shorts and T-shirts That’s the saddest part of Vegas for me.
All people used to be sharply dressed, and now the general public looks like slops in cutoffs and flip flops. The days of class are long gone, and it’s the same thing for court rooms, etc….
This is why: The Mirage Hotel and Casino has a whopping $1.6 million in unclaimed winnings that await its loyalty members looking to try their luck one last time before the famed Las Vegas casino closes its doors permanently.
What i heard is the progressives are player based so the have to give away the 1.6 million to people there in drawings hot seat etc since there is no way someone might hit the progressive in that short of time by state law they have to give back to players
Wow. I just left the mirage 12 days before closing and it wasn't this packed at all. Crazy how it changed just some days later :D I really enjoyed my stay over there.
2nd best thing to being the House is to own the REIT the casinos pay rent to. Companies like VICI properties are a great way to play this in order to capitalize. Nice dividend, nice growth, nice total returns.
I stayed at tropicana twice last summer. I put off going there around the 4th this yr bcz i usually go around that time and see my family down there. I don't think i be ok seeing it in its preparations stage to be blow'd up! It was still in good shape way better than Planet Hollywood!
I will miss the Mirage. Stayed there several times over the years. Such a beautiful hotel with the volcano, Secret Gardens, and loved the fish tank behind registration. The buffet was one of the best in the day
What's crazy is the mirage is the hotel that inspired me to visit Vegas, and in the multiple times I've been to sin City, it's one of the few properties I haven't actually set foot in. And now that I am a recovering gambling addict, there's no way I'm going to see it. Kind of sad, cuz it does signify the beginning of the end of an era. The second boom of construction that started with the mirage and ended with the Aladdin and Paris Las Vegas.
Was there on Wednesday at 11am and it was completely full, managed to get a machine in the high limit, my bonus came early quick and managed to leave up $400. I did notice when walking around alot of machines were giving bonuses frequently.
We changed the payout rate on a few select games slightly to account for the fact that we'd tweaked it too far in our direction to be legal previously.
I remember learning to play craps at a $5 table roughly 10 years ago. Had so much fun. Haven’t seen a $5 table since. And good luck finding a single deck of anything.
It looks like a cess pool actually. People sitting around because they've lost their money and they're looking for someone to scrounge from. So many gaming tables closed and machines turned off, just hellish.
I went back later that day around 3 and it was 10x worse. Ppl would just be sitting and pressing min bet every 5-10 min just so they can stretch out there money.
Need extension for little longer as we are going to Vegas next weekend I may see you one day, we go to Vegas almost every month, have some good ideas for your videos. Thanks.
I went the first day and it was slightly less crowded but equally as miserable. Left after about 40 mins when I realized no one was budging from those seats.
So glad I went inside of the Mirage and took night pictures(on my cellphone and regular camara) of the volcano epruting when a visited Las Vegas back in May this year. All this madness just to close the Mirage Hotel and volcano and flip it to Hard Rock Hotel with a guitar shape hotel suites is sad and awful.
Ive seen this kind of thing, before! My father, ( God bless him! ) Went to his local casino, and signed himself off of, all casino properties! And a state trooper took pictures with him! ( Casino's hate, when people do that! ) I was proud of him, when he did that! Gambling is the devil!!
My ex also did this in Southern California for several years. You can choose to ban yourself for a year at a time when you can to see bang yourself for a lifetime. They will take pictures of you and have them posted with security in the back and if they see you on the property or a security guard at the door catches you trying to come in they will kick you out and possibly call the local sheriff's to have you arrested if it happens too many times. But unfortunately those watchful eyes of security just stop caring and you're able to gamble away. Of course you are not allowed to use a player's card because that would definitely give you away. So in my opinion, unless you are a strong enough person to stay away on your own, don't expect the band to be enforced for very long. To a casino money is money after all. Eventually, my ex was able to go in and request a reversal of the lifetime ban he chose to do at his favorite casino. That way he can use his players card if you chooses and also he can bet Max and not worry about actually hitting a jackpot. Otherwise when he would win a signer he would have to pay someone else like a person sitting next to him to claim it, as he would never be able to claim it. He is still lifetime self banned at the other casinos that he did not request to be unbanned from. But he gambles in all of them just the same. Once you band yourself they'll watch for you in the beginning for a few months but stay away for a few months and start coming back and they don't usually notice and/or care. I'm very glad that it worked for your dad. I would say that is a testament to his motivation to want the change. Good for him.
@@RichKent Does anyone doubt the casinos would play fair about this? What's to say they wouldn't have one last cash grab from people. How is this being tracked?
@Steve-td5xu dude. You can't even put a sentence together properly. Are you trying to communicate your displeasure in capitalism where a guy takes a risk, builds a venue and people pay to enjoy it? What's your point?
I remember the Mirage in 1992 when I was fasinated by the Volcano which does not exist . I heard they will be closing to start work on the Hard Rock Casino .
Thank you very much for the video !!! Can you please record a video while spinning the hopper around on Friday , of the table games drawing hopper drum container sometimes about 6PM to 7PM and also record a video around the 8:30PM drawing time , record the video of the workers spinning the hopper and the winner showing up , thank you very much for your help !
I used to do hard count at Harrah’s. That’s counting the money that comes into the machines. Take my word for it. Casinos aren’t built on credit. They are paid for in full !
Outdated? I will admit, first time I went in 2010, it did feel like going back to the nineties. It was definitely nice back then. It still holds its own today.
Not surprised, I’d be sitting and waiting too with a $200k a day guaranteed win that increases today to $250k and the $1.2 million in slots and $400k table games from the $1.6 million they have to pay out before they close.
The Mirage Hotel and Casino has a whopping $1.6 million in unclaimed winnings that await its loyalty members looking to try their luck one last time before the famed Las Vegas casino closes its doors permanently.
Don't they realize that the casino does not have to pay out anything? The mirage is not legally entitled to give any of that money back. But it's a great advertisement for the mirage to get some last ditch gamblers desperately trying to hit that $1.6 million.
Better read up what Nevada law says about unclaimed progressives when a casino closes bud. They are giving out $200000-250000 each day starting today. But thanks for your opinion
I was kicked out of the maroge . They didn't like me winning on the rullet wheel . I plaid simple black and red and brought $5 up to $3000 and they had enough and asked me to leave.
So the Hard Rock closed and became Virgin Hotel, and now the old Mirage will become the new Hard Rock in 2027? Make it make sense. My grandmother worked at the Mirage for 20 years, I'm gonna miss it.
It was a waste of time going last week. No machines to play except a few. People everywhere... Ridiculous. The stores had nothing left for purchase.Crowded etc...
Winning at gambling is a mirage
Its like a pyramid scheme, basically, praying one of those blocks would fall out and switch places with you.
Depends what sort of gambling you're talking about. There are plenty of professional gamblers. But playing slots and games with a house edge, yeah the vast majority are huge net losers.
more like a desert breeze - winning comes and goes to us all.
Not if ur smart abt it
@@NotInAsiaPoker is the only winnable game as there is no house edge. Other than that you can perhaps include Blackjack card counters.
I've been here 28 years. I see the changes, and do not like them. Thought I would live the rest of my life in Vegas, loved it in the 90's. But thinking of selling my beloved home and going somewhere less crowded. Everything that made Vegas fun is now gone. Greed has taken over.
You forgot the $10.99 ribs!
It's Business.
@@DidntDoonah that’s greed brother. 6:5 Blackjack should be a crime. $50 min on craps it’s double or over double the minimum at other casinos. The big dogs on the strip are some crooks.
@connorriley7511 do you understand Capitalism...lol.hahaha
No, your older & certain things don't matter to you anymore.
$50 craps minimum can go straight to hell.
😂😂😂 well as a Vegas local I’m here to tell you on the strip they usually start at $100 so that’s a deal 😂
@@4thaluvofjay116I play craps and you can find $10-$15 dollar craps tables...Flamingo, Harrahs, Excalibur, etc.
Dude fails to explain that the reason mirage is jammed is they must give away $1.6 million remaining bonus $. And you can only qualify is if you are playing on a machine. How do you miss this massive point? Smh.
How? Dude is stupid
Thank you, I was wondering why it was a big deal. lol
Exactly
I was wondering what the problem was
He’s a terrible Vegas spokesperson
They're giving away 1.6 mill and going to make 30 million.
I would not trust any it
Scam of course.
It a shame ppls still think it free money ! No wonder casinos getting bigger
@@mysticricorok8481it’s not that they didn’t give away hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single day, it’s that they probably made ALOT more than what they had to give away with people forcing themselves to play the minimums all day long
Exactly 💯 the Casino execs knew what it would generate in revenue.
Shows you just how shady gambling is when a casino is able to turn up the chances of winning whenever they want
They didnt get it on the machines. It was an hourly drawing. You just had to sit on a machine and stick in your players card and money to be eligible. You didnt even have to actually play, which was the case with majority of the people sitting on the machines.
@@burgroundsslots4811 i was there, people were complaining and security said they wouldn't do anything about it. local police were then called over to quell the crowd.
I mean they can literally turn up the chances of winning on any machine, or change the payouts of the table games. This is no secret.
@@jssekyl. wrong. Payouts are set at the factory and machines are routinely audited by the Nevada Gaming Commission to ensure they are operating as designed.
@@stpaulmercantile lol... like you can't update firmware remotely... it's all set at the factory. Lots of people are gulliable by default. It's in their factory settings.
The more years pass the more miserable it all gets.
Hard Rock is laughing all the way to the bank. They probably made 10x what they were obligated to pay....😂😅😂
Looks miserable.
It was
Then don’t go 😮
@@VEGAS-NERVEwe won’t don’t worry. This place was a dump in 2010. I can’t imagine it got better.
Guess what- house has the better odds.
It was
I thank God for pulling me out of the darkness of gambling. You can do it with God Grace & Mercy. Be Well
Amen im trying to stop too
@calinurse1205 Don't beat yourself up if you mess up. However , remember the situation that made you go back. Have Faith in God. May you be Well and Bless. I still get tempted to gamble 🎰 but I know better. God has brought me through some storms and I promised that I would never gamble again if my life would be spared. I had triple bypass surgery.
Yo también estoy peleando con esta vicios del Casino ..!!!!😢😢😢😢
@@alicewonder1687 praise the Lord I thank God for showing you mercy and grace hold on my sister🫡!
God gambles all the time
I remember in 1990 my wife and I stayed there and we won a jackpot and we went to the show Sigfried and Roy. We still have all the pictures when we were at the show and signatures from them. Best memories in my life with my wife staying there many times.
I went to Roy's birthday party at the mirage once it was very cool !!
I bet you were dressed in your finest clothes; and so were all the other Patrons. The people there today look like they just finished mowing the lawn.
@@wiseoldowl7625 😂😂
@@wiseoldowl7625yep. Absolute scrubs today
@@wiseoldowl7625 That how it was when I was going to Vegas for vacations. Even folks going to the club and concert look like they are going to play in the mud.
They gave away $1.6 million and made probably $30 million a day over the six days in the process of doing so. Smart marketing!! Everyone wanted a piece of the $1.6 million.
Can you believe all those people; they just can't Wait to lose money.
@gigi9301
I used to respect people but after the vaxx thing I am convinced 80 to 90% of bipedal mammals aren't smarter than a regular farm pig
I went last night! It was 9 pm and impossible to get a machine because they are suppose to be giving all the jackpots away before the 16th. I went back at 2 am to try my luck, and there were a FEW machines open. No luck for me, but a lot of people were winning. Lady I meet there said she put $20 and won $1k.
Saw whaaaat?!? Giving away all the JP’s you say?? I don’t think so!! I work at a casino and they can’t rig the machines so all JP or progressives get paid out!!!
Why are they trying to give all the jackpots away ?
@@amck72 because they are going to be shutting the mirage down and demolishing it so they have a payout threshold that they must payout to everyone before shutting down 😂 it’s crazy
Aww damn i wish i knew
But don’t they know that all those machines link up to ones across the country they can’t give all that $$& away
Me and my wife got married in Vegas.. we stayed at the mirage… I will miss that place.
That's not chaos. Crowded but not chaos.
It was for people who wanted to gamble 😅
Black Friday at Wal-Mart is more chaotic than this.
@@entousentous1249 you cannot compare the two. Completely different situations.
@@FlyLikeDove I was just saying if you are going to have chaotic in the title then it better be chaotic bruh. Where's the chaos in this video.
@@entousentous1249 I know what you're saying. Meanwhile, you clicked on it, watch the video, and commented a few times. The algorithm is working perfectly here 😁
I was in Las Vegas last November for my brothers 70th birthday and what a cluster F***. It was the week before the Gran Prix and there was so much traffic it took forever to get anywhere and mapping programs were useless. If you made one wrong turn it took 15 minutes to get back to where you were. I lived there back in the 90's and it has totally changed and from what I saw, not for the better!
Grand Prix is the worst. God forbid anyone ventures down that area.
All the years I’ve gambled in Vegas, I’ve ever seen anything like this, when they have to wait😮
someone buy this man a dictionary, so he can learn the definition of chaos.
Just got back from vegas 2 days ago. Mirage was bananas. It was the first placed i stayed at my first time there. will be missed.
So long Mirage, you'll be missed. Had some really good times there 😊
In the Philippines, cellphones in the casino are not permitted to record video. Too many govt officials have been embarrassed already.
Looks like any day in Vegas casinos to me. Average.
That’s what I was gonna say, people walking around , waiting to get to the machine and play .. isn’t that kind of routine for the casinos ??? what else would they do ?
Baby, The Mirage was poppin’ back in the 90s when I lived in Las Vegas.
Yes, I’m that old.
😂🙃😘👸🏻
You must not understand whats going on
@@CoolGuyDoingCoolShit
I understand perfectly… I just chimed in to speak my mind. 😘
30 years ago is not thatlong ago anymore. And it doesn't make you old. Being old is a state of mind.
@@TLW369 so whats going on then? Because I'm lost
@@winh998
You’re not wrong. ☺️
I live in Vegas and I see a lot comments are talking about how in the 90s Vegas was great and people dressed up classy. I wish I could’ve been there but unfortunately I didn’t cause I’m 26. I work as a dealer in downtown. People dress like they’re going to Walmart. It’s a breath of fresh air when I see people dressed up nice at work. Also, rip the mirage I have an amazing memory of the Siegfried and Roy secret garden with my mom, grandma, and sister. I was in middle school. I miss those days. I wasn’t old enough to gamble but I loved the mirage.
So sad that the Mirage closed, that was a landmark resort and it was so pretty.
I was living here when the Mirage opened. It was so nice to walk through the atrium When you entered the casino. It was a classy place.
Along with the original pre-fire MGM.
People were actually dressed up in the MGM. It was a time when you felt uncomfortable if you were in jeans there.
It WAS a classy, different, refreshing place when it opened - just amazing. I noticed on a return visit several months later, though, that a lot of the elegant detailing had been damaged or stolen by patrons. I don't think you can sustain a high level of luxury when you're dependent upon sucking in as many tourists as you can get.
Yo Jacob. Thx 4 showing this! It's the next best thing to being there. I know you're probably planning on showing the Tropicana implosion!
Because they have to give up that bag before closing if I'm not mistaken
1.6 mil...it's like tryin to find a golden ticket.
@@T-roc57 needle in Haystack
It can be redistributed in player rewards or progressives at sister properties
How do they ensure someone gets it before they close?!
@@PocketChangeXDThey don't lol
Dont want no part of that craziness 😮
The Mirage was a big deal when my ex husband and I came to celebrate our 1st year Anniversay, 1987.
We loved the Water/Volcano show, the Tables were packed at $25, Slots always busy. Loved Vegas back in the 80's. I won $350 on Roulette. Took that money real quick and bought a Gucci Watch.
Everyone was dressed up. We had the Honeymoon Suite, 2 Floors, and
cause my Ex had bucks, he played, and our room was comped.
Now, need my money, Casinos always take it.
Then when you win a jackpot they say "durrr sorry its an ERROR. happens all the time guys"
People are waiting around to be fleeced...
That was our first and favorite resort. Stayed there 10 of 11 visits to Vegas. Multiple comps offers per year. We’re going to miss this place.😢
I was an MGD girl for a few years and did lots of promos and stayed at the Mirage. It used to be a beautiful hotel and very classy, now it looks like trailer trash has taken over and just downright grungy. Vegas was hella fun in the 90’s and 2000’s and then it began to change. Now ? I haven’t been there in over 13 years.
Hey Jacob! Great slice of Las Vegas life; holding a 'Wake' for The Mirage!
Great memories made. The Mirage is where I have stayed more often. I will miss that place for sure!
The best marketing scheme ever😂😂😂 they are paying that out but taking in 20x that 😂😂😂
Not when 20 machines open for the while casino
I was there Tuesday through fri
The sad thing about Vegas today is when you look back at the humble beginnings of it when you walked onto a casino floor you wore a suit and tie,maybe even a tux and women dressed really well and now you have people in shorts and T-shirts
That’s the saddest part of Vegas for me.
Me 2.
LOL AND THE FUNNY THING IS ITS OVER 100” and wearing a suit and tie theres no way. but the was when all the mobsters were around
Come on, it’s too hot to wear anything but summer clothes. Geez it’s not the 70’s
All people used to be sharply dressed, and now the general public looks like slops in cutoffs and flip flops. The days of class are long gone, and it’s the same thing for court rooms, etc….
It isn't 1949 anymore
This is why: The Mirage Hotel and Casino has a whopping $1.6 million in unclaimed winnings that await its loyalty members looking to try their luck one last time before the famed Las Vegas casino closes its doors permanently.
What does that mean? Or it’s some of it nostalgia
Unclaimed winnings???? What?
What i heard is the progressives are player based so the have to give away the 1.6 million to people there in drawings hot seat etc since there is no way someone might hit the progressive in that short of time by state law they have to give back to players
That makes no sense at all
The law says they have to give a certain amount away before they can close.
Wow. I just left the mirage 12 days before closing and it wasn't this packed at all. Crazy how it changed just some days later :D I really enjoyed my stay over there.
Jake, I am sure this is the first time in a long time that the Mirage has been this busy!
I used to watch the movie Vegas Vacation a bunch as a kid
Great movie
classic movie still hilarious
Rock Paper Scissors looked fun...
@@JohnWilson-wg4gk The buffet with the beef & chicken lol Wane Newton tried to take his wife..
Mr. Papagiorgio 😂
Im gonna miss the mirage though. What a beautiful property
2nd best thing to being the House is to own the REIT the casinos pay rent to. Companies like VICI properties are a great way to play this in order to capitalize. Nice dividend, nice growth, nice total returns.
It’s so sad to see it closing. We just did this with Tropicana. So much history going poof 😢
I stayed at tropicana twice last summer. I put off going there around the 4th this yr bcz i usually go around that time and see my family down there. I don't think i be ok seeing it in its preparations stage to be blow'd up! It was still in good shape way better than Planet Hollywood!
People should have stood up and demand it stay then 😢 !!
I will miss the Mirage. Stayed there several times over the years. Such a beautiful hotel with the volcano, Secret Gardens, and loved the fish tank behind registration. The buffet was one of the best in the day
What's crazy is the mirage is the hotel that inspired me to visit Vegas, and in the multiple times I've been to sin City, it's one of the few properties I haven't actually set foot in. And now that I am a recovering gambling addict, there's no way I'm going to see it. Kind of sad, cuz it does signify the beginning of the end of an era. The second boom of construction that started with the mirage and ended with the Aladdin and Paris Las Vegas.
Was that Papagorgio at the craps table?
Nicky!
😂
From Yuma !
You win Roxy!
Yes! He stole my wallet!!!
Was there on Wednesday at 11am and it was completely full, managed to get a machine in the high limit, my bonus came early quick and managed to leave up $400. I did notice when walking around alot of machines were giving bonuses frequently.
Doesn't that tell you slots are RIGGED? In this case, rigged to payout.....
We changed the payout rate on a few select games slightly to account for the fact that we'd tweaked it too far in our direction to be legal previously.
That’s right… dump all your money back to the casino🤦🏼♂️😅
No way they should close for 3 years to renovate.what a waste.
They're probably just digging a bunker underneath.
Oh how I miss this. Walked where you are walking. And the fabulous smell!😫
I remember learning to play craps at a $5 table roughly 10 years ago. Had so much fun. Haven’t seen a $5 table since. And good luck finding a single deck of anything.
Where is the chaos? It's a normal crowd. Have you not been to a casino before?
I went to Vegas in 2012, I never saw anything with a crowd except outside. Maybe swimming pools, and eateries.
I was there for 4 hours not once I heard anyone win, Vegas is now a complete paper tiger don't go don't make those Asians any richer.
It looks like a cess pool actually. People sitting around because they've lost their money and they're looking for someone to scrounge from. So many gaming tables closed and machines turned off, just hellish.
Love your videos but lost all desire to ever visit Vegas last few yrs- ripoffs galore
So funny how people buy into this marketing scheme tell him you're going to give away 1.6 million while you're making 50 million
Like Disneyland for gamblers.. new and improved! NOW WITH LINES!
I went back later that day around 3 and it was 10x worse. Ppl would just be sitting and pressing min bet every 5-10 min just so they can stretch out there money.
I ran into both David Robinson and Doug Flutie here back in the day. Gonna miss it
Need extension for little longer as we are going to Vegas next weekend
I may see you one day, we go to Vegas almost every month, have some good ideas for your videos.
Thanks.
I really wish I got to see it one last time. They better put those mermaid statues in a museum
A legend on the Strip❤
Mirage was special to me during my childhood
I went the first day and it was slightly less crowded but equally as miserable. Left after about 40 mins when I realized no one was budging from those seats.
So glad I went inside of the Mirage and took night pictures(on my cellphone and regular camara) of the volcano epruting when a visited Las Vegas back in May this year. All this madness just to close the Mirage Hotel and volcano and flip it to Hard Rock Hotel with a guitar shape hotel suites is sad and awful.
wait...what? I thought the economy was bad. Huh...
must be a liquidation sale going on
Ive seen this kind of thing, before! My father, ( God bless him! ) Went to his local casino, and signed himself off of, all casino properties! And a state trooper took pictures with him! ( Casino's hate, when people do that! ) I was proud of him, when he did that! Gambling is the devil!!
My ex also did this in Southern California for several years. You can choose to ban yourself for a year at a time when you can to see bang yourself for a lifetime. They will take pictures of you and have them posted with security in the back and if they see you on the property or a security guard at the door catches you trying to come in they will kick you out and possibly call the local sheriff's to have you arrested if it happens too many times.
But unfortunately those watchful eyes of security just stop caring and you're able to gamble away. Of course you are not allowed to use a player's card because that would definitely give you away.
So in my opinion, unless you are a strong enough person to stay away on your own, don't expect the band to be enforced for very long. To a casino money is money after all.
Eventually, my ex was able to go in and request a reversal of the lifetime ban he chose to do at his favorite casino. That way he can use his players card if you chooses and also he can bet Max and not worry about actually hitting a jackpot. Otherwise when he would win a signer he would have to pay someone else like a person sitting next to him to claim it, as he would never be able to claim it.
He is still lifetime self banned at the other casinos that he did not request to be unbanned from. But he gambles in all of them just the same. Once you band yourself they'll watch for you in the beginning for a few months but stay away for a few months and start coming back and they don't usually notice and/or care.
I'm very glad that it worked for your dad. I would say that is a testament to his motivation to want the change. Good for him.
They all look absolutely miserable
That's probably why they be there
The Mirage is closing, and everybody wants their last big chance! ❤ it was a great place
It’s not like there’s a going out of business sale
They have to give away $1.6 Million before they close - that’s why the crowd.
@@RichKent Does anyone doubt the casinos would play fair about this?
What's to say they wouldn't have one last cash grab from people. How is this being tracked?
@@rustycolon9368 Yeah for sure Mirage/Hard Rock is making $10s of Millions in the process of ‘giving away’ 1.6m.
Actually, they ARE holding a "going out of business" sale.
Gaming commission basically makes them eventually give out any progressive jackpot. So they all have to hit before they close
I could never get away with taking pictures in a casino..
Everyone dresses like a slob.
They dress the way want to. Who are to judge how a person dresses? Stupid
😂😂😂😂
Vegas today is a trash magnet.
@@YaoEspirito...Well , Hispanics in
pull over T Shirts. = low class
sloppy.
We went to the Excalibur and asked the Concierge, "Where's the toilet?" He responded, "You're in it." So, you know..
Look at all those people that Paid for that casino for that guy who owns it
Literally made zero sense to say that
@@mattmodena8299😅 are you serious not even a little bit if you don't get the jist of it than you aren't the sharpest tool in the shed
@Steve-td5xu dude. You can't even put a sentence together properly. Are you trying to communicate your displeasure in capitalism where a guy takes a risk, builds a venue and people pay to enjoy it? What's your point?
@@mattmodena8299 I didn't realize I was in english class and by the way I'm quite certain that I am much smarter than you way way smarter
@Steve-td5xu that statement proves you otherwise. "I know you are but what am i?" Seriously? Your spouse must love your narcissistic arguments.
I remember the Mirage in 1992 when I was fasinated by the Volcano which does not exist . I heard they will be closing to start work on the Hard Rock Casino .
I win 100% of the time at the casinos because I don't go.
Yawn
I bet you order water with no ice at the restaurant
@@adamo36532 only when I am with your wife.
@@Dizzymarvel exactly. I like to "yawn" and have a lot of money.
@@adamo36532 only when I am with your wife.
Thank you very much for the video !!! Can you please record a video while spinning the hopper around on Friday , of the table games drawing hopper drum container sometimes about 6PM to 7PM and also record a video around the 8:30PM drawing time , record the video of the workers spinning the hopper and the winner showing up , thank you very much for your help !
Happy Trails, Mirage! Fare Thee Well 😢
I used to do hard count at Harrah’s. That’s counting the money that comes into the machines. Take my word for it. Casinos aren’t built on credit. They are paid for in full !
The Mirage is outdated since the Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat closed in late 2022
Outdated? I will admit, first time I went in 2010, it did feel like going back to the nineties. It was definitely nice back then. It still holds its own today.
Not surprised, I’d be sitting and waiting too with a $200k a day guaranteed win that increases today to $250k and the $1.2 million in slots and $400k table games from the $1.6 million they have to pay out before they close.
Don't understand why it's crowded
The Mirage is closing
The Mirage Hotel and Casino has a whopping $1.6 million in unclaimed winnings that await its loyalty members looking to try their luck one last time before the famed Las Vegas casino closes its doors permanently.
Oh, the ol' My'Rage. Some fun memories there.
But why so crowded? Saying boodby to the Mirage or because of the heat outside?
I believe all those progressive jackpots on certain machines must by paid out before casino shuts down for good
Both lol
Does not look fun. Pathetic
Wow that is crazy. I've never seen so many people at a Casino before.
Don't they realize that the casino does not have to pay out anything? The mirage is not legally entitled to give any of that money back. But it's a great advertisement for the mirage to get some last ditch gamblers desperately trying to hit that $1.6 million.
Better read up what Nevada law says about unclaimed progressives when a casino closes bud. They are giving out $200000-250000 each day starting today. But thanks for your opinion
They are required by law to pay their progressive jackpots, hence the cash giveaway
@@vegasonfilm6303 The casino will make $1.6 million over this supposed cash giveaway.
They have to pay out progressives by law before they close. Read up on Nevada laws.
Um, you don't know what you're talking about.
I was kicked out of the maroge . They didn't like me winning on the rullet wheel . I plaid simple black and red and brought $5 up to $3000 and they had enough and asked me to leave.
Playing 4 that progressive $$$
So the Hard Rock closed and became Virgin Hotel, and now the old Mirage will become the new Hard Rock in 2027? Make it make sense. My grandmother worked at the Mirage for 20 years, I'm gonna miss it.
Post Covid casino greed ended my two yearly trips to Vegas ,...... disgusting.
Last time I was there I saw
Dr. Drew coming out of the men's bathroom when the Beatles Love Show let out. LOL . good times.
This is how i expect a casino to look
It was a waste of time going last week. No machines to play except a few. People everywhere... Ridiculous. The stores had nothing left for purchase.Crowded etc...
First hotel that really impressed me. It’s going to be missed.
Me too - isn’t that the truth??😮😢
My first Vegas hotel experience in the 90s! Then Treasure Island opened