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Locals casinos put best foot forward in annual contest

Proliferation of off-Strip hotels helped heat up competition in Best of Las Vegas readers' poll

By MIKE WEATHERFORD
REVIEW-JOURNAL


Cheap steak. Short skirts. Big neon signs and bigger buffets.

The finer things in life don't change, judging by an overview of the Hotels listing winners during the past 20 years of the Best of Las Vegas. The expected emphasis on the bigger-and-better mousetrap contrasts with surprisingly stable views on the importance of a budget 3 a.m. breakfast or a football contest with a $25 buy-in.

If there's any historical value to this popularity contest, it's in charting the rise of the locals casino. When the readers' poll was small, it made no distinction between Strip hotels and those geared to residents. There was hardly any need to.

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** Note: A new feature this year for both the print and online poll results is the chance to tell us and the rest of the world what you think about the winners. For the print results, you must click on the link for the write up for each winner before you will see the link to give feedback about the winners. For the online poll results, you will see the link on the results page.

Palace Station, one of the original locals casinos, was a consistent winner in the early years of the Best of Las Vegas readers' poll.

Guest Pick: Joseph Bonaventure
Guest Pick: Norma Miller
Guest Pick: Bruce Steivel
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