The first way to save cash in Vegas is to stay at good – but not the best – hotels. Instead of paying $200 per night at the Bellagio, you can stay at Treasure Island or Bally’s for a fraction of the price. Your room will still be great and you will pocket over $100 a day with which to gamble.

Keep close account on your comps and make sure you get everything you can. Don’t be afraid to ask a pit boss for a coupon to the buffet or a show. Just make sure you ask nicely; don’t demand one, and you’ll be surprised what you’ll get.

Save the drinking for the casino floor. Don’t spend a fortune in the bars on cocktails when you can get them for free on the floor. Get your glow on before you head to the nightclub or you’ll be dumping $10 a drink inside.

There’s no guarantee that you’ll leave a casino with more money than you came with. I guess you could walk into the casino and go up to the bank machine, make a withdrawal and walk out again. Then you would have more than you came in with. But the best way to win some money in a casino is to make a bet that gives you the best odds to win.

I would walk in and go to the roulette table and bet on black or red. That gives you near to even odds on your money. I could bet on the Bank at a baccarat table, or bet on the come and don’t come bets on the craps table.

And if you hit that first bet I suggest you walk out then and there – if you want to leave with more than you came with – because luck will change.

Technicians over at Executive Gaming Monthly are greening the casino industry. EMG is bringing 100% eco-friendly gaming products, including casino tables and chairs to the casino market and luxury markets. They have developed and manufactured the first line of eco-friendly gaming products this industry has seen. With sustainable design they are taking the casino gaming industry to a new level of green.

They have designed products like Poker, Roulette, Blackjack and Mini-Baccarat Tables and any kind of seating a casino would need. The best part is that all of it is built with no gas or chemical runoff to cause pollutants into our air and water. They are also using recycled material for building material.

EMG also provides custom services where you can choose from a variety of environmentally conscious options. This is just one way that industries are becoming more and more progressive and changing the way they do things to flow with the changing world around us. This will lead us to a truly rich life.

If you want to make some easy money you can set up a casino in your own home. Setting up a poker game isn’t a hard thing to do. All you need is a table, cards and chips. Slot machines and video poker games can usually be purchased if they’re 20 years old or older. It depends on which State you live in as to the legalities of privately-owned slot machines.

Casino tables can be purchased for “charity functions” or rented for different time periods. A new roulette table will run you $2500, but you will earn that back in a few days. A craps table will cost about the same, but you might have a hard time finding enough people to keep it going for a profitable amount of time. Just be careful not to draw too much attention to your private casino; they are illegal in most places.

1. Sheldon Adelson – this Casino billionaire is not only the richest casino owner, he’s also the third-richest man in America. His new Sands Casino in Macao is a major cause of his $26 billion fortune.

2. Stephen Wynn – is No. 86 on the Forbes list and has a net worth of $3.9 billion and climbing. He has also opened a new casino in Macao.

3. William Hilton – comes in third on this list and No. 194 on the Forbes list. The hotel giant and part owner of Harrahs is worth an estimated $2.3 billion.

4. Phillip Ruffin – is worth $2.1 billion, most of which he got from selling property he owned on The Strip since 1998. He also owns the New Frontier Hotel and Casino.

5. Frank and Lorenzo Fertitta – the brothers owned 41 casinos before they bought the Ultimate Fighting Championships (UFC). They’re worth $1.3 billion apiece and growing.

Most of us in North America think the Mecca of gambling is Las Vegas. We know about Atlantic City and Monaco, but few of us are aware that there is a place to gamble that is about to become bigger than Vegas. The place I speak of is the southern Chinese city of Macau.

Macau has been a gambling town since the Portuguese government legalized it in the colony back in the 1850’s. Know as the “Monte Carlo of the Orient” Macau had exclusively Asian games until the introduction of western-style games in the 20th century. Since a law was passed in 2001 that ended Stanley Ho’s 40-year gambling monopoly the city has flourished. Today sports betting, horse racing, greyhound racing, and casino games are all available in the casinos.

The success is due to the heavy profits made from the game of baccarat and the rising Chinese economy. The 26 Macau casinos have already make more than the 40 casinos on the Vegas Strip. Macau earned $9.5 billion in 2006, compared to all of Clark County’s $10.6 billion, and will earn more in profits than the entire county by 2010.

The Chinese economy has been able to attract big-name Vegas hotels, including a couple of Vegas casino owners who have built gambling houses there. So far the Sands and the Wynn Macau are operating, and soon the new Venetian Macau. Tourism is thriving, and Macau had 22 million visitors last year. The new Venetian Macau is set to open next month and will certainly attract tourists from around the globe. It is going to be the largest building in Asia, and the second largest in the world. There will be 3000 suites, 1.2 million square feet of convention and exhibition space, one million square feet of retail space, and a 15,000 seat arena.

The future planners are focused on building more attractions and providing more shopping so the economy of the city can be sustained into the future. A major percentage of the revenue comes from the VIP baccarat high rollers, who could disappear as quickly as they were created if the Chinese economy takes a down swing.

On August 31st the newest hip nightclub will be opening in Vegas. The club will be called LAX, and it will be in the Luxor Hotel. Vegas is one of the hottest nightclub spots in the country and the Luxor wants in on the revenues the trendy Hollywood types are bringing to the city these days. The opening night will be hosted by none other than Britney Spears and a boatload of her friends.

The LAX at the Luxor will be the second edition of the very trendy L.A. hot spot that is expanding to Vegas. It will be run by the successful Pure Management group, so it promises to be one of the trendiest clubs on the strip. It’s replacing the old Vegas nightclub legend RA, and the more than $20 million that’s going into the renovation should make for a funky place.

The Luxor is hiring Britney because of her successful launch of the LAX’s sister venue Pure in January of 2006. Spears allegedly passed out at the end of the evening - her people said she had collapsed from exhaustion, but she was seen drinking from a bottle of Dom Perignon earlier in the night.

I truly question the choice of the Luxor to hire Britney for the opening. The fading pop star isn’t exactly the “in girl” any longer, and her recent behaviour hasn’t been stellar. A lot has happened since January of 2006, and I don’t think she’s the draw she once was. She recently walked out on a photo shoot for OK magazine where she was reported to have destroyed a designer dress and left before they had any photos they could publish.

Investors, which include Wilmer Valderrama, Nick Lachey, and Christina Aguilera, must know what they’re doing by hiring Spears. They at least know that there will be lots of paparazzi and publicity around the wig-wearing pop star, but I guess that’s the point