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Las Vegas on the cheap: Deals and steals in Sin City

Originally published: January 22, 2013 4:01 PM
Updated: January 25, 2013 11:25 AM
By MARSHALL S. BERDAN. Special to Newsday

The fountains of Las Vegas' Bellagio hotel and

Photo credit: AP | The fountains of Las Vegas' Bellagio hotel and casino dance to the music. (Dec. 3, 2008)

As the old saying goes, if you want to make money gambling, buy a casino -- the theory being that even those gamblers lucky enough to start off winning are destined to get greedy and eventually give it all back -- and then some.

But as recent history has shown, even big-time Las Vegas casino owners are not immune to a little avarice.

In the late 1980s, Vegas began betting heavily on...

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