WELCOME to Kimo’s Vegas… The Players Edge!

Jackpot…. Vegas resident and former Van Halen lead singer, Sammy Hagar has sold his Cabo Wabo Tequila and Cabo Wabo Cantina company for $80 million. He will however be keeping his band the Waboritas.

Its official you can’t buy Cocaine in market anymore. The energy drink from Las Vegas based Redux Beverages has been pulled from stores due to pressure from the USFDA and State Officials because they believe it glamorizes drug use. Before you panic and go back to getting it the old fashioned way the company plans to change the drinks name while they continue to fight for the use of Cocaine name. Does this mean we’ll have to beep the Eric Clapton song or stop using Yves Saint Laurent’s “Opium”?

Another winner at The Cal… why doesn’t this ever happen to us? $444,563.35 that’s how much an anonymous bruddah hit the QuarterMillion$ slot machine for last Saturday, not bad for seventy five cents! It was the 68^th progressive jackpot since the machines inception, paying out $21,214,391.82 to date.

Mandalay Bay has just completed a $150 million redesign… that’s what you call it when you spend $150 mil on a remodel. To check out the luxurious amenities (they even have LCD TV’s in the bathroom) ask for a Deluxe, Spa, Great Room, eXtra Bedroom or Sky View room and let me now if you need someone to carry your bags.

Bette Midler replaces Celine Dion starting February 28^th and tickets are on sale now at 1-877-7BETTEM (723-8836) for $95, $140, $175 and $250, not bad for one Radford grad… what no Kama`aina discount?

Duke University is a highly respected, private research university. They recently conducted a study using functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure the response related to neural activity in the brain. They found that sleep deprivation increases activity in the area of the brain that anticipates reward when making high risk-high payoff choices. In other words you’ll lose more when you’re tired… DUH!

What did the Queen of England and Liberace have in common? In addition to a lot of money they both owned Moser crystal from Czechoslovakia, a service for 12, with 14 individual glasses for each setting the only two that were ever made. Unlike the real Queen’s his are on display at the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas.

The latest fad at the tribal casinos is half penny slots. In two months they have brought in almost 3 million dollars at one casino! You’d be wise to steer clear of these… the casino’s hold on these one armed bandits is over 14%.

Get more Kimo’s Vegas here online at Around Hawaii,  in both issues of MidWeek and with Billy V. Friday morning at 7:20 on Hawaiian105 KINE.