The Concours d’Elegance Las Vegas Car Competition and Exhibition will feature some of the world’s most elegant collector cars on the 18th fairway of the PGA golf resort TPC at the Canyons. On display for the public will be car collections including pristine examples of pre-war, European, exotic, muscle, and custom automobiles. The Concours is not a contest of speed, but of excellence. Automobiles are judged for their style and excellence of design. In addition to the cars in competition, the Concours will offer late model and specialty vehicles for the public to view.

During the event, spectators and entrants will enjoy gourmet food, fine wines and live music. Tickets to Sunday’s event are $75 in advance and $100 at the door.

Concours d’Elegance events began over 100 years ago in the parks of Paris, the Rivera and other elegant resort towns of Europe . The rich and famous of European society gathered to socialize and celebrate the latest automobiles and women’s fashions as unique art forms that graced their stylish lives as much as the homes in which they lived and the banquets and dinner parties they attended. They called these events Concours d’Elegance, a phrase that, when translated, quite literally meant ‘competition of excellence’.

The Concours made its American debut in 1950 in Pebble Beach , CA . Today there are several dozen shows that have adopted the Concours name.

For more information on Concours d’Elegance Las Vegas please call 702-860-4565 or visit www.lasvegasconcours.com.

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Question: I know it’s impossible to figure out where to find slots that pay well but is there a certain denomination of machine that pays better than others?

Answer: As with everything in a casino, it’s really all about the luck of the draw – or the pull of the handle in this case, but generally speaking the higher the denomination the higher the payout percentage.

According to Nevada state law, a machine has to give back at least 75% of what it takes in over the machine’s pay cycle (which is usually based upon a pre-determined number of spins and is usually top secret). That’s the base payout percentage and if the casinos are playing fairly then all machines will be above that.

Since the bottom line is established by law there is only so much they can take on each individual machine. Considering the fact that a nickel machine takes up the same amount of room as a dollar machine, the casinos usually make the payout percentage lower on nickel slots so they can take in more money on a percentage basis and slightly higher on quarters and dollars and so on.

Of course, this is not a science and there’s no guarantee that the dollar machine you sit at is going to give you a jackpot and the nickel machine across the aisle isn’t.

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