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  Gamble.  Most of the places on the Strip will have $5 minimums for craps and card games.  There are very few bad places to play, but if you want to gamble on the cheap, you need to go downtown, where you can find $1 and $2 minimums.  My favorite spot to gamble is the Las Vegas Club, where you can gamble very cheaply, especially in the wee hours of the morning when they have 25-cent crap games; you can also get a plastic football filled with your favorite alcoholic beverage.  Their coffee shop/diner on the second floor has good late-night specials as well.  On the Strip, the

  Eat buffet meals.  I don’t go to all-you-can-eat buffets at home, but for whatever reason they’re a quintessential part of the Vegas experience.  My “Las Vegas Diet” consists of a buffet soon after waking up, say