Doubling Down in Sin City

Here's an excerpt from Marc Cooper's The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas I just came across. Reading it made me want to jump out of my seat, get on the New Jersey Turnpike via I-95, and hit the tables at A.C.

The excerpt's almost a year old, but who gives a damn -- great writing in the New Journalism vein.