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| - This just may be one of the coolest bars I've been to here in Vegas.
If you're not feeling like taking your friends to a dive bar and having a night full of deep meaningful conversations, take 'em to Gold Spike. GS boasts a burger restaurant inside, jenga game which is as tall as myself, giant and regular sized connect four, pool tables, dart boards, shuffle boards, cornhole, giant sized beer pong, a synthetic ice rink, table shuffleboard, and a photo booth.
Along with all of these awesome bar games, GS has a decent beer list with several good brews on tap including one of my personal favs from Brooklyn Brewery. The beers are reasonably priced from a Freemont standpoint and even on a busy night the bartenders are on their game and serving them fast.
On my last visit I came with a friend who specifically wanted to partake in a cornhole tournament they were putting on that he read about in one of the local magazines. Upon calling GS to ask if the tournament was still on, he was met with the puzzled voice of one of the bartenders who had to go ask management about it. The bartender confirmed the tournament was on, so we jetted down there. $20 for a team of two gets you in and on their playoff bracket. There were eight teams competing that night and we admirably did our best and got knocked out of the first round. Afterwards we tried some of the other games around us and pretty much had a blast the entire evening. One drawback we unfortunately discovered was the fact that there were only 5 cheap plastic darts in the bar which I suppose were supposed to be split between two dartboards, but we made do anyway.
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