I like playing Blackjack and my internet research pointed me in the direction of the El Cortez.
Upon stepping into the casino I was pretty stoked, it had the weird gritty old school Vegas feel that I wanted on my trip. Weird old ladies screaming at slot machines, old men wasting their pensions playing poker and drinking themselves to death... ya know that sort of thing.
While El Cortez does have the awesomeness of a creepy casino that I'm into, the creepy kinda went into disapointing in some aspects. Take the dealers for instance, they were all Asian (which is cool) but with names like Charley, Karen, Freddy and so forth with nametags also sporting their countries (China was well represented). Now the name changes were kinda weird but what was weirder was they were all sorta dead eyed and practically silent. I'm not sure if they were robots or not, but I wouldn't be surprised. This kind of made playing cards unsettling and uncomfortable. So I switched to slots and people watching.
Later I noticed a charming dealer named Karen so I thought I'd try my luck again. Didn't feel so freaked out and she was chatty and sarcastic and that was awesome. But the heeby jeebies came back when her manager that may have been Dolemite in disguise basically talked to her like he was her pimp, and I was worried at any moment he'd smack a ho. That freaked me out and again I left the table. Only to have Dolemite stare me and my companions down with a steely look that would have killed me dead on the spot if looks could actually kill.
So if you have better nerves than I do try your luck at the tables. If not stick to the slots and people watching.