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The Excalibur Hotel/Casino is a hotel and
casino situated on the Las Vegas Strip at 3850 Las Vegas Boulevard
South, Las Vegas, Nevada. It is one of the huge casinos owned
by the Mandalay Resort Group.
Excalibur, named for the mythical sword of
King Arthur, uses the Arthurian theme in a number of ways.
Its facade is a stylized figure of a castle, with a wizardlike
figure representing Merlin looking out from a high turret.
Restaurants and other areas have Arthurian names, such as
the Roundtable Buffet, or replicate a broader "ancient
Britain" theme, such as the Sherwood Forest Cafe. A long-running
explain, the "Tournament of Kings," features simulated
medieval jousting.
The Tropicana - Las Vegas Boulevard intersection,
where the property sits, is very busy, so pedestrians are
not permitted to cross at street level. Instead, Excalibur
is connected by overhead pedestrian bridges to its neighboring
casinos to the north (the New York-New York Hotel & Casino,
across Tropicana Avenue) and to the east (the Tropicana Resort
& Casino, across the Strip). There is also an open tram
that connects Excalibur to its sister Mandalay Resort Group
hotel-casinos to the south, the Luxor and Mandalay Bay.
The Excalibur opened on June 19, 1990. It
was one of many new, modern Las Vegas hotels that featured
children's attraction, such as an arcade. Another feature
of the Excalibur that is famous in many of today's Las Vegas
hotels is a large family swimming pool.
The Excalibur has never been a big boxing
events place. Since the middle to late 1990s, the Mandalay
Resort Group has staged its most important boxing events at
Mandalay Bay.
The Excalibur hotel also features a marriage
chapel.
History
On March 21, 2003 the biggest Megabucks Jackpot,
as of that time, was hit at the Excalibur. The jackpot was
for $39,713,982.25.
Fraudulent player behavior
Common fraudulent behavior from online casinos
players include the signing up for multiple casino accounts
using different identities in order to claim a bonus offer
multiple times. Another form of fraudulent actions might be
the use of a graphics editing software like Adobe Photoshop
to create a false winning slot machine game screenshot in
an attempt to tell the casino they hit a jackpot and didn't
get paid for it.
Online casinos usually lock the player account
for these people, and it's widely believed that online casinos
share fraudulent player blacklists
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