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The Planet Hollywood took over the facility from the financially troubled Aladdin in 2003. If I’m not mistaken, they kept the Aladdin name until renovations were completed in 2007. The PH is one of the few properties on the Las Vegas Strip that is not owned by either MGM-Mirage or Harrah’s. According to the Wikipedia page, the Planet Hollywood is owned by a partnership between Robert Earl, Bay Harbour Management and Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

Note: Since this review was published, Harrah's obtained complete control of the property.

The Executive Casino Host position is responsible for developing and maintaining valuable relationships with VIP 21 Years or Older Must be 21 years or older to work for employer. Host/Hostess Experience Experience working as a host or hostess in the hospitality industry.

I checked in on Monday, June 15, 2009 for one night. The following is my review.

Location

The Planet Hollywood is well located between Flamingo and Tropicana on the Strip, between the Paris and MGM Grand. It is right next door to the Paris, but you have to suffer some strip malls and cross Koval Blvd. to get to the MGM. Across the street is the Bellagio.

Gambling

According to the 2009 American Casino Guide and the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the Planet Hollywood has 93,322 square feet of casino space, featuring 82 table games and 1,800 slot machines. By way of comparison, the MGM Grand has 156,023 square feet, with 178 table games and 2,470 slots. The table games I found were blackjack, craps, roulette, pai gow poker, Three Card Poker, Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em, Crazy 4 Poker, Mississippi Stud, and Let It Ride. The high-limit room offers roulette, baccarat and blackjack.

Blackjack

Planet Hollywood has the standard liberal Strip rules (six decks, dealer stands on soft 17, double after split, surrender, re-split aces) only in the high-limit room, at a $100 minimum. The following table from the Current Blackjack Newsletter shows the rules for Planet Hollywood blackjack at the time I was there.

Planet Hollywood Blackjack
Game	Decks	Soft 17	DAS	Surrender	RSA	DR	BJ Pays	Tables	Minimum	Maximum	H. Edge
6-5	1	Hit	Yes	No	No	Yes	1.5	10	$5	$2000	1.45%
BJ	2	Hit	No	No	No	Yes	1.5	4	$500	$5000	0.53%
BJ	6	Stand	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	1.5	6	$100	$10000	0.26%
BJ	6	Hit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	1.5	12	$25	$5000	0.46%
BJ	6	Hit	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	1.5	18	$10	$3000	0.46%
BJ	6	Hit	Yes	No	No	Yes	1.5	2	$5	$2000	0.63%

Roulette

In the main casino, the roulette was the standard double zero, for a house edge of 5.26%. Wrestling wheel of fortune game. In the high-limit room, there was one single-zero wheel, for a house edge of 2.70%.

Craps

The craps games allowed the Vegas standard 3-4-5X odds for a combined house edge between the pass and odds of 0.37% and 0.27% between the don't and laying odds. The field followed the stingy 2 to 1 on a 12 rule, for a house edge of 5.56%. Hop bets were also stingy at 14 and 29 to 1, for a house edge of 16.67% on both.

Video Poker

According to vpFREE2, the best video poker at any denomination on the property is 8/5 Bonus Poker, with a return of 99.17%. I checked one single-line game, and here is what I found.

Planet Hollywood Video Poker
Game	Pay Table	Return
Jacks or Better	8-6	98.63%
Bonus Poker	7-5	98.01%
Double Bonus	9-6	97.81%
Double Double Bonus	9-6	98.98%
Deuces Wild	20-12-10	97.58%
Super Aces Bonus Poker	6-5	97.78%
Triple Double Bonus	9-5	97.02%

The Planet Hollywood can be somewhat forgiven for the tight pay tables because of a generous slot club (see below).

The expiration on slot tickets is the state minimum of 30 days, which is much too short, in my opinion.

Race and Sports

The Planet Hollywood has a small and oddly shaped sports book, with 5 windows and about 40 chairs. It is near a bar, should you get thirsty, and the Earl of Sandwich, if you get hungry.

The PH sports book is independent, meaning they set their own lines. If you like to compare lines between casinos, the PH should be on your lists of places to check.

Race and sports tickets expire in 120 days.

I visited during baseball season. The PH offers 20-cent money lines, which is high. Futures on the 2010 Super Bowl carried a house edge of 34.49%, assuming all bets had the same house edge.

The following table shows what parlays and 6-point NFL teasers pay.

Planet Hollywood Parlays & Teasers
Picks	Parlay	Teaser
2	13 to 5	10 to 12
3	6	1.4
4	10	2.5
5	20	4
6	40	6

Poker

The poker room has 9 tables, all of which are non-smoking. The rake is 10%, up to a maximum of $5 per pot.

Pleasure Pit

In the evenings the Planet Hollywood brings out a bevy of beautiful, lingerie-clad, young women to deal and pole dance in their 'Pleasure Pit.' I played for an hour, and I enjoyed myself until a smoker sat down at my table. It isn’t often you can sit three feet away from pretty, half-naked girls for as long as you want. Other casinos have done similar things, but either the dealers were not as pretty or the only game was the horrible 6 to 5 single-deck blackjack, which I refuse to play on principle. At the Pleasure Pit, the rules are the same as the rest of the casino, except the high limit room. So kudos to the Planet Hollywood for letting players enjoy the women with some of the tables having legitimate, 3 to 2 paying, blackjack rules. There were some 6 to 5 tables for the suckers too.

Player Club

The 'Wendy's style' line at the player club -- one long line leading to multiple windows -- was extremely long my entire trip. There were not many agents working the line, which probably explained why it seemed to be moving at a snail’s pace.

According to VPfree2, the slot club has three levels. All of them have a high cash back rate, but they should, given that their best video poker is 8/5 Bonus Poker. Every $20 played earns one point. At the entry level, one point is worth 10¢ in cash back, for a rebate of 0.5%. At the gold level, one point is worth 13.33¢ in cash back, for a rebate of 0.67%. At the platinum level, one point is worth 15¢, for a rebate of 0.75%.

Cashier

The cashier is 'Wendy's style' as well, as it should be, with one line leading to the many windows. I, fortunately, did well in the casino; I cashed out about $4,000 in chips. My cash out required two phone calls and a visit by somebody in a suit. After at least five minutes, I was finally paid. Such a transaction is usually handled in under a

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