{"id":77,"date":"2011-08-19T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tombc.turbofool.com\/?p=77"},"modified":"2011-08-19T09:00:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T09:00:42","slug":"chance-meeting-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/08\/19\/chance-meeting-in-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chance Meeting in Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>(Submitted<\/strong> by friend of the blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/tag\/brian-hart\">Brian Hart<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>How<\/strong> are odds calculated in Vegas?\u00a0 The only thing I know for sure is that the house will always eventually win.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My<\/strong> wife, Karen, and I stayed in Las Vegas over the Thanksgiving weekend at the Encore Hotel.\u00a0 As we waited for the elevator in the lobby, which only served half the rooms at the Encore, we ran into 2 friends we know from Los Angeles.\u00a0 Neither of us had any idea the other was in Las Vegas, let alone which hotel.\u00a0 Both of us couples were staying at the Encore!\u00a0 What are the odds of us meeting randomly in this elevator lobby?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nineteen<\/strong> of the world&#8217;s 25 largest hotels by room count are on the Strip, with a total of over\u00a0<strong>67,000<\/strong> rooms<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Las_Vegas_Strip\">[source]<\/a><br \/>\nTotal Number of hotel rooms in Las Vegas:\u00a0<strong>124,270 <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/govegas.about.com\/cs\/faqs\/l\/blfunfacts.htm\">[source]<\/a><br \/>\nTotal number of rooms at the Encore:\u00a0<strong>2034<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegas.com\/resorts\/encore\/\">[source]<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sounds<\/strong> like The Odds Must Be Crazy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are odds calculated in Vegas?  The only thing I know for sure is that the house will always eventually win.<\/p>\n<p>My wife, Karen, and I stayed in Las Vegas over the Thanksgiving weekend at the Encore Hotel.  As we waited for the elevator in the lobby, which only served half the rooms at the Encore, we ran into 2 friends we know from Los Angeles.  Neither of us had any idea the other was in Las Vegas, let alone which hotel.  Both of us couples were staying at the Encore!  What are the odds of us meeting randomly in this elevator lobby?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[604,713,714,715,716,14,717,718,38,719,28,720,721],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","tag-brian-hart","tag-elevator","tag-elevators","tag-encore","tag-encore-hotel","tag-friends","tag-hotel","tag-hotels","tag-las-vegas","tag-lobby","tag-los-angeles","tag-thanksgiving","tag-thanksgiving-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}