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The WSOP, Lobsters and Working Out with Cirque du Soleil

CIRCUS ACT

Working Out with Cirque du Soleil

The remedy for post-flight stiffness: a hot stone massage and an oversized martini. The other remedy: this Cirque du Soleil–style workout. Which happens to be your best chance to learn to support your body weight with a single index finger while balancing on your instructor’s head. Either that, or touch your toes without pulling a hammy.

STRIPSIDE

Social Hour-ing at Lavo’s Beer Garden

It can be good to gently reorient yourself with a place before taking it on, so use the early evening—and the views of the Strip from Lavo’s terrace—to map out your next moves. And let us know what’s better for decision making: the draft beer specials or the Kobe-stuffed rice balls.

SHELLING OUT

Lobsterphoria at Lakeside at Wynn

The antidote for visiting an inland desert during prime seafood season: a lobster world tour. At Lakeside, you’ll be digging out wood-and-stone-oven-roasted claw meat from distant shores like South Africa, Portugal and Morocco. Because nothing says summer like eating crab-stuffed shellfish next to a three-acre man-made lake.

FINAL DAYS

Your Last Chance at Poker Greatness

The end times of the most popular World Series of Poker ever are upon us. If you still don’t feel like ponying up $10,000 for Thursday’s no-limit championship, play in a mega-satellite for a fraction—really, like 5.5%—of the buy-in. Better to spread around the assets.

SPARKS ON

The Awesome Party at Palms

It would be a feat to make a penthouse club with a retractable roof any less awesome, but hyperbole is a common theme in Vegas—so if the newest party at the Palms turns out to be merely excellent, don’t blame us.