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Las Venturas, San Andreas is a fictional city in the videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. It is based on Las Vegas, Nevada, and like its real-life counterpart, Las Venturas is a gambling city located in a desert region, with casinos such as The Camel's Toe and Caligula's Palace.

The city is also notable for its freeway system. The Julius Thru-Way is a freeway that circles the whole city. Freeways from both Los Santos and San Fierro intersect with it. Another freeway is the Harry Gold Parkway, which runs through the middle of the city and intersects twice with the Julius Thru-Way and then leads to Los Santos (though it is not called the Harry Gold Parkway once it leaves the city).

Storyline

After completing dangerous missions in the deserts of San Andreas for Mike Toreno in exchange for his brother Sweet's freedom, Carl "CJ" Johnson discovers that Toreno has vanished, not fulfilling his end of the bargain. However, after helping out aging hippie The Truth steal secret items from the government, Carl gets a phone call from the blind Triad leader Wu Zi Mu, whom Carl worked with in San Fierro. "Woozie" has opened a casino called "The Four Dragons Casino" in Las Venturas, and he offers Carl part ownership in exchange for defending it, since Las Venturas is a Mafia-controlled town.

After stopping the sabotage efforts of the Forelli Mafia family and Sindacco Mafia family, who have part ownership of Caligula's Palace Casino with the Leone Mafia family, Carl and Woozie plan to strike back by pulling off an Ocean's 11-esque heist on Caligula's. Carl eventually meets Kent Paul (of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City fame), and Maccer, a member of the Gurning Chimps (the band that Paul manages). Luckily for Carl, Paul knows Ken Rosenberg (also of Vice City fame), who is currently the manager of Caligula's.

After helping Rosenberg out with his problems, Salvatore Leone himself arrives from Liberty City to take total control of Caligula's. Carl capitalizes on his relationship with Rosenberg to earn Salvatore's trust, and after performing numerous hits for him, is ready to begin the heist. When the heist team successfully robs Caligula's, Salvatore swears revenge against Carl.

Soon after this, CJ saves the life of disgraced rapper Madd Dogg and becomes his new manager. However, Madd Dogg wants to return to Los Santos to reclaim his mansion from a powerful drug dealer. The story then leaves Las Venturas.

Casinos

The main casinos include (Real-life counterparts in Las Vegas):

Four Dragon's (Imperial Palace)
The Pink Swan (The Flamingo
)
The High Roller (Bally's Las Vegas
)
Pirates In Men's Pants (Treasure Island Hotel and Casino
)
The Visage (The Mirage
)
The Emerald Isle (Fitzgeralds Las Vegas
)
The Starfish Casino (Barbary Coast Hotel and Casino
)
The Clown's Pocket (Circus Circus)
Caligula's Palace (Caesar's Palace)
Royale Casino (Casino Royale Las Vegas
)
The Camel's Toe (Luxor Hotel
)
Come-A-Lot (Excalibur Hotel and Casino
)
The V-Rock Hotel (Hard Rock Hotel and Casino
)

Old Las Venturas is north of the Strip. The casinos in Old Las Venturas have no names, but are modeled after the largest casinos in downtown Las Vegas:

(Binion's Horseshoe
)
(Golden Nugget Las Vegas
)
(Fremont Hotel and Casino
)
(The Four Queens Hotel and Casino)

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