WELCOME TO Kimo’s Vegas ... The Player’s Edge!

THE FOLKS who line the Strip distributing cards advertising escorts are called “Slappers” because they slap the cards against each other to attract your attention. Imagine Jayde Nicole’s surprise when it was brought to her attention that they were slapping cards with her picture from Playboy, offering her as a full-service escort. In return, the escort service got slapped with a cease-and-desist notice faster than you can say “Playboy Playmate of the Year.” Tiger Woods wannabes best remember the words of my great-grandfather Confucius Akane, who said, “If it’s too good to be true, it isn’t real Jayde.”

MR. VEGAS, entertainer Wayne Newton, is hosting the Miss Playboy Club Model Search Sunday at the Playboy Club. It costs a Jackson for dudes, but ladies are cover-free each month. The winner gets to be the face of the club (for a month), featured in next year’s calendar, $1,000 in cash, a comp at Palms Casino Resort, a Swedish massage, dinner for two at Nove Italiano, a photo shoot and maybe even some exposure in Playboy magazine.

THERE’S STILL room to join Nove Italiano’s executive chef Geno Bernardo at noon this Saturday for an intimate five-course cooking class. On the menu: Zuppa di Pesce, Caprese Salad, Milanese-style East Coast Fluke, Braised Kobe Short Ribs and Chocolate Ganache.

SEVEN OUT ... Things are hard all over: Lake Las Vegas’s Casino Montelago is joining the Ritz Carlton and will close its doors March 14.

MADAME TUSSAUDS’ famous house of wax outside the Venetian spent $300,000 to create a replica of the White House Oval Office, including the prez from Hawaii. It’s the only replica of the Oval Office this side of the Mississippi ...

COCKFIGHTING is illegal in the U.S., Brazil and most of Europe, but every Wednesday the feathers fly at chef Richard Sandoval’s Tacos & Tequila in the Luxor. The “Cock-a-Doodle Duel” pits two slightly inebriated (it’s more fun that way) humans in chicken suits against each other. Balloons are tied to each rooster’s claws ... er ... feet, and the last cock with air in his latex wins bragging rights and a $25 tab. This might be more fun with hens in the house. Let the pecking begin.

BILLBOARD magazine’s Artist of the Decade list includes 12-time Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys. Her Freedom Tour stops in Vegas April 9 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.

CONGRATS TO our brothers from Samoa for besting New Zealand to win the 2010 USA Sevens Rugby Tournament in Las Vegas. The tourney featured teams from Kenya, France, Wales, Australia, England, Fiji, Chile, Japan, Scotland, Argentina, the U.S and more.

ON VALENTINE’S DAY in front of Paris Las Vegas, Jeff Ondash broke Dublin’s Siobhan O’Connor’s Guinness World Record ... 7,777 hugs later in an homage to his father and brother, the 51-year-old man from Ohio became the world’s hugging champion, raising money and awareness for the American Heart Association.

MICHAEL JACKSON’S former personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is licensed to practice medicine in Nevada, Texas and California. Although officially charged with manslaughter, the doc is returning to an undisclosed location (to protect his patients’ privacy) in Las Vegas. Propofol drip, anyone?

 

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