They should’ve found out if the cup could balance on the water show.

From the Dept. of Things That Would Never Get Old: Parading the Stanley Cup into whatever restaurant you want to eat at. Blackhawks coach Joel Quenneville brought the Cup with him to Yellowtail at Bellagio last night for a little Veuve Cliquot and letting people — including Chef Akira Back. God that’s got to be great, hauling the Stanley Cup around and spreading joy everywhere you go. Those guys with the white gloves would have to hit us over the head with a brick to get that thing back.

By Jason Scavone

Phil Laak, now working on the consecutive passed-out-face-down-fully-clothed hours record. (Photos by Erik Kabik | Retna)

Congratulations Phil Laak, you’re the Peter Tripp of the poker world. The Unabomber spent 115 hours playing poker at the Bellagio, wrapping up yesterday morning around 7 a.m.

The stunt was a benefit for Camp Sunshine, which got $3,383 — half his winnings over the period — plus and extra $1,000 for doing 30 push-ups in the 58th hour on a bet, and donations from fans. The real winner here? Hyperbole. Laak’s girlfriend, Jennifer Tilly, said after the stunt, “He’s like an Olympic athlete.” Sure. But only after he started hallucinating around hour 83 and flinging javelins all over the Bellagio. Click for more words and pictures »

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We’ve long been an admirer of the criminal classes.

Bound to happen sooner or later: Someone’s robbing The Bank. The Bellagio nightclub does The Heist tonight, where the girl who can get the most Bank Bucks from VIP tables — by any means necessary — wins $2,500. The twist is, the servers are the coppers with badges and everything, and if they catch you in the middle of your nefarious affairs, they’ll throw you in the clink. Finally, someone’s giving us the women-in-prison night we’ve always demanded. Click for more words and pictures »

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(Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

See? This is what happens when you don’t pack enough food or women to withstand a shipwreck.

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Band photo or Match.com ad? YOU DECIDE.

“Next Big Thing” and “Cat & Mouse” duo Nikki and Rich hit the stage at The Bank inside Bellagio tonight. On their MySpace page, Nikki and Rich describe themselves as “Lauryn Hill meets The Supremes while hanging out with Alicia Keys listening to Outkast ‘Hey Yah’ (sic).” So, basically their musical style is every musical style ever, with the notable exception of klezmer music. Click for more words and pictures »

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Can’t believe Huey Lewis wasn’t invited. They should be ashamed. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

The Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health held the Power of Love Gala Saturday night at Bellagio with a performance from Barry Manilow doing “Can’t Smile Without You,” “Looks Like We Made It” and “Copacabana with nary so much as a backing saxophone from The News. It’s like the whole thing was organized by Ray Parker Jr. or something.

Holly Madison, Danny DeVito and Rhea Perlman, Andre Agassi and Stefi Graf, Leeza Gibbons, Brad Garret, Wolfgang Puck and Thomas Keller were all there for the three-course Puck and Keller dinner. A charity auction offered up a watch designed by Madison, an afternoon of lunch and tennis with Agassi and Graf, lunch with DeVito and the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and two seats to a game of hold ‘em with Garrett and Ray Romano. Which, if you throw Kevin James in there too is just about the plot to the next Adam Sandler movie.

Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman were also in town, although they were here to go weightless on a Zero G flight out of McCarran airport. It was Kidman’s Christmas present from Urban. That’s a cool gift, but it does kind of set the standard for needing to lay on more and more gravity-free gifts. Christmas 2009: Weightless flight. Christmas 2010: Hover tree. They had dinner with the rest of the fliers at the Four Seasons

Finally, Avatar actor Sam Worthington was at Dos Caminos for Margaritas and tacos. He was with an unidentified female friend, who we’re assuming was 10 feet tall, blue and juggling balls of unobtanium. It’s Oscar season, people, and you have to do what you can to campaign.

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Steve Aoki is excited about web revisions. (Photos by Erik Kabik)

It’s new website time, kids! Our sister site, SpyOnVegas.com, is launching version 3.0 of all the oh-crap-I-can’t-believe-I-did-that-last-night photos you can handle. We’ve seen it, and it’s completely awesome. You should make sure to refresh like a fiend today. To celebrate, The Bank at Bellagio hosts the launch with Steve Aoki in the DJ booth. Want to come along for the ride? Hit the RSVP here. Click for more words and pictures »

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(Photo by Hew Burney | SpyOnVegas.com)

James Cameron is getting a little too cocky. The 3-D glasses were one thing, but making your audience put these on is just mean.

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America’s favorite author. (Photos by Scott Harrison | Retna)

Lauren Conrad — about the only Hills girl not to comment on Heidi Montag’s surgical remodeling, which is a bummer because we could’ve used a nice dose of palpable hate — hosted Friday night at The Bank inside Bellagio without boyfriend Kyle Howard.

Conrad kept quiet most of the night, but opened up when the club brought out a cake for her Feb. 1 birthday from Jean Philippe sculpted like her upcoming book, Sweet Little Lies: An L.A. Candy Novel. that comes out Feb. 2. It’s about a girl who’s friend got a reality show. And it’s a sequel to her other L.A. Candy book, which was a No. 1 New York Times bestseller. That … can’t be right, can it? Can we at least get a new bestseller list where the books are by people who might have taken an English class at community college once?

By Jason Scavone

We have a better choice for who the sex symbol is in this photo …

The Bank at Bellagio brings in 944′s Sex Symbols of Las Vegas, a crew that includes Jessica Hinton, Jason Craig, Joey Williams, Felix Cane, Jaymes Vaughan, Mila Corsunova, Alexander Christensen, Sara Bradley, Marco D’Angelo and Carey Hart. Snubbed yet again: Penn & Teller. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone