About Us

WizardOfVegas.com was launched to the general public on November 9, 2009. The purpose of the site is to be an informative travel guide about Las Vegas. It is also a spinoff of the casino odds web site WizardOfOdds.com, with an emphasis on the gambling scene in Las Vegas. The owner and primary writer for the site is Michael Shackleford, and the webmaster is the anonymous JB.

Michael Shackleford is a graduate in math an economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara. After nine years as a Social Security actuary, Michael left government to focus on his web site WizardOfOdds.com. In 2007 he launched a web site about Macau, WizardOfMacau.com. However, due to the tyranny of distance, and a lack of advertising income, Michael does not devote much attention to that site. In 2009 Michael felt that there was room in the market for a home-grown web site about Las Vegas. With much help from webmaster JB, they worked hard for months before announcing the site to the public on November 9, 2009. Here are some pictures of Michael with some of the lovely models Michael has had the pleasure to work with.

     

The webmaster JB has lots of computer programming experience. Most of his career was spent in the insurance industry before teaming up with the Wizard in 2008.