Most of the shitty clubs are out of business these days, so most of them are a little pricey. From what I've heard you need to be a few blocks from the Strip to not go broke (funny how that applies to more than strip clubs). The girls are just as hot, but you don't break the bank. Crazy Horse seems to be consistently popular among locals as far as titty bars go.
If you don't want to get trolled it's best to sit close to the stage and just tip the stage dancers. The floor ones will leave you alone. If you do want a lap dance and see one you like, buy them a drink and chat with them first. Your dance will be infinitely better.
I disagree with the first part, but i'm only going by what worked for me. It may or may not work for everybody, but it seemed pretty damn effective.
When i used to bang/pick up strippers, here's what I do.
I'd go alone, typically on not such a busy night. I'd be dressed well, order a drink from the bar or the cocktail waitress and sit halfway between the stage and wherever else.
I wouldn't go out of my way to make eye contact, and would generally act aloof, enjoy my drink and glance passingly at the stage. Strippers would come up to me and either a.) ask if i wanted a dance or b.) asked some stupid generic question like "where are you from?" or c.) occasionally some were brazen enough to outright ask me to buy them a drink.
If it was a or c, i'd immediately say "I don't get dances/buy drinks for someone I don't know". Sometimes if they were in pure hustle mode they'd leave, other times they'd hang around and chill and drop the stripper persona bullshit. If it was B, i'd roll my eyes and tell them to stop reading off their script and talk to me like a person. That almost always worked, especially if they were kind of already wanting to go home or were having a shitty night otherwise. It basically conveys that you're not a chump and know what's up. In general that's why I don't faun over women no matter how hot whether celebrity or regular girl or stripper or whatever. It's amazing how women react when you hold them accountable for their behavior and call them out on their bullshit.
From there, i've had crazy conversations and some girls even will spill their guts and their problems. If they're cool and appear to be relatively sincere(which even with a keen eye, can occasionally be hard to tell), i'll order a drink for them after a time. I won't ask them if they want one, i'll just order it (and if they want something else they'll say it). You can generally discern from the conversation whether they party or not.
Generally one of a couple of things happens from there. A.) they give me their number to hang outside the club/after they get off b.) depending on the club, they can work something out with the bouncer in the back rooms. You tip the bouncer well, throw the girl a few bucks(they won't count dances) and you get away with basically freaking them/getting head/finger blasting them or whatever and not paying much c.) Same scenario as b, but if you have drugs you basically do the same thing and can get away with just tipping the bouncer.
I've even had that scenario where the girl has the coke or E or whatever adn we end up doing it in the back while we're freaking around. That's rare but it's happened.
it depends on the joint, but south florida strip clubs are shadier enough to where the bouncer thing works.
Worst case scenario, i've paid for dances in the back room at a regular rate but had the stripper making out with me(not the other way around)..saying excrement like treat me like your girlfriend (i.e.) stick your hands anywhere, they put their mouth along my jeans/pants or whatever etc or more. Depends on the girl. I've never gotten a lame dance that way. Sometimes i'd get the number after also
Drugs were optional lol...but sometimes I had coke or E or whatever because I was coming from partying somewhere else. It wasn't always necessary, but it certainly made for more fun times.