LA Times Slams Vegas 6/5 Blackjack

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Las Vegas: A winner's guide to blackjack

By Marc Cooper, Los Angeles Times
February 27, 2007
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Las Vegas — JUST inside the Flamingo casino a few steps off the Strip, a trio of pink-felted $5 blackjack tables attracts a raucous crowd of enthusiastic players. Booze flows freely, and the piped-in music rocks. As the dealers snap and slap cards out of the plastic table shoes, the players' chip stacks accordion up — and mostly down.

Losing in Vegas is often considered par for the course, but it's happening at the blackjack tables at an accelerating rate. And it's easy enough to see why. A simple, small-print banner on one of the tables reads "Blackjack Pays 6 to 5."

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