Pechanga

[blackjack51]

Looking for info on Pechanga or casinos in the area if anyone can help thanks new to area

[ihate17]

Northern San Diego county offers some nice casinos but little in good blackjack. Better blackjack can be found near Palm Springs overall.

Pechanga: I think all the $10 shoe tables are CSM
Generally it costs $25 to play at a non CSM table.
Shoe game is a fairly typical poor H-17 game with about 1.5 decks cut off
Double deck game is no DAS, dealing slightly more than a deck.

Pala: Double deck and shoe are better than Pechanga. DAS on double deck and LSR on the shoe. Though there are not that many double deck tables to make it easy, with a little hunting you can often get good pen.

Pauma: 8 deck shoes, poor pen and a single deck that is only D9. Have not been there in a long time so things might be different. Small casino.

Harrah's Rincon: Poor pen rules. You might have some luck finding some pen on their double deck game that has about the same rules as Pala.

Valley View: Again poor pen, same basic games as Pala. Small casino, few tables

ihate17

[EasyRhino]

I may have slightly different opinions:

Pechanga: I haven't been there in a year, but the rules are pretty poor (6D H17 DOA DAS noLS). But the big advantage seemed to be that the place is a friggin' barn (pits and tables everywhere), so lots of wonging opportunities.

Pala: As ih17 mentioned, but one annoyance with their shoes is that they don't reshuffle when the table goes empty, so you have all these dealers standing around on a dead layout with 3 decks dealt.

Pauma: The good news is that you can find $5 minimums. One dealer was only cutting off one deck on the 8D game one time. Oh, and that's also where I got backed off once I spread to over $100.

Harrah's Rincon: Standard Harrah's (grim) situation (mainlyCSM, a couple 8D shoe games (15$-25$), and a couple of 2d games(25$))

Valley View: 6D and 8D games, surrender offered. Penetration on the 6D games is usually 1.5 decks cut or less, so I'd call it okay pen. Kind of a low roller joint (table min/max is most often $10-$500). Only one pit of 6 playable tables, but I think I saw they will be opening another pit in a month.

[jimbiggs]

Good information, with a few corrections.

Last time I went to Pala, there was four DD games on the main floor. They had changed over a couple of shoe tables. Two $25 and two $50.

There are $15 shoe games at Pechanga.

The pitch game at Pauma is DD D9 with less than 50% pen.

Valley View now has one $25 DD DAS table with pen right at 60%. Notch cut in discard rack. They're opening up six more tables at the end of the month. Not sure which games they will be.