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MELBOURNE CONDITIONS UPDATE My previous post above applies, with two changes: 1. Crown Blackjack begins at $30, not $25. At least from what I can see. 2. Mahogany Room's $50 blackjack table is apparently now EVERY day from 12 to 6pm, not just Monday to Friday. I didn't know about this until...

I wish I could believe you. But the reality is that "sophisticated players" are not a lucrative demographic. We know the basic strategy, some of us know and are proficient at card counting, and unless we're throwing down very large sums of money on the regular (and many of us aren't), getting...

SYDNEY CONDITIONS IN THE VIP ROOMS (Pleasant Surprise!) $50 for an S17 CSM game in the Oasis Room (Gold+ members only, but you can get in if you bring a few grand on a slow day) Sovereign Room has 1 x $50 S17 shoe dealt game and at least 3 additional $100 S17 shoe dealt games. There is also a...

SYDNEY CONDITIONS (Worst I've Ever Seen!) Same rules as Brisbane BUT the minimums are literally double. $40 (usually $50) for an H17 game $100 for an S17 game All CSM on the main floor. I didn't get to look into Sovereign but I've been told its $100 6d shoes up there Pontoon is available, but...

By HC do you mean Hole Carding? Because that isn't possible in Australian casinos - dealers never take a hole card.

I've only seen Pontoon dealt from a CSM, sorry. ALSO here's an update from Australia (note that I am only talking about 3:2 games here, no "Blackjack Challenge" or other reduced payout scams): ADELAIDE $20, $25 and $30 games on the main floor of SkyCity - 6d CSM S17 d9-11 DAS nRSA RS3 ENHC NS...

I hate to engage in thread necromancy but I'm an Australian too. When it comes to counting/AP, its exceptionally hard and arguably not worth it. Basically the main floors are all-CSM or shoe-games-at-$50+ minimums. 3:2 blackjack starts at $25 per hand (or $30 per hand) at the...

Thank you for responding so quickly. To be clear, you're saying that the basic strategy charts and the like are NOT calculated under the assumption that the dealer checks early for blackjack... thus they presume the dealer's second card can also be a ten/picture/ace... and therefore there's no...

Wow, I can't believe this forum came back. Excellent. Anyway, a while ago Crown Melbourne was offering an high-limit blackjack game which offered a strange kind of surrender rule (called "Vegas Blackjack"). This surrender rule operated as follows: 1. The dealer doesn't take a hole card, and in...

Mohegan has better rules (S17) but bad penetration (4 decks out of 6 dealt). Foxwoods has worse rules (H17) but very good penetration (7 decks out of 8 dealt).

Indeed. Bellagio and Aria use them as well.

Not necessarily. Macau casinos have a gambling tax of >50% but their blackjack games have lower house edges than in Vegas (0.10% at MGM and Wynn Macau). You can't reduce economic efficiency to tax rates. There are many other factors involved. Tax rates are of course important, you just can't...

Monte Carlo's BJ conditions are, to put it gently, lackluster. BJ starts at 10 Euro per hand although that would probably be in the smaller, less opulent casinos rather than the infamous primary casino proper. Rules are uniformly: 6deck, CSM (!!!), S17, DA2, DAS, Split to 3 hands max...

Very true. And I was in Vegas just recently. Good games (liberal rules S17 hand shuffle shoe games with a house edge of 0.285%) were easy to find and you could get them for $10 at the MGM Grand, and $25 at the other MGM places. This seems like a pretty good deal to me, especially with the...

I'm a basic strategy player, so I need things like a reasonable house edge, lots and lots of free liquor, and generous comps. Things that Crown does not have. So for yourself, it may not be rape. But for me, its uber-rape. Its rape squared (like when a rapist gets raped by another rapist)...