I just finished what will be my last session of a six week stint on the east coast. (AC with two trips to Foxwoods) I have played 800-1000 hours in Atlantic City and Foxwoods each of the last 6 years, so I am pretty familiar with the games. I don't know if I have been spoiled by 3 months in Vegas over the winter or these games are deteriorating (hard to believe), but it was very difficult to find playable games on this trip. Foxwood was the worse, with this, manage to full policy. They refuse to open enough tables. They would rather have people standing around not playing for some reason. 
Oh you can find a seat at $25 tables, your chances of finding one with only one or two other player, (or three for that matter) where you can actually get in some decent hands per hour are nil. Now in fairness to them, both my Foxwood trips where mid week. It has been suggusted that they open more tables on weekends, but of course that comes with much more crowds.
Atlantic City boardwalk casino's seem to be following in there footsteps. Not enough tables open. They would rather have 4 tables open and full with 8 people milling around looking for seats than open 6 tables. I did play there both weekdays and weekends. The one exception in AC is, as everyone knows the big house in the marina district. This place is still playable and still nicely run. It has always been a misfit in AC. Let's hope it stays this way with whatever change in ownership is coming.
After racking up just over 2000 units in just over 18,000 hands during the first two months of the year in Vegas, my 6 week east coast results were a very pedestrian -15 units in roughly 5700 hands. This included a win in the one playable AC location of 258 units offset by losses of 273 units at 4 boardwalk locations plus foxwoods. I know this is a very small sampling, mostly rendering these numbers meaningless, but yet I find this breakdown, not at all surprising.
A couple thoughts on 'new' games in AC. I made my way to the far south end of the boardwalk twice to get a look at and play this much talked about and hyped 2 deck game (talked about much less now with the disappearance of one particular member...lol). The first occasion, there was too much heat for my liking. I didn't even play. Second occasion, I played for 15/20 minutes and actually had a decent win, but again, there really is a lot of attention from management. Too much for my liking, plus it's not as if it is some great game, countingwise. Very mediocre. The second 'new' game was the Resort's Retro game. $2-$20 blackjack with a 25 cent ante on hands of less than $10. I couldn't care less about this game, except that two 'retro' tables have replaced two regular tables, meaning at slow times there will only be 2-3 regular bj tables open, pretty much making what I personally have considered an underrated location, unplayable for me. Too crowded/not enough tables now.
I should mention that my -15 unit figure does not include a 4 grand win on VP while playing through casino cashback, so all was not lost. The 5700 hands played represents roughly 140 hours. Thats about 40 hands per hour. far less than the 65-70 I average in Vegas, and this number would have been even worse if most of my play this trip hadn't taken place in the one good location that you can actually move around.
This trip was so bad that I attempted to rearrange my flight schedule and return to vegas early, but the airline would not co-operate so I stuck it out, which was good. I got to experience the east coast spring weather, visit with friends and catch 3 games of my beloved Phillies, plus got a break from Vegas, which hopefully will help my longevity. I will be returning east the end of june when summer starts to heat up the desert, but after this trip I think my blackjack play will be at a minimum probably getting a look-see at Pa and Delaware games. Keep me posted on what those games look like, but I am not expecting much.
Oh you can find a seat at $25 tables, your chances of finding one with only one or two other player, (or three for that matter) where you can actually get in some decent hands per hour are nil. Now in fairness to them, both my Foxwood trips where mid week. It has been suggusted that they open more tables on weekends, but of course that comes with much more crowds. Atlantic City boardwalk casino's seem to be following in there footsteps. Not enough tables open. They would rather have 4 tables open and full with 8 people milling around looking for seats than open 6 tables. I did play there both weekdays and weekends. The one exception in AC is, as everyone knows the big house in the marina district. This place is still playable and still nicely run. It has always been a misfit in AC. Let's hope it stays this way with whatever change in ownership is coming.
After racking up just over 2000 units in just over 18,000 hands during the first two months of the year in Vegas, my 6 week east coast results were a very pedestrian -15 units in roughly 5700 hands. This included a win in the one playable AC location of 258 units offset by losses of 273 units at 4 boardwalk locations plus foxwoods. I know this is a very small sampling, mostly rendering these numbers meaningless, but yet I find this breakdown, not at all surprising.
A couple thoughts on 'new' games in AC. I made my way to the far south end of the boardwalk twice to get a look at and play this much talked about and hyped 2 deck game (talked about much less now with the disappearance of one particular member...lol). The first occasion, there was too much heat for my liking. I didn't even play. Second occasion, I played for 15/20 minutes and actually had a decent win, but again, there really is a lot of attention from management. Too much for my liking, plus it's not as if it is some great game, countingwise. Very mediocre. The second 'new' game was the Resort's Retro game. $2-$20 blackjack with a 25 cent ante on hands of less than $10. I couldn't care less about this game, except that two 'retro' tables have replaced two regular tables, meaning at slow times there will only be 2-3 regular bj tables open, pretty much making what I personally have considered an underrated location, unplayable for me. Too crowded/not enough tables now.
I should mention that my -15 unit figure does not include a 4 grand win on VP while playing through casino cashback, so all was not lost. The 5700 hands played represents roughly 140 hours. Thats about 40 hands per hour.
far less than the 65-70 I average in Vegas, and this number would have been even worse if most of my play this trip hadn't taken place in the one good location that you can actually move around. This trip was so bad that I attempted to rearrange my flight schedule and return to vegas early, but the airline would not co-operate so I stuck it out, which was good. I got to experience the east coast spring weather, visit with friends and catch 3 games of my beloved Phillies, plus got a break from Vegas, which hopefully will help my longevity. I will be returning east the end of june when summer starts to heat up the desert, but after this trip I think my blackjack play will be at a minimum probably getting a look-see at Pa and Delaware games. Keep me posted on what those games look like, but I am not expecting much.
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