Hey, can someone give me details on the Tulalip Casino's BJ?
Most importantly do they use an ASM or CSM? Thanks.
Why would it matter they use an ASM or CSM?
In the former case the game is dreadful
Why is it dreadful to use ASM's? Don't they simply increase the hands per hour, while presumably negating any realistic chance for shuffle tracking?
Or were you referring to other aspects of the game
Why does this casino have such a big house advantage?
Horrible Pen? no LS? what else?
From C.B.J.N.:
Tables open only from 1000 to 0600.
Requires table Max bets to wager on three (3) spots.
There are 16 ordinary BJ tables, not that many will be open.
They are SIX Deckers with H17, DAS, and RSA.
Tables are all $5 to $500
The e.v. on this game is listed as -.56
Yuck. Not a game that I would waste my time on !
Note: info above on Tulalip'sin CBJN is dated by ½ yr.
All the BJ tables use a ShuffleMaster MD1 ASM, although there was a brief period of time earlier this year when they were hand shuffling because they ordered the wrong size of cards for the shufflers. I doubt you'll see this again.
The info in CBJN has been updated within the last 2-3 months, and I don't think anything has changed significantly since the last update. Over the last year or so, they've gotten more sweaty - especially if you wong.
they didnt order the wrong size cards, they ordered the wrong color of cards, the ASMs use 2 shoes of different color cards and they need to have different colors because if a card gets messed up they need to know what shoe its for. the trouble was that they only had red cards. that was a fun week because the dealers were cutting to 1 deck because they didnt like shuffling
Bondy3,
You are mistaken when you say that … "dealers were cutting to 1 deck because they didnt like shuffling"
Bondy3,
You are mistaken when you say that … "dealers were cutting to 1 deck because they didnt like shuffling"
Dealers appreciate the change of pace afforded shuffling. They consider it quasi-rest.
It provides a handy demarcation allowing the passage of time to be "felt" as having shuffled so many times.
This is similar to how we "mark time" via numerous artifices e.g. hours in a day, days in a week, etc.
NOTE: I have never met a dealer who failed to despise casino CSM's.
If, as you think, dealers hated shuffling, they'd clamor to work CSM tables.