JulieCA said:
Ugh - I am in Las Vegas now and OMG - what has happened here!?
You have to play the higher limit tables to get any kind of a decent game and since I'm still not up to par on counting, I'm not ready for high-limit. I'm almost glad I had to bring work with me so I don't have as much time to play. It's a wasteland out here.
I'll clarify that we're staying at Caesar's and my time limitation is such that I don't have much spare time to spend going downtown (up and down Fremont Street) looking for a better game, or up and down the strip. Every casino I've been in close to Caesar's is playing 8D shoe and 6:5 BJ. O'Shea's no longer plays DD.
Binions/4Queens - paying 6:5 on BJ on all the tables I saw.
Places paying 3:2 BJ are taking it away in other ways - no DAS, no splitting aces, only allowing 2 splits.
Any bets on whether they'll stay greedy even when the economy improves?
You have to play the higher limit tables to get any kind of a decent game and since I'm still not up to par on counting, I'm not ready for high-limit. I'm almost glad I had to bring work with me so I don't have as much time to play. It's a wasteland out here.
I'll clarify that we're staying at Caesar's and my time limitation is such that I don't have much spare time to spend going downtown (up and down Fremont Street) looking for a better game, or up and down the strip. Every casino I've been in close to Caesar's is playing 8D shoe and 6:5 BJ. O'Shea's no longer plays DD.
Binions/4Queens - paying 6:5 on BJ on all the tables I saw.
Places paying 3:2 BJ are taking it away in other ways - no DAS, no splitting aces, only allowing 2 splits.
Any bets on whether they'll stay greedy even when the economy improves?
When I was there a few weeks ago, bellagio had switched almost everything to CSMs, and most shoe games on the strip I found were 6:5. even downtown, some places cut the shoe in half! these corporate casinos aren't run by dumb people. They know that tourists are stupid and most don't know what pen, 6:5, csms do to the game. Why offer a great game if people are willing to play crap that makes the casino a ton of money?