Ferretnparrot said:
I don't know if surrender was offered.
It is not.
They run a daily "blackjack happy hour". I think it ended at 7pm. Idk what time it starts where suited BJs pay 2:1
6-7pm. And they are mighty picky about the clock. Don't bother trying to argue with any PB that your cell phone clock is sync'd to the nat'l cell network's idea of time and his watch is fast -- if he thinks it's 7:01, abandon hope.
Some table offered a bet called the "In bet"...it appears to not be beatable by nature.
"In bet" == "In between," a bit of nonsense where you win if the dealer up-card value is between your two initial cards. Allowed bet range, $1-$5. Definitely a loser in the general case, though of course the hope of getting 30x pay for the 1-card range tempts quite a few. And it's annoying as can be, when most of the table is playing that, taking dealer time away from managing BJ to analyze 6 different in-bets and paying the occasional winner. It's all about hands/hour, and burning clock on that nonsense hurts. I'm at the table for BJ, not side bets.
Other casinos in the area have picked up the in-bet nonsense, more's the pity.
I looked at the buffet, and it sucked
We tried it once; not worth the effort. The other restaurants, however, are quite nice. La Bonne Vie does fabulous steak and seafood (but not cheap), and The Gatsby, up the ramp from the hotel lobby, does a fair amount of reasonable food, including breakfast especially.
It is interesting that Mountaineer now has problems sometimes with appearing to be too busy, at a time when they have reduced hours on at least one of the pits, and another pit (the "warehouse" area) has been closed entirely, replaced with a poker pit that I was told has been moved into the main casino area from the racetrack building. I have hopes that this overly-busy appearance means that business is picking up, and they'll expand hours on open pits.
