Question about Atlantic City
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Borgata has at least one $5 table open at all times,two on weekends. But getting a seat is another story.I've been told that they sometimes open $5
tables in the poker room at Ballys,but I've never seen one.
Other than that,you can occasionally find $5 Spanish21,6-5 single deck,or Superfun21 at the Taj on off-hours-say 6AM on a Tuesday.
Everything but the Borgata is 8 decks and some houses are now hitting on soft 17s.
Its pretty freakin dismal.
tables in the poker room at Ballys,but I've never seen one.
Other than that,you can occasionally find $5 Spanish21,6-5 single deck,or Superfun21 at the Taj on off-hours-say 6AM on a Tuesday.
Everything but the Borgata is 8 decks and some houses are now hitting on soft 17s.
Its pretty freakin dismal.
Automatic Monkey
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As does Trump Plaza. As does Hilton. As does Taj Mahal.21forme said:
The deal is pretty much done,but its not sealed yet.I wouldn't look for any improvements.I'm imagining these guys bought Harrahs more for the worth of the real estate than the games.What is possible is that they may sell a few of the properties(Caesars?) to knock down the insane nut they are going to have combining all the ongoing expenses with their equity loans.
Automatic Monkey
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They might try to make 6:5 the standard. But before that I see them just phasing out blackjack. Why even bother dealing 6:5 when you have people lined up 3 deep at carnival games with a 3% edge? Today's typical gambler just plain doesn't care about winning.Kasi said:
But on the positive side it does look like the Harrah's conglomerate is selling off properties. More owners = more choices = better games available.
I don't know, I think you underestimate the hold blackjack gets. Watch how many people can't even get the most basics of basic strategy write (not hitting to 17 if dealer 7 or higher, not hitting to 12 if 6 or lower). Most players give a house edge of 5% to 10% and with repeated small bets so quickly, the hold ends up being extremely large for blackjack.
LeonShuffle
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Resorts has some 6 deck tables for $25 or maybe even $15.
aslan
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The lowest table I saw at the Taj was $10, and this was on a Tuesday. When evening came they raised the $10-dollar tables to $15. Around 3 AM they reinstated one $10-table. All the games were eight deck, except sometimes they run a single deck table.
When I was in Reno, $5 tables abounded at the Nugget!
The lowest table I saw at the Taj was $10, and this was on a Tuesday. When evening came they raised the $10-dollar tables to $15. Around 3 AM they reinstated one $10-table. All the games were eight deck, except sometimes they run a single deck table.
When I was in Reno, $5 tables abounded at the Nugget!
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Automatic Monkey said:
Don't pay much attention to me - the glass is always half-empty for me.
I doubt if they will phase it out just because they will make more overall money on food/room offering lousy Bj than they would make with no BJ at all and fewer people.
Once the rules of BJ get to 2-3%, what's the difference anyway? Guess there will still be craps or baccarat lol. Now there's a skillful game.
biggamejames
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They will never phase out black jack. If they could do that they would have done that a long time ago.Automatic Monkey said:
The game actually brings in more money than they are willing to accept. But casinos are greedy little f@ckers that do not want to give up a single penny even to that small 5% of AP who make money at the game.
I believe in the 80s and 90s when those famous black jack counting crews were common in AC, people were actually buying books about counting and reading them right at the table.
Guess what, casinos were still reaping huge profits and have never ever suffered losses even with the small dents made by proffessional counting crews that have surfaced over time.
Same thing goes for sports betting in VEgas. Its completely useless to the Casinos and they would rather do away with it because the floor space it eats up is simply nuts compared to the the money they would make if they replaced all those sports books with slot machines. Sports betting is not even 1% of their yearly profits yet, pretty much every casino has floor space that caters to this market only because the guy next door has it...
Blackjack is here to stay.
Not really. How do u define "hold percentage"? Maybe vs "House Advantage"?shadroch said:
I think it's just some term bean-counters invented to measure how many chips are left at the end of a shift vs how many chips were purchased during the shift vs how many chips were there at the start of a shift. I don't think even they know what they think are measuring.
Nothing at all do with house advantage.