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Vegas casinos hate America

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by dixiehack, Jan 27, 2017.

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  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    Pai Gow is a good way to kill time if you're waiting for someone else. You never lose, but you never win anything either. If you can get a free drink out of it, that's probably the best outcome, because a "free drink" at the video poker bar can end up costing you $50 in 10 minutes.
     
    LongTimeListener, Apr 29, 2017
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  2. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Deck is fully dealt out every hand,no matter how many players; you get seven cards and make two hands, a two card hand and a five card hand; the only rule is the two card hand must be lower than the five card hand (two pairs, top pair in back in 5 card hand) if you win both hands you win, and if you lose both you lose, BUT if you win one, you push. Fairly simple and slow basically.

    The push factor makes it slower (both winning and losing). I've own at it before, not huge, but big enough, took oh until 6 or 7 AM but it was a great run.
     
    qtlaw, Apr 30, 2017
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  3. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The picture in my mind has always been a table full of players plus the dealer trying to figure out everyone's hands. The anti-blackjack.
     
    playthrough, May 1, 2017
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  4. qtlaw

    qtlaw Well-Known Member

    Everyone usually figures it out pretty quickly, its poker, how hard is that? Only uncertainties are picking up straights and/or flushes and forgetting to make top hand (2 cards) lower than back hand (5 cards).

    But you know, fumbling is good, drags out the game more, closer to next cocktail is how I look at it.
     
    qtlaw, May 1, 2017
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  5. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    The best way to play blackjack. Love the pitch double deck games. There are three gambling towns out here -- two about 45 minutes west of Denver -- that have slots, craps, roulette, blackjack and the carnival card games. $100 max on the table games, which is an improvement when it was $5 min/max for the first 18 years.

    Have to hunt, but you can find $10 double deck. There's one place that does double deck out of a shoe, where the cards are all face up. Annoying as hell.

    The best part? No smoking in any of the casinos.

    My experience at some Indian casinos in SoCal is you have to buy your alcohol.
     
    MileHigh, May 1, 2017
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  6. Just the facts ma am

    Just the facts ma am Well-Known Member

    The Indians can ignore the state's no-smoking indoors law and enforce the no-free drinks in casino law, go figure.
     
    Just the facts ma am, May 1, 2017
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  7. HackyMcHack

    HackyMcHack Member

    IIRC, Midwestern casinos (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana) do not allow free alcohol. Ohio's casinos are (thankfully) smoke-free.
     
    HackyMcHack, May 1, 2017
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  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Of course they can. Which is why I don't miss them.
     
    MileHigh, May 1, 2017
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  9. Just the facts ma am

    Just the facts ma am Well-Known Member

    Meh, I took a small Morongo branded water bottle down to the tables and asked the servers for a styrofoam cup with ice. Did not get hassled. :rolleyes:
     
    Just the facts ma am, May 2, 2017
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  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Correct, I'm in Indiana and you gotta pay for drinks. Was nice to be in Mississippi a couple months ago and get a few free ones.

    I don't smoke but am somewhat nostalgic for smoky gambling joints. That said, yes, Ohio's law is nice.
     
    playthrough, May 2, 2017
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  11. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    When Florida's dog/horse tracks first added poker rooms, they were quarter games with $10 max pots. Pure silliness. Johnny Chan couldn't have beaten those games over the long haul, given the rake and the old timers that never folded.
     
    playthrough, May 2, 2017
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  12. HackyMcHack

    HackyMcHack Member

    No fold 'em hold 'em, it was called. Eventually they went to $2 max bet with max $100 buy in, then no-limit. Back in the day, I went to the track closest to me at the time for their good soft ice cream cones just as much as I did for no fold 'em hold 'em. A good, cheap night of entertainment that you never were going to make any money off of, but yet you still got to hang out with some characters.

    Now Florida is talking about letting the tracks have "designated player" games like what they have in California card rooms (i.e. player-banked pai gow, player-banked three-card poker, etc.) in exchange for letting the Seminoles have dice and roulette.
     
    HackyMcHack, May 2, 2017
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