Nevyn
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I was at Caesars Windsor the last couple of days and was surprised to see signs up around a new pit advertising $5 blackjack.
Normally even on cheap nights they are 10 dollar min and as much as 25 on weekends. 3:2 with carny side bets and usually h17.
But they had this new pit. All the tables had a live dealer, an 8 deck shoe (enclosed with a card scanner I think) and touchscreen interfaces for all the players. I did not watch for long and did not play, but it looked like the players make all bets on their console and the scanner reads cards as they are coming out, so the screens also register the payouts on both the main game and any carny games.
I didn't watch for all the details but based on what I could see this game was 5 bucks Canadian,3:2, and even S17. I didn't see any catch other than the side games, so it looks to me like the ability to just deal things out and not have the dealer bother with change, colour up and payouts sped up the game enough to make it profitable with such liberal rules?
Anyone seen this anywhere else? Could be the next trend in the game if it works out, although with scanning of cards they could probably catch counters really easily, and everyone else would have a fairer game hand to hand but a similar overall expected loss.
Normally even on cheap nights they are 10 dollar min and as much as 25 on weekends. 3:2 with carny side bets and usually h17.
But they had this new pit. All the tables had a live dealer, an 8 deck shoe (enclosed with a card scanner I think) and touchscreen interfaces for all the players. I did not watch for long and did not play, but it looked like the players make all bets on their console and the scanner reads cards as they are coming out, so the screens also register the payouts on both the main game and any carny games.
I didn't watch for all the details but based on what I could see this game was 5 bucks Canadian,3:2, and even S17. I didn't see any catch other than the side games, so it looks to me like the ability to just deal things out and not have the dealer bother with change, colour up and payouts sped up the game enough to make it profitable with such liberal rules?
Anyone seen this anywhere else? Could be the next trend in the game if it works out, although with scanning of cards they could probably catch counters really easily, and everyone else would have a fairer game hand to hand but a similar overall expected loss.
