Seminoles in Florida just switched to 6:5 last week except if you bet $100. i’ve seen a lot of people stopped playing blackjack.

I’ve been to Vegas a zillion times. I gamble and drink and smoke and talk to the dealers (the ones that actually speak clear English)

Get this: The younger generations actually sit down at 6/5 BJ tables thinking they will pay more because,… get this,… 6/5 is “bigger” then 3/2. !!!! So it must “pay more” !!

Ha ! Ha ! Ha! Ha!

How stupid can you get?? This is also why the smarter people aren’t playing those tables. The casinos need money so they are raising minimums and offering these games – yet they wonder why they are losing gambling revenues????

The other thing is: when you make the minimums $20 per hand, use 6/5 rules , use constant shuffling machines – at even $10 per hand. players can lose $100-$200 within minutes. This leaves a bitter taste in visitors mouths and bingo – the casino just permanently lost a new customer! How is it ANY fun to sit down and lose $100-200+ within minutes?

It’s not. Now you have online gambling and other places to gamble outside of Vegas. You would think they would want to make gambling in Vegas more PLEASURABLE instead the fools in MGM management insist on these games minimums and rules. Ha!

There are NO $5 tables on the strip except very occasionally at the Tropicana. They don’t have any calendar and are hit and miss. It’s just if you happen to be there. So they will just randomly open up a few $5-$10 minimum tables then raise to $20-50 minimum tables once they fill up then most people leave.

It’s a bone headed strategy. Your turning people OFF to gambling at your casinos. Your making the rules even more unfair and with this minimums it’s NO FUN.

Look. I can afford to gamble at the $200 minimums tables if I wanted. That’s not the point. I want to play BJ with old school rules (see: fair rules) for a few hours or so. Ok so I lose a few hundred. So what. IF I didn’t get out that’s my fault and at least I had some fun. But sitting down for 5-10 minutes and losing $200-300? That’s NO FUN and turned everyone at the tables off.

People want to feel like they are “getting something” at Vegas even if they lose money. They are getting the experience, the freed drinks, the ups and downs etc. However today you have these greedy owners/shareholders have forgotten about the basics and are constantly pressuring the CEO’s and management for “more more more” gambling profit.

So when you put pressure on people shoulders like this .. people with mortgages and kids and put their jobs at stake (get fired now or later?) they are going choose short term profits at the expense of long term customers/profits every single time.

This is exactly what all the Casinos in Vegas are doing:

1) Unfair games
2) Higher comp times
3) Higher minimums
4) Continious Shuffling Machines (speeds up play, house edge losses, and takes away ALL “intuition fun” out of the game of BJ. They blame card counters but this is just an excuse since counters, even with classic rules, “take” 0.000000000000001% away from a casino (under constant watch few people can do it without getting caught) vs. the shuffling machines witch are in fact, CHEATING on the houses part since these machines have nothing do with B.J. and take away all “intuition”. What I mean is that on some subconscious level, on a 6 deck game, your “intuition” tells you that ALLOT of number cards have been dealt … there are tons of faces cards .. “I have a feeling something good is gonna happen” time to increase my bets!! This is “feeling” and the “high” that comes from being right is TOTALLY removed with C shuffling machines.

This is what Vegas has become and why so many gamblers aren’t coming back. They have turned off ALLOT of people with these rules and until they wake up and change things casinos are going to see their gambling profits keep going down like they have since 2007.

Agreed!

The odds still aren’t bad, but yeah, sort of making it a less appealing game.