My friend wants to play 4 Card Poker in Vegas and I can't get a straight answer on where it's available. We will be Downtown and Strip for 2 nights each. Any help? Thanks!
My friend wants to play 4 Card Poker in Vegas and I can't get a straight answer on where it's available. We will be Downtown and Strip for 2 nights each. Any help? Thanks!
Originally posted by: Mark Bashore
My friend wants to play 4 Card Poker in Vegas and I can't get a straight answer on where it's available. We will be Downtown and Strip for 2 nights each. Any help? Thanks!
1) The availability and variety of table games changes so quickly, there's no database of that info available
2) Crazy 4 Poker has largely supplanted Four Card Poker as the carny game of choice
3) The larger the casino, the better your chances of finding any given game. But don't expect to find it on the Strip without a very high minimum bet
I have to ask, though--why is your friend so fascinated by this game? It has a huge house edge, even more so if you fall for making the sucker prop bets. I mean, the dealer gets 6 cards, you get 5. Who's going to make the better hand? Duhhhh....
Not much help, but I saw 4 Card in Caesars Atlantic City.
But, maybe...
High Card Flush (hard to find anywhere) is found at Caesars LV, Harrah's Biloxi, also Harrah's Laughlin. Maybe all Caesars/Harrah's properties in LV. I'll guess that you might find 4 Card at Harrah's/Caesars properties on the Strip as well.
Maybe elsewhere, just my experience with the HCF game and maybe also for 4 Card, since they had both at Caesars in AC. I didn't play 4 Card.
Confused? Bottom line: HCF seems almost exclusive to Harrah's properties. I don't know about 4 Card except that both were available at Caesars AC, but...again...try all the Harrah's/Caesars properties on the Strip.
Good luck
Candy
Stations casinos have always been big on the poker-based sucker carny games, but I wouldn't advise anyone to set foot in one of their properties. As far as downtown is concerned, the Golden Noogies was the first to bring on those carny games, but I have no idea about now
If you subscribe to Vegas Advantage (I think it's like five bucks for a month) you can get a complete list of table games for strip, off-strip and downtown. The Mehaffey's update it regularly (quarterly?) and IMO it's well worth the price.
Originally posted by: Matt Roberts
If you subscribe to Vegas Advantage (I think it's like five bucks for a month) you can get a complete list of table games for strip, off-strip and downtown. The Mehaffey's update it regularly (quarterly?) and IMO it's well worth the price.
That would be great information IF accurate, but how could they possibly keep it current? Maybe accurate as of the last quarter, or something. Does their info include table minimums?
Vegas Advantage updates the major casinos every month or so, other ones maybe every quarter. They include the month the information was last updated in every article. They do include minimums.
But they posted this on their free website in 2022:
"Some games that are popular in other markets failed to make it in Las Vegas. Four Card Poker is big on the East Coast. However, we have not found it in Las Vegas in about eight years. It was last at Mandalay Bay."
Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
1) The availability and variety of table games changes so quickly, there's no database of that info available
2) Crazy 4 Poker has largely supplanted Four Card Poker as the carny game of choice
3) The larger the casino, the better your chances of finding any given game. But don't expect to find it on the Strip without a very high minimum bet
I have to ask, though--why is your friend so fascinated by this game? It has a huge house edge, even more so if you fall for making the sucker prop bets. I mean, the dealer gets 6 cards, you get 5. Who's going to make the better hand? Duhhhh....
Kevin,
I agree about the "sucker" game with big house advantage.I'll watch him play for a bit before going back to the craps table, but I won't join him.
Originally posted by: Kevin Lewis
That would be great information IF accurate, but how could they possibly keep it current? Maybe accurate as of the last quarter, or something. Does their info include table minimums?
They regularly (at least quarterly) iupdate the information. They also include table minimums observed at the time and day of week of their visit.
I'd look it up from my copy and post it here, but I support them and I'm not gonna plagiarize their product. They went behind a paywall a year or so ago because people kept stealing their work.