Free For All- Only Vegas topics challenge

I think you meant 3:2....

THAT was a gross oversight. Shame on me.
2 for one requires a coupon.
We have all played a lot of BJ/Blackjack.
Has anyone been at a game where the dealer has "tells"?
I see the double-peek a lot.(Maybe it's a FOUR)
Decent poker players know their "tells".
Read the player,not the cards.
I've noticed dealers lean forward when they have a paint card,sometimes.
I think that the less experienced dealers would be easier to read.
Most use mirrors to see if it is or is not a value card.
Some card have the value in the very corner.
Or a black spot.
It IS or it Isn't.
That's why a poker deck is different than a BJ deck.
They will ask for insurance B-4 they check,also.


https://www.blackjackchamp.com/tips-tricks/dealer-tells/

The black spot cards are useless to the player,IMO.

Some one snagged my idea for a new post about the game of BJ.
They want to do only Las Vegas posts too!
I'm not a sports guy but it was difficult to resist the superbowl hyperbole,lately.
OK,I'm the Seattle boy and I did NOT pick the Seattle team to win.
This is also NOT about sports,it's about video poker,anyway.

I saw the latest info on VP,just a while ago.
I'm gong to be downtown in...27 days and EYE want the best bang for my buck(S).
I'll go Alaska air.
I'll stay at MSS and The Fremont.
I'll play Pick E'm poker at The Fremont.
I'll go shooting at The Gun Store on the Second.Looking at a .40,maybe.(I'm little).
I'll watch my buddy shoot a MAH-DEUCE at an outdoor range,too.
I'll drink beer and play a LOT of video poker.(Mostly at MSS).
I'll play BJ and craps at The Downtown Grand.
I'll not do the brothels,this time.(But it was fun,last time).
I'll have fun,I promise.
I'll take pix,I promise.
I'll do the Slotzilla,maybe.

Oh hell,it will be boring.
'Vegas(Downtown) has not lost it's spark for me,yet.

HA HA HA! (SEE?).

Yes,I'm ONLY doing Las Vegas topics,here.
BJ,craps,VP,beer and boobies,freaks and FSE(freaks standing everywhere),buffets,late night eateries,left overs in the hotel refer for breakfast with coffee,then waking up and ask myself...
"Where in the hell am I?",4 days in a row.
"Where did all of these chips come from?"
"Why do I have a bra in my pocket?"(Where is the lady that fits this?")
"Who was buying shots,last night?"
"Why is there eyebrow make up on my forehead?"

Don't ask for roomkeeping,hang the "No Moleste" sign,please.
Don't talk to me for 2 hours.I'll be "Up and att'em around 3 PM.

Guns? Not today,Ralph.Gimme 2 aspirins and a beer.See ya later.

"Yeah,Room service,send up 3 Coronas no lime, and put it on my room tab, please .Yeah, this is Dave in room
1512".
With all of these chips in my pocket,I may as well go down stairs and see what's up.

Maybe I can meet some people that are fun to talk to/gamble with.
It's the people that I meet that are really the fun part,anyway.
Some tell jokes,some are ass holes and really angry,some are just happy to be there.
I'll be happy to be there.
Then, there are intelligent plays at the BJ tables.

OOPS! I won't sit at 3rd base,when I'm that messed up.
Watch the cards,dummy.
Pay attention and don't fall off of the stool,dummy.

"Yeah,I'm in this hotel,but I don't know my room number,I'll need help,here".
Yes,I have been there.
BIG security dudes have helped me to my room B-4.
Just one on my arm,one for back up.
"Is this your room?"
"Ah dunno,let's try the card(Burp)"
"Good night,Dave".

That was kinda fun.
Drunken white boy in a foreign country.
The bed was very comfy.
I didn't sleep,I passed out.
The room was already paid for.
What a country.






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Does anyone play roulette,anymore?
Seems to me that it's like a wheel of fortune @ 5.25% house edge.
https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/inforoul.cfm
Why would I play with $25 chips?
Sure,there are single zero ones,but not down town.
https://www.rouletteonline.net/las-vegas/
El Cortez does offer low limit double zero wheels @ .25 and 4 chips"inside" or outside.
I guess that if you are tired and want to sit down for a while and you think that you have some lucky numbers inside of your head,go for it.
Single zero at the Strat? Maybe.
Then,there is the "in prizon" rule on single zero wheels.
https://wizardofodds.com/games/roulette/basics/#toc-SingleZeroRules
I remember in Allen N. Wilson's book,he found a "biased" wheel and played it a LOT.
Great reading .https://www.amazon.com/Casino-Gamblers-Guide-Allan-Wilson/dp/0060146745
Written by a mathematics wizard,not a gambler. Copyright 1970.
One of the partitions was replaced and it was not a true game of chance,anymore.
I don't do much of that game because it's not a game of skill.

Most of my time is at the BJ tables or video poker,anyway.

I play craps because it's a hell of a lot of fun,if you get the table going on a good shooter's run!
You can yell and shout and curse the dice,if you like.
I have had some great runs at craps!
Ran out of money at an MMS table,got a $400 marker,paid that off and walked out with $1,300.
Never had that much "fun" at the black jack tables.


Roulette is even more boring than black jack.

The idea is to have some fun with those round things.

I'd never seen that article by Al Moe on the rouletteonline link before tonight, but I see some problems with it. I've never met Al in person, but we have corresponded online a few times and I own one of his books. In that link he states that European rules single zero tables are available at a number of Las Vegas casinos. A single zero does not make a table European. The table itself has a number of available bets that are not on any American single zero tables like neighbors bets, where you can bet sections of the wheel itself with one bet. En Prison, rule that drops the house odds in roulette to 1.35% on a European table, as far as I've ever seen in Las Vegas, is only played/allowed on an actual European table outlay.

I've only seen a true European roulette table in Las Vegas in 2 casinos. The first was at the MGM. The second was at the Paris. It was the exact same table at both casinos! The MGM didn't have that table on their floor for very long. The Paris opened with that table on their main casino floor, not in a high roller area, but it was somewhat of a high roller game in that it was 25$ minimum inside or outside weeknights (the table was not open during the day) and the minimums would start at $25 on Friday and Saturday nights, increasing to $100 later on in the night. The table didn't use conventional American casino roulette chips. It used European-style jetons and plaques with monetary valuations on them. Something that also made that table different from every other table I've ever played in Las Vegas was, the direction of the spin of the wheel, and the direction of the spin of the ball, changed every spin! No way for a seasoned croupier to put his or her signature on the wheel to influence the numbers hit. My avatar is a $1000 jeton from the Paris Las Vegas French roulette table. I had 4 of them at one time, after a pretty good session of play. The Paris had that table on their casino floor for a year, then it just disappeared. I was so bummed to see it go! I've been told the table is still somewhere in storage...I was also told (by a Paris roulette croupier) about a month after it was pulled from the floor that I could buy it for $10,000.

Dave, you don't need $25 chips to bet $25 inside. If you are betting numbers straight up or splits or corners or lines, 5 individual $5 bets meet that minimum. The outside bets, like even or odd, red or black, top or bottom half, low middle or top dozens, and columns require one $25 bet on a $25 minimum table. Roulette can be a lot of fun if you develop a pattern of your own favorite numbers and bets when your numbers are hitting. My cardinal rule is, if I lose three spins in a row, I walk away and play something else.

OK,it's been a LONG while since playing that game.
The placard says $25. Cool.$25 per spin!
5 nickels inside and I'm good to go.
I was wondering HOW you got that gold,round thing.
I have never heard if the word: JETONS,Bob.

Why would the Paris pull out a single zero wheel(European style)
when, if I was used to playing that game,that is where I would go!

I'll never forget my big win at The Plaza.In 2003.
I was getting tired and placed my remaining stack on 17-20 split and won over $400.
It took the dealer some time to calculate my winnings.
It was a messy stack...of 25 cent chips. About 100 of them.
25X17=$425.
I pulled the last bet and stumbled away,leaving just a nickel tip.
Gee,I think that was the last time I played that game.
I have always played the 17-20 split.
One split on green and 2 more numbers,straight up.
4-5 chips (jetons?) per spin.
The odds of 2 hits in a row on the same number?70:1,or so.
Been there,too.THAT creates some noise at the roulette table!
So have you,Bob.

Free flash player: https://wizardofodds.com/play/roulette/ Double zero.
On my second spin,I caught a green split. 4 chips,inside total.
Fifth spin:another green split."Cocktails!"
By the ninth spin,I broke even.
12 spins and I'm done.Take my money and run.

The jetons are made in France by Bourgogne et Grasset (B&G), a branch of Gaming Partners International. GPI also owns Paulson and Bud Jones. They make most of the casino chips currently used in the USA.

The $1,000 jeton has two lunettes, one clear and one tinted pink. The lunettes are kind of like little round windows in the jeton. B&G jetons are made using a complicated process. There are 19 layers of material in each jeton.

The European or French roulette table at the Paris only had one variety of the $1,000 jeton, the plain one in my avatar. They had two varieties of $500 jetons, one plain and one with three stripes. They also had two lunettes on each of them.


Their $100 jetons also had the same two varieties as the $500 jetons, while lower value jetons ($50, $20, $10 and $5) had an additional third variety that had 4 tabs equally spaced around the outer edges.

It could be that the Paris decided the number of staff needed to run the game wasn't worthwhile - there were two croupiers when there were only a couple players, three of them when the table was seeing heavy action (the croupiers placed your bets for you), and it had its own dedicated pit man, but I don't really know why the Paris pulled that table from the casino floor. If I would have known that was going to happen, I would have taken MANY more jetons home with me than I did...they sell for an average of 5 times face value to chip collectors these days...

JETONS.

Bob is the go- to guy for chips...
They are great-looking and i'm sure they are cool-lectable!

I still may sit my ass down at a double zero wheel.
Bob has his numbers and I have mine.
No way,will I chase numbers.
Just a way to pass the time.


$25 a spin? Yeah,I'll do that.
I don't speak French.

'Vegas is only 14 more days.
YUMMMM!

I did do some Roulette at The Fremont and I kicked some ass!
Bought in with $40 and cashed out with $220.
Cool.

Nice.