No more craps etiquette at Caesars Palace

Gee, roadtrip, does it have to be written down to be the right thing to do?

If you don't want to wait, go ahead and do what you want -- throw your money on the table, take your time placing your bets, change your bets a few times, ask the dealers questions, say striaght out "what happens if the shooter throws a 7". No one will arrest you.

In fact, "don't players" love to join craps tables mid roll. There was a gal at Caesars who for years would join the table the same way: from six feet away she would throw a green chip on the table and yell out "don't come."

This new policy may mean exactly that. What are you going to do when the dealer points to you and says "put your money down, sir" and you say "I'm waiting for a point" and he says "go wait over there, we've got players who want to get into this game now"...and what if that becomes the way they all do it?

It probably is written down via instructions to the pit supervisors and dealers to get new players into the game as quickly as possible.

YOU, and many many others, may not like the new rules. But those are now the rules.

If you, or anyone else, do not like the "new" Caesar's rules, than speak with management and than vote with you feet by taking your action elsewhere.

Of course, you won't do that. Much easier to just bitch and moan about something you have no control over, and to keep this "conversation" going ad-nauseum, as is your usual obtuse methodology.

JMHO, of course.

Good point.

Roadtrip I have a surprise for you: there is no written regulation in the NGC rules that say the dicemust hit the back wall. Now, what are you gping to do about it boss?

It's posts like this that tells others you really aren't much of an authority on craps, or about casinos for that matter. I'll bet you tell your mother, your wife, and your daughter and her friends that you are a casino expert. Then they go out and laugh behind your back.

Good arguments and discussion made by all of the long time crap players that frequent this particular message board...... Everyone has their own opinion on the subject and that makes for a robust and lively debate.

I have a semi-solution to the, "When to buy in" conundrm that my deceased father used to follow during his many trips to Vegas yeaers ago. He was a hard core gambler ( much more so than me) and he would hang at the dice tables for extremly long stretches of time "waiting for the big roll"

He would always tell me to carry some extra playing chips in your pocket... This way he explained, as you wander around the casino you will be ready if any certain crap game looks like it is hot...or, about to get hot.

No need to pull out cash to buy in at a moments notice, to this suddenly to-be hot table......or......back in those old days, have to wait long periods of time to get a "marker" when things were really busy in the casino. Just pull your chips out and make a polite come bet to get started and nobody gets upset.

So by doing this, you make little commotion as a new player and all participants are happy.

Excellent advice Off Kilter. And it doesn't have to be just a come bet. You can place any chips on the layout and ask the dealers to place them accordingly without interrupting the flow of the game.

Edited to add:

Just to add to your thought, Off Kilter: I've seen players come up to a full table that was in the midst of a hot roll and give chips to players already in position and ask them to add their chips to their existing bets. I was at a table at Caesars when five numbers on the fire bet were made and a player came up -- who handed a single green chip to another player -- and asked to bet it on the next come out.

I am by no means an authority on craps. I have only played a few times, but I think a discussion on etiquette was worthwhile and I learned something. Isn't this a good discussion for the LVA!

Many people don't care about etiquette any more and it tells me a great deal about their character. Now that I know, I will wait until a point is made before cashing in and placing a bet......better yet, I will play an casinos with box men.

jphelan you just raised a new point and an excellent one when he said "cashing in." I am pretty sure you meant "buying in" but "cashing in" or "cashing out" does go on and that's another problem. There are players who will color up and cash out "mid roll." that is as bad (and maybe even worse) than buying in during the roll.

and when there is a color up and cash out the table does stop cold at Caesars because it takes two dealers to verify the count plus the floor man to verify.

and yes, it happens. Heaven knows why players will bail during a hot roll but they do.