Question of the Day - 31 May 2026

I love what that douchebag said. Gee, the big bad Strip casinos are taking advantage of their guests with those awful 6 to 5 games. We have some 6 to 5 games.

"We only screw over our customers a little" should be the go-to casino byword.

6/5 has SLOWLY but steadily moved into my local casino in Washington as has dealer hitting soft 17s at the lower limit tables, unlike when it opened 9 years ago.

The lowlifes who decided to put the awful 6-5 games on the Strip are the definition of "The Gouge". And that Station person is a douchebag.

At the two main casinos that I know of in the San Francisco area, one (Cache Creek) not only had all of its tables at 3-2, but advertised this; the other (Graton) tended to have 6-5 for single and double deck games, but 3-2 for shoe-dealt. That's pretty much how it started on the Strip; the first 6-5 game I noticed was a single deck game at NYNY.

The obvious takeaway from this is, it was installed as a protection against counters - or, more accurately, people who saw things like "21" and thought that they knew how to count.

Not really. Counters obviously avoid 6:5, but it's theoretically possible to beat such a game by counting. What the casinos do to stop counters (other than surveilling and simply throwing them out when detected) is to create unprofitable/unfavorable conditions. For instance, a six-deck show with the cut card at the halfway point is unplayable. Of course, a CSM is hopeless for counters as well. A casino could also have such bad rules (hit soft 17, no double after splits, no resplit aces, anyone who wins three hands in a row is killed on the spot, etc.) that even though the game may be theoretically beatable, counters will look elsewhere for better rules--and the turistas will be oblivious to the difference.

6:5 wasn't invented to stop counters; surveillance that was more sophisticated, plus the aforementioned bad rules, had pretty much already stopped them at that point. 6:5 was invented to screw recreational players. They actually never expected those players to simply not care.

The Seminoles make up to 5 billion a year in revenue a year here in FL.  I guess that wasn't enough, so 6-5 BJ is standard unless you are willing to play $ 25 or more a hand.  Actually on holidays or weekends the only open tables will be  $50 or more!  I think the public just doesn't understand--6 is a bigger number than 3 so it must be a better game!  How else can the Seminoles continue to increase their bottom line?

Maybe they figure if they don't have enough toes on one foot to count that high;then it must be a better game.

I KNOW 6:5 lowers my chances by a few %.  I hate giving the casino any additional edge;  but $25 a hand to play 3:2 necessitates a bigger bankroll than I'm comfortable gambling with each session.....so....I look elsewhere.....unless I'm with a group....everybody's doing it.....and I find myself playing a little 6:5....   If we all say NO MAS maybe it would make a difference, but especially in places like the Vegas Strip, with so much rookie action flowing through regularly blissfully unaware they are getting gutted....it's the complete new normal.  And that sucks.   Kudos to the off-strip and downtown casinos "holding the line" on lower limit  3:2.  We love you for it and walk/travel off strip to play at your welcoming establishments instead of giving these big corporate gluttons our BJ money!