The reason Nevada casinos are turning to a 6/5 blackjack payoff

packer2012 · Jan 2, 2004

Boys, say whatever you want but....

A few things are CRYSTAL CLEAR...

Hold on BJ is FAR FAR in excess of 12%. Whatever floorperson said that was just repeating false bullshit put out by the "suits".
Pure and simple GREED! No other reason to go to 6/5.

Not only is it disrespectful to the players. What they are also trying to do is flush as many of the empoyees as possible.

Any sort of "Casino Control Commission" is a piss poor joke. This is just a cover for the fact that the whole town does what it damn well pleases to seperate EVERYBODY from ALL their money! The commision just makes sure the scam is carried out uniformly all over the state.

This being said there is nothing in Vegas nearly as crooked and harmful to the public as the good ole lotteries around the country.
Turd politicians who claim to be looking out for Joe and Josephine Public promote this con and even advertise it on TV.

Worst odds and most easily available of ANY form of gambling. Highest form of hypocrisy know to man. Politians and friends and family who work for the thing get rich and the public gets screwed. Now that I think of it, that is sort of the goal of all politicians.

Even a 6/5 BJ table is like owning a blue chip stock compared to lottery tickets.

How damn stupid is the public... really?

RobFunk · Jan 2, 2004

".......To further confuse the casinos and to push profits even higher, Lewis and his buddies mastered practical techniques that expanded on card-counting theory, with almost magical results. Two of the tricks that became a staple of the MIT system, shuffle tracking and ace tracking, exploit a concept called the nonrandom shuffle. Because of time constraints, blackjack dealers cannot achieve completely random redistributions during the shuffle. This means that certain packets of cards remain close enough together to be "tracked" through the deck. By watching a group of low cards, for example, it's possible to cut the deck (players assist the dealer by placing the cut card into the shuffled stack) in such a way that some low cards never have to be played. Likewise, a good shuffle tracker can "predict" a string of high cards and raise his bet even before the count goes positive........"

gambling is simple math and common sense as well as discipline, right guys?! think again. . .

url4sale · Jan 3, 2004

Only 6/5 I have seen in Vegas is the game they call FUN 21, and it's single deck. I haven't seen a 6/5 game that was actually called black jack.

Sure Fun 21 is the same game with a different name, this allows them to give the 6/5 odds.

There was a big ballyhoo over this a few months back and the state gave the green light to the lower odds, simply because the game wasn't called blackjack.

Any time they can lure suckers into playing they will. People think it is easy beating the house on single deck.

Well with the cards dealt face down, the whole deck not played, and the 6/5, you can forget it.

Sure you can win, but you can't build a hot run, because the most hands you're going to see is 5, and that is if you're playing by youself. It gets lower the more people at the table, they have a set amount of hands they deal per deck.

Now isn't that just real ballsy on their end.

Suits win, it's all about corporate america and the shareholders now.