was there last month and all the "good" games are drying up. when harrahs bought my favorite bj place, binions, i knew it was the beginning of the end of good places to play with good rules. i'll be there in 2 weeks and will probably play more poker than bj becuase i've gotten tired of trying to find a table without a csm or 6:5 or some other bs..any advice of where to find a game??
Hmmmmmm.....
Harrahs no longer owns the Shoe and it sounds like you missed the good games?
Pill
P.S. Does DD, das, s17, rsa with 70% pen sound any good? Found this Downtown, just got back from a weeklong trip. After 40 hrs, was up about 3.2units/hr.
True, there are less good games in Vegas but there are still plenty of them. Trackjack, purchased at this sight will give you where they are and save you loads of frustration and shoe leather.
Good single and double deck games are still downtown, just no longer everywhere. Good shoes can be found on the strip but mainly the south strip and again not everywhere.
Some good DD games at some locals places and high limit rooms in several places.
Victoria
Reports of the death of BJ in Las Vegas have been greatly exaggerated.
There are over 100 casinos in Las Vegas offering live blackjack, far more then anywhere else in the world.
Harrah's no longer owns Binion's and conditions there have improved. Wynn Las Vegas just opened on the strip. DAS is more common on double deck games downtown.
There are plenty of playable games in Las Vegas if one is willing to seek them out.
"i've gotten tired of trying to find a table without a csm or 6:5 or some other bs..any advice of where to find a game??"
Only a blind man will not see his shoes.
wait, what was the Mark Twain paraphrase? the first sentence? I'm a big fan of the guy, I'd love to know about any short story he wrote about Blackjack or Vegas...
and I'm figuring it out in my head -- he had to be middle aged when Vegas was born. Hmm
> wait, what was the Mark Twain paraphrase?
> the first sentence? I'm a big fan of the
> guy, I'd love to know about any short story
> he wrote about Blackjack or Vegas...
> and I'm figuring it out in my head -- he had
> to be middle aged when Vegas was born. Hmm
Sorry to disappoint you, but I was taking liberties with Twain's famous response when a London newspaper, in a case of mistaken identity, printed his obituary: "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated."
To the best of my knowledge Twain never wrote anything about Las Vegas or blackjack, but as a Mississippi riverboat pilot he was no stranger to gambling, and had this to say about poker:
"There are few things that are so unpardonably neglected in our country as poker. The upper class knows very little about it. Now and then you find ambassadors who have sort of a general knowledge of the game, but the ignorance of the people is fearful. Why, I have known clergymen, good men, kind-hearted, liberal, sincere, and all that, who did not know the meaning of a "flush." It is enough to make one ashamed of one's species."
Also, he was apparently big on bluffing:
"It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and ply your hand for a hundred times what it worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to 'call', and you roll in the chips."
Finally, let's not forget:
"The lack of money is the root of all evil."
Las Vegas was all of 5 years old when Twain died in 1910 at the age of 74, so it's doubtful he would have written anything at all because there was simply nothing to write about. He did, however, live in Virginia City (not Carson City as some references mistakenly write) just outside Reno in the 1860's and that is when he became a writer and adopted the name Mark Twain. He had moved to NV because his brother had been appointed Secretary of Nevada territory and took a bunch of odd jobs before being offered an editorial position on the paper. The rest, as they say, is history!
Bettie
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