My local Casino, Gulfstream Park Casino has removed ALL Blackjack Games. They replaced the Blackjack Machines with more Slot Machines.
In Florida there was the lawsuit a few years back that the Seminole's won, essentially that "Ante/poker-style" table games at the racinos and card rooms violated the Seminole's gaming pact. As part of the settlement, the racinos and card rooms were forced to remove these games. It's taken a while, but now it seems to have come to pass.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/loc...159823589.html
The Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation must also enforce a rule that prevents competing casinos and card rooms from operating blackjack and slot machines that mimic the banked card games the tribe is entitled to operate exclusively in Florida.
I was the expert for the State of Florida in this case -- it all came down to (if you can believe it) whether Chemin de Fer was ever offered in the U.S. At the time the compact was written, the only reference book on the topic was "Scarne on Cards", and folks who didn't know any better just copy and pasted Scarne's language, which mentioned Chemin de Fer, a player banked version of baccarat, as excluded. The judge based his ruling on that language. After the fact, we found the intern for Senator Inouye who did the copy/paste, and she was ready to testify that no one knew what it meant. But, too late.
Last edited by Eliot; 11-13-2020 at 04:53 PM.
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Interesting. But we have had one tribal casino here that originally was "no ante" all the time and had good BJ games for quite some time. Then rules got worse; added H17 when used to be S17; started adding antes to games on weekdays. Started decreasing penetration. Dealers started leaving; play reduced. It became a bad place to play. Then after they reopened after Covid hit, they removed all their table games and added more slot machines. Real loss and stupid to me. But like Don has said, never underestimate the stupidity of casino management. If they had the games they started with, there would be players who play.
"Women and cats will do as they please, and Men and dogs should just relax and get used to the idea" --- Robert A. Heinlein
First, I suspect many Vegas casino managers are UNLV educted. You are overestimating them.Originally Posted by ZeeBabar
Next, performance by the Zivly (sic) League educated and Nobel Prize winners are not guarantees for success. Remember LTCM?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-T...tal_Management
And then there's Gary Loveman, exCEO of Caesars, with MIT and Harvard to his credentials. He left before Caesars' bankruptcy, but certainly contributed to it.
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