Blackjack Switch is fading???

Fitzgerarlds took it out yesterday and replaced it with a 3 card poker table.

Quote: NicksGamingStuff

Fitzgerarlds took it out yesterday and replaced it with a 3 card poker table.

Disappointing but it doesn't surprise me - there is a new manager there and he doesn't like the game.

Switch is by far my favorite variation of Blackjack. I hope the game survives.

It's probably been about 6-8 months, but Hollywood Casino in Lawrenceburg, IN got rid of the two tables they had to make room for Mississippi Stud and adding the progressive on all the poker-based games. This leaves Rising Sun as the only casino in the Southern IN market to offer the game. They do try to keep it open as much as possible, but it's in their secondary pit, and it is Rising Star, so who knows what the future is?

Quote: boymimbo

Switch is by far my favorite variation of Blackjack. I hope the game survives.

Seconded :-) Thanks boymimbo.

There are still 100+ tables in the US so hopefully it will last a while longer.

Quote: Switch

Disappointing but it doesn't surprise me - there is a new manager there and he doesn't like the game.

I wonder what the reasons were (for the disliking) - bad numbers? It's a great innovation.

Quote: RoyalBJ

I wonder what the reasons were (for the disliking) - bad numbers? It's a great innovation.

James Grosjean says all these new game variations
are the Achilles Heel of the casino. Many of them
are very beatable for an AP. But its not like it was
with Thorp and his big mouth, announcing to the
world how to beat BJ. If a game can be beaten now,
its kept a secret so the maximum amount can be
gotten from it. Grosjean claims to be the one that took
down Baccalette and buried it. He says "Baccalette
was so obviously beatable that if we didn't kill it,
somebody else would have."

Quote: RoyalBJ

I wonder what the reasons were (for the disliking) - bad numbers? It's a great innovation.

Good guess - a high roller, at a previous casino where the manager worked, had 2 or 3 big wins on the game and so the hold % took a nosedive.

Quote: EvenBob

Grosjean claims to be the one that took
down Baccalette and buried it. He says "Baccalette
was so obviously beatable that if we didn't kill it,
somebody else would have."

Baccalette? U meant "Baccarat" in USA? It's the most profitable game that saved Las Vegas in the past 2-4 years, thanks to the Chinese players. May be you did not mean Baccarat.

Quote: RoyalBJ

Baccalette? U meant "Baccarat" in USA? It's the most profitable game that saved Las Vegas in the past 2-4 years, thanks to the Chinese players. May be you did not mean Baccarat.

Baccalette is more like roulette, but with cards. Actually, it's not that different at all from the card-based roulette at some casinos in CA. I think the name is baccarat + roulette = baccalette.