Quasi-Strippers

On a recent trip to Vegas (Oct 09) I was staying at NYNY and wandered in here looking for $5 min tables. I ended up playing craps. Nearby there was a stage, just like at a strip club with a pole and everything. But of course, the dancers weren't stripping because it was in the middle of the casino. But still it made for a fun environment.

To add on to this I know what the poster is talking about. The tables around these dancers are for suckers, ie pays 6:5 for BJ when there's a table next to it facing away from the dancers that's paying 3:2.

Yeah, a lot of casinos have something similar these days. I am not familiar with the one at NYNY (anyone know the name?) There is also:

The "Party Pit" At Excalibur



The "Pleasure Pit" at Planet Hollywood



The "Pussy Cat Doll Pit" at Caesar's Palace



The "X Pit" at the Flamingo



I've also seen dancers on stages around slots at Rio (they also have the Show in the Sky and the Voodoo Lounge):



I'm sure I'm missing some.. when I have some more spare time maybe I'll start a thread about dancers and waitresses to catalog what's out there for educational purposes.

Am I missing any?

The Luxor has an equal opportunity pit - one female dancer and one male dancer.

Quote: MrPapagiorgio

I've also seen dancers on stages around slots at Rio.

Those dancers are actually the wait staff. Or they were when I was there about 8 years ago. That trip was not long after they started dancing. A dealer told me there was a MAJOR shakeup as the wait people that couldn't dance or didn't have the 'look' were encouraged to find employment elsewhere.

The Rio, at the time (maybe still) have a nightclub, I believe called 'Bikini' at one end of the casino floor. When it's open, there is a BJ pit outside it's door with smokin hot dealers in bikinis.

The hot view cost ya. $25 minimum paying 6:5!

I'd like to put in a good word for the Planet Hollywood for having the same blackjack rules in their Pleasure Pit as the rest of the casino, including 3-2 blackjack. The minimums I think are a bit higher, but that is forgivable. If anyone knows of any others, I'm all ears.

Also, outstanding photography work, MrPapagiorgio! Thank you. For more of his work, please see this South Point thread.

I read once that Rio had a game with no payout at all for blackjack, and they restricted doubling to 10's and 11's. People played it because the dealers were wearing bikinis poolside. I went to Hooters once and the tables with regular odds had girls dressed in long sleeve flannel underwear, whereas the high house edge games had the regular hooters girls.
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At least there is some kind of logic to this strategy. The player understands that he gets to look at pretty girls, and it will cost him a percentage point on his game. People pay a lot more than that to look at pretty girls. At least the casino is being up-front.
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But perhaps we are getting closer and closer to combining casinos and strip joints. I know that the Rio was hiring strippers to hang out at their topless pools, but they terminated the operation because of some prostitution going on at the pool. It's not particularly logical, because prostitutes work the regular pools, but Harrah's didn't want to take chances.