Thumbs Down Bristol VA Craps

I was shocked. Recently visited 'Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Bristol' [Bristol Virginia] midweek and they had no Craps game going at a Craps table, day or night, for our two night stay. They advertise that they have Craps, so this means an average of, well, I don't know how many people arrive each day after possibly traveling a good distance to find out it’s “bubble Craps” time! The fact that they at least had that availale keeps me from claiming it’s false advertising … but it is not keeping me from titling this thread the way I did.

Oh, I guess they would want me to mention that they had a table of Crapless Craps going. Unfortunately for them, this just continues my rant. I find it completely unacceptable to have a waiting traditional table closed down while expecting Craps players to go over to the table where the house edge on the pass line is increased by something like fourfold. That I view as

A COMPLETE SCANDAL!!

East coast Craps players, you have been warned.

Shocking, but not surprising. Casinos just can't get enough of those miserable little Interblock terminals. It's everywhere too- in the past year at least 3 casinos in Vegas have dumped all live table games and replaced them with those, while still advertising "table games."

A dealer who was not really comfortable about talking about it said since Crapless is not a public domain game, but a licensed game, that this was a big factor in such decisions.

I think it is the house edge.

It's really a 'Just Say No' situation here

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...I think it is the house edge...

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Even deeper than that. Corporate psychology. Whoever made the decision to order those games put his reputation for good judgment on the line. He also probably got a little envelope from a salesman.

And there's a thing that happens in general human psychology when you underestimate someone and they prove you wrong. Casino executives think the players are stupid. Sometimes they're right, to some degree. But when people realize the house edge on Crapless is much higher and avoid playing it, that means they're not so stupid. And if you made a decision based on thinking someone was stupid and they prove you wrong, what does that make you? That hurts, and people avoid pain. That somebody would rather hurt his employer's bottom line than see all the players avoiding the games that were his idea and just playing regular craps, not so surprising, right?