CBJN seems not to show which games are face up or face down, which is a significant element especially for occasional and/or novice counters. Is there a source for this information, especially for Vegas and in particular downtown?
CBJN seems not to show which games are face up or face down, which is a significant element especially for occasional and/or novice counters. Is there a source for this information, especially for Vegas and in particular downtown?
That does not matter. Different casinos may have different hurdles for players. If face up, they may be quick backing you off. If face down, they make it harder for you to get a seat. What would you do?
CBJN seems not to show which games are face up or face down, which is a significant element especially for occasional and/or novice counters. Is there a source for this information, especially for Vegas and in particular downtown?
It would be helpful if CBJN distinguished between face up and pitch for double deck.
CBJN has been brought up a couple of times here, but I haven’t had a copy of it for a long time. First of all, this website has been in a dormant condition for a very long time, so I’m concerned about the amount of information CBJN could receive. Secondly, I just don’t believe the conditions in CBJN are accurate. Just recently, somebody argued with me that there were more than one hundred 6-deck 4.5/6 Pen RSA shoe games in Las Vegas, but I’ve never seen one in America.
CBJN has been brought up a couple of times here, but I haven’t had a copy of it for a long time. First of all, this website has been in a dormant condition for a very long time, so I’m concerned about the amount of information CBJN could receive. Secondly, I just don’t believe the conditions in CBJN are accurate. Just recently, somebody argued with me that there were more than one hundred 6-deck 4.5/6 Pen RSA shoe games in Las Vegas, but I’ve never seen one in America.
The message boards on BJ21 are not very active anymore, but CBJN remains keenly active. CBJN operates entirely separate from the message boards. Most casinos in major markets are updated every month by paid reporters, just as has been done since 1979. In fact, last month we had the most reports filed of any month since I became Editor around 2005.
The six-deck game you refer to above is available in many Las Vegas casinos, but certainly not all of them. It is mostly offered at high limits.
I emailed you a pdf of the October 2025 CBJN so that you could see for yourself. If the email address we have on file for you is incorrect, please let me know at my email address as below, and we'll update it.
Al Rogers
CBJN Editor
al@bj21.com
Hi Editor Al,
I’ve received the pdf CBJN in my email. Thank you so much for sending this. I’ve looked into it and found it very updated to this month. I also found that this 6-deck RSA shoe game is available in high limits at Palms Las Vegas. I know the playing conditions of at least 100 casinos, so I’d contribute to this effort too. Also, I’d like to donate $19 to this website at an appropriate time soon.
Thank you again.
aceside
CBJN seems not to show which games are face up or face down, which is a significant element especially for occasional and/or novice counters. Is there a source for this information, especially for Vegas and in particular downtown?
Harrah’s So Cal has face up 2 deck tables. Hit soft 17 and has late surrender. Some others in the area Jamul, Viejas, Sycuan are face down hit soft 17. Jamul, Sycuan have late surrender. All $25 minimum, they all also have high limit rooms $50 to $100 minimums. Viejas has stand soft 17 but only in the high limit room, $50 table and a $100 table all face down. Barona may be face up I don’t remember I am not allowed on the property 😂. The blackjack hall of fame is at Barona, it’s not easy to find, it is in a small area in the back near the food court, there are exhibits, pictures, member bios and descriptions along 2 walls. Maybe it should be in Vegas?
These games are ok but not usually great places to play. There are a lot of losing players blaming others for their misfortunes. The usual I guess.
Phil
Why would a more than worthy hall of famer choose the scrutiny of pictorial access for management to see?
Perhaps just the insecurity of recognition.
I choose not for the accolades!
I've only been to Barona once, and that was probably 20 years ago. As I recall the HOF wall was in a corridor between the parking garage and the casino gaming floor. There were also displays of cheating devices.
Many of the pics are with disguises. I recall one having a childhood picture.
Child was John Chang.
Don
I've only been to Barona once, and that was probably 20 years ago. As I recall the HOF wall was in a corridor between the parking garage and the casino gaming floor. There were also displays of cheating devices.
Many of the pics are with disguises. I recall one having a childhood picture.
The Hall of fame is in a wide hall opposite the casino food court. At the end of the hall there is an escalator that goes down a level to some upscale restaurants. Many of the people who go there or work there do not know the hall of fame is there.
The problem with the current Blackjack Hall is that nobody can verify how much these accolades really made from playing blackjack. For example, quote
”Don Johnson, 2017, beat the Atlantic City casinos for over $15 million.”
Colin Jones claimed on YouTube that he had won millions of dollars from card counting blackjack.
The only accolade who posts on these forums is Don, but he probably hasn’t made a million dollars from playing blackjack.
, Any, small inferences of negativity associated even in the slightest to Don is DESPICABLE
