I was thinking about staying at Suncoast while taking in some of the NCAA March Madness. Of course, I would like to play some 21, and I cannot resist the temptation to roll da bones. Is this a plcae to play, stay, or just stay away??
Regards,
21 Fan
"Of course, I would like to play some 21 ..."
The Suncoast, like all Coast properties, is a blackjack wasteland.
Very poor games, and an excessively sweaty pit, which is hard to understand given their terrible games.
Don't waste your time with this place. Take whatever comps you can get -- the facility is nice -- but take your play elsewhere.
I wouldn't call it extremely sweaty, at least not in the same sense as Barbary Coast or Orleans. They really do try to distract you - they ask lots of questions, and generally make it as hard as possible for you to focus if you are counting, but it wasn't completely obnoxious like the Barbary or Orleans can be. And they were much busier than either of those two older properties.
The pen is lousy (like LVBear says) so one must be very aggressive with early bet raises at low plus-counts. If you insist on playing BJ there, be ready with lots of money to weather the fluctuations, and lots of conversation to deal with while you are playing.
Note to casino folks from there: I stayed and played lots of craps, only because your dealers and staff were pretty friendly, overall.
Did I lose? Probably did, can't recall offhand.
I was told that that the waitstaff at suncoast are outstanding. Better than any of the other Coast properties. All the coast properties are sweat shops. If you plan to spread 1-8 at any of these locations, be prepared for heat. They cater to locals who simply don't do that sort of thing, I'll do it because I enjoy the hunt and I'm still a fairly intimitating soul.
where you throw bones. As long as the drinks keep comming. Dice are dice.
if you want to gamble---go downtown---shoe, el cortez and LVclub. At midnidnight, stop by the California for a $4 8oz New York Steak and go home and go to bed.
Just tell them " &^%$ off, i'm trying to count the cards!"
Dice are dice, but so are rules, and the rules are different at different joints. For example, the ODDS bet. The Odds bet itself has no house edge, just the pass or dp bet. For this reason, higher odds lowers the house edge on the line. This is why most Strip casinos only have 3x 4x and 5x odds. Many places offer 10x, and the word I hear is that Casino Royale offers 100x odds with just a $1 line. So I would say that this would be the better table. Also, if the liberal rules bring about a full table, the per-hour -EV is lower as a result of the slower action.
Personally, I look for a table that is full of weary don't bettors. I try to spot the chickens who want to pick up their DP bets after a point is established. You can gain an edge doing this. The house only has the advantage on the comeout roll on Don't bets. No matter what the point is, there are always more ways of making a 7. Knowing this, I try to buy people's don't bets off of them if they are going to chicken out after the point.
