Okay jbjb what's your idea about why the Firebet was removed from this one table?
Okay jbjb what's your idea about why the Firebet was removed from this one table?
Honestly, no clue. Makes no sense to me for sure. I'd still take anything a dealer or pit supervisor tells me with a grain of salt. But if what they said was true, I seriously would expect them to remove it from all tables.
I think what they said makes perfect sense: too many big payouts on a low revenue table. When i was there most of the players had a $5 pass bet with no odds. I saw three shooters have 15-20 minute rolls with less than $20 on the table. That won't subsidize a Firebet.
It's very possible. I'm not saying it'll never happen. Like I said, even some casino managers are superstitious. I've seen crappy double deck blackjack games get removed because of short term positive variance on the players side. And I'm talking about civilians, not card counters or other forms of blackjack AP.
At Rincon a few years ago the $100 video poker machines were removed because too many royals had been hit. They were all negative expectation games but the Tribe was tired of issuing $400,000 checks. I had dinner with Rincon's top gun and he said the Tribe didn't care about short term variance they just wanted those games outta there.
That's different, because they can "control" that (give that money away to people who they KNOW will give it right back.
The $100 royals came off of PURE LUCK, and therefore cannot be guaranteed that the player will play again, so that $400k CAN walk out the door.
Casinos are very short-sighted, often times.
Sure they don't care if you hit a WAP, because they're not the ones who has to pay them (Megabucks, ShuffleMaster, etc)
But hit a super lucky "standard" hit (ie: $100 VP RoyalFlush) and the casino manager/higher-ups will shit their pants and react in panic!
For example, I was pretty frequent at JANugget in Reno; so I was friends with a lot of the employees, including the senior casino manager...he told me that once, a non-player came in, and hit a super-lucky DEALT royal on $1 10-play (highest amount royal you could win in this casino; $40k) and the Ascuagas FLIPPED OUT and wanted any video poker that would allow for higher than a $8000 royal removed! He tried to calm them down as much as he could.. But they still ended up removing a LOT of $5 denom single-line, and all their $1/$2 multiplay...
The Ascuagas sold it finally, and they now have the FireBet, but it's the crappy payoff one (starts paying at 3 points, and I think only pays 200:1 on all 6)
Large casinos like Caesars are willing to take chances on high variance games, provided the math shows that it's +EV for them in the long run.
Small operations like the Rincon are much more risk-averse, as the odd big jackpot from a non-regular can really hurt their bottom line, and they often have a hard time waiting for the "long run", fearing that a few lucky high rollers can really cause them fits.
Check out my poker forum, and weekly internet radio show at http://pokerfraudalert.com
Just getting back to the topic: why was the Firebet REMOVED when the Forum craps game was reduced to $5 minimum bet?
There are currently 2 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 2 guests)