Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
Now, regarding using Bubble Craps to run up status points at a fixed or mostly-fixed cost, is this a viable substitute for the relatively high variance VP?

I'm guessing no.

This is because Bubble Craps is far slower than VP, so it's probably much slower to accumulate tier credits.

Take a $2/credit VP game, played at max credits. That's $10 per hand. The average experienced VP player can play 500 hands per hour. At $10 coin-in per tier credit at a Caesars property, you're earning 500 tiers per hour in that game, and you can reach the 2500 tier mark after 5 hours of play, which then gets you 5000 bonus tiers. This would allow you to make Diamond after 2 days of play, of 5 hours each.

Now take Bubble Craps. If it's rating like a VP machine, it will also be $10 per tier credit. But I imagine you probably can't get off more than 100 hands per hour. (I'm just guessing here, never having played it.) So that would require $50 bets if you can manage 100 per hour, to accomplish the same thing. And if you can't even get 100 hands per hour, you need to bet higher than that. What are the limits of Bubble Craps?
Table limits vary widely. Also there a per bet limits and a total table limit. At a burn joint you could bet say $195 on the pass and $195 on the don't and perhaps some other side bets which in aggregate can't exceed $500. OTOH, go to a fancy property and you might be able to bet a grand on each side and this would make up for the slower action on bubble craps versus VP.