Last weekend I went to Phoenix with the wife to watch some baseball Spring Training games. We stayed at Harrah’s Ak-Chin. This is a tribal casino located in a suburb about 45 minutes south of the Phoenix airport. It has no live craps. But it does have one Bubble Craps machine. I don’t mind Bubble Craps as a substitute for real craps, primarily since I can then play the Don’t without feeling like a skunk at a picnic since no one can easily see your bets.
As I played the machine, after the come out I put $10 on the passline odds, then $12 each on the six and eight. I then tried to add $5 on the come box but was only able to place a single dollar. WTF? I then noticed signage on the machine I have never seen on any other machine. As you can see below, there are three sentences just below the craps layout: (1) “$35 Max bet per roll”; (2) “If total bet exceeds $35, off chips cannot be turned on”; and (3) “Bets exceeding $35 do not repeat after a win.”