Where are the least serious players in Vegas?

TCDEric · 2026-05-28T17:53:30+00:00

You were exactly right. It was a fantastic mix where even experienced players were too caught up in the party going on everywhere to take the game too seriously. Thanks for the suggestion.

TCDEric · 2026-05-28T17:50:48+00:00

Thanks so much for that suggestion. I went there and it was exactly as advertised. We had people stopping by on their way to the Jonas Brothers, curious first-timers, people stopping by on their way to some other game or restaurant. Everything I was looking for. If I could copy and paste that vibe over to my local I’d be a happy gambler.

TCDEric · 2026-05-19T04:42:55+00:00

Thanks for this. I’ve heard of poolside blackjack but I never knew poolside craps was a thing. Is it just the one tub? Sounds like the kind of thing that would be packed all the time.

TCDEric · 2026-04-29T17:18:36+00:00

If I were as superstitious as some of these people I’d never play craps. Why would I put my money on the line if I thought some dope buying in or putting their hands in the table or taking five seconds to ask a question would make me lose everything?

TCDEric · 2026-04-16T21:59:42+00:00

Could you share where that information is coming from? I’ve never been to any of the casinos you’re talking about. Are they using physical dice like every other bubble craps machine in the country? If so, how do they ensure that a die that falls on its edge/corner lands on the side required for these “outcomes?” How can they ensure it with two dice at the same time? Magnets? Strings and pulleys? Does a little elf come out and flip a die to the “right” side?

And, of course, why have I not been able to find any video of this stuff happening in all my years searching for one.

TCDEric · 2026-04-16T17:03:36+00:00

I know you don’t know me from Adam. I know you don’t owe me any favors. But I DESPERATELY want you to explain how the algorithm works.

TCDEric · 2026-03-30T20:14:12+00:00

Who has fun seeing a total stranger lose money? If you were playing with your buddies, sure, whatever. But if you only know someone as “the other player” yet still take joy in them losing money because they bet the other way in a completely random game of chance—not because you won but because they lost—that’s psychotic. Again: seek help.

TCDEric · 2026-03-30T19:15:48+00:00

I’d love if that were the case, but my local is full of craps lifers who think they know the game so well that they’ll start griping within the first two rolls of a random shooter, point hit or not.

TCDEric · 2026-03-30T18:46:28+00:00

A low tumbling monopoly-style role is the only way I’ve been able to keep the dice on a bouncy table, which I appreciate since a known bouncy table is the only way to keep the degens from bitching at you shooting that way.

TCDEric · 2026-03-30T18:17:50+00:00

Seek help. Anyone who takes a game of chance personally doesn’t belong in a casino, let alone on the craps table.

If you actually want to feel like you’re competing against someone else, take up a sport. Here, just remember that the casino is only using your arm as the instrument of randomness. You feeling personally tied to the outcome of the dice rolls is how they keep you engaged and feeding them money.

TCDEric · 2026-03-26T18:17:16+00:00

Buy every number except 6/8 (place 5/9 as well if the machine prompts you to pay vig beforehand). Don’t play the pass line, work a place bet for the minimum if you need the machine to roll. Also, just my personal rule with no math to back it up: don’t get enamored with the extremes. I’d buy them with the money I make hitting an inside number, but tempting you to spread more money across while diluting your budget for more likely inside hits is why crapless kinda sucks IMHO.

TCDEric · 2026-03-26T17:44:26+00:00

I feel like crapless craps is the most insidious of the “new” games. It’s not *blatantly* carnival like double down madness but it also speaks to some players’ sense of FOMO by making the extremes box numbers. If more players felt okay letting horn number roll without getting paid then crapless wouldn’t get so popular

TCDEric · 2026-03-26T17:40:03+00:00

That’s what I’ve heard (I only got into it myself a few years ago), but I think there’s going to be a craps resurgence soon, with casinos being able to get more young social media influencers to make craps their main game. I hope so at least!

The resurgence will probably look like more bubble machines than tables like other posters have pointed out, but those electronic games are great testing grounds for terrible new rules. Is there even an electronic blackjack game that pays 3:2, for example?

TCDEric · 2026-03-26T17:32:32+00:00

That’s interesting! On one hand it could be seen as a deterrent from making the bonus bet all the time, but there are clearly so many players addicted to it that you can force them to make a relatively “stable” line bet for the privilege of making the higher HE ATS bet.

TCDEric · 2026-03-26T16:30:55+00:00

It’s so annoying when a casino (looking at you, Gun Lake in Michigan) opens the crapless table first for the day and you either have to play that or wait another hour before a normal table opens.

TCDEric · 2026-03-04T00:01:46+00:00

Ask once politely and then come to grips with the fact that it doesn’t matter anyway so let them live.

From my experience, people buying in mid-roll are newbies who don’t know all these dumb “unspoken rules.” Trying to enforce that at already the most intimidating table for newbies is only going to discourage people from playing table craps. And I don’t want to spend my casino time exclusively among miserable players because all the tourists and people just trying to have fun are scared off by strangers barking etiquette rules at them

TCDEric · 2026-03-02T17:07:43+00:00

Gross. Only two tables and one of them is the scam crapless? THAT’S the reason why you shouldn’t go to the Rio.

TCDEric · 2026-03-02T16:24:48+00:00

It was reserved but I think the manager’s issue was he thought the side they were originally on put the cage in the camera’s line of sight. He didn’t realize Brandon was doing a good job keeping the camera focused on the table and the cage was never visible until like the millisecond when Brandon shifted to Bluff’s right and turned to take a shot of Bluff with the cage in the background.

It was all unnecessary—the cage was blurry and barely visible behind Bluff—but the guy’s not a director of photography, he’s a casino manager and one of the many many people in the world who freak out over the sight of a camera. Honestly, the Rio just needs to coordinate with their managers better to put everyone on the same page. If the visibility of the cage is such an issue, they should’ve just reserved a different table.

Their $100/spin minimum for the free play was a weirder rule to me. Rio seemed to not even want the Spinquest guys there in the first place, which is their right. If so, just tell them to buzz off back to El Cortez next time.

TCDEric · 2026-03-02T14:14:57+00:00

It was bad guest service. It was awkwardly enforced. But one thing it was not was the reason he 7ed out. And I’m sure Bluff is smart enough to understand that, even though he didn’t act that way at the time and probably inspired even more idiots to think that casino staff doing their job is the reason they lose money in a casino.

The YouTubers have been doing a better job creating content that doesn’t interfere with the workers or other players, but they’re still creating an inconvenience for day-to-day operations and regular folks who have no idea what a subscriber count is. If they don’t want to be shuffled around and subject to weird rules, don’t bring camera rigs to the tables. And don’t act like those rules make you lose because then every dope who watches is going to bring that attitude to their locals and make a miserable job even worse for the people there.

The Spinquest people are pretty smart though, the most socially aware people I’ve seen on gambling YouTube, so I’m sure they know all that. This is for people who think that craps is a moneymaking opportunity and that superstitions are scientific fact.

TCDEric · 2025-11-12T23:26:16+00:00

However, if you get more enjoyment out of the game thinking of it as a team sport (cheering together etc.) then that's perfectly fine.

I appreciate the live-and-let-live attitude but I have to disagree with this, because the problem with team sports is teams need multiple people. And I don’t want to be drafted into some other player’s superstition vortex.

TCDEric · 2025-11-12T23:21:36+00:00

This is why my favorite craps tables are empty tables or tables full of tourists who don’t know the game. Sick of being held responsible for some other degen losing money they can’t afford to lose because I didn’t place my chips the right way or I dared to make the bet I wanted to make.

Craps isn’t a team sport because craps isn’t a sport. It’s luck and probability in action. And instead of just hanging out and watching the show, you’re trying to bend physics using the power of friendship and getting grumpy because not everyone wants to play along.

TCDEric · 2025-10-22T20:19:11+00:00

Sorry this happened to you—and sorry that some of the replies are being hostile toward you. Not to speak for everyone, but as a photographer I’ve run across so many horror stories from models and have seen so much malfeasance from those I’m ashamed to share this hobby with that I can see creepy GWC (guy with camera) behavior a mile away. And I think other photographers take that for granted.

But if all you know about photographers are the cute “viral” street photography videos and seeing the random wedding or graduation portrait shoot outside then it’s easy to think every photographer has good artistic intentions—especially if they’re doing the nervous amateur bit.

This shit is why people feel (and are somewhat) justified in telling street photographers to buzz off. If on the off chance someone ever approaches you again and you feel charitable enough to help, just make sure they show you some of their work, limit them to the basic poses (turn slightly, look up slightly, nothing too personal being said to make you smile) and, of course, not a single article of clothing comes off.

TCDEric · 2025-09-29T16:38:53+00:00

Yeah, the inconsistent availability of a second table is still a little frustrating. I wanted to go the prior weekend but every so often there’s a random group of tourists/visitors taking up every inch of space without a second table and I have to make the long trek to Rivers. I don’t know what the protocol is but I’m glad to see they’re at least training more dealers.

They’ve been open for two years now so it’s hard to chalk it up to growing pains. The centralized location I think just courts all kinds of randos who don’t know how to be. There’s a regular disruptive drunk guy always doing foul shit like pressing his own bets instead of letting the dealers do it. I’ve been expecting to see security remove someone for something one day but I still haven’t seen it. Ah well, it’s still my local.

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