What a bunch nonsense in the comments here. If casinos wants to pay people 6:5 or even money on $1 or $5 blackjack, I'm fine with that. How the hell else are they going to make money? For higher stakes players, especially $25 and up, the world is your oyster in Vegas. No competition? I can name 20 different pits in Vegas with a house edge game better or as good as every other blackjack table in the country except for about 10. That's right, there are about 10 tables -- a few in San Diego at Barona and a few in the South that offer better games than you'll find in Vegas. MGM properties offer double deck, S17, 3:2, DAS games everywhere -- that is a .19% house advantage. You can't beat that many places. 6D & 8D shoes are S17, Surrender, RSA, you name it. House advantage is .26%. Try finding that in Atlantic City! Ha. Atlantic City has zero competition, they all just conspire to set the same crap rules through the Gaming Commission.

Good games may be dead for low rollers, but for medium and high rollers Vegas has fantastic games, promos, etc.

When the high limit games at mom-and-pop Indian Casinos are better than Vegas, it will be the end of Las Vegas blackjack. But that day is still very far away, if it ever comes.

It is good to see some balanced commentary coming from Hollywood but this is over the top psycho-babble from a nutjob.

cheesiepeas, i'm sure they treat their employees great but why the hell should i gamble there when there are better games anywhere in Vegas except Harrahs properties?

Why should I play a No Surrender, Hit on Soft 17 blackjack game when I can go over to any MGM property and get a much better gamble for my $?

You want my business, give me good blackjack, good craps odds, and good VP. Otherwise I will take my business elsewhere, I don't care how friendly your employees are.

I have a friend that will be working in the BJ pits there. The games are going to be horrible. They aren't going after real gamblers, just tourists that are "afraid" of the Strip and gambling, IMO. They are mostly going to have shoes with bad rules -- Hit on Soft 17, No Surrender. Basically Harrah's properties rules. Hopefully they will be bankrupt like Harrah's in no time. Gamblers want good games, not being ripped off. Get rid of 6:5 Blackjack and Hitting on Soft 17 and maybe more people will play. Jeez for crap games like this I can go to Atlantic City or the nearest Indian Reservation.

Most tourists are dumb but the bottom line is the Vegas has no image anymore except sex. Sex is a fine image but you can get that anywhere. Now you can get gambling anywhere, too, and lots of Indian reservations have rules equal or better than 98% of tables in Vegas. Vegas either needs to ratchet up the sex some, or re-create the image of "good" table games, fair odds, etc. Getting rid of 6:5 and hitting Soft 17 would be a good start. Re-brand the whole Vegas casino experience as "real" gambling -- i.e., better odds, more games, etc. -- and they'd have a chance.

No reason to go to Vegas with 6:5 blackjack everywhere. Yes there are some great blackjack games in Vegas but they are few and far between, and usually $50 or more minimum bet. Many people cannot afford that, so why shouldn't they just go to the local Indian casino which generally offer much better blackjack at low stakes. Get rid of 6:5 forever and I guarantee you Vegas traffic will pick up. Gaming commission should outlaw it. It is a complete ripoff to the player -- casinos think players are idiots (and usually they are right, I guess). But anything that quintuples the house advantage of a long-established game like blackjack should not be allowed.