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Casino fined due to illegal blackjack play

 

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When a person is banned from playing at a casino, the casino..

must protect the player. Most casinos across the country have a list and if you are included for some reason by the casino or if you place yourself on the list, the casino must make sure that you do not gamble. The Revel Casino in New Jersey recently had to pay a large fine due to letting two men who were blocked from game play to play the game of blackjack.

The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement filed a complaint which stated that the casino allowed two men to play blackjack from July to August of last year even though the two men were on the banned gamblers list. The casino must now pay $27,500 due to the incident.

In total, the casino must now pay $37,500 in fines for four different charges for this month. The violations include the blackjack charges and failing to follow the rules for the table game drop boxes collection. The casino has yet to comment on the incurring fines.

The largest fine in the bunch is from the two men who were able to take part in the gaming without being flagged as on the banned list. The gamblers are named AD and PY in the case documents. PY was listed as being banned since 2005 and he was able to gamble due to a misspelling of his name on the banned list.

AD was put on the list by his person in 2006 and was given a cash advance last year for $5,000 and was able to play blackjack for three hours before he was found at the casino. It was not until a third cash advance attempt that the player was determined to be on the list and was excluded from game play but by then it was too late.

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Rule change at two casinos in Las Vegas for Blackjack

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An apparently tiny rule change at two casinos in Las Vegas will have pretty serious negative consequences for gamblers

USPoker.com An apparently tiny rule change at two casinos in Las Vegas will have pretty serious negative consequences for gamblersreported that the Las Vegas Sands company just changed its payout rules for blackjack at the Venetian and Palazzo casinos in a way that greatly hurts players’ chances of coming out ahead.

In blackjack, players receive two cards and then decide if they want to “hit” and get more cards, or “stand” and use the cards they already have. The goal is to get a higher score than the dealer, based on the values of the cards, without going over 21. Should you do this, you get a payout of 1-to-1; you win as much money as you bet.

A special situation happens when the first two cards dealt are a 10 and an ace (valued at 11), adding up to 21 right away, a situation called a natural blackjack. In this case, the standard payout, and the old rule at the Venetian and Palazzo, is 3-to-2. This means that if someone bets $10, they will win $15 when getting a blackjack.

Now, at blackjack tables at the Venetian and Palazzo, the payout for a blackjack has been reduced to 6-to-5, that $10 now just wins $12 instead of $15.

This seems like a small change, but it has a pretty serious effect on the game. Natural blackjacks are not completely uncommon; about 1 in 20 hands will come up with a natural 21. The rule change means that the casinos will be paying out quite a bit less money.

In terms of the industry, the rule change greatly increases the “house edge.” This is how casinos make their money. Games are set up to be slightly unfair to players in the long run, paying out a little bit less in total than what is taken in.

The house edge is usually expressed as a percentage. A house edge of 2% for a game means that, on average, for every $100 in bets made by players on that game, the house will pay out $98 to winners and keep $2.