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Cheapo Games
$2 blackjack at a single deck game where the dealer hits on soft seventeen and you can only double on 10 or 11. They have a dollar craps game with 2x odds.
$3 single deck blackjack with double on ten or eleven only (Boo!), $3 craps with 3x4x5x odds, $3 Let It Ride and 3-card poker , 50-cent chips at roulette, with a $2 minimum bet. Pai Gow is $5. In the summers, those minimums may go up.
$3 single-deck blackjack games let you double on anything, but the dealers hit the soft 17. The three-card poker is $10. No, we didn't accidentally add a zero to that.
The minimums tend to be higher during the busy summer months, but the lowest we've seen are $1 blackjack with lots of single deck games, double on 10 or 11, dealer hits soft 17. Craps is usually $3 with 3x4x5x odds (but look for $1 on slow weeknights). Let It Ride as low as $5. Pai Gow is a princely $5. Roulette can go as low as 50-cent chips and two bone minimum.
Up to eight tables of $3 minimum blackjack are dealt from single decks where you can double on anything and the dealer hits soft 17. One craps table is usually open with $1 minimum and double odds. Roulette is 25-cent minimum for those who like giving the house a 5.26% advantage.
Some truly ancient slots where the reels are getting sort of yellow. Loads of the old dollar machines, especially. There are also plenty of the newer money-sucking devices. The video poker is excellent. Plenty of full-pay machines. Not all VP is full pay, but a lot are; just poke around.
Their specialty is pennies and nickels. They have loads and loads of them. There are some quarters and up for the high rollers, but the focus is definitely on the Lincolns and Jeffersons. The best news is the generous sampling of full-pay video poker machines. Lots of them all over the casino.
A lot of machines haphazardly strewn about the large casino.They are mostly the newer video slots with a few older reel types. There is a decent selection of VP, with some full pay.
Over 2000 machines in almost any denomination from pennies up. They have all the latest machines, including some you won't see elsewhere in Reno. The upstairs section is where low-rollers go to play. You do have to put up with weak air conditioning to play the second-floor pennies and nickels. There's some full-pay VP at the quarter and higher level scattered about the casino.
They have a ton of machines, including all the latest games. They're mostly nickels with a few coinless penny machines and lots of quarters. There is full-pay video poker for the person who looks closely.
$5 for blackjack (sometimes $3), craps can be a pleasant $2 with glorious 10x odds but that's gonna be higher sometimes. Roulette has had 50-cent chips and a $2 minimum. Pai Gow will set you back five bones apiece. Reno seems to be bucking the lousy 6:5 payback on single deck blackjack trend, and this place is happily no exception.
Five bucks and up at this upscale resort. Roulette has $1 chips. Machines go as low as pennies.
Most everything is $5 by day, but up to $10 on busy nights. You can bet dollars at roulette, $1 minimum inside, $5 outside (not outside the casino, outside of the straight up numbers). When it's busy, table games tend to creep up to $10 every single hand. Jeez! That's our whole stake for a weekend.
Most everything is a $5 minimum, but you can occasionally find craps for $3 with double odds. Roulette is usually a $4 minimum with $1 chips (but has been $0.50/$2). The blackjack is single deck allowing you to double on 10 and 11, and the dealer hits soft 17s. Baccarat is $10 min.
For blackjack we saw $3 tables for a single deck, double on anything and dealers hit soft 17 game. Craps is $5 at its lowest with 3x4x5x odds. Roulette can be as little as one dollar with a $4 minimum. 3-Card and 3-5-7 Poker, mini-bac and Pai Gow can be had for as little as $5 a hand.
This may be the best sports book ever. Sure, that sounds like hyperbole, but only because you haven't seen it. Man, it's so swank and comfortable and fantastic it almost makes our eyes water.
The race and sports book are separate rooms, but they are next to each other in the hotel's basement. Both are very plush and comfy, one of the best places in town to watch a game or race.
This room is completely non-smoking (probably to offset the fatty snacks available in the vending machines). The Video Stadium has cocktail waitresses come through, but no betting windows, so you could go here if all you want to do is watch.
Grand Sierra (Other Reno)
The sports book is plenty plush and a fun place to see a game. The walls feature a 350-foot mural and planes hang fromt he ceiling to honors the air races Reno hosts every year. It's cool to look at for about five minutes.
There's really not much to recommend this room over others in town, but it's a nice place to take a break from the hot-and-heavy table action elsewhere in the Cal-Neva.
These are all low-limit games, Texas Hold 'Em only. They have $3-$6 with a half-kill or $4-$8 with a full kill on weekends. Most of the time, though, it is No Limit at $1-$2 and that's what they open the room with every day.
Hold 'Em is usually $3-6, occasionally $4-8, both with a kill. They deal Omaha 8 if they can get the interest. And they have No Limit most of the time.
There are many Hold'em games here, from $2-$4 all the way up to $10-$20, as well as the typical No Limit game.
Hold 'Em for $3-$6, $4-$8 and even a $5-$10 game sometimes. On weekend evenings there is a low stakes No Limit game. We couldn't talk them into dealing our creation Dogs on the Table because they don't allow canines into the casino. Yeah, just wait until they start televising Dogs on the Table and this place will be all over it.
Hold 'em, and we don't mean your horses. We mean the card because all they deal is Hold 'em, in a $2-$6 spread and lots of cheap No Limit. On sunday's they have a Dealer's Choice game, so you might actually get to see Omaha or Stud. Heck, maybe even Razz.
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