Park MGM was a little busier than most of the other casinos that I visited this morning. You can read more about our road trip to 58 casinos in that part of the country here. On our road trip, I found these machines at Greektown in Detroit and Golden Nugget in Atlantic City. I could not find a slot attendant to ask, but another player reported they also could not find these machines. The old Bally’s Gamemaker machines with quarter Let it Ride are gone. One is that the usual $25 3:2 game that opens later in the day than I was there now has re-split aces and surrender like most other 3:2 MGM games. I made two discoveries while at New York-New York. The only two table game options were $10 6:5 blackjack and 000 roulette. New York-New York was so slow that it did not even have a craps table open. Craps and roulette, both 00 and 000, were $25. MGM Grand was the first casino on the walking tour that had 3:2 blackjack open. I was not doing table counts that day, so it is possible that happened previously. The first thing that I noticed at MGM Grand was that the pit closest to the poker room seemed gone.

There was $10 craps, 00 roulette and 6:5 blackjack. Tropicana had the same table games open as the three MGM properties that I visited. That is a good thing, because all of the escalators around Tropicana were broken. It is close to 10am now, but there is still little activity on the Strip. The $25 3:2 blackjack tables are still there in the back blackjack pit, but they were not open.

There was a $10 Three Card Poker table open, as well as $15 6:5 blackjack and double-zero roulette. There were only five table games open in the pits. That was the theme this early weekday, but would change as the day progressed. It looked more like last summer than this one. Mandalay Bay was nearly deserted at this early hour.

Minimum bets are often higher during busier hours. This is when we gather the information for comparison purposes. These limits are likely the lowest available on the Strip as the walk was on a weekday morning and afternoon. Many craps and roulette tables were $10 during my walking tour of the Las Vegas Strip. Some Caesars casinos now offer $5 poker pit games that require additional raises, including Ultimate Texas Hold’em, High Card Flush, and Three Card Poker. I found limits that were mostly lower when compared to the Las Vegas blackjack and table-game surveys we published during the pandemic restriction era. The tram running between there and Excalibur was closed, so this was a great starting point to prevent needing to walk that route twice. Kristina dropped me off at Mandalay Bay around 9am. On Thursday June 3, I decided to walk the Las Vegas Strip as far north as I could.

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