Historic downtown Las Vegas casino taking out all live dealer tables

I call BS. This is just a measure to try to cut payroll costs.

I definitely won't be going there on my next Vegas trip. I guess I'm old school but I like to see real dice being thrown.

 

I think it’s a measure to control the win / loss rate a little more. They can program those machines to do whatever they want.

 

I hate the automated tables. I purposely avoid casinos without live tables.

 

I personally avoid casinos because the house ALWAYS wins. You ever hear about those people that win a big jackpot and then the casino says it was a bug and they're not paying out? The house always wins even if they lose.

 

This is a two pronged problem:

1) Las Vegas has become absolutely predatory

MGM and Caesars now own 80% of the strip and both of them are levered up to their tits. They've got all that debt service to cover so triple zero roulette and 3 to 2 blackjack are the norm. The hotels even do surge pricing now. The bottle of water that was $10 when it's slow is $20 when it's busy.

2) Tipping culture is now insane

I stayed at Circa in July of 2024 with their "All In" special. You get a discounted room rate and $300 in food credit. I went to the Stadium Swim one night and had two margaritas and a bowl of fruit. It was $180. When I told the waitress I had a food comp. She brought me the ticket to sign. She applied the full $300 comp to the ticket and gave herself $120 tip without asking me. Nice.

I've come around to this position very slowly but the A.I./automation trend is actually a good one. The people it replaces are lazy and generally hostile for no reason. I talked to an AI leasing agent who answered a long list of my (very diverse) questions. It gave me an appointment to do a walk through and the lazy human leasing agent in the office didn't care enough to be there on time. When I spoke to her she was useless and couldn't answer basic questions.

I was negative on the driverless taxi Tesla until I had my car towed and had to use four Ubers last week. Not one of the four spoke a single word of English. Not a word. Two of them could barely drive.

I was chatting with Grok (the Artificial Intelligence on Twitter) and it discovered I had an interest in Genealogy. I traced my family back to 1690 but couldn't go further because I don't speak German. It cheekily suggested I test it's abilities. It checked German church, cemetery, baptismal records and such, and was able to trace it back two more generations to 1620.

It really is remarkable.