That’s especially prevalent on low-limit tables on the Las Vegas Strip. One of the changes has been the introduction of tables that pay only 6-5 on black-jacks. Table players know we’re in an era of tightening rules on blackjack, and table games have a higher house edge than they used to. Not all video versions of blackjack pay 3-2. Still, Seth, a regular reader who plays table blackjack and a little video poker, wrote recently to say he’d spotted a video blackjack game with full 3-2 paybacks on blackjacks. Video blackjack? It’s never really caught on, though that was the game practically everybody in the casino industry thought would make the big breakthrough when video games were coming to slot floors in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Video poker is next, and video keno has a smaller niche. The large majority of that play is on slots, of course. In the information they release to the public, casinos and regulators do not differentiate among slot machines and other electronic games such as video poker, video keno and video blackjack. The category isn’t “slot machines,” and that’s deliberate.
In most state gaming commission revenue reports, wagering totals and payouts are listed for electronic gaming devices. Editorial Staff | Posted on Octo| A look at video blackjack By John Grochowski
