Review Detail
2.0 99
Reality Check
Overall rating
3.4
Slots
3.0
Table Games
4.0
Customer Service
4.0
Player's Club
3.0
Gaming Atmosphere
4.0
Amenities or Hotel
4.0
Food & Drink
2.0
Here's a reality check -- you do not have a constitutional right to a $5 blackjack game. Table limits are based on customer demand. If they can fill up tables with $25 and $50 limits, why in the world would they lower the limit to $5 to accommodate a couple low limit players? And why in the world would a casino want to fill up its available seats with $5 players, who can buy in for $100 and sit at the table for hours upon end without bringing any additional revenue to the casino, and take available seats away from valuable $25+ players, who have the potential to generate thousands of dollars of casino revenue? If people are willing to pay $25 for a widget, the widget maker doesn't lower the price to $5 just to accommodate "lower limit" people. Why would a casino be any different? Casinos don't operate under some socialist system separate from the real world.
If you are upset because you go to the casino and can't play $5 blackjack, you really need a reality check. You are probably the same kind of person who gets upset that they can't get a $20 dinner comp after you lost 50 bucks playing tables and slots. If you can't afford to play more than $5 blackjack, maybe you should just stick to your penny slots, or stay away altogether? Or, better yet, start your own casino, offer nothing but $5 blackjack and cater to all the "lower limit" people, and see how long until you are forced into bankruptcy. But trust me, the casino won't lose any sleep over losing you and your $5 betting friends.
If you are upset because you go to the casino and can't play $5 blackjack, you really need a reality check. You are probably the same kind of person who gets upset that they can't get a $20 dinner comp after you lost 50 bucks playing tables and slots. If you can't afford to play more than $5 blackjack, maybe you should just stick to your penny slots, or stay away altogether? Or, better yet, start your own casino, offer nothing but $5 blackjack and cater to all the "lower limit" people, and see how long until you are forced into bankruptcy. But trust me, the casino won't lose any sleep over losing you and your $5 betting friends.
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Ordering
July 24, 2010
Let me explain the real deal at CTRS. Just as they have been screwing slots players for the past 3 years or so, they will do the same to table games players. As a business they have the (blank check) policy in effect. They are operating on the basis that they are the only game in town. (MD, VA and DC area). This will work out extremely well for the time being, but what will happen when MD is in the game? Penn National knows this as they have teamed with MD jockey club to try and get slots at racetracks in MD, as opposed to a slots parlor at Arundel Mills, not run by Penn National. I'm sure in a few years, if Hollywood Casino still exists, you will have no problem finding 5 & 10 dollar tables!
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Charles Kelly
August 10, 2010
In reply to an earlier comment
In response to Reality: No one ever said that the casino had to lower all its tables to $5. They should open a few tables at lower limits to accommodate the lower income or casual players that would likely come from the local area. They can still have their higher stakes games and draw more customers to the casino. With a greater volume of low stakes players, the casino would generate twice the income than with strictly high stakes games. With the casino service offered at lower prices more customers will be attracted to visit and this will generate more revenue for the casino every year.
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TC
September 03, 2010
Reality check: Casino's aren't built on $50 min players, they're built on 25c slots.
Summer crowd 1 week after opening is fine, but check back in February, after the economy is even worse. It's a loser business model in addition to being a terrible buzz-kill for any DMV poker player or gamer.
Summer crowd 1 week after opening is fine, but check back in February, after the economy is even worse. It's a loser business model in addition to being a terrible buzz-kill for any DMV poker player or gamer.
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Danno
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