Latest mailer from NYNY says "Come play th enew Slots and Shuffles game exclusively at NYNY Play Video Poker. Play black Jack. Or play both simultaneously. You can even play one while a friend plays the other. Either way, it;s twice the fun and double the chance to win"

I can not imagine what this is. Sounds like a VP machine imbedded in a BJ table.

Or, are they just talking about VP and Video BJ?

Anyone got a clue?

Kes

Sounds like a way to suck up your money quicker to me. :p

Kes, I checked it out, just for you. As accurate as the Cajuns reply was, it was the obvious answer and not that informative.

You were right on your first assumtion. It is VP embedded in a BJ table. As for details, it is a $10 min table, with 5 places for the players to sit. Each place has two BJ playing spots and one VP machine. In theory, a couple could sit at one place and each play a seperate spot on the BJ table, or one on the machine and one on the table. Just like your mailer said.

The machine itself was a multigame machine. It had several games on it including many kinds of VP as well as video keno.

In theory, you could have 10 people playing VP with 5 VP machines in play. In that light, Cajun was right that it sucks the money in quicker. When I visited, there were 5 people playing BJ alone, so the table was full with no VP action. In that light, the casino was actually losing money in that a full table only had 5 players.

The way I see it, it's a good way to play BJ and not be crowded, which is a rare situation in NYNY.

FWIW, the table only paid 3/2 for a blackjack, and used a big shoe.

Thanks, JMT - it was really nice of you to go and deal with NYNY's parking garage to check this out.

I almost wrote about a VP machine in a blackjack table as a joke.

I really am shocked.

Why should I be shocked about something in Vegas?
Everything else is changing about black jack.

I can see where this might be attractive if you have a "mixed marriage" - one person plays BJ the other only machines. I guess they could still sit together.

And Cajun, I agree. Whenever something says "double the chance to win" I always read that as "double the chance to lose, too"

Thanks again, Joe

Kes