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Trip Report - Biloxi
Posted by Robbie on 14 December 1999, at 3:19 p.m.
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I visited Biloxi, Mississippi on the Gulf Coast. It has several Casinos |
within walking distance. I stayed at the Grand Casino which is the nicest |
casino except for the Beau Rivage. |
The Beau Rivage is 1.5 miles west of the Grand Casino on Highway 90 and are |
within walking distance from each other for some of you exercise buffs. Next |
to the Grand is Casino Magic, which is next to the Isle of Capri. Treasure |
Bay is further west of the Beau Rivage and the President is the furthest |
west, several miles form the Grand. The Imperial Palace is on a road inland |
from Highway 90 a few miles away and is difficult to get to except by |
automobile. |
The Grand Casino had about 20 open Blackjack tables on a Thursday evening, |
all were $5 tables until 10PM when they opened one $10 table. The table |
limits are $5 & $10 to $2500 and $25, $50 & $100 to $10,000. There were |
several Double Deck hand held pitch games of $25 in the high stakes area. |
The cutoffs were 1.75 to 2 decks at the low stakes tables which all had 7 |
player positions. All tables had automatic shuffle machines which all worked |
perfectly. There is no surrender. One table had a continuous shuffling |
machine where the discards are put back into the shuffler after 3/4 of a deck |
was accumulated in a one deck discard rack. Don't be fooled into thinking |
that it is a single deck game with a shuffle machine. |
You can get excellent comps from the floor people if you know how to ask. |
They will even give advance comps to a restaurant without even having played. |
The Poker room with 21 tables is supposed to be the largest in the South and |
was usually full. Nineteen tables were being used on a Friday night. One |
table is put aside for use by the dealers on break. |
The Grand Casino has a pedestrian crosswalk connecting the Bayview Hotel to |
the Grand Casino Biloxi Hotel which are separated by Highway 90. |
THE BEAU RIVAGE |
The Beau Rivage is opulent like the Bellagio in Las Vegas. The entry from |
the garage is similar to the Bellagio where the entry from each garage level |
goes by several shops before coming to the atrium, which has many magnolia |
trees and flowers. From there the entrance to the casino has two rows of |
about 20 Blackjack tables. At the end of these rows of tables more tables |
break off to the right and left to form a T for the table games. There is |
one Cashiers desk to the back right of this area . There are other Blackjack |
tables throughout but were not being used. |
I estimate that there are between 50 & 60 Blackjack tables of which there |
were 20 open on a weekday. |
The table limits I observed were $5, $10 & $25 to $5000. Most open tables |
were $5 tables. There were no rules displayed at any of the tables, so you |
had to know enough to ask for the surrender option. They also allow |
resplitting of Aces. The Beau Rivage has six player positions unlike the |
Grand which has seven. All were 6 decks and they used the normal hand |
shuffle. The cutoffs varied from 2 decks to near 1 deck depending on the |
dealer. |
According to a source (EW) the Beau Rivage has temporarilly discontinued |
Poker because the room, which was always full, was too small and it was very |
noisy being next to the slot machines. They had given people beepers to call |
them when a seat at a table became available, because people couldn't hear |
over the loudspeaker when there names were called. Eventually they will open |
a new Poker room in a different location. |
The sink bowels in the restrooms are painted with beautiful designs. |
Casino Magic was very crowded on a Friday night due to a drawing which was |
being held at the time. All the tables were open and full so it was |
difficult to find a seat. The cutoffs were two decks. The dealers stripped |
the cards for each riffle while shuffling. Some of the pits were arranged |
close enough so that it was possible to count down a table from across the |
pit. The casino seems to be much older and worn compared to the Grand. |
The Imperial Palace was not very busy when I was there. All the Blackjack |
tables seemed to be $1 to $200 and $2 to $200 early in the afternoon. They |
cut off 1.5 decks out of six. |
Dealers and Pit personnel in all casinos were excellent. |
Funbooks can be acquired form the the information center across form the Beau |
Rivage. Not the Boomtown Information Center. |
Robbie |
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