Rincon Craps

California is known for a lot of things, Hollywood, earthquakes, individuality, and lately some controversial marital options. To gamblers though, it is known as a card only state. What that means is that the state of California requires that cards be used to determine the outcome of the game.

Rincon's has been making attempts to introduce variations on games such as craps and roulette. Unfortunately, these games in their standard forms are not sanctioned under California's Indian gaming compacts.

The compacts allow reservation casinos to have slot machines, card games and lottery-style games. Under creative interpretations of those constraints, many casinos such as Rincon have put in craps tables with computerized images, cards or bingo-style balls as substitutes for dice.

Harrah's Rincon turned to innovation. They created a variation they call Rincon Craps. Rincon craps adds the excitement of the dice back in the game. In Rincon's new version, players roll dice to determine which of 12 cards are flipped over to decide wins and losses. Other than that, the play and betting at "Rincon Craps" are the same as at any craps table in Las Vegas. What makes it legal under California law is that the dice are used to determine which cards are picked, but the outcome of the game is devoid of the dice, it is the cards that determine the outcome, perfectly legal under the law.

And since it was introduced 5 years ago, it has become the most popular game at Harrah's Rincon. The casino has been flirting with the idea of licensing the game, so you may see it soon in a casino near you. To learn a bit more about the game, you can click here.

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