Casino chains are expected to offer the game as a standard game offering, as opposed to 'optionally'. Three card poker is no longer a carnival game, as it is now a main stay casino game offering with over 1,000 installs. Carnival games are Crazy 4 Poker, Deuces Wild, Zero, Rupert's Island Draw, Money Market, Let It Ride, Two-cards High, Wish card Poker, Bet you Luck, Texas Hold 'em Bonus, Rabbit Hunter, and the like. What defines a carnival game is that it is a new game of different game play rules that exist in the table games pit as a novelity type game that may or may not become popular. Blackjack was once a carnival side game when Faro was the main stay card game. EZ Pai Gow Poker isn't a carnival game, as it's Pai Gow Poker some casino operators offer only this version of Pai Gow Poker (Ameristar Casinos, Cannery Casino group, the Barona Casino, etc.) Same with EZ Baccarat, and the same with crap games that pay triple in the field instead of double same with Blackjack where the dealer stands on soft 17 instead of hits soft 17.Ĭraps was once a carnival game, - back in 1915, when Hazard was the main gambling dice game. 'Carnival games' simply means games 'other than the common and standard casino games,' which are Craps, Blackjack, Pai Gow Poker, Roulette, and Baccarat. Does anybody know the origin of calling newĬasino games 'carnival', it really doesn't make any sense. Variations of wheel and dice games, if not the actual games

And roulette and craps areĬertainly carnival games, the old travelling carnivals had I'm sure EZ Pai Gow is a carnival game, but Dan and Seems somewhat disrespectful, like you shouldn't take WhyĪre they called that, I never see them in a carnival. Why are some casino games called 'carnival games'? ItsĪ term I never heard until maybe the last 10 years.

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