Red Hawk Craps
Red Hawk Casino has a welcoming mix of tables with limits to fit every budget. If Blackjack is your game, we have tables with limits starting at $5 every day, including weekends! For our specialty game players, we have established favorites like Three Card Poker and EZ Baccarat, as well as the latest games on the market like DJ Wild Stud. 1 Red Hawk Pkwy, Placerville, CA 95667, USA. Related Listings.
PLACERVILLE (CBS13) — About two months after shutting its doors due to the coronavirus, Red Hawk Casino announced Tuesday it will be reopening June 1 with additional safety precautions.
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The Placerville casino is set to open at 10 a.m. on June 1. In a press release Tuesday, the casino said “The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians tribal leadership and casino management team have been in close contact with appropriate agencies regarding the latest guidelines to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and will be including a stringent list of precautions in order to reopen for casino guests to enjoy their favorite games.”
El Dorado County was granted permission by the state to move through stage 2 of reopening more quickly last week. Casinos are not included in stage 2. Health officials have acknowledged tribes are sovereign authorities and not subject to state and local restrictions on operating amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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Despite the easing of restrictions, Gov. Gavin Newsom had reportedly urged tribes to reconsider opening casinos this early. Casinos were named as one of the businesses as part of the third phase of reopening, which the state has not moved into at this point.
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Some of the new safety precautions include asking guests to maintain six feet of social distancing, requiring temperature checks for guests and staff at all entrances, and requiring face coverings for guests and employees.
The casino is also reducing the number of open slot machines and seats at table games.
Additionally, Red Hawk said they are implementing casino-wide chip cleaning and retraining staff on proper handwashing and sanitizing.
The uber-swanky Red Hawk Casino in Placerville (El Dorado County) is celebrating its first anniversary with two new card games: card-based craps and live-action poker.
The new poker tables - six in all - are part of a brand-new 60-seat poker room that casino management installed after players complained that there was nowhere on-site to push all-in.
The poker room opened last week.
Unlike those Sacramento-area casinos that use electronic tables, virtual cards and virtual chips (ahem, Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, we're talking about you), the tables at Red Hawk require live dealers who distribute honest-to-goodness cards and push pots of real chips.
Other pluses: three large flat-screen televisions, as well as food and drink service at the tables (and for those players waiting at the rails).
The downside: Currently, Red Hawk spreads only Texas Hold 'Em. Peter Nairn, vice president of gaming operations, says the casino wanted to 'start small' and focus on one game. He adds that if enough players express interest in playing Omaha or seven-card stud, the casino will add those games.
'Because of TV, most people know Hold 'Em best,' Nairn said. 'But our dealers know how to deal a variety of games, so if we get a list going for something different, we can accommodate that, too.'
One thing that might be difficult to have in the Red Hawk poker room: tournaments. With only six tables, Nairn says it will be tough to hold tournaments and live games at the same time.
It won't be tough to play craps at Red Hawk; two new craps tables opened last month.
Because dice games are illegal in California, however, these games revolve around a special deck of cards. Each card has a different die face on it; each player receives two cards from a multi-deck shuffle machine when it's his turn to 'shoot.'
The two cards represent the two sides of two dice that an ordinary craps player would be throwing for each roll.
Otherwise, the game plays like regular craps, with come and place bets, odds and so on.
Red Hawk's new craps games also offer unique side bets. Two bets, which pay 34 to 1 apiece, allow players to wager that numbers 2-6 or 8-12 will appear before the shooter sevens out. In another, which pays 175 to 1, players can bet that numbers 2-6 and 8-12 will appear before the shooter notches a seven.
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Are these bets exciting? They are. They're also terrible investments from a gambling perspective; the house edge on these kinds of side bets is astronomically high.
That said, simply trying card-based craps is worth the effort. If you close your eyes, you can convince yourself for a moment that the cards are actually dice. After this, the experience almost feels like Vegas. My motto: Some craps is better than no craps at all.
1 Red Hawk Pkwy., Placerville. (888) 573-3495. www.redhawkcasino.com.