Casino Royale & Hotel
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| Address | 3411 Las Vegas Boulevard South Las Vegas, Nevada 89109 |
| Opening date | 1992 |
| Previous names | Frank Musso's Restaurant Joey's New Yorker Night Club Nob Hill 1979-1980 |
| Casino type | Land-Based |
| Theme | European Villa |
| Owner | Tom Elardi |
| No. of rooms | 152 |
Casino Royale & Hotel is a casino and motel located on the Las Vegas Strip. The casino caters to low rollers, and features low table minimums for roulette, craps, and blackjack. The casino often employs people handing out coupons inviting people inside and seems to rely heavily on street traffic for their business.[citation needed] The parking lot behind Casino Royale is a little known secret with some of the most convenient and closest parking to the Las Vegas Strip.
Casino Royale until recently offered 100 times odds on craps at all times. Casino Royale now offers 100 times odds only when offering a $5 minimum bet (usually weekends), and offers 20 times odds when offering a $3 minimum bet (usually weekdays).
Casino Royale, in addition to traditional blackjack, also offers a version of blackjack known as "Blackjack switch".[citation needed]
[edit] History
The first building on this site was Frank Musso's Restaurant, located next door to the Sands Hotel Casino. Musso's was in business during the 1950s and 60's. Later it became Joey's New Yorker Night Club, then the Nob Hill Casino.
The Nob Hill which opened in 1978 was well known as a lower limit and a fun place to play and relax at a casino on the Strip in the 1980s. The Nob Hill featured $0.25 craps, and $0.10 roulette with a minimum $5.00 buy in, which was the lowest limit on the Las Vegas Strip.[citation needed]
In the late 1990s Casino Royale had highest odds allowed in craps. The game was a 50 cent minimum bet game,which allowed a player to place 100 times more in the odd bet. It was not uncommon to see 50 cent bets with $25 to $50 odds bets. This was when the rest of the Strip was allowed double to 10 times odds.
Another interesting fact about the casino is that is was one of the last to require drug test for its employees[citation needed]. So many talented dealers would deal there while their systems cleaned out while applying at the larger casinos.
The Nob Hill closed in 1990.
On January 1, 1992 the casino reopened as the Casino Royale. The adjacent Travelodge was purchased and used for hotel rooms.
[edit] Popular culture
- The Casino Royale was featured in the 2004 videogame Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas as the Royal Casino.
- There is a hidden achievement in Project Gotham Racing 4 in which the player must take a picture in front of the Casino Royale while in an Aston Martin DBS.
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