The question names a price, but the only stable fact is where the buildings sit
No venue in the documented set carries a $5 blackjack table minimum as a fixed fact, because table minimums are not fixed. They move with the day of the week, the hour, the season, the crowd on the floor, and decisions made by the pit manager that afternoon. What does not move is the venue itself, and the venues most often swept into this question sit within a few tenths of a mile of each other in downtown Las Vegas.
The city center reference point used here is Las Vegas at 36.16916667, -115.14055556. The D Las Vegas sits 0.1 straight-line miles from that point. Four Queens sits 0.2 straight-line miles away. Golden Nugget Las Vegas and Binion's each sit 0.3 straight-line miles away. Those are great-circle distances, not road distances, and they are the only measured pairs this article can state.
Road distance is always longer than straight-line distance, and this article does not publish driving mileage or travel time. A reader who wants to walk from one downtown property to another should treat these figures as a floor, not a route.
Documented straight-line distances from the Las Vegas city reference point
The table below lists every venue-to-city pair supplied in the documented set. The measurement type is great-circle in every row.
| Reference point | Straight-line miles | Measurement type |
|---|---|---|
| D Las Vegas | 0.1 | great-circle |
| Four Queens | 0.2 | great-circle |
| Horseshoe | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Nugget Las Vegas | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Binion's | 0.3 | great-circle |
| Golden Gate | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Main Street Station | 0.4 | great-circle |
| Stratosphere Tower | 1.7 | great-circle |
| Jerry's Nugget | 1.7 | great-circle |
These figures come from publicly published reference sources and describe a documented point in time. Facility counts, room totals, and even venue names change as properties are sold, rebranded, or rebuilt.
Why a straight line is never the walk you take
A great-circle distance measures the shortest path across the surface of the earth between two coordinate pairs. It ignores everything that stands between them. In downtown Las Vegas, the relevant obstacles are not mountains or water, but the shape of the street grid, pedestrian bridges, block lengths, and the fact that casinos occupy entire city blocks with entrances on specific sides.
Two venues can sit 0.2 straight-line miles apart and still require a walk of several blocks because the sidewalk does not cut diagonally through a building. The Fremont Street Experience area is compact, but compactness measured in great-circle miles does not convert directly into steps. A reader planning to move between properties should look at a street map, not at the figures above, to understand the actual path.
Nothing in the documented set supplies road mileage, exit numbers, highway designations, or turn-by-turn instructions. This article will not estimate any of those, because an estimate dressed as a fact is worse than silence.
The venue set is not a census of Las Vegas blackjack
The documented file records 481 venues in total, and it is not a complete list of casinos in any city, county, state, or country. The ten venues measured to the Las Vegas city reference point are the ones present in the file, not the full set of places where a person might find a blackjack table downtown or anywhere else in the valley.
This matters directly for the $5 blackjack question. A venue that is not in the documented set could still exist, could still deal blackjack, and could still set a $5 minimum on a slow Tuesday morning. The absence of a venue from this article says nothing about whether it operates blackjack tables. The reader who wants a complete current list of licensed properties should consult the state gaming regulator for Nevada, which maintains the authoritative roster.
What a table minimum is, and why no article can hold it still
A blackjack table minimum is not a property of the building. It is a property of the moment. A casino sets minimums to manage how many seats it fills, how much action it expects per hour, and how its floor mix balances on a given shift. The same physical table can carry one minimum at noon and another at midnight, one on a weekday and another on a weekend, one during a convention and another during a quiet stretch.
This is why the reader's question, taken literally, has no stable answer. Any list of venues that "have $5 blackjack" would be true for a few hours at most and false by the time it was read. The honest structural answer is that the minimum is printed on a sign at the table or shown on the table's electronic display, and it is set by the pit, not by the building's address.
A reader who wants the current number should do exactly what the question implies: walk the floor or call the venue's own guest services line and ask for the pit. The number on the venue's own contact page is the channel that holds the live answer.
Where these venues sit relative to the city
The coordinate pairs place the documented venues in downtown Las Vegas, clustered near the city reference point at 36.16916667 north latitude and -115.14055556 west longitude. The D Las Vegas sits at 36.16972222, -115.14277778, which is a fraction of a minute north and a fraction of a minute west of the reference point. Four Queens sits at 36.16972222, -115.14361111, slightly further west along the same latitude.
These are downtown properties, not Strip properties. The Stratosphere Tower, measured at 1.7 straight-line miles from the city reference point, sits further north along the same corridor. Jerry's Nugget, also at 1.7 straight-line miles, sits in a different direction from the core cluster. The coordinates support relative position statements of north, south, east, and west; they do not support claims about neighborhoods, districts, or character.
Las Vegas sits in the state of Nevada, in the Mojave Desert region of the southwestern United States. The city reference point used here is the one supplied in the documented set, and the venue coordinates are the ones supplied with each venue row.
What to confirm before you go
The changeable items in this question are the table minimum itself, the hours the table is open, and whether the venue still operates the game at all. None of those are documented here, and none of them should be assumed from a map.
Before travelling, confirm the current minimum directly with the property. The channel that holds the live answer is the venue's own published floor information or a phone call to its guest services line, not a third-party article. Confirm whether the property is on the Fremont Street Experience pedestrian mall or on a surrounding block, because that changes how you approach the entrance on foot.
Confirm the venue's current name and owner. Ownership and branding of downtown Las Vegas properties have changed repeatedly over decades, and a name that was current in one documented source may not be the name on the sign today.
FAQ
Does this article name which Vegas casinos have $5 blackjack tables?
No. Table minimums change by day, hour, and shift, and no documented fact in this article fixes a $5 minimum to any venue. The article names venues by location only, and explains that the current minimum lives on the table's own sign or display, set by the pit.
How far apart are the downtown venues mentioned here?
The documented straight-line distances from the Las Vegas city reference point range from 0.1 miles for The D Las Vegas to 1.7 miles for Stratosphere Tower and Jerry's Nugget. These are great-circle figures, not walking or driving distances, and the actual path is always longer.
Why can't this article give driving directions between the venues?
The documented set contains only coordinate pairs and great-circle distances. It contains no road mileage, highway numbers, exits, or travel times. Stating a driving route would require inventing facts, so the article directs the reader to a street map and the venue's own directions page instead.
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