Appreciate all the info and thoughts gents, kind of reaffirmed my suspicion to steer clear lol. Not worth the headache/expenses it would seem. And besides the tournament idea which I didn’t consider, I didn’t fully consider/think about if someone goes a real roll how quickly that could go bad for me. I’ll just stick to hittin pairs and missing draws.
There are options for cheaper and less infrastructure heavy roulette hosting if you’re fine with not providing the 110% authentic casino experience.
I just use a layout mat, a 20” Dal Negro wheel, and 1400 dice chips + some more high denominations from another set (I know, but compromises had to be made at the time I bought it given that it was the only real option for colour coding other than custom roulette chips which wouldn’t get enough use to justify the cost). and a dining/long camping table. Dolly marker off
Amazon, and boom, ready to go. I don’t have a hardcore enthusiast playerbase but they’re still in awe.
Craps is certainly harder, but I’ve recently started a simple portable set that’s 90% of the way there. Again, not much in the way of construction: I got a layout mat, stick, ON/OFF puck(s) and a piece of wall rubber (or two for a full table), DIY’d some lammers and it was good to go.
A full bank of nice chips is an ask unless you already have one favourite set you’ve already bought an excess of. On YouTube, Sin City Living has a pretty awesome series of videos for learning the basics of dealing (<8 hours total) and with some practice you should be able to get to a home game standard (don’t compare yourself to craps dealers with years of experience and intensive training and the benefit of the box catching bad habits - that'll set unrealistic expectations for some rando in their house).
If playing for money, I would only ever do it in a tournament style.
