Many solitaire games on the web have “Las Vegas rules” as an option. The idea is you buy the deck for $52 and you get $5 for every card you play on the foundation. (just for fun, not real money). I want to know if there is (or ever was) a casino in Las Vegas that offered this game.
There was, but not in Las Vegas; it was Canfield’s casino in New York City and later in Saratoga, NY. The solitare game Canfield was developed by the owner expressly for use in the casino. You bought the deck for $20 and for every card you played to the foundation you got a dollar–Canfield’s was around at the turn of the century, so we’re actually talking Big Money here for the time.
Other casinos didn’t take up on the idea. Obvious reasons: it was too easy for a card mechanic to cheat at the game, and you had to have one dealer for every player, unlike in blackjack or baccarat where you could have one dealer for up to eight players.
I saw this as a table game in the summer of 1988 in a casino in Nassau.
A casino that no longer exists, as far as I know - the Merv Griffin Paradise Island hotel - the exact name of it escapes me. If I remember correctly, it was $52 to buy in, but I don’t recall the return for foundation cards. It didn’t look very popular.