The situation is not whether the casinos can make money from offering pros good games. It is why should they.
We skilled players would all love to get free money and vacations from casinos.
If I owned a casino and I wanted to make money at it, I would not want any members of this forum as customers. There is no profit in any of us for them.
The only reason we get as good as we do is because most gamblers are idiots.
One of the more successful casinos in Las Vegas is the South Point and they don't offer any machines over 100%. They do, however, have a ton of games that are over 99%.
Progressives are great and I would love to see more of them. The casinos that I go to that have good progressives get very busy when the jackpots get high and most of the skilled players run like they were being chased after the jackpot gets hit.
As long as they find enough poor players to build up the pot, then the casinos may keep them around, at least until the locals that build up the pots start screaming that they can't get on to the machines when the jackpot is high.
Regards
A.P.
--- On Sun, 3/13/11, Bruce Cohen <brucedcohen2002@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Bruce Cohen <brucedcohen2002@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Can Casinos Profit from Advantage Games? (Was - Casinos Tolerate Teams?)
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 6:30 PM
Maybe the Casino's rationale is that they want the jackpots
to go to the non-pro to encourage more of them to come back.
Just like at the Carnival, they want some winners, otherwise
nobody will throw a baseball at the lead bottles to try and
win a pink elephant.
One would think a smart Casino would find a way to let
the pros have ther 1%ish edge, and still make money off
of teams and pros.
I also think they are super stupid about banning people.
If you are going to 86 someone, throw them a party!
Have the pit boss comp him one thing and the Host
comp them another and put their picture on the wall.
Give them a T-shirt that says, "I was 86'd at the Wynn"
or whatever. You could have a lot of fun with this kind
of thing, still keeping the Casino's options open.
I thought the days of hiring thugs and cops who were
fired for bullying and dishonesty were over.
Hey, let's buy an abandoned Casino and make it
work our way.
That's the question of the day:
Can a Casino have advantage games on their
floor and make money off of them?
The Corrollary would be:
Can a Casino make more profits with advantage
(full pay - sorry) games than without them?
So if it was your Casino and you needed to pay your
staff and put your Children through College...
how would you do it?
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