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From: chungsterama <chungsty@yahoo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 6:24 PM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Encouraging Casinos to have high meter progressives
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bobbartop" <bobbartop@...> wrote:
> My point in posting this is what if somehow someone was to take another avenue to trying to convince the casinos that it is in everyone's behalf. What about the slot manufacturers? Would the casinos listen to them? Could someone who has clout with the manufacturers like Bally and IGT, etc., convince them to convince the casinos?
Unfortunately, many people are ingorant of how the casino industry works. The casinos are the one's who decide what games, what paybacks (based on par sheets), etc, and the various slot manufacturers are competing for these limited number of slots.
For some reason, the "slot director" knows his market best and knows what his customer will play and it's hard to convince this so call "know-it-all". Many slot directors are biased or superstitious or caught up in old-school "casino holds" as opposed to new-school of daily win-rates.
Additionally, many people are simply clueless in that they don't understand the average lifespan of a slot machine in a casino or the amount of money spent by slot manufacturers to get a slot machine to market. To take a page from Buddhism, having the "right view" is critical.
From my experience talking to various slot directors, casinos don't have high meter progressive vp is that it is COUNTER-PRODUCTIVE. From a casino perspective, why have progressive vp meters where the locals or the core customer base b
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