Actually, the numbers are easy. 8-5 Bonus Poker with a 0.8% meter? That's a 99.97% return if every player is a Dancer clone. So, in the worst case, the casino doesn't lose on that game, but they don't win much either. Of course not everyone's a Dancer clone, so as IGT will probably tell the casino, they stand to make about a percent or so on that game. Not enough for the casino? Then tighten the game, make it 7-5 Bonus Poker with a 0.8% meter. But 8-5 Bonus Poker with a 0.1% meter is stupid, that's not really a progressive at all, even a total gambling virgin will see through that ruse.
Also, as every cardroom knows, you can't just kick out the good players and expect the fish to jump right in. You need some good players to partially fill tables, then the fish will play. Fish won't play if no one else is playing. The fish don't really know what they're getting into, but that's the way things are. Fish like to school, and when they see some players they think that's a school without realizing that it could be a bunch of sharks, but that's the nature of fish, if the pool is empty or near empty they get suspicious thinking everyones been eaten already and they move on. Same rules apply to casinos.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "bobbartop" <bobbartop@...> wrote:
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> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Tom Robertson <007@> wrote:
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> > I'd love to see some numbers that back up your theory that providing
> > professionals with plays will improve the Cannery's bottom line. I
> > think you're underestimating nonprofessionals' willingness to play, no
> > matter what the pay table.
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> I'd like to see some numbers too. I have zero experience from the casino's position. But as it stands, I think they're way too paranoid. I find it hard to believe that Cannery didn't make money at that bar when the jackpot was high and players were plentiful. I checked one of their 8-5 BP progressives in a bank the other day to see what the meter was. I ran through $10, it went up one cent. That's pathetic. At least the one in the non-smoking section went up 5 cents.
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> I still feel there's a happy medium, and a better way to do things. I am convinced they are being near-sighted. But it's their money, their casino, so good luck to them.
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