Love the spirit, but you may want to save your two bits...Unless you can get hard data that at least correlates having +EV games to improving a metric important to a casino's business this will not fly.
This is a philosophic change brought on by management that they see no reason to offer a machine where the player has an advantage.
In terms of having a critical mass of people around to maintain a trendy hotspot atmosphere is one of the reasons I read justifying +EV machines - are you kidding???
How many +EV machines are there and then how many of those playing them are there solely for that purpose and wouldn't be there otherwise - is that even a noticeable percentage of patrons? Are the people playing these machines "dressed to the nines", throwing money around to create buzz and excitement that would be a magnet for drawing a trendy crowd, or hot, scantily clad model-types?
I hope someone out there has quantitative data that shows a benefit for casinos that have +EV games. The problem is that I doubt it as the small number of +EV quarter level (or lower), single line games are likely insignificant in terms any delta in terms of revenue or quantity/quality of patrons. Perhaps if we were talking about high stakes games where the bankroll would be at a level that even most teams could not touch, but I doubt any data, positive or otherwise exists for making a case to management to resurrect these games.
Pat
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Frank" <frank@...> wrote:
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> Listen up folks. I'm more of a solutions kind of guy, rather than a let's define the problem over and over again. I can't help but think that if instead of posting all these comments on vpFREE, we all started writing letters to the Palms, we might be able to effect some change.
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> There's a lot of voices here, let's get them heard.
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> I'll get an address and a name where we should send advice/complaint letters and post it tomorrow. In the interim I recommend everyone write up something to send with a stress on the advice, rather than the complaints aspect.
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> I'd recommend something like:
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> please bring back X
> Because: (then list reasons)
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> If the tone of your letters is complaint, it will likely fall on deaf ears. If it is advice it might get across the Styx to be heard. Don't worry, I've got the two bits to pay the ferryman.
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> ~FK
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