--- 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.
> ~FK
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Frank, we are exactly the type of players that are complete anathema to CE. Don't forget that their grand business strategy is to boost the bottom line in the short term in order to justify their gargantuan debt. Their intent is evidently to juice the Palms' cash flow over the next few months in order to soothe their creditors. To that end, when some junior suit perks up and peeps, "We're losing money on that FPDW progressive bank!!!!!!!", his boss gives him a wet, sloppy kiss, and he preens and immediately issues instructions to have the bank (and, he wistfully wishes, the players) taken out back and destroyed with sledgehammers. We don't like this. The Palms doesn't WANT us to like it. They KNOW we don't. Therefore, since they took these actions with that full knowledge, how on earth could our complaints help?
I mean, look at the recent M progressives fiasco (I realize CE doesn't own the M). The M couldn't stomach the idea of a 101% game existing at all. Thus, they wasted their own time chasing their tail, putting the games in and then making them unplayable. They should, and probably do, know that with the gradual demise of decent VP all over town, any casino that bucked the trend and offers good games would have a HUGE competitive advantage. Here's the key: so they lose a few bucks an hour. So what? Business comes in the front door. Fred Fullpay plays for a couple of hours and realizes an EV of +$25, but then he blows that and more paying the vig on his $500 football bet. Fanny Fullpay plays for a half hour or so, but gets tired of Fred correcting her mistakes and wanders off to play Wheel! Of! Fortune! instead.
Why is it so difficult for Vegas casinos to understand that offering +EV games may actually boost the bottom line? Is that truly beyond their comprehension? And are they aware of the bad will that is engendered when they worsen their games because somebody might be making a theoretical $1.50/hr (.25 FPDB)?
I applaud your efforts to open up a dialogue between VPFree members and the Evil Empire, but I think those efforts are quixotic---it's like getting Israelis to start a letter-writing campaign to Hamas to try to get them to make nice for a change. (Apt parallel, as not only do they hate us, they refuse to acknowledge our right to exist.)
