Palms is in financial trouble. Obviously they brought back the quarter deuces because they noticed a dropoff in business when they took them out. As for the half dollar deuces, that was probably a reasonable exercise given the poor financial situation, presumably they either ran bad in favor of the players or the caliber of players was better than the casino expected or a Chinese or Russian team moved in. What the Palms should do is put in better progressives, like 9-6 double double bonus with 1% meter or 8-5 double double bonus with 3% meter. Those would bring in business and cost the casino nothing, they may even make money on them due to player mistakes. On days they want to promote they can add to the jackpots and on days they don't want to promote they can take money from the jackpots, I'm pretty sure gaming allows that now as long as the money eventually goes into a jackpot.
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Bartop" <bobbartop@...> wrote:
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> My surprise is that they put it in in the first place, if they are going to end up taking it out right away. What are they thinking? This is a serious question, I wonder what "they" or "someone" is thinking. Is it just a mistake? How about a few years ago when Orleans put in 17-10 LDW for 25-cents/50-cents on two banks of machines? Was it intentional for some unknown reason? Was it just someone's mistake? Does someone in charge not really know what he is doing? I'm not trying to bad-mouth anyone, I'd just like to understand the motivation.
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