23 Jul 2008
New games against players
All the experts in the field of gambling agree that the increase in income from the State of Nevada casino linked to the fact that the newly imposed rules damage the chances of games players, increasing profit institutions. It is likely that lowering payments and change the rules leads to the fact that Las Vegas is no longer the most attractive place on Earth in terms of player.
"There are many other places that give players a better chance than in Vegas", - said Michael Sheklford, a prominent expert on casino games nicknamed "The Wizard Shansov".
The most dangerous trend - it accelerated the replacement of traditional blackjack, in which a combination of "Blackjack" is usually paid in the ratio of 3 to 2, at the option game, where "blackjack" paid 6 to 5. Also increasingly extends Option 3 - card poker, in which a combination of flash down payment from 4 to 1 to 3 to 1, which also increases outweigh casinos over players and increases profits.
Casino consultant and author Max Rubin said that it is questionable financial sense in terms of the casino. Operators of gambling in an attempt to diversify the range predlagemyh games, increasingly are introducing new items under alluring names type Super Fun 21 or Single Deck Blackjack. Rubin said that there are benefits from this - the players quickly learn to understand how much damage they cause to the type of rule 6:5 for blackjack. Naturally, no reasonable player did not even think to sit down for this game.
For operators this is a stick on two ends. On the one hand, they get more revenue turnover of money, plus for such games could be less. But Rubin also warned that casino owners may be blinded by increased income as a percentage, despite the fact that traffic will decrease because fewer people would play in the proposed new items. Revenue in the money thus can break loose, despite the percentage increase.
Sheklford and Rubin in one voice only give advice (to which we join the entire edited): "Never play blackjack, if payment for blackjack less than 3:2".
Blackjack is still the most popular game in Las Vegas casinos, brought $ 1.12 billion dollars over the last year (0.09% growth). Note that the total loss of customers in 3 - poker card was $ 116 million, a growth of 54% (!!). Obviously, this is due to the deterioration of the rules. And no growth in popularity of the game can not explain such a leap in profits.
The reduction in payment for the flash, by the way, reduces matozhidanie of bets on "paraplyus" from 2.32% to 7.28% in terms of player.
Incidentally, all experts agree that the game of poker is gaining tremendous speed. And despite the fact that the proceeds of poker clubs on the classic games so far are small, increase profits over the past year amounted to 12.2% ($ 65 million). It seems that online poker is not a competitor to "live" game, and vice versa, gives operators new poker clubs and new customers. Also possibly affected by the huge hype around the giant tournament last World Series Of Poker.
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