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Originally Posted by deesnuts
I can understand catering to the needs of higher limit players in a real casino where these individuals may dump a substantial amount in the pits to the house but I never really understood why they bend over backwards for them in a California card room.
Perhaps they tip well.
Feel free to explain.
No, they don't. I tend to overtip a bit because those guys either stiff the dealer or barely toss them anything. They don't play the Cal games either, just poker.
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Originally Posted by Captain R
The 15/30 game is the most profitable game for the casino.
Also, Ray Zee once told me that where the big games go, the small games follow. There are several examples of this in history, Bicycle->Commerce, Mirage->Bellagio, etc. Once the big games moved over, the old cardroom basically died out.
Its not the most profitable if its shorthanded, and you're dropping 3 bucks instead of 5. I can understand 1 game, but not when the second has open seats and a smaller drop.
As for smaller games following the big games, they already have a large demand for those smaller games. They just don't spread them, making for disenchanted players that go down the street to play.
When the bigger limit games quit filling, good luck getting those smaller players back.
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Originally Posted by thesilverbail
At the old place the Omaha game was one of their their strongest games. Long after the last 235 and 123 games broke omaha would be running late into the night. Weeks from now when the excitement has died down and most of the newcomer NL donk have gone broke, that game will still be running.
The 55T on the other hand will return to bay before the month is out, just like it always does.
It did play through the night, often at the expense of the aforementioned "mot profitable" 15/30 game.
So lets run a game that is slow and produces less revenue, than the "most profitable" game in the house. Make no mistake, that Omaha game is a big reason the 15/30 never got going at GC, and is why the current 15/30 game is short or can't sustain a second game. The Omaha game has fish in it, thats why it is popular. If that game gets cut off, those Omaha players will play 15/30 like they used to do. I loved playing the 15/30, plenty of bad players, they just play Omaha instead.
With the demand for poker in the new room, those smaller NL games should be sustainable through the night, unlike GC where the player pool was much smaller. M8trix missing a golden opportunity to gain poker players that will sustain games, instead opting for flashier bigger games that do nothing but feed the ego of management types thinking.."look at me, I brought over bigger games".....as the much bigger pool of players at smaller limits leave and perhaps not bother coming back.