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Originally Posted by Trixie2
For those of you who haven't been out in a while... El Dorado has put an electronic craps table in at Harrah's, ballys, Flamingo, PH and not sure of Caesars and Paris as I don't pass thru there gaming sections often. Management friends said this is the plan going forward to help lower wage/benefit costs. (electronic craps drops from 4 employees to 1)
In this economic market and the fact that Biden and Walsh are pushing the PRO Act making it easier for workers to unionize - can you really blame companies for trying to downsize their labor force???
Imagine dropping, round numbers, 40 poker room staff, 40 craps dealers. just for starters... across multiple properties.
More on this . . .
Borgata had one of these stadium setups when I originally responded to this post. A couple of weeks ago I noticed they had another whole setup installed and running. They also had a number of stand alone roulette wheels where the wheel was vertical and only one person could play. They also had mini roulette setups with a horizontal wheel and several terminals surrounding it. The stadium setups also had roulette, and that wheel is manned by a person (I don't know why, it's electronic). The blackjack and baccarat stations are also hand dealt, but I think players can also play electronically. In addition to all of that, there were tons more new electronic slot machines throughout the casino. The whole place looked pretty cool with all the flashing lights and LED displays. It seemed like I was walking inside of a pinball machine. There were a number of people playing the stadium setups. I though maybe it could be a success.
But then . . .
Tonight I noticed one of the stadium setups was gone. I walked around in case it was not where I originally thought, or had been moved. But no, it had been removed. There seemed fewer roulette setups too. WTF? Why would they remove all of that so soon? New slot machines were in their place. Perhaps the manufacturer had installed the stadium games one a test basis so Borgata could see if they were profitable and Borgata decided one unit was sufficient. One drawback I can see is that they draw mostly smaller bettors, with players looking to bet quarters and hundreds preferring the traditional games, especially blackjack, baccarat and craps. If so, the slots may generate more revenue that the stadium games for the same square footage.
I wonder if any other casinos are downsizing their stadium games.