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Originally Posted by kerr
Margo’s kitchen is closing down after Sunday night, the café will remain open, but no more meals. Crown is getting smaller by the day.
Bit like this thread. Do you realise, of all the people who posted in this thread, since it started, to the Covid Big Bang, YOU are the only one left. Last of the Mohicans.
I checked the post histories of contributors for the first 35 pages. (Bored Sunday, waiting for the Hawthorn game to end to collect the $$$) Most last a few months, some 3 years, very few last a decade. The halo always slips; bravado migrates to absentia.
Traffic decline within Australia-centric threads within 2plus2 reflects the bigger picture. Players can't sustain continual losses and drop out, they move to other interests, and the increasing rake is fatal. [To think - people used to complain of $8 cap+ $5ph. Luxury]
The $25 @ Crown may not last. They may retreat to $20, or heaven forbid, back to the pre-Covid $15, if the keep-it-alive philosophy returns. (But never 24/7 operations). Need a raft of efficiency improvements though - the managers smart enough to analyse and implement, may have moved on.
I don't know who you are, but I would know you by sight. Conversely, you would never pick me, but would definitely know me by sight. I have worked out on few in here. (I could tell you about the first time I sat on a table with 6betme already seated, the welcome 'greeting' he tendered, and the price he paid for it, but that's another story).
The only one I would like to have worked out was the notorious SupremeGentlemanPoker from YouTube (he has wiped all his Vlogs though) - very funny and entertaining young man. Whilst on YouTube, the Vlogs from MEL, BNE and SYD regs were a godsend, when your paths eventually crossed, and they had already pre-filled you player database form for you. Easy money playing exposed egos. (And for well over a decade I played everywhere in Oz/NZ -160 days per year. Many in MEL & BNE thought I lived locally due to frequency, but I lived in another state altogether)
Tears in the rain.