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Originally Posted by David2+2
Ugh.
GG HC@PN. I gotta say, none of that makes any sense at all from a business standpoint. It appears that they think the room will be filled with players regardless of the rake and comps policy they have. Maybe they will be right. But count me out. I've lived for over a decade without convenient live poker and somehow survived and was legitimately excited about this. Described myself as "like a kid in a candy store" at the prospect of live poker nearby. But.... ugh.
I hate to say it but from speaking with higher up casino people, I know that poker is and will always be the kiddie table at all of the casinos. Poker tables make a very small profit compared to other games (think rake, minus dealers' pay, minus bravo costs, minus shuffle machine leases, minus floor people salaries). For this reason, casinos don't put much focus on poker players unless they play OTHER table games or slots.
The funny thing is that there are enough degen poker players and casual poker players who will show up even if the rake is high and the comps are none existent. In Vegas and AC, poker comps are $1/hr for low level and $2-$4 for high level games. Only Harrah's gives tier points and diamond cards for poker. Other casinos just give you money for food. That is because they compete for poker players.
Look at the Hollywood at Penn National, who is their competition? They are hours away from even any other Pennsylvania casino let alone AC or anything like that. Plus they have wait lists coming out of their *sses so they think they are doing everything right.
People will still play there because it's that or home games. If for some reason people stop showing up, they will either drop the rake by $1 or will give $1 food comp and everyone will flood back. But they will wait till the room is pretty empty before they resort to that because their thought process is: "If it ain't broken, why fix it?"