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Originally Posted by Doctor Futtock
But peoples' wages HAVE increased over time and therefore they bring more money to the casino over time and, hence, the casino makes more money to pay costs. To facilitate this they do things like scrap the 1/1 poker cash game and hike up minimum bets on Blackjack from £5 to £15 and Roulette and the like. However, casinos have kept the odds the same for all their table games since the 1940s / 1950s - and they have survived very nicely thank you very much (with or without a poker room).
If casinos haven't needed to tinker with the payout odds for blackjack, roulette, slots etc - why have the suits at The Hippo (and The Vic) felt the need to suddenly tax poker players more in 2023? This has nothing to do with having to pay costs but everything to do with squeezing as much profit as possible from their customers.
but...they have tampered with the odds for table games
minimum bets are higher, and they've introduced double (or triple) zeroes on roulette and 6/5 blackjack as the two most obvious changes, plus tinkering around the edges
as for poker, I'm not convinced average buying at a 1/2 game change much with inflation, a lot of people want to play poker for the fun of it and look for the lowest stakes offered