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Originally Posted by Chicagodude
At my casino they give out 2 meal buttons per table. It seems like some of the guys would rather collect player points than win $ playing poker. They'll spend 59 minutes on "meals." One of them comes back after a meal, waits 20 minutes and asks for a meal button again. LOL. Isn't it in the best interest of casinos to terminate all of this? Wouldn't it just be better to get rid of these tokens and force people to play? Am I missing something?
Additionally, they also just started a "play over" feature whereby you can sit in the gone player's seat until they get back. I think it's a masterful idea. Have you heard of it? They rack the guy's chips and keep the game lively.
Also, have you noticed all the degens that play poker, get up from the table and then spew $ on slot machines? I walk by them on the way to the bathroom and think, aren't you supposed to be playing poker? What the hell is wrong with these guys?
Is all of this just standard in other casinos or am i in a special 0 productivity zone?
A difference where I play is that a dinner marker is requested from the floor, who can watch for "misuse" better than a string of dealers. Perhaps I'm lucky in that while there is the occasional person who likes to take long breaks from the games, there aren't many of them. Since they get picked up when missing two big blinds, they aren't usually gone for too long, and another player is put in when they are.
We have always had the ability to "play over" a dinner marker, but it doesn't happen as much as it did 10-20 years ago.
This is in Edmonton, Canada, btw; I don't know how it goes elsewhere.