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Originally Posted by Suit
I'm not understanding what it is you are asking. Can you give more details of the problem? Is this casino just closing a game that is full? Do they give a reason? Are you just saying they won't open a game when there is x number of players on the list? What is x number?
I'd be happy to shed some light on this for you if you can give the details.
Ok. So I’m try and cover my explanations in one go.
I play in a casino in the uk . It has 2 levels. Which is generally only 25% capacity mon-thr 70% fri -sat using just the one of available floors, with floor 2 not being used at all.
So u can imagine gambling space is not an issue for them. There’s empty poker tables on floor 2. Chinese have a few tables of mahjong going on on floor 2. Which incidentally are rake free, hand dealt. Don’t get why they are treated better than poker players. Anyways. Back to point.
There is a decent core of poker players and de gen gamblers that play poker. Demand is constant on the weekends they have 2 full ring tables running. One they close, when still full or say 7 handed. generally its 2am due to staff Changes and lack of croupiers that can deal poker (that the reason what they say to everyone that moans). The other full table then has a huge wait and then they will close the other table at different times. (Approx 4am as a guide) despite people wishing to play on. Again reason given is lack of available dealers staying past the later shift change that are capable of dealing poker. They have staff sitting on empty blackjack/roulette tables when they close the only cash game.
Currently your only guaranteed a table to be running fri sat sun. Mostly mon and thr it will be on. And Nothing at all tue wed. mon and thr will happen. Providing no over demand for the pit games, which come first. With no poker cash table running, they still sometimes fail to run even tho there’s 9 plus waiting to play due to quote “staffing levels”. Tue and wed I believe the games would run but no is the answer when people have asked to play on those days.
They run tourneys thr-sun and normal turnout is around 4 plus tables for them. When people bust they also wanna play cash. But can’t get on.
It’s my belief that 7 days a week they could have one cash table running with 6 plus players constant from early eve till - 2am. And Later On the weekends and more tables on weekend.
I’m trying to factor in that it doesn’t take one dealer to run a table. As they have breaks regularly. And that the cost of their wage needs to spread across the week. Not just the weekend if they are employed full time. Someone once mentioned to get part time, freelance dealers in. But I can see why that wouldn’t suit the casino.
It just seems to me very feasible to keep a table running and wondered what I hadn’t account for. I spoke to a dealer and I can’t remember the exact figure off my head. But I think he said that at 1/1...the table takes £60hr-100 per hour on rake alone.
There is no gambling restriction to my knowledge of why they can’t run anytime there’s warranted demand and they are open 24/7
everyone is moaning at the poor dealers as to why they can’t get on and or why they can’t open another table with 12 plus waiting? When is the table going to start? Why is a full table shutting? Etc
This can’t just be the worse run casino in terms of profit. Surely poker is unprofitable/run even for them