I wouldn't be so harsh. Yes, Bob is all about Bob and Bob's goal is to
be the only true VP professional on the planet. Bob kind of cracks me
up in that regard.
I don't know the situation with E Cannery, but they don't appear to be
as well run as their two sister properties. There's quite a bit of
disconnect between slots and marketing, and what I perceive to be a
great deal of inexperience in slot management. The liquidity crisis in
the financial sector has greatly impacted the gaming sector, which is
cash intensive and dependent on continuous financing to maintain
casino operations.
So, I tend to think his voice is needed. I don't know about his
philosophy, but mine is to offer only high paying programs which are
difficult to play. Think OEJ, JW2, DJW (it's the AC mentality in me,
the East Coast is big on Joker games, Vegas and the rest of the
country is big on the Deuces games, which are much easier to play).
My casino would offer precisely two Jacks or Better games-the 99.6 AA
and 8-5 bonus or AF. My deuces game would be the "full pay" 99.45 BDW.
I'd offer AC Joker or 15-7 Kings or better with a 2% meter. I'd offer
100.3 OEJ and 100.35 DJW, or at least the near 100% versions, and let
the public know all about it. There'd be plenty of Multistrike. I'd
put the skill back into video poker. Slot execs understand that more
people know how to play these days, and that they enjoy the fact that
video poker is a game of skill. Yet they refuse to embrace that
concept to their own advantage. As more players know how to play the
more popular games, you need to offer them a different game to try to
master. Many professionals know how to play exactly two games only-
Jacks and NSUD, and a few just the Jacks. In other words, offer the
public a facially loose product, and offer games where a select few
can beat you. In other words, take the same approach Bill Zender did
when he ran the Aladdin in the 90s. Zender had the highest hold
percentages in the state, and by far the best blackjack games. He let
counters do pretty much whatever they wanted as long as their top bet
wasn't over $50. As a case study, the Aladdin is instructive here.
BTW, I have seen the future. 2009 is going to be a very rough year if
you're trying to make money doing this. One previously very lucrative
market is about to dry up. Player restrictions will be unprecedented.
Bob doesn't affect me very much at all, thank goodness. I play maybe
3-4 stores in Vegas and am thinking of dropping one.
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "mguthrie56" <guthrie56@...> wrote:
So let me get this straight, Dancer contacted Eastside Cannery, the
4700 Joker goes bye-bye, the full pay machines are slowed to a crawl
at both Cannery locations, the 10 play .25 Super Aces are starting
to disappear...and better things will follow??
Bob Dancer is once again looking out for only his own interests and
screwing over everyone else in the process. Bob had to figure out a
way to get all the money he earned on the 10 times point day faster
and this is what he came up with??!! You are full of crap Bob and
you know it!!