All of the problems mentioned are things the major casinos all know
about by now, having being burnt before. Occassionally, though you
will get a new 20 something year old slot director who does not have
the history and repeats the mistakes and there is always the Indian
casino in the middle of somewhere. The huge turnover that occurs in
almost all casinos, means that even if Bob educated them in 2007, by
2010 most casinos will no longer have this institutionalized
knowledge.
What Bob is trying to do is drum up business. Essentially, telling
the casinos they are math challenged compared to the many great math
minds in the player community and that is usually true. So they
should hire him to protect them from us. Most people here will have
a problem with that and I don't. Because without a Dancer telling
them to even how to finesee some of this stuff, the alternative is
worse - it is what is going on now at the Coast properties - a video
poker abortion - do you realize that the Suncoast has virtually no
8/5 BP left, it is not even a positive game and they made it 7/5.
Other than the degenerates playing in the supermarkets and the
people willing to play a roll of quarters at any paytable for a a
beer and a burger - who is going to play 7/5 BP?
I would rather generally see restrictions on video poker plays for
promotions or cash back than a wholesale reduction in paytables, but
the knee jerk reaction is to usually kill the paytables. That is
what happened at Treasure Island for a while after a 3x cash back
promo, they whacked all 9/6 on triple play machines to 9/5. They
have since restored 9/6 triple plays in high limit but are careful
to exclude VP from certain promos like 2x Free Play etc. And they
still let VP players in their promos unless their name is Dancer.