I would have to think the stats in this article are video poker and slots combined
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Stingier Slot Payouts
Unfortunately, the link didn't work but the website did have a pretty cool 404 page.
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On 8/25/2015 3:07 PM, mickeycrimm@yahoo.com [vpFREE] wrote:
I would have to think the stats in this article are video poker and slots combined
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-8-20/casinos-stingier-slot-payouts-hurting-sales-machine-makers-say
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You may want to just search in your search engine with the first few words of the headling and that will find it.
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From: "Mike Starr mike@writestarr.com [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
Unfortunately, the link didn't work but the website did have a pretty
cool 404 page.
I copied the link character for character. For some reason I have trouble with some links that I try to put up here. It's a pretty interesting article on how slot holds have gone up over the past several years and only takes a few minutes to read. So you can google "casinos stingier slot payouts" to find the article.
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Maybe try this:
Casinos’ Stingier Slot Payouts Hurting Sales, Machine Makers Say
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Casinos’ Stingier Slot Payouts Hurting Sales, Machine Ma...U.S. casinos are making it tougher for players to win at the slot machines, and that’s led to less betting. |
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From: "mickeycrimm@yahoo.com [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Stingier Slot Payouts
I copied the link character for character. For some reason I have trouble with some links that I try to put up here. It's a pretty interesting article on how slot holds have gone up over the past several years and only takes a few minutes to read. So you can google "casinos stingier slot payouts" to find the article.
See if this link works..............
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From: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vpF…@…com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 6:46 PM
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Stingier Slot Payouts
I copied the link character for character. For some reason I have trouble with some links that I try to put up here. It's a pretty interesting article on how slot holds have gone up over the past several years and only takes a few minutes to read. So you can google "casinos stingier slot payouts" to find the article.
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See if this link works..............
It did. I compared it with Mickey's and I didn't see any difference.
Mickey, FWIW your link fails because the article date portion of the link should be 2015-08-20 (not 2015-8-20)
---In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, <mickeycrimm@...> wrote :
I would have to think the stats in this article are video poker and slots combined
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-8-20/casinos-stingier-slot-payouts-hurting-sales-machine-makers-say http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-8-20/casinos-stingier-slot-payouts-hurting-sales-machine-makers-say
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The design of a slot machine is tricky. If it paid out too much, the house would go broke. If it paid out to little, clients would learn to avoid it. Somewhere between those extremes is an optimal point (from the POV of the house). The trick is to find that point.
There is a related issue: For a given payback percentage, should the machine be configured to make lots of small payouts, or fewer but larger payouts?
I would suppose slot machine designers pay a lot of attention to all this. But maybe not.
- - Norma
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