I was given a meal comp by one of Las Vegas’ casinos recently. (Santa Fe Station) Stupidly, I decided to use it for the meal. The thing the casino knows is that most people who have registered for their loyalty/player cards can’t come into a casino without gambling. Case in point is why so many casinos have put cinemas in them so you have to walk past the one-arm bandits on your way to your movie or favorite eatery and then again on the way back to the car.
So most people stop and gamble if just for a bit. Which is what I did.
I went to a movie (How to Lose Friends and Alienate People) in Santa Fe Station. Then on my way out very quickly dropped $20 in less than a minute in a slot machine that looked promising. Then later that evening I had dinner at another casino Texas Station (buffet and 2 beers free) but dropped another $20 in a slot on the way out in what seemed like a record amount of time for 5-cent machines–a minute or so.
With the way the market and economy are going, casinos are at wits-end trying to get people in the door, because they know once you’re there you’ll leave a little cash with them. But no one is winning – that’s at least what I’m seeing. The casino owners have re-timed the machines and the deck-shufflers so that the odds are even worse than they used to be (and that’s really awful).
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