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do the casinos make more off people who play slots or table games?

• anamax 17y ago
  Look at what dominates the floor space.
  • xenophanes 17y ago
    So, which?
    • rms 17y ago
      I would think it is table games not because of floor space, but because of high rollers. No one is playing slots for $50,000 a spin.
      • sokoloff 17y ago
        There's basically no labor component to slots (there's some maintenance I'm sure), making slots far more profitable on a $ take per square foot basis. This is anecdotal, but I've never seen a casino tear out slots to put in table games (on a net square foot basis), but plenty of casinos in CT and NV have removed table games to add slots (frustrating as a poker player).
• patio11 17y ago
  Slots, by about a factor of two. http://pressofatlanticcity.com/business/article_c0ca05f5-ffb9-5086-b33a-3f909e732c65.html http://pressofatlanticcity.com/business/article_c0ca05f5-ffb... http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:L3TQaSi_1VAJ:www.state.nj.us/casinos/home/news/pdf/2009/200904_revenue.pdf+percentage+of+casino+revenue+by+game&cd=5&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:L3TQaSi_1VAJ:www.state.... The reasons aren't too hard to fathom: The expected value of a single spin is about 92% of what you paid. The machines let people push money through them at high velocities. Their effective "uptime" is much, much higher than table games.