Tweak, tweak, tweak and believe no one will notice, and then you go out of business
You cut the comps, cut the amount of points earned for X amount of play, cut a rule here and there in blackjack and tighten up the payouts on the slots, and casino management believes no one will notice.
When you are an advantage player, often playing unrated, comps are a low secondary priority but still a nice thing to receive. You are much more interested in the rules and pen of a blackjack game than in how long and how much you need to play to get a meal or room, but we are a very tiny minority of a casinos customers and very different. Cut a slot players free play or cash back and they are angry. Tell a guy who was getting $100 free play that even though he is playing just as much he now gets $25 and he considers that a high insult.
Over the past month I have played in several Indian places and had a Vegas trip where I played in 8 or so casinos. People are staying away and casinos by cutting things like cash back and free play are saying that they have given up on trying to get people in the door and will only concentrate on fleecing the people who actually walk in the door, faster. This technique, if successful, will result in an ever decreasing amount of players (they lost all their money) who are not being replaced by new players. A formula for complete failure.
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