kewljason said:
This in itself, is not a devastating developement for me. Although I had a few s17 games in my regular rotation, my list of best games, have all been h17 for several months now. It has been my experience that the few s17 games that remained were 'protected' with lousy penetration. What is more disturbing to me is this continuing trend of going to inferior games. Particularly troubling is the 6-5 sh*t. I had hoped that increasing venues all across the country would force casinos to compete more for customers and maybe offer better games. That certainly hasn't happened here in Vegas. When I see these idiots playing the 6-5 crap I just cringe. My observations are that the older ploppies are still somewhat resistant to it, but the young crowd is accepting it more and more. The 20 somethings that only care about getting drunk, getting laid and losing all their money. Unforetunately that will be enough for it to become the 'norm' over time. :sad:
Yes that is the root of the problem- the low standards of the younger people and newer players. It affects
everything in LV, not just the poor games but the food, drinks, entertainment, and general coarseness of the environment. There are still plenty of great games, just not there.
The spread of casino gaming isn't necessarily helping, as we're seeing in AC the good rules at the PA casinos haven't made AC follow suit, they just make their games worse because they figure all the players who know the difference aren't desirable customers anyway, PA can have them and AC can degrade their games without risking alienating their remaining players.
As a rule I believe a patron who knows S17 is better than H17 is a patron the LV casinos would rather not have taking up a seat at a $25 BJ game.