Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
From time to time, I am invited to have dinner with a top exec at CET. I won't identify them here, but it is a private dinner -- just the two of us. I am picked because of being a 7Stars player but I also think it has to do with my business -- it never hurts to talk to a guy in the media who also happens to be quoted in the LVRJ from time to time on casino matters.

I mention this because during a dinner about a year ago I mentioned to a high level exec that his pay tables on VP sucked. And as a result his machines were empty, including in the high limit room. I said to him something like this: even if you had so-called full-pay machines you would still make a profit off of them. Now, you have a lot of machines with empty seats and zero revenue. Well, he looked like me like I was talking Martian. I really think the bean counters have absolutely no knowledge of marketing or even how to run a casino.
Good story, Alan. That actually makes a lot of sense for a large casino company because of the multiple management layers. I'm wondering if it had been more fruitful to discuss the paytables with the slot manager, instead. The high-level execs probably would be more focused on the general operations of the casino rather than the very specifics of only a few games with a niche interest (ie. the VP games we like to play).