Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post

Make the games more short-term beatable again. Not for APs (though we'd all love that here), but for the average Joe who runs above expectation. Make it so people have enough winning trips to where they can forget about the losing ones, and delude themselves into thinking they're "about even".

Make food prices, in general, reasonable. You don't need to bring back the $6.99 steak dinners, but bring the prices down to where they feel like a good value. Allow people to buy snacks and coffee at normal prices, not horrible marked up prices.

Give hosts power again. Use computers for guidance to hosts, but don't neuter hosts to where they almost completely lack power.

Make the entertainment prices reasonable.

Bring back themes. Everything has become way too generic. Stop worrying about being tacky. Most people like the tackiness of Vegas. Those that don't can stay at places like the Wynn.

Completely eliminate all hidden fees.

Stop charging for parking.



Do all of the above, and the casinos aimed at lower-middle and middle-class clientele will rebound.

Book it.
This sounds like the Vegas I fell in love with. late 1990's (although that was before I ever got to Vegas) and early/mid 2000's. Not the Mob run Vegas of the 80's , but the Vegas controlled by corporations but run by legit casino people that knew what they were doing. Before they turned things over to the Business school geniuses.

House edges should be small. 3-2 blackjack (less than 1% house edge), single or maybe double zero roulette, VP paying 99%, slots upper 90%. The kind of advantage where if a recreational (non-AP) player comes to town for a couple days and plays 8-10 hours they still have a decent chance to win maybe 3 out of 10 trips.

But the casinos couldn't have that. They want all the gambler's money in 2 hours and the recreational gambler almost never winning for a trip. They only saw the short-term of that. Never looked at what that would mean long-term as far as declining customer base.

THAT is the story of the business school rejects taking control.
Because if they were rejected from business school they slummed it working for casinos...