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Tthree
What you aren't factoring in is gamblers travel together. A big table games player will have a wife in tow playing $5 slot machines as fast a she can hit the button. A guys weekend goes to the casino that has the best game for the guy that has variability in game offerings. A small stakes BJ player may have high rolling ploppy buddies that play any number of other games. The games that are played within the group that have different offerings determine where they go because nobody else has a reason to have a preference. That means higher odds in craps and a better blackjack game are what will turn the group to your casino. There aren't many other game differences that would make one casino more attractive than the other. Then people get used to the new destination and don't go back even when nobody is lobbying for the new destination. They start bringing other friends. Etc etc. Any business owner knows the trick is first to get new customers in the door. It is much easier to keep a customer than find a new one. By not changing to compete they continually lose customers and aren't getting new ones to replace them. It is business 101 and they think it doesn't apply to gamblers when in fact it applies even more to gamblers.
Case in point. My home state has had table games for quite a while and I still don't go to any of them. They have great rules but so do the places I am used to going. Their being closer doesn't matter much to me. I do very well and like what I am already doing. If the rules took a nose dive in neighboring states I would be hitting these casinos. So far the only difference is the home state casinos are reported to be high limits, crowded and smoky. I don't like any of these things and don't have to deal with any of these things in neighboring states. I would endure them for better rules closer to home but that isn't the case at this time.
1. Three, you are not a desirable customer for a casino so the fact that you drive further to better games is irrelevant if we are trying to help AC make more money.
2. With the table game player and wife example, in my experience its more important that a casino have a particular type of slot machine that the wife likes rather than what the BJ rules are for the husband
3. I understand your points about groups of guys being influenced by someone that cares about good rules and i'm sure that happens, but i think that is the extreme minority of cases.
All of this comes back to my point that simply offering better BJ rules is nowhere near enough to stop or reverse the decline that AC has seen. Competition and convenience are the major factors at play here in my opinion.
I think there is an argument that AC has not done enough to distinguish themselves from nearby competition but those are things unrelated to the quality of their BJ. Vegas has done an excellent job of this. Gambling will expand all around the world yet people are still going to book trips to vegas because it is so unlike any of the local casinos that people play at back home. People aren't flocking to vegas for good BJ rules.
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