Below bfbagain prompted a discussion of theoretical casino profitability relative to pen levels. Much of the discussion was model driven as opposed to empirically driven. Bfbagain also pointed out that we are talking about large corporations that are profit driven and need to be responsive to shareholders. You would think that if a material amount of profitability could be gleaned from changing pen, rules etc. that the presence of bankers, consultants, activist shareholders etc. would have an impact of some sort to bring this to light.

Perhaps a consultant would not get very far bringing the idea of greater pen to a casino based on a stop watch and some expected win calculations. That might just seem too theoretical.

Recently on the Parker pages results by casino for AC were posted. I assume this data is available regularly? If so, wouldn't it be a relatively simple matter to track those results and compare them to the obvious variables (# of tables, rules, pen) taken from Trackjack or CBJN to tease out the "proof" of what is being said in the thread below?

Could anyone comment as to 1) whether this is feasible; 2) how conclusive they guess the findings would be given the number of variables; 3) whether it would make one iota of difference to the casinos; 4) whether the casinos already do this?