People are talking at cross-purposes here. In the old days, casinos figured 2% loss and then comped at about a 40% rate. It was easy to verify those numbers when you received the comps. Little by little, they got much stingier, first assuming, for the better BS players, that the loss rate wouldn't be even 1%, and would be more like the 0.75% being discussed above, if not the more accurate 0.5%. Finally, they simply stopped giving 40% of that figure and went to 20%, if you were lucky. And none EVER figured 100 hands per hour--always 70. So, if you played alone, to win more, it hurt your comps, because you were playing 200 hands an hour but were getting credit for only 70. I know of no casino where they ever changed the hands per hour assumption based on how many players were at the table. So, that hurt as well.

So places that, for the $100 average-bet player, used to comp $100 x 70 x 2% x 40% = $56 per hour now are comping the insulting, minuscule $100 x 70 x 0.5% x 20% = $7 per hour!!

All the comps these days go to the slot players.

Don