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I might change my mind if the drop is reduced significantly.


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Total cost for dealers for a live game is maybe $15 an hour per table?
Cost to rent the table is?

Difference (savings?) divided by 40 hands per hour?

Even adding the additional hands per hour the table might produce, I don't expect any "significant reduction" in drop.

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For comparison:

Four Winds Casino in New Buffalo Mich just installed 15 electronic poker tables. The rake is $3, plus $1 for a bbj. Hands per hour was 48.

A few minutes away in Northern Indiana, the casinos have all live dealers. Rake is $5, plus a $1 bbj, plus a dealer tip of $1. Hands per hour was 30.

So --- with the electronic tables you get 18 more hands per hour (over 50%) and there is only $4 taken off the table per hand compared to $7.