[JJNJustin]

There are five B&M casinos in my area. Greektown, Motor City, Windsor, Sarnia, and Mt. Pleasant. I know nothing about Sarnia.

Greektown has 18-20 tables, all of which are NL with timed drag except for 1-2 $3-6 limit games which have rake.

Motor City is the same, except for a few more limit games, maybe 4-5.

Windsor is the same as Greektown.

Mt. Pleasant is the only casino that the majority of the games are raked limit games. They usually have only 1-2 tables of timed NL games. This is the only casino of all of them that does not use automatic shufflers at all. You would think they stand to profit the most, yet the others stand to profit the least.

Isnt is strange that the games in Downtown Detroit are primarily no-limit, yet 2 1/2 hours north there is a huge divergence in popularity towards limit games? On the weekends they even spread limit O8B and 7-stud.

One possible explanation is that Mt. Pleasant dealers are non-unionized, and hence are much quicker than the union dealers downtown, who are incredibly slow. Also, Mt. Pleasant is an Indian casino, and the regulations may be less stringent. Automatic shufflers may not increase the profits in Mt. Pleasant by as much, seeing as the dealers are already fast. The casinos downtown may try to "push" NL games because they make the maximum hourly profit, despite having slow union dealers which they can do nothing about.

But then why do they bother to lease shufflers? Strictly for player contentment and security reasons? This is entirely reasonable, but also very expensive. I guess this is why the rake is very high here in Detroit.

-J