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There was a time not long ago that I worked in a poker room that was making a small profit. The casino decided to give up that small profit to replace it with empty space to get poker players out of their casino. The demographics have changed enough that casinos suits (for the most part anyway) aren't concerned about poker players scaring away their other guests.
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Randy - I wonder if you knew a northern Nevada based card room manager named Dan Sullivan who used to post on RGP several years back.
I believe he's retired now put he had great posts on the realities of card room surveillance and other good stuff. But to me his most memorable comment was that he considered it his job to make his cardroom invisible to upper casino management. In essence it was because he knew how awful the grinder/nit/poker players treated the high rolling casino guests when they choose to sit in a poker game.
Just before posting found
this classic thread which relates in part to the topic of poker room profitability along with other items of interest. Highly recommended read especially if you include my links to Dan's three part series on surveillance.
~ Rick