let's get the facts straight: poker makes money

[daveT]

What everyone is forgetting is that the modern customer doesn't go to Vegas just to pull a slot handle.

Some people go to play poker and nothing else. Some people go for the shows and nothing else. The casinos are going to do everything in their power to lock up every revenue stream possible. No one can predict what the future will hold. Before Thorpe, Blackjack was a parlor game, less popular than Faro.

It behooves the casinos to cater to the largest customer base possible. Poker rooms would not be maintained or opened if they were not self-sustaining and profitable.