MasterP

[Dravyk]

Real-time casinos have many ways of altering their (pick one) house take / odds ...

The other day some show about Vegas (probably another Travel Channel one) quoted the odds on $1 slots, quarter slots and nickel slots. The higher machine you play, it's built into the machines the looser the odds. Anyways a "real" casino has the ability and a certain leeway within a legal framework that they can alter odds. I'm sure an online one with scripting has more freedom to do so.

Another thing I've noticed over the years, in both AC and Vegas, is that busy casinos have tigher slots. Casinos not often visited have looser ones. Is it that casinos set the house take lower to drum up business, or a mathematical forumula that the less people the better (better slot pulls, better poker hands, etc) or maybe it's a combination of the two. No idea, but food for thought.

I would say though that increasing player odds or giving better hands would be a very smart thing to do draw in people from other places.