It almost seems that there’s collusion between casino companies that in theory should be competitors to keep up in the use of new technology. There’s always been a ‘take it or leave it’ mentality about a casino’s gaming options. For many years they were able to get protection from rapid technological changes due to regulatory cronyism and other backroom dealings. They’d rather just keep doing things like they always have until they can no longer milk a buck out of it. This has also been done in other areas of the casino (anyone under the age of 40 won’t remember when ‘change girls’ were ubiquitous in video poker and slots banks but for many years casinos were hesitant to tinker with the games themselves.Ĭasino management–even up to the corporate level in huge publicly traded companies–major and perhaps one-day fatal flaw is that they lack vision. Like many other areas of the gambling and casino industry rapid technological growth has allowed the offering of identical (or identical enough for undiscerning tourists) table games using fewer–and in some cases no–human employees. In many casinos and jurisdictions ‘table games’ as we once knew them are a complete anachronism. It’s interesting how the once tidy division between ‘video games (poker, slots, keno)’ and ‘table games’ are rapidly converging in the gambling industry. THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN CRAPS AND VIDEO CRAPS
