Flipping channels I caught part of American Casino tonight. The slots manager commented that because of some promotion going on they had $9 Million Dollars go into the slot/VP machines in ONE DAY!!! The big jackpot everyone was after was less than $150k.
What a sleezy industry we're in bed with!
is that coin-in was 9M...the hold wasn't 9M and the drop wasn't 9M....the 9M was just the combined churn of play on a few specific banks of progressive machines. Specifically it probably it was a certain bank of Hi Denomination machines (or several banks of smaller video poker progressives) at which a slot team or just a group of solo players played every machine around the clock in an attempt to take down the progressive.
Casinos and gambling are what they are. Nobody's ever claimed it was one of the more noble or selfless industries out there. It's never been a secret that they're there to make money. I think just about everyone who plays slot machines knows they are going to lose money, but they take their chances and most have fun -- I don't see anything sleazy about it, per se.
Certainly the casino industry isn't nearly as sleazy as countless examples from dozens of other industries, such as the pharmaceutical, health, oil, insurance, legal, credit card, & tobacco industries, to name a few.
