And what about slots players? What about slots players? (Come on, you know where this is going.)
This is what I hear when I hear them say they play the slots. I quote one from last week: "I'm just a slots player." (Alone?) Or two weeks ago: "I only play slots." (Only?)
There is no puffed-up, puffed-chested pride in playing a machine, no sense of achievement or arcane knowledge. You press a button; a decision is reached; you push the button again and that's all you need to know. You are not a member of the aristocracy by doing this. It's just "pressing" the button; wait for a decision and press the button again. That's all there is ? Yes and no.
You will see; the game played by a player is just a game. It has no intrinsic meaning. It is simply what the player thinks it is. Don't you think slots are something? The casino doesn't think so. You are welcome. You are welcome.
You will see that the true value of the slot machine is determined by the casino, not what a player thinks. Are craps players far above the “slots peasant class”? Not precisely. The casino would get rid of all its craps tables before it got rid of all its slot machines.
The casino would get rid of all its roulette games before it got rid of all its slot machines. Yeah, add in blackjack, mini-baccarat, and every other table game, and every single one of them would be kicked out of the gaming house before a casino would release all of its slots.
How important is the slot machine for a casino? The most important game of all. Between 65 and 90 percent of casino revenue comes from those former one-armed bandits, as they've been called since the prohibition era.
There would be no revolution in casinos without slot machines. The world is now full of slot machines, of all varieties and denominations, and when I say the "world", in fact, I mean the "world". There is no casino industry without slot machines. In fact, there are some casinos near me that don't have actual table games. They have purchased fake table game machines that simply imitate live table games. What imitates something is not the thing itself.
And what about slots players? They are the biggest players in the casinos, in the “world” of casinos, and they should know it.
Words like "only" should not apply to any slots player. No sir. A slots player must think of himself as the prime mover of an empire that has surpassed ancient Rome. The casino aristocracy? Go check out the slot aisles and you'll find out!
