Table Games Bring Younger Crowd

With SugarHouse and Foxwoods winning the slot machine licenses for Philadelphia, many are wondering how they are going to meet the expectations that they and the state have put on them. For starters, where are the table games? With Atlantic City only about an hour away, many are going to make the trip instead of staying in their own backyard where all they have to offer is slot machines.

The area that the new casinos are going into is traffic plagued, and many are concerned that it is going to be completely unmanageable once the casinos are up and running as well. This is another reason to make the drive to AC, where traffic is an issue that is dealt with.

Many other casinos have table games, and those casinos are located in areas where they have made lots of money. The draw is not just the slot machines, although they are casinos’ biggest money makers – the draw is the tables. This isn’t even taking into consideration who you want your clientele to be.

Table games bring in younger players; players who have a lot of money. Slot machines traditionally bring in your older players who don’t have a lot to lose. These players will come for the table games, and they will spend their money at them, as well as other things at the casinos. However, without table games, Pennsylvania is only giving their clients slot machines to play, which in the long run means less income and revenue.

There is more at stake here than just some slot machines; the whole city is at risk. If the casinos are able to bring people into their slot machines in droves, then they will be successful and so will the city. However, if people continue to go to Atlantic City to gamble then the draw will not be there and the city will suffer the consequences.

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