The CourierPost has another article about the rising popularity of poker. The article includes some good financial facts from the Atlantic City poker rooms:
Poker revenue rose 5 percent from August 2002 to August 2003 - from $3 million to $3.14 million - at Bally's, Harrah's, Tropicana and Trump Taj Mahal. But new card rooms at the Borgata and Sands raised total revenues to more than $3.9 million, putting the year's overall gain at about 30 percent.
The rise in popularity is great for casinos and for poker in general, but it's not great for the dealers! Our poker room has more than doubled in players/games/hours played in the last year but our toke rate has nearly been cut in half. To new players: you don't see it on tv or during tournaments (although it's definitely appreciated afterwards!) but you can occasionally toke the dealer.
Posted by: kevin on December 10, 2003 04:40 AM
awesome stuff! thanks for all the information. out little pieces of bread and cups of juice: http://skys.jp/blog/archives/200504/06-1228.php , small brain blog
Posted by: matthew jones on October 8, 2005 06:13 AM
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