Connecticut Casinos Go Coinless
Tuesday February 6, 2007
Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun Casinos in Connecticut have announced that they will be completely coinless by the end of 2007. They are joining casinos across the country in changing to electronic ticketing systems for their slot machines. Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun are tow of the biggest casinos in the world and they have a combined 13,000 slot machines between them. Some machines are already coinless and the remainder will be converted to the ticket in ticket out system.
The ticket system helps cut costs because casinos can merge coin and cage departments and no longer need to keep large amounts of coins in their vaults, industry officials say. When they were first introduced many players did not like the coinless system but it has rapidly become one of the changes to the slots that players like the most.
Comments
I think that when I had enough coins to fill a bucket I would cash in,pocket the bills, and start over WhenI play a coinless machine I seem to cash out with less,since it’s just a piece of paper, and management knows that many players feel the same. They always win, why should they try even harder to get all of our money?
It’s all about profits. With the ticket system, they can eliminate many attendants and other employees maintaining the coins. Now they are talking about automated (electronic) dealers at the card tables, again, not for the players convenience, but to reap more profits by eliminating even more employees and speeding up the game. The casino industry is blindly going in the wrong direction.