Most casinos around the country have been reporting a decline in revenue caused by the slowing economy and fewer players visiting the casino. However according to a report published by the Chicago Daily Herald, Illinois casinos have generated a 20 percent increase in revenue between 2000 and 2007 despite a 13 percent drop in attendance. They are doing this by replacing older slot machines that had higher paybacks with newer machines with lower paybacks.

In 2000 only seven percent of the machines in the Illinois casinos had payback less than 90 percent. Last year that number jumped to 46 percent of the machines paying back less than 90 percent. I think if I were a slot player in Illinois, I would definitely learn how to play table games