{"id":15277,"date":"2014-12-29T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=15277"},"modified":"2014-12-29T10:55:55","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T18:55:55","slug":"quote-of-the-day-609","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-609\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/slot-machine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10103\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/slot-machine-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"slot machine\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/slot-machine-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/slot-machine-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/slot-machine.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe have hit the tipping point. The industry has embarked upon the unsound strategy of raising the price of the product. I don\u2019t think they want to admit they priced it too high. They keep adding bonusing rounds and top-box features with bells and whistles, but they are expensive. In<strong> Nevada<\/strong>, some gaming operators even petitioned the state to raise the maximum allowable hold percentage.\u00a0Contrast that with a place like <strong>West Memphis<\/strong> [Arkansas], which has Instant Racing at what I believe is about 5.5% hold, and the game is very popular. They have about 1,000 machines and they are packed, while <strong>Tunica<\/strong> is dying on the vine.\u201d &#8212; <strong>Global Market Advisors<\/strong> co-founder <strong>Andrew Klebanow<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/ggbmagazine.com\/issue\/vol-14-no-1-january-2015\/article\/going-global1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">on trends that may be depressing<\/a> the American gaming market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe have hit the tipping point. The industry has embarked upon the unsound strategy of raising the price of the product. I don\u2019t think they want to admit they priced it too high. They keep adding bonusing rounds and top-box &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-609\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,53,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15280,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15277\/revisions\/15280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}