Follow-up on the Palms

As predicted, the 50-cent full pay deuces have been removed from the Palms.

This violates the general rule that it's better for a casino not to offer something attractive to players and yank it away, then never to offer it at all.

One clue that the 50-cent deuces wouldn't last was that there were a number of them adjacent to one another, making it possible for several people at once to play two machines at a time. And these machines were fast! The set-up was a magnet for advantage players.

When new management took over from founder George Maloof at the Palms, it removed the 25-cent full-pay deuces progressive (and other potential advantage plays). Why the new management thought the 50-cent deuces wouldn't hurt the bottom line as much as the quarter deuces is beyond me.

I was told a few months ago the new management's changes in video poker at the Palms were over. Apparently that wasn't true.