\u2026We do have limited space, and the former poker area is currently occupied by some of our highest-performing slot machines,\u201d she was quoted by State House News Service<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n“Because of this labor crunch, reopening poker right now would necessitate the closure of other table games. We simply don’t have the staff available to do both,” Krum added.<\/p>\n
Encore has told dealers trained in poker it would pay for training for another table game, the report adds. \u201cIf we could add another floor to the casino we would,\u201d Krum told the MGC members.<\/p>\n
\u201cPart of the issue that we’re facing right now is we have the jobs and we can’t get people to fill the jobs,” she added.<\/p>\n
More Poker Players Complain<\/h2>\n
On Thursday, Bruce Band, MGC\u2019s assistant director of the Investigations and Enforcement Bureau and chief of the Gaming Agents Division, told the commissioners the lack of poker at Encore has increased public complaints from about four or five a month to approximately 45 to 50 a month, the report adds.<\/p>\n
The MGC is holding off issuing an order to resume poker at the gaming properties. It will monitor the situation and not micromanage the casino, MGC Chairwoman Cathy Judd-Stein said.<\/p>\n
\u2026 I’m hearing that poker in the poker room has been replaced by very high revenue-generating slot machines, and I appreciate that, again, given our overall desire to maximize revenues,\u201d Judd-Stein added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\u201c\u2026 I am thinking about that proverbial slippery slope, because with each table game comes another part of those objectives, which is … providing a high number of quality jobs,\u201d she said. \u201cWe know that table games provide more jobs than slot machines.\u201d<\/p>\n
Last month, McGowan told Casino.org,<\/em> \u201cPoker never really attracted the kind of audience that could make it profitable.<\/p>\n\u201cUnless some of the high rollers demand that it return, there is no reason to reinstate<\/a> it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Massachusetts\u2019 Encore Boston Harbor is unable to find sufficient dealers for its casino table games. That is “not at all\u201d a surprise, given current conditions, according to an expert on New England gambling trends. The Rev. Richard McGowan, a finance professor at Boston College, predicts gaming properties like Encore may be forced to raise salaries […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":181581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33810,18],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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