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Board Gambling discussion
Re: Gambling as a profession: there's people who live out of gambling?
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Rikafip
on 26/09/2019, 11:52:07 UTC
Contrary to the popular belief , casinos don't have huge profit margin. From my experience , they have less than 10%, after they pay all the taxes and licenses, and taxes for these kind of business are quite high. Truth to be told,i worked in Europe where taxes on these things are quite high, some specific places like Vegas or Macau might have lower taxes.
So it is not so easy, to just open casino and make easy money.
If you look at a real casino, then the payout percentage is up to 98%. And the casino lives on these 2% very well) The main thing here is to have a big turnaround. In an online casino, it is not known what percentage is paid. And this is the main problem.

98% payout might happen only in short period of time like few weeks, but in the long run casino wouldn't be able to function with that kind of payout percentage. It would be hard for casino to pay taxes, licenses, salaries etc with 2% and keep on running for a longer period.
From my work experience  in casinos, payout percentage is approximately 90% (talking about 1 year period).

I don’t know what position you occupied in the casino, but I’m sure that not all employees have access to financial documents. I did not work in a casino, but I gave these figures based on reports from Las Vegas casinos. I understand that in other casinos this percentage is lower.

You have to differentiate payout percentage on 1 specific slot machine in some specific amount of time, that can go up to 98%, to average payout percentage across let's say 100 slot machines that some casino has. So slot machine 1 can have 75%, slot machine 2 85%, slot machine 3 90%. and slot machine 4 98% and so on..

Just to add, payout percentage is regulated, so in some states minimum is set at 75%, while some have 80+%.