In July, it announced a $400 million expansion plan, to add 1,000 gaming positions and a 400-room hotel by 2019.
Open less than five years, Resorts World currently has 5,500 electronic gaming machines. “So if you like to play video poker, you should be aware that there is no skill in these games and the results are determined purely by chance,” he says in the video. And even the exclusive high roller suites and rooms are set up for players to wager on electronic table games.)īourie also notes that New York slots are lottery-based, meaning winners and losers are predetermined, similar to scratch-off tickets. (If you visit, you’ll see banks of roulette stations for one electronic ball in most other casinos, such games have only a handful of seats. Those games have a higher payback percentage – often as high as 99 percent - than your run-of-the-mill slot machine, so they skew the payback math. Of course there’s a reason: New York doesn’t allow live table games, and more than 1,000 seats at Resorts World are for electronic roulette, blackjack, and baccarat. This year he found that Resorts World, the casino based at Aqueduct Racetrack, returned 95.05 cents on each dollar wagered.
“I used to have to request them by phone, then wait for states to mail them to me,” he says, noting that the task was then somewhat easier because there were fewer states with casinos than today.
