SooPoo, I give my hosts Holiday gifts and now and again other tangible gifts, but I have never handed a host cash. The host's job is to take care of the player win lose or draw based on action. It probably does make sense that as a host gets more and bigger players that the host would move up in the ranks to a higher salaried position, such as a higher level host (Executive Host), the top host in charge of the other hosts, VP of Player Development, and such, but some of that comes simply from working at a job long enough and doing it well. (Which might be why that independent host from that documentary is no longer an independent host, and just works these days as a player development guy for The D / Circa downtown.) Or to put it more nicely, why say anything unless you know for certain? I do know for certain how it works these days in Vegas.ĭarkOz, I believe actually - at the TIME that Theroux documentary was filmed - that at that time INDEPENDENT hosts in Vegas might have gotten a % of the loss of their players, but no longer.

It is tempting to believe that hosts make more off losing players but this sort of thinking is coming from people who sit at home thinking too much, instead of actually entering the bullpen and living it. He was wagering fifty grand a spin at roulette! His words were something akin to 'We don't care if you win or lose, but give us a shot at your money'. I saw a documentary where the host had that Canadian bed mattress whale and when he didn't play for two days the host begged him to. This may be different for whales ($50,000 wagers etc). It's old history that doesn't occur anymore. I don't completely know about Vegas but if it is like most of the other markets, I concur with MDawg here. I am aware that in some Indian casinos in California INDEPENDENT (as in, outside) hosts still get a % of their players' losses, but even this sort of thing for independent hosts stopped years ago in Vegas.

The only thing that happens if a player doesn't play enough or flat out stops playing for long enough is that if the host is a top level one will simply drop the player to a different host or have the player assigned to no specific host at all. It might've been years and years ago, but these days at every Vegas casino I play at in house hosts are salaried and don't get a penny more or less if their players win or lose.

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