桌上游戏的成功常常是衡量游戏是否过时和不准确的标准。由于某种原因，它已经成为许多赌桌游戏运营商最后的一个法子。多少游戏产生意味着会为你收获多少金钱。实行一种简单的措施，典型的的例子，一个玩家在搅动了多少次提款之前，他的投资都是不确定的。如果玩家付出很多钱，而却只能玩一点，那么对于运营商来说他的业绩只能一路下滑了。如果玩家很多，出入频繁，但只需要花费很少的钱，那么运营商的收入也就会一路上扬。此外，与游戏无关的鸡毛蒜皮的小事，都可直接影响到赌场的生意，例如照明，噪音，室温，特殊事件等等。

　　21点的赔率一般保持在14％左右，但在拉斯维加斯地带，则约为12％。有一些赌场，实现保持18％以上的赔率，这是相当好的。这主要是在当地的赌场，并且一般在边远地区。但是，当管理人员要求知道为什么保持下来，并要你为此做一些事情的时候，你要想到你需要的是什么。

　　对于持有措施的总次数，一个玩家只有在玩游戏之后才会提款付账，有两个明显的的方式来增加玩家的支付。首先，保持在赌桌的数量，保证玩家可以有一个较长的时间段在赌桌上玩，这样玩家就可以增加。然而，一旦赌场建立优质的服务，有一个舒适和愉快的环境，免费饮料，但事实上是很少可以可以扩充赌博的时间。其他方法是让每个玩家多参与到赌博中来，在固定的时间内，让他们做到赌桌旁。

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　　Quite often the success of table games is measured by the antiquated and inaccurate 揾old. （And for some reason, it has become the final nail in the coffin for many a table games operator.）   How much profit a game generates and how much it holds have very little to do with each other.   The hold simply measures how many times a typical player churns his investment before cashing out.  If players buy in for a lot and play a little, the hold goes way down.   If players make frequent but small buy-ins, the hold goes way up.  Moreover, the hold can be directly affected by any number of trivial matters having nothing to do with gaming: lighting, noise, room temperature, special events, and so on.

　　The typical hold for blackjack is about 14%, but on the Las Vegas strip it is much worse, about 12%.  There are some casinos that achieve a hold upwards of 18% -- local casinos in hard to reach outlying areas.  But when management demands to know why the hold is down and wants you to do something about it, you have to figure something out.

　　Because the hold measures the total number of times a player抯 buy-in is played before cashing out, there are two obvious ways to increase the hold.  First of all, hold can be increased by keeping players at the table for a longer period of time （揾old  on to them）。  However, once the casino has established superior service by having a comfortable and fun environment with free drinks, there is really very little more that can be done to increase the duration of play.  The other approach to increasing the hold is to get each player to play more hands in the fixed period of time they are seated at the table.

　　Along these lines, I抦 going to offer five tips for fine tuning your pit operations to increase your hold percentage