When you go into casinos these days then you will find many different types of clientele. The average person is there to simply have a good time and to maybe buy a few drinks and then spend a few dollars on the roulette tables purely out of entertainment. This probably represents about 75% of the people who frequent casinos and the number of times that they visit is maybe once or twice a week with many of them far less frequent than that.
Then we have a far smaller number of more serious players who we can call “regulars”. These people form the “bread and butter” of the casinos main revenue stream and in the UK then this is mainly from areas like the Chinese community. I would estimate that this makes up for about another 20-23% of the total database of customers. The remaining few percent are taken up with what I call the casino undesirables although many of these people can still be profitable for the casino.
This group of people make up the hardened gamblers and problem gamblers who have issues with how much they lose and also the other more shady types of character. These can be anything from opportunist cheats to people actively looking to cheat. Then we also have the hangers on who are looking for some punter who has struck it big to latch on to for the evening. There have been many a time that I have seen punters target people with money and toss them “tips” for numbers that they think will come up.
When those numbers do come up by pure chance then they are hoping that the punter will throw them a scrap like a few chips in the hope that they view them as some “guru” or lucky charm. This are mainly the three major groups of punters that frequent casinos and this will apply to anywhere in the world as a rule.
