Brantford has around 500 slots and 50 tables, while Flamboro has around 800 slots and a racetrack, but
Brantford appears to draw about 10% more patrons than Flamboro does. If Brantford's only getting slots revenue, they're evidently punching above their weight, despite lower net revenue to the municipality. Maybe synergy with the tables gives rise to an elevated eagerness to gamble, or maybe table players simply have more disposable income.
The OLG recorded 23,932,800 patrons across 23 sites during Fiscal 2010-11. 5,664,857 of those were at six OLG Casinos, and Brantford was the top performer, averaging around 3,800 patrons a day. Brantford is also one of a handful of Ontario casinos currently offering both slots and table games. That draw will soon be fairly commonplace, and I imagine that will impact revenues and foot traffic.
Elsewhere in informed guesswork:
56 per cent oppose Hamilton casino: Spec poll
(Hamilton Spectator, Steve Buist, Oct 20, 2012)
A sweeping new Spectator poll shows 56 per cent of respondents oppose a casino in Hamilton.
The telephone poll of 5,402 residents was conducted by The Spectator on Tuesday and Wednesday using an automated calling system. The poll results have a margin of error of plus or minus 1.33 per cent, 19 times out of 20. (See also: How we did it.)
A majority of respondents were against a Hamilton casino in each of the four broad geographic areas of the city surveyed — west Hamilton, the lower city, the upper city, and east Hamilton, including Stoney Creek.
In west Hamilton, which included Dundas, Ancaster and much of Waterdown, two out of three respondents were against the idea of a casino in Hamilton, the highest rate of opposition of the four areas.
Respondents in the upper city were the least likely to be opposed to a casino but still voted 51 per cent against the idea.
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