[Siegmund]

30 drawings a week at $100 each = fixed expense of 100k a year. They only increase past $100 when they aren't hit. And you are SURE this isn't paid for by taking a few hundred from the jackpot drop every day? (I just assumed it was jackpot money - never occurred to me that that might NOT be the source of this money, actually.)

Must-be-present-to-win drawings held only certain days of the week, incidentally = EV absolutely zero, to anyone who works those days of the week or who (like me) only gets to play for a day or two when he passes through town on business.

I don't begrudge the locals some loyalty perks. But I can think of a lot of ways I'd rather see them do it than the one they use. And they are very clever to make it look like a lot more money than it really is.