AS I understand it (I haven’t been there for years), the tables start cheaper and go up as the night goes on (but if you started lower you can continue at that rate). More and more people don’t gamble in AC, for two reasons: 1) Far less people have money to gamble, and 2) there are better alternatives now that didn’t exist when the casinos opened. For me, living about a dozen miles west of Manhattan in northeastern NJ, the Connecticut casinos are roughly the same distance but in a much nicer area; now Pennsylvania has casinos a little more than an hour west of me, and they are also in better areas. As I understand it from friends who still go, parts of the boardwalk have become very unsafe; I’m sure crime has risen as casino revenues for the city/county/state have dropped.
Yes, people from PA, NY, CT, and beyond have options now that did not exist 20-30 years ago, and Atlantic City casino business is suffering. Libs try to blame Trump for casino business issues in Atlantic City, which is ridiculous. No matter who owned the casinos there, they were going to be in big trouble as more and more casinos opened around their key target markets.