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This should tell you that the casinos make so much money that American casino companies are falling all over themselves—and spending hundreds of millions of dollars—to build the next one. And why are they making so much money? Because the games they offer in the casino don’t offer the players much chance of winning. The tables have a built in house edge, and the slots are simply computers programmed to win more for the casino than they pay out.
Raining on the Casino s Parade
These days, we stay between 120 and 150 nights a year in hotel-casinos all over the country—all free. Now, I’ll be the first to admit that I’m a little obsessive about casino free games rooms and comped meals, and I go to great lengths not to have to pay for what I can just as easily get gratis. It’s probably true that not just anyone can be the Queen (or King) of Comps. But it’s also true that even the most casual once-a-year casino visitor can profit from the hundreds of tips and hints in the following pages and learn to parlay the benefits of positive-expectation games, comps, promotions, slot club memberships, airline bumps, and miscellaneous tricks into a whole lot of free stuff along the way.
In fact, I’ll begin by saying that the less you know about how casinos operate the better. How can that be? Because then I don’t have to set you straight on the many untruths that people believe—and that the casinos use to their advantage—about how the whole gambling game is played. Let’s take a look at a few of these myths.
Myth One
The casino will always make a big effort to get your business.
Well, you’d think this would be true, but I find it to be one of the most widespread untruths in the gambling business. Casinos don’t do nearly as much as they could to get your business. They seem to feel that it’s a kind of reverse Field of Dreams scenario: if they build it, you will come. And when they do try, the efforts more often than not are insufficient. Sometimes they run promotions and the casino employees aren’t even aware of them!
My biggest gripe is with the way some casinos run their coupon programs. I don’t know how many times I’ve sat down at a blackjack table, put down a coupon with my bet, and watched the dealer stop the game dead, pick up the coupon, read it with a puzzled expression on his face, and comment, “I’ve never seen one of these before. Must be some new program they came up with upstairs.” Then the pit boss has to be called over, and invariably the same routine is repeated. By the time they’ve figured out how the coupon works, the whole table is mad at me for holding up the game.
Worse yet is when I sit down with a coupon and the dealer gives me a disparaging look or makes a sarcastic comment. The casino has paid a lot of money to have its coupons printed, promoted, and distributed so that more people will visit, and all the efforts are effectively negated by rude employees.
Another wasted opportunity is when a casino has a slot club, but you can’t tell that it does. There’s nothing on the machines that tells you that they’re hooked up to a slot club. The slot club booth is hid- den in an out-of-the-way corner someplace and there are no brochures or signs that tell you there’s a slot club to join and freebies to acquire. Some casinos do a good job at promoting their slot clubs and promotions, but many don’t. You have to hunt for what you want to find.
Myth Two
The casino wants your name and address for devious purposes.
No, the casino wants your name and address so it can give you stuff. Unless you’re cheating, are a fledgling card counter (and haven’t figured out how to manage your identity), or aren’t supposed to be in a casino for some reason, you should always give your name and address to anyone connected with the casino who asks. The casino wants your vital statistics so it can send you invitations to parties and promotions and give you free rooms and comped food. Give up your name and address if the pit boss or slot host asks for it. There’s nothing to be afraid of.
I can’t count the number of times someone has given this reason for deliberately not joining a slot club: “I don’t want the casino to know how much I win or lose.” The casino doesn’t base its slot club benefits on your win/loss numbers (although it does keep records of it). Comp decisions are based on the amount of money you put through the machine (original buy-in and winnings you’re constantly churning back through, whether by coin or credit play). I want the casino to know that we put about $600-$700 an hour through a 25 video poker machine (about $4,800-$5,600 in our typical combined eight-hour day). That kind of action qualifies us (win or lose) for between $60 and $160 worth of slot club freebies in the form of some combination of rooms, meals, cash, services, and gifts. Be paranoid if you must—but you’re paying a high price for unnecessary privacy.
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