If I was at the casino, I would pulled and piece of paper out of my pocket and told her to "GO SCREW" in the words of Anthony Cumia.
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--- On Fri, 2/20/09, free_roll_kent <freerollkent@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: free_roll_kent <freerollkent@yahoo.com>
Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Anyone ever been lectured by the players club for "not playing right"?
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, February 20, 2009, 10:57 AM
What's the name of this parituclar casino?
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups. com, "bdhabm" <bdhabm@...> wrote:
---I don't understand keeping the casino nameless. Let's put it out
there. I had something similar happen at the Tuscany. Play every
week
or no more mailer. I told them no more mailer that I will play when
I
want and not when you want.
>
> This happened recently at a casino which will remain nameless,
but
> which we'll call the "you'd Better Play" casino. First, some
> background information. This place does not have what you would
> call great VP. The best available games are just marginally OK,
and
> the bounceback mailers are not very inspiring. Frequent play
there
> cannot possibly be justified - unless you want to lose. It takes
> about 3 or 4 months worth of bounceback free play to gain any
sort
> of decent mathematical advantage from a single day of play - so
> that's what I do. Play heavy one single day, then collect the
free
> play for the next several months until the mailers just about dry
> up, then repeat. I wouldn't bother with this place at all except
> that it does add roughly $1000 to my yearly expectation, and it's
> reasonably convenient to drop in and collect when I'm passing by
on
> the way to other casinos in the area, so it remains on my list of
> stops, for now.
>
> This place has started to "lock" players cards of people who
collect
> free play without additional play. One has to visit the players
> club to get your card reset, which is a pain. (It also serves to
> thwart certain players who have "multiple personality disorder",
but
> I don't use that approach.) Anyway, I'm at the players club
booth
> to get my card unlocked for the umpteenth time, and the booth
person
> proceeds to read me a prepared statement from her computer
screen.
> To summarize, she said in so many words that I was being a bad
boy
> for collecting free play without further play, that the casino
> expected players to keep playing beyond just the free play
amount,
> and that if I kept doing what I was doing, bad things could
happen,
> like my mail being cut off.
>
> While none of what she said was any news to me, I could not
believe
> that the casino would come right out and say it - from a prepared
> script no less. (Apparently I'm not the only person using this
> approach at this casino if they had gone to the trouble to create
a
> prepared statement.) Normally, if they really don't like your
> style, they'll just stop your mail completely, or drop your
offers
> down to something extremely low like $5 per month, so that you
will
> go away. They don't normally give you a schoolboy lecture first.
> Casinos seem to be getting more and more bold with
their "customer
> must lose every visit" attitude. Eventually, casinos will
consist
> of nothing but a small building with a mail slot in the front
door
> where you can simply drop off some money on your way down the
road.
>
>
> Has anyone else here been given a similar "you're not playing
right"
> lecture for their VP play?
>
> EE
>
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