In a message dated 10/15/2002 9:53:33 PM Pacific Standard Time,
vpFREE@yahoogroups.com writes:
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 13:55:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Elaine Rose <atlanticcityrose@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Would someone please write about pros/cons of daily/trip
average?As an AC local, I really don't pay much attention to trip averages. I
play when and where I want and just take whatever goodies I'm offered.
These are much better in AC than in Vegas. And, I should add, I seldom take
a room.
I'm more likely to go to a casino in the first place if they're giving
away something that day. Of course, I'll stay and play a few hours. If I
just feel like hitting the casinos, I have a couple of favorite joints, and
I decide which one I'll hit that night.
I have found, at least in AC, that short "trips" do not hurt my offers.
Sometimes I stop in and play for an hour or so. Sometimes I stop to pick up
an offer I want, and play only 15 minutes because I have to be somewhere
else. The offers still come as long as I give them enough overall action.
Again, I don't want rooms and RFB packages, just bounceback, comps and
occasional gifts.
When I go to Vegas, I stay at the joints that offer me the best room
deal, and give them at least a few hours of play a day in exchange. But I
also like to hop around town, and see what comes in the mail.
Unfortunately, I end up paying for most of my meals when I go to Vegas, but
that's life.
Some casinos let you "bank" your comps, or base your perks on the total
amount of play you give over a certain period of time. So if you earn 1,000
points in one trip or in 10, you are just as valuable to the casino and get
the comps accordingly. You may want to concentrate your play in one or two
of those. You have to test the waters a bit and patronize the joints that
reward the way you like to play.
I do use a strategy that is dependent on event, location & whether or not the
casino is a banking or trip-average casino.
E.G. If I'm staying RFB (room, food & beverage) or RFL (room, food limited),
I'll eat most of my meals at the casino or at casinos within the family.
RFB/RFL is normally in trip-average casinos. I try to avoid asking for "hard"
comps even if my play warrants it as any slack you leave them on prior trips
is a consideration when you really want something.
At some casinos I gamble only to a "room only" status as I have plenty of
comps in local casinos that I never seem to work off & often it is better to
just pay for the meals during specials than putting in the extra $/hrs to get
free meals.
At casinos where comps are banked (mostly local casinos), I have the most fun
since I don't need to be concerned about gambling to a certain level or be
concerned about losing comps at the end of the trip. Thinking back to the
RFB/RFL status, that status kind of keeps you a prisoner at one casino since
you don't want to go anywhere else to eat in order to maximize the status.
One of my favorite places to use the room only eat cheap/elsewhere strategy
is at Hard Rock especially since they normally give me a pool view. For those
that are interested in bargain dining, there are a lot of dining specials
nearby--steak & shrimp at Mr. Lucky's, Ellis Island steak dinner, San Remo,
Terribles (meal comps are easy to earn). Later on this year, Tuscany (half a
long block W of Key Largo on Flamingo) will open its casino & will probably
have some specials during its introduction.
In any case, banking systems are what everyone used to have & its the system
that I would like to see everyone return to.
If casinos are afraid of the "overhang" from old comps, then I suggest they
do what the airlines do & have old comps expire after a certain period of
time or be redeemed at a lower %.
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