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eecounter · January 14, 2020, 5:19pm

I'm curious if anyone here has ever experienced negative consequences
from being "caught" playing on your wife's or husband's card. I have
had a number of occasions where a host will come up to me and
say "excuse me, are you <insert wife's name here>?" I usually laugh
and tell them that "oh, that's my wife", and add something like "she
was playing here a while ago, but went back to the room", or whatever
sounds appropriate for the situation. This doesn't seem to bother
them, and they typically smile and say "please tell your wife I stopped
by".

I would guess that spouses playing on each other's cards is very
common. Heck, it's easy enough to honestly stick the wrong card in the
machine by accident if you carry both cards in your wallet and don't
pay close attention. So far, it hasn't seemed to bother any of the
casino personnel that I've run into.

EE

Robert_Pickett · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

I thought husband and wife were allowed to play on the same account.

eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com> wrote: I'm curious if anyone here has ever experienced negative consequences
from being "caught" playing on your wife's or husband's card. I have
had a number of occasions where a host will come up to me and
say "excuse me, are you <insert wife's name here>?" I usually laugh
and tell them that "oh, that's my wife", and add something like "she
was playing here a while ago, but went back to the room", or whatever
sounds appropriate for the situation. This doesn't seem to bother
them, and they typically smile and say "please tell your wife I stopped
by".

I would guess that spouses playing on each other's cards is very
common. Heck, it's easy enough to honestly stick the wrong card in the
machine by accident if you carry both cards in your wallet and don't
pay close attention. So far, it hasn't seemed to bother any of the
casino personnel that I've run into.

EE

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Don_the_Dentist1 · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Robert Pickett <robert.pickett70@...>
wrote:

I thought husband and wife were allowed to play on the same

account.

True, but I think the discussion here is when the husband and wife
have two different accounts.

In every case, my wife and I have seperate accounts, so both of us
can earn points and the associated cash back, bounce back cash,
comps, offers, etc.

The Stations (including Fiestas) allow for spousal accounts to be
linked togehter, so the points available for a comp would be the
combination of the points in the two accounts.

I have hit taxables on my wife's card at many different casinos and
never have had a problem or any negative feedback.

Don the Dentist

Moe_Couture · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

My wife and I always play on one account. It allows us to achieve a higher tier without having to double our play.
An example is at Harrahs.. We only have one account and achieve Diamond Status without having to each play 100K coin in.
With only 100K, we get all the benefits of that tier.

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----- Original Message -----
  From: Robert Pickett
  To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Follow-up to "pesky host" question - playing with spouse's card

I thought husband and wife were allowed to play on the same account.

  eecounter <eecounter@hotmail.com> wrote: I'm curious if anyone here has ever experienced negative consequences
  from being "caught" playing on your wife's or husband's card. I have
  had a number of occasions where a host will come up to me and
  say "excuse me, are you <insert wife's name here>?" I usually laugh
  and tell them that "oh, that's my wife", and add something like "she
  was playing here a while ago, but went back to the room", or whatever
  sounds appropriate for the situation. This doesn't seem to bother
  them, and they typically smile and say "please tell your wife I stopped
  by".

  I would guess that spouses playing on each other's cards is very
  common. Heck, it's easy enough to honestly stick the wrong card in the
  machine by accident if you carry both cards in your wallet and don't
  pay close attention. So far, it hasn't seemed to bother any of the
  casino personnel that I've run into.

EE

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eecounter · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

My wife and I always play on one account. It allows us to achieve

a higher tier without having to double our play.

An example is at Harrahs.. We only have one account and achieve

Diamond Status without having to each play 100K coin in.

With only 100K, we get all the benefits of that tier.

It all depends on how much coin you plan to put through (which
depends on many things such as your bankroll, time you have to devote
to casino play, the attractiveness of the available games at the
casino in question, the "tier levels" for a casino, etc.). With
light play, spouses may be better off by playing under one account at
*some* casinos. With medium to heavy play, my experience is that a
couple is almost always better off splitting the play over two
accounts - otherwise the one account simply gets "overqualified" for
the bounce back benefits, (to use Bob Dancer's terminology).

EE

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Moe Couture" <a-1insp@...> wrote:

Moe_Couture · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

  >
  > My wife and I always play on one account. It allows us to achieve
  a higher tier without having to double our play.
  > An example is at Harrahs.. We only have one account and achieve
  Diamond Status without having to each play 100K coin in.
  > With only 100K, we get all the benefits of that tier.
  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  It all depends on how much coin you plan to put through (which
  depends on many things such as your bankroll, time you have to devote
  to casino play, the attractiveness of the available games at the
  casino in question, the "tier levels" for a casino, etc.). With
  light play, spouses may be better off by playing under one account at
  *some* casinos. With medium to heavy play, my experience is that a
  couple is almost always better off splitting the play over two
  accounts - otherwise the one account simply gets "overqualified" for
  the bounce back benefits, (to use Bob Dancer's terminology).

EE

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----- Original Message -----
  From: eecounter
  To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:34 PM
  Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Follow-up to "pesky host" question - playing with spouse's card

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Moe Couture" <a-1insp@...> wrote:

Moe_Couture · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

Our yearly play is just enough to get us a Diamond Rating. 7* would be impossible for us.

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----- Original Message -----
  From: eecounter
  To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
  Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 3:34 PM
  Subject: [vpFREE] Re: Follow-up to "pesky host" question - playing with spouse's card

  --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Moe Couture" <a-1insp@...> wrote:
  >
  >
  > My wife and I always play on one account. It allows us to achieve
  a higher tier without having to double our play.
  > An example is at Harrahs.. We only have one account and achieve
  Diamond Status without having to each play 100K coin in.
  > With only 100K, we get all the benefits of that tier.
  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  It all depends on how much coin you plan to put through (which
  depends on many things such as your bankroll, time you have to devote
  to casino play, the attractiveness of the available games at the
  casino in question, the "tier levels" for a casino, etc.). With
  light play, spouses may be better off by playing under one account at
  *some* casinos. With medium to heavy play, my experience is that a
  couple is almost always better off splitting the play over two
  accounts - otherwise the one account simply gets "overqualified" for
  the bounce back benefits, (to use Bob Dancer's terminology).

EE

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Mac_McClellan · January 14, 2020, 6:48pm

First of all, we only have a host in about 1/2 the properties we
visit. At others we're too low on the ladder.

Chris plays about 5 to 6 times what I do on VP. She does close to $1.7
million coin-in a year, and this is spread out among 20 casinos, but
with 4 or 5 getting the lion's share.

I use Chris' card when:

1. We need the points for her to make or keep a tier in the comp system
2. I'm holding off for a promotion to sign up myself
3. We're playing so little at a casino that individually we wouldn't
get any comps worth using.
4. There's a cool gift and I've already won it so I need to help her
get it too.
5. I'm too lazy to go to the player's club.

Mac
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