One thing to remember about cashback is to always cash it in each trip. But
occasionally if you forget, it can be Found Money - yippie!
I happened to be checking the MGM website, which has a section for Players
Club. Once there, you can see how much free play (point $) you have. You can
also download your Win/Loss statements for the year.
I was looking around and wow - I saw I had $1400 in Pointplay. I thought
this must be a mistake, because normally I do cash out every trip. That much
money certainly represented accumulated free play for 2 or 3 or even more
trips - something very unlikely for me. I wasn't even sure what Pointplay was.
So I stopped at TI today (happened to be in the neighborhood) and discovered
that somehow I did have something over 140,000 points = $1400!!
That was the good news. The bad news was a picked a bad VP machine and
ended up with taking only $850 home. Still it was Found Money - because I didn't
think I had anything at MGM!
So it can be a good idea to check every once in awhile to make sure you
don't have a lot of accumulated cashback.
Venetian is another casino with a website where you can check on cashback.
At _www.harrahs.com_ (http://www.harrahs.com) you can see how much you have
in accumulated comps (and download a win/loss statement for all Harrahs
casinos).
Cashing out your cashback each trip is a good idea, by the way, because
casinos can go out of business, they can set cutoff dates (such as comps or
cashback are only good for 6 months), and they possibly can issue you a W2G if you
take out cash more than $1200 at a time. Apparently Freeplay is treated
more like winning a bonus on a slot machine, and doesn't seem to trigger W2s.
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