There are some hosts who are not on the payroll of any casino, and they
have deals with several casinos to bring in players. They are compensated in
one of three ways:
Percentage of coin-in. This is unusual, was much more common years ago, and
is only for big slot/VP players.
Percentage of the player's theoretical loss.
Percentage of player's actual loss.
The compensation can vary from host to host, from casino to casino, and
from player to player. A fairly common "pay rate" for the independent might
be 10% of the player's theoretical loss.
The independent host generally arranges for the player's accommodations,
advance dinner reservations, cabanas, line of credit, and other things that
can be arranged in advance. But since they are not "on property," they
mostly can't handle short-notice changes that the customer might need. For that,
the player must ask a "regular" casino host, but that host gets no credit
for that player' play. So the regular casino hosts generally don't much
like the independents.
Brian
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In a message dated 6/29/2009 7:02:37 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
HRDiane@aol.com writes:
ok, as a newbie, what is an "independent host?"
All my hosts are employees of the property or at least it appears that
way.
Diane
-----Original Message-----
From: Guru Perf <guruperf@yahoo.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 7:34 pm
Subject: Re: [vpFREE] Re: XVP Re: Tipping
Sorry to disagree with you on this one, but I work with an independent
host, and when I mentioned this to her, she had a conniption. Attendants were
instructed, or at least at that time they were, to pay in large bills, so
as not to give the impression they were tip-fishing. If a customer needs
smaller bills because they want to tip, or just prefer the payout that way
they can ask for change of a large. If they don't at least ask before stuffing
my pockets with small bills, they get nothing.
________________________________
Incidentally, on the issue of being paid a jackpot in several large bills
plus a few $20's, $10's, and $5's, I don't mind that -- if they give me all
$100's, I figure they're asking for $100, and they get nothing -- if they
give me small bills, I have the option to give them whatever I wish, from
nothing on up (I do tip these people, but it's what many would consider a
small amount, but on the other hand, some seem to consider any tip to these
personnel to be too much, so maybe I'm somewhere in the middle).
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