Plus you could take junkets to other casinos on dates good for the freeplay at Revel. There were articles about people with tons of unredeemed Harrah's points, time to use them at Showboat which is next door. Spirit Airlines is almost so cheap you can day trip from certain cities. Revel may not give you a room comp but if you lost 100K it is likely the other card benefits would make it a cheap trip.
My question is why did you mention $150K. If someone did walk in and hit 100K on the first $25 pull, why would you not just leave and go to the Borgata or some other place? Once you are ahead doesn't a loss rebate lose value?
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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bob Dancer <bobdancervp@...> wrote:
NOTI wrote: Most likely they will, unless they have something better to do that
weekend. Some will try teaming up on the freeplay collection, but they
run the risk of getting caught. If you get unlucky and max out the loss
at $100,000, divided by 20 that's $5,000/week. Unless you know where you
can get more than $5,000 freeplay on a weekend, you can probably
justify a flight from almost anywhere. Revel might actually steal some
gamblers from Macau.The week there ends something like Sunday midnight and begins again at Monday 8 a.m. So if you can stay over on Sunday nights, it's 10 trips, not 20, from August 11 through December 8. Even so, it's a big commitment
I'm not going to fly there from Vegas --- but it would be easy for me to justify the 10 trips from anywhere east of the Mississippi --- and a few places slightly west of there. This is HUGE. It would be easy for me to play my free play and leave. And while I was in town, play a few other places now that I know I'm going to be back to pick up mailers from those places as well. (Forget the mailers at Revel --- those will be $0 during the promotion in order to pay for the promotion.) This promotion will likely bring in business to several other casinos in town as well. Revel thinks their promotion will hurt other casinos. I think otherwise.
One of the main reasons for most of us non-locals not to play in AC is that the typical player reward system there is based on many repeat visits. This 10-to-20 scheduled visits to Revel gets around that drawback. Once you're around this drawback, several casinos in AC have good (games + mailers) combinations. So you play them while the Revel promotion is going on --- and come mid December, stop going to AC.
The reason people are talking about the losses instead of the win is that you have to be sure your brakes work well before you go speeding away. Yes the intelligent stopping place goal is to win $150,000 or so before you quit. But there is a large random element and many people will lose whatever they can afford to lend the casino for 5 months. You cannot know beforehand whether you will be one of the winners or the losers, so you need to be sure you are prepared to deal with the multiple trips before you undertake the promotion.
Bob
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