This is the second time I've tryed to post this. So, if the original
message, presumably eaten by a cyberspace demon, does show up,
please forgive the duplicate posting.
I have delibrately omitted names, places and times to protect the
privacy of the player who had this experience. I do have the utmost
confidence that the details related are 100% accurate.
While speaking to a host about a reservation for an upcoming trip, a
player asked that the host access their daily coin-in record from a
prior trip. The host gave a daily average that was less than half of
what the player KNEW had been played through. When questioned about
this descrepancy, the host relayed to the player, day by day, the
recorded coin-in. The problem, it turned out, was that the card had
recorded play for additional days, the week AFTER the player had
gone home.
On a daily basis, for the first days, when the player was staying at
the casino, the card accurately recorded the actual coin-in as the
player had tallied it. The following week, the card had been played
on a few consecutive days, to a much lesser degree. On one day onky
a few hundred dollars had been played.
The host confirmed, that despite the fact that player was not in
residence, that each day that the card showed coin-in action, would
be viewed as "a day's play", and would therefore be used to average
the daily coin-in.
Both host and player could only surmise that the "mystery player"
had found a card left in a machine, and for some perverse reason
continued to play on it for a few days.
The host promised to TRY to get this resolved so that the player's
daily coin-in was not affected. The host was not sure what would or
could be done, however.
The host did say, that, on the bright side, some comps had been
earned by the stranger's play, which had accrued to the cardholder.
The host also verified that the upcoming stay would be fully comped,
based on averaged prior stay coin-in.
It has been discussed on the board previously, that some player's do
not use their player's card on their 1st/last day at a host casino,
for fear that the short hours played, on those days, would impair
their daily coin-in average. I just never related this occurence,
to accidentally leaving a player's card in a vacated machine, and
having another player utilize.
It doesn't make much sense to me that the new player would not
remove the forgotten card in order to insert their own card. That
this happened for a few days in a row, instead of just once, makes
it all the more mystifying.
In any event, since I am forever forgetting to remove cards when
leaving a machine, I'm going to resurrect the idiotic bungee cord,
and thereby "chain myself" to the card, lest my daily coin-in
average be jeopardized!
Babe