When you get FreePlay, what game/denom do you play?

[Barry_Glazer]

6c. Re: When you get FreePlay, what game/denom do you play?
Posted by: "jackessiebabe" jackessiebabe@yahoo.com jackessiebabe
Date: Fri Jun 26, 2009 8:46 am ((PDT))

Perhaps I'm missing something about playing differently with
FP, than you do with the your regular payroll. If so, I'd
appreciate it if someone would enlighten me.

When I am playing VP in a casino, I consider FP to be the
equivilant of the cash money in my wallet, PROVIDING that the
FP can be used on the entire VP inventory, except perhaps >100%
Optimum banks.

What difference does it make whether I insert my own $100 bill,
or punch in the numbers on the keypad to access my FP?

I think you've hit the nail on the head with your "PROVIDING" above -- unlike cash in your pocket, with which you can choose which game to play AND with which you can choose to keep it in your pocket for another / better opportunity, freeplay MUST be played at the casino giving it, during the dates it is good for, and on the inventory that is offered.

If the inventory offered does not include the games you would ordinarily play, either because the pay tables are poor, or the denomination is higher, you then need to decide whether to play poor pay tables or play higher denominations. The third choice, not using the freeplay, is fairly obviously not a good choice, while if the money was "cash in your pocket", not playing is fairly obviously the best choice - and that's the key difference, from my perspective, between "your" money and freeplay ("your" money including actual cash back).

I (almost) never play "regular" (non-VP) slots. If I had freeplay that was only good for such slots, I'd use it anyway.

--BG

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[jackessiebabe]

I totally agree with your post, Barry.

If I cannot use earned FP on the games that I normally play
(>99%% EV) I devalue it by 25%, compared to cash money in my
pocket. I know that the payback on nearly all casino machines
is in excess of 75%, but if I'm "forced" to use FP on a game
with well below the acceptable EV (to me) that's the way I
view it. Furthermore, because I resent this type of restriction,
it does not engender in me a positive feeling towards the
casino. This is certainly NOT what the marketing folks had in
mind, when they formulated the offer.

Several years ago, when the El Cortez first developed their
slot club, they began to offer FP to some of the players.
I was usually granted $100 of FP each month, in a mailer.
However, the FP was restricted to reel slot machines. Each
time that I was there, I used my FP (with varying degrees of
success) on $1.00 WOF. Every time that I cashed out less than
$50, after running the FP through one time, I resented the
fact that I couldn't use the FP on the good VP, on which I had
earned it. I finally had a conversation with the Director of
Marketing about the situation. He listened politely, but was
noncommital about my comments. However, the next time that I
returned to the EC, I saw that the FP rules had changed so that
it could be used on nearly all the positive VP. Sometimes it
helps to express your dissatisfaction.

~Babe~

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Barry Glazer" <b.glazer@...> wrote:

.....If the inventory offered does not include the games you would ordinarily play, either because the pay tables are poor, or the denomination is higher, you then need to decide whether to play poor pay tables or play higher denominations. The third choice, not using the freeplay, is fairly obviously not a good choice, while if the money was "cash in your pocket", not playing is fairly obviously the best choice - and that's the key difference, from my perspective, between "your" money and freeplay ("your" money including actual cash back).

I (almost) never play "regular" (non-VP) slots. If I had freeplay that was only good for such slots, I'd use it anyway.
--BG