Casino Comps and internet Casino Advantages

Comps for Free Shows

To get tickets for casino shows, use the same techniques discussed earlier. If show comps aren’t built into the point system, again you’ll just have to inquire. You’ll usually be more successful asking a slot host rather than a booth clerk. Most important, though, is the timing of your request. It’s easier to get free tickets for a weekday show or during months when business is slow; the casinos don’t like their showrooms empty and entertainers perform better to a full room. Don’t try for tickets to a popular show on a Friday or Saturday night, or over a holiday weekend, when paying customers fill the seats, unless you’re a fairly heavy player. A “sold-out” show, however, doesn’t necessarily represent an insurmountable barrier. Just as they do with rooms, casinos set aside blocks of seats for comps. Of course, high rollers get first consideration, but Brad and I have been able to get seats to a sold- out show by asking the slot host as late as 15 minutes before show time Casino - About German Solo.

Unusual Comps

You can get comped for almost anything in Vegas. Most people think of comps as free food, free rooms, and free shows, but that’s just the beginning of the story. We’ve been comped Christmas presents for our grandchildren. We’ve been comped a $250 life-sized stuffed gorilla that sits proudly in the back of our car. I’ve been a redhead, a blonde, and a brunette thanks to beauty-shop comps, and I’ve had manicures, pedicures, facials, and massages. We’ve gotten jewelry and clocks. We’ve gotten free roller coaster rides and movies. The Par-A-Dice riverboat in Illinois once offered phone cards on its list of things that you could get with points (300 points to get a two-hour phone card). Those 300 points could be redeemed for $3 in cash back.

No-Slot-Club Comps

A few casinos still don’t have slot clubs. These are smaller casinos where the owners don’t want to make the big investment in equipment and personnel necessary to start and maintain a slot club, or where the managers just don’t believe in their value. How do you get comps when you’re playing in a casino that doesn’t have a slot club?
It’s very simple. Do you recall how I told you to ask for comps when they’re not built into the slot club system? Well, that’s the same way you do it when the casino doesn’t have a slot club at all. It usually takes no more than three hours of quarter video poker play, four hours at the most, to get a buffet at these places, too. If two of you are playing, you could probably play for two hours apiece and get the buffet comped Casino - About Betting System. In these places, you’ll also want to ask if there’s anything other than simply playing that you have to do.

Comps for Table Game Players

A lot of the information in the first half of this chapter about how machine players get comps is also useful for table players. In fact, more and more internet casino are going to a whole-casino comp system, because they realize that many people play both the machines and the tables, and many couples want to combine one person’s machine play with the other’s table time in order to maximize their comps. Most casinos haven’t integrated their comp systems as fully as Circus Circus has, but many now allow their table players to use a slot club card for rating purposes. In most places, you give the card to the pit boss, who sets up a separate table-game account for you. Sometimes the pits use the same slot club account number and enter their information into the same computer records that log your machine play. This allows someone from either the slot department or the pit to take into account all play and award comps accordingly.