The phrase means anything free you get from a casino, online or off. This free stuff can include cash rebates, free spins on slot machines, travel, food, or entertainment. Casinos decide how much to comp you based on their estimates of how much action you’re bringing the casino. They know, based on their averages, how much you’re expected to lose when placing a specific number of bets of a certain amount.
Your percentage of comps is based on that predicted average loss, NOT on your actual losses. So, you can be a winner at a casino and still get casino comps. People do it every day.
The easiest way to get more casino comps is to place more bets and make those bets bigger in size. That’s also a surefire recipe for losing more money in the long run.
You can find other ways to get more casino comps, too, and this post offers advice on several of them.


Don’t believe the nonsense that some so-called slot machine experts tell you about how you can’t win on a slot machine with your slot machine card inserted. They don’t understand how things work.
The software that reads your players club isn’t connected to the software that generates the results on a gambling machine. The random number generator and the card reader have nothing to do with each other. Even if they did, the casino wouldn’t have any incentive to do such a thing.


But if you suddenly weren’t able to win on the slot machines, why would you keep playing?
The entire way the system is set up is to pay occasional winners to motivate gamblers to keep playing. The payouts are set up so that the casino makes a profit regardless.
For example, the casino might pay off a jackpot of 1000 coins on a slot machine, but that jackpot might only hit once in every 2000 spins.
Combine that with the prizes for all the other combinations and the smaller prizes, and the casino has the game set up so they wind up with a long-term profit.
They WANT players to win so that you’ll keep playing. The player’s card just does more to motivate you to keep playing, so the casino has no incentive to penalize you for using that card.


The casino knows what its average edge is on any casino game. On their slot machines, for example, they might be winning 6% of your every bet. Their table game average might be 4%.
They also know that some sharper gamblers are keeping their edge to 1% or less by playing blackjack with perfect strategy or using an optimal video poker strategy.
So, they set the rewards at a small percentage of your action, usually around 0.2%. Here’s how that would work…
You’re playing a slot machine for $3 per spin, and you’re making 600 spins per hour. That’s $1800 in action. The casino, in the long run, expects to win 6% of that, or $108.
Sometimes, you’ll win during that hour. Other times, you’ll lose more than that during the hour, but the average in the long-term, which is the only thing the casino cares about, is a $108/hour loss.
The rewards or rebates on that kind of action is only $3.60, so that’s a profitable deal for the casino. You can see why they have little incentive to cheat in that situation.


Even if you play blackjack, the rewards rate is awarded at such a small percentage that the casino still retains plenty of profit.
Let’s say you play 90 hands of blackjack per hour at $5 per hand. You’re putting $450 per hour into action. Let’s say the rules aren’t great, and your mastery of perfect strategy might include a couple of mistakes, so you’re expecting to lose 1% on average.
That’s $4.50 per hour in expected losses. The rewards on this action are also smaller, though. 0.2% of $450 is 90 cents per hour.
This also gives the casino the flexibility to offer higher reward rates during happy hour and the like. They can also have a higher rate of rewards for gamblers who are part of a higher tier.


There are few tricks to getting more comps from the casinos. You can spend more time playing, bet more every time you bet, or play only during times when you get extra points for your play.
The trick is to get more comps without gambling more than you would have otherwise. If you’re going to gamble more just to get more comps, you’re going to lose money.