Originally Posted by
DJK
It's funny you asked about that.
There is another poster on a different forum who also said the exact same thing that unless I am losing that I could not have gotten all these comped rooms and comp dollars. That's partially incorrect assumption and I will explain why which could get me trouble with the casinos if they come here and read these posts. I highly doubt that they do so I will explain anyway.
How are you getting all these comps?
I actually spent about $2,000 comp dollars in the last 4 weeks because all types of relatives came to visit recently. Two of my wife's sisters' families, my sister's family, and my younger brother, and I had to get them free rooms for all their stays and provide them with free meals like buffets, Hooters, Whitehouse hoagies, pizza, casino Chinese food, etc, all with the comp dollars. So, I actually had about $6,000 in comp dollars.
About 2/3 of the $6,000, so $4,000 I earned by playing in casinos and that sounds like a lot but it's over the period of one year so it's not really that much as earning about $333 comp dollars a month is really nothing as it's only about 40 hours of $25 to $100 average bet play. Divide that 40 by 30 days a month, it's barely 1 hour of play per day, but since my play sessions are longer than an hour I don't play everyday like a degenerate gamblers would. I almost didn't play at all for a whole month while my relatives were visiting. I was busy taking care of their needs, so I was always tired as hell at the end of the day and I just slept at night instead of gambling.
And, you should be aware that as I use the comp dollars, they are getting replenished from new plays so the balance pretty much stays the same unless things like relatives or families visiting all at once happen.
The other 1/3, so about $2,000 mostly came from CET for free. I got them due to some glitch on their rating system where they were giving out choice of either free play or free comp dollars 5 times a week and it's been going on for over a year whether I played or not, so something is really messed up with their system. Eldorado messed up big when they merged Tropicana's comp system to CET's comp system and they came up with these new kiosks. I used to always take the free plays and played the bets, but then the offer was going up and down, so once I started to taking the free comp dollars which is guaranteed free money, they weren't stopping from giving them out for some reason. Very stupid of them if anything. If anyone here plays in AC CET casinos, then they would know exactly what I'm talking about. The CET casinos are the worst for giving out the automatic comps from plays. You have to ask for food comps on paper in order to get anything out of them as the automatic comps are like $0.50 an hour if that.