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Posted At : September 27, 2009 12:30 AM | Posted By : J Scott
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After I wrote about daily average earlier in the month, I received this e-mail from a reader:
One thing you might warn your readers about is “what is a day?” for the computation of a daily average. I’m a night person so I like to play all night when I have the full range of VP machines to pick from and no distractions. I have been tripped up on the what-is a-day question enough times to make it my business to
TRY to find out the answer. I have quite a lot of experience trying to extract information from players clubs, hosts, marketing departments, and whomever else I can grab, but it isn’t easy to find the answer to this question.
Some casinos start their player day at midnight. Many, many start at 2:00 AM. (It took me forever to find out Fitzgerald’s starts at 4:00 AM.) If you’re in a casino that starts at 2:00 AM and play from 10:00 PM ’till 3:00 AM. You have played for TWO player days, thus diluting your daily average. 95% of the time, if you ask at the player’s club, they will tell you midnight, but for the sake of computation of daily average, thist isn’t always true. To make matters even more complicated, if a casino is offering point multiplier days, these almost always start at midnight. Anyone starting to play at midnight in the hopes of getting lots of points is running the risk of ruining their daily average.
I personally make it a point to start any new play after 2:00 AM (the
Fitz after 4:00AM) and hope for the best.
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I also like to play at night and have found that if you begin a session anytime before 6:00 AM (three or four o'clock in the morning let's say,) you can rack up points and - provided you don't pull your card or get a handpay before 6:00 AM... when you do finally pull your card, those points will count for the new day beginning at 6:00 AM. so, it can work both ways. if you're on a point multiplier from the previous day, make sure you pull your card before 6:00 AM to have those points counted. if you have a promo or a multiplier, for the following day, pull your card after 6:00 AM.
Every bit of information helps.