Buffet Comps

In the good old days you could put in a few hours....chat up the boss and get a buffet comp pretty easy whether you were only playing $5 or $10 hands of BJ....do the pit crew still have the ability to write a buffet comp or can most of them only do what the computer allows?

At low levels, comps like that do seem to have gone away unless the computer approves.

I don't bother anymore, there are too many other ways to get good cheap eats that don't involve chatting up the pit crew.

I was at the Luxor two years ago, playing $5-$10 craps every morning for 2-3 hours. No big wins, no big losses, killing time waiting for hubby. I always tip the dealers, they help me out with the bets.

The same pit boss that was there for a couple of days came around the craps table and asked me if I was staying with anyone. Took me a few seconds to realize he meant how many buffet comps I needed!!! Told him just me & the hubby, he wrote something on his card and I had two dinner buffets.... I was so surprised, I couldn't wait to call my husband.

By the way, it was the first & last time that ever happened to me in over 15 visits to Vegas!

I was staying at Bellagio- cabbed to Venetian early one morning to go to Grand Lux...but the roulette table was in the way so I played a hundred- was winning, losing winning- I got a free pack of cigarettes for the asking and the pit boss wrote me a comp for Grand Lux w/o me asking just in the byways of conversation on a sleepy wednesday morning- plus I cashed a few hundred dollars.
this was BS (Before Sheldon clamped down) lol
that was like 10 years ago too

Thanks Noahcat!

I miss those days we used to hang at the Barbary playing low level BJ and they would write us Victorian room comps just for talking to them...same with Buffets at all the other properties....Bob Marsh and Luis Henandez with the Coast's at Orleans and GC respectively have told me they still will.

Luis has been awesome about it my last three or four visits...going to test Bob when there next week!

Playing BJ at the El Cortez, I was told that I had to play $25 a hand to get a meal comped. This was after three nights of playing $5 a hand for a couple of hours each night.

I can pretty well assure you that if you play 2-3 hours of $10-15 bj you would easily qualify for that comp at South Point.

Yeah, but do they have single-deck BJ that pays 3:2 on naturals?