Your view on multiple players club cards?

I wouldn't do it simply because it would screw up my win/loss statement totals. I'm also not ballsy enough to ask someone -- wouldn't even consider it.

When I have friends who don't frequently go to the casino go with me, I'll have them use one of my cards and they have no problem with that.

(That did backfire on me the other night when a friend won $500 -- I need to show a loss, darnit!)

I asked a stranger once because she was betting about $20 a hand on the machine next to me without a card while I was playing my little $1.25 a spin with a card. I asked her, "do you have a player's card?" as I reached for my spare. She told me that she had one but that she could never win when she had a card in the machine, so she rarely used it. I didn't say another word, and I've never asked anyone since.

Going back a number of years, I was playing a dollar slot at the Trop in AC without a card when a elderly man approached me and asked if I would use his card. I was using it when he walked away rather quickly. Security came over and asked me if he had asked me for money or anything. I said no. A short time later I saw him escorted out of the casino.

If the person you ask has no problem using your card, I don't see a problem from a players perspective.
Not sure casino and ethics go together.

I could give a flying fig about the casinos ethics. It's mine that I'm concerned about. Ethics are not about how you treat your friends in broad day light, its how you treat a stranger when no one is around to watch. Either you have them or you don't.

I am an cynical guy and would worry if someone lost using my card they could some how blame me thinking my card jinxed them or something so I would never do it.

There are lots of crazies out there and I can hear them screaming in some other language probably...

Like Noahcat said, if there is an opening as a result of bonding conversation or something like that I might go for it.

Also 1099 issues if they win big as Madame Casey said.

I think it's ok . I often am able to strong-arm elderly
frail women into doing it.

However, you have to pick your targets carefully.
I tried it once with my wife and it turned out badly.

Madame Casey or Madam Casey?

I've done it with friends who were not using a card. But asking a stranger, thats a bit much for me.

My mom does not like bothering to get a players card when we're together as she seldom goes to the casinos either in LV or Mesquite (which is closer.) When she doesn't have a card, she'll play on my duplicate. That way, we'll accumulate points faster for same day comps; although, sometimes she barely plays (reason I don't bother having a shared card.) Two exceptions: when she had to use her own card for a Bunco tourney in Mesquite last year and when we both wanted to get coupon books for being new Bills sign ups (she only played her free play and gave me her coupon book She'd rather play on mine as I'll use the points for our meal that night and she does not like getting a bunch of offers/e-mails from having various cards. If she does go w/me, I get the room/show tix and most meals w/my play so it benefits her too (she'll usually share in paying tips.)I would not feel comfortable asking a stranger to play on my card; it would just seem kind of greedy to me as it would not benefit them since they're not sharing in the "rewards" like my mom would.

The W2-g (not 1099) goes to the butt in seat. That is why they ask for an ID. Must admit though, once I was using wifes card as I was going to slow play that day and did not want to impact ADT. They brought out the form with her name on it (cause the system saw her info). I told them and they re-issued it.