[QUOTE=blackout;12448]Years ago, while in Tahoe on business, did not live in las Vegas found a .25 2's wild short pay poker bank with a royal so high it made it 103% payback. royal was like 3500 went over 4,000 while I was there. Banged away on it as much as I could, never even hit 4 deuces, no royal, so I lost a decent chunk think it was 800 or so. But I got on their "Preferred idiots" list with heavy play and some losses on a bad bank of poker, at least without the very high royal figured in.
I ended up with a Platinum card and got offers for free rooms for years from Harrahs all over the country. Picked up a tip that if you took them up on a room offer, but never inserted your card into a machine, it would not trigger a trip and they never figured out you were ever there, thus more offers based on your previous level of play. I ended up staying for free at the Rio whenever I wanted to come to Las Vegas for 2 years until they figured it out and I just rented a car and gambled elsewhere. Rio nice hotel for free. Well worth the $800 loss and I could have won too. Too bad I didnt hit that royal.[/QUOTE]
fyi, things have gotten a bit more complicated since then