Originally posted by: David Miller
I leave the nastiness to you - that is YOUR bailiwick. I'll also leave the "exposing ones self to little old ladies" to you and Mark. - Here is how I do it when visiting Vegas (1) -- 5 tricks to help you get better casino comps: (a) Look like you're spending more than you actually are. ... (b) Make it look as though you're playing for longer than you are. ... (c) Take lots of bathroom breaks ...(d) Make it look like you are losing. ...(e) Be generous.) --- (2) Casinos award comps based on a player's average daily theoretical loss (known as ADT, theoretical loss, or "theo"). Theoretical loss is the amount of money a player is expected to lose based on the long run statistical advantage the casino has on the particular game being played
a) They know how much you're spending; b) they know how long you play and when you quit; c) only the time you actually spend at the table is credited to you; d) they know whether and how much you're winning or losing (tactics such as "ratholing" chips are old news to them); e) tokes don't count in your rating.
"Theo" includes all those factors David mentions. They compensate for those factors when figuring out how much action you're actually giving them. Maybe back when "Turning the Tables on Las Vegas" was written, you could fool them. But that was about 40 years ago.
The reality is that low-rollers like David aren't worth the effort to precisely track. You play at a craps or BJ table, the pit boss may casually note your average bet, then assign a rating to you and not think much more about it. That rating will assume that you have a certain skill level, take breaks every so often, etc. Unless you're a black-chip bettor, that rating won't be altered.
So this stuff that David copied from some book doesn't apply to him. The good news is that the estimation made at the BJ table assumes that your skill level is average and thus, you're playing at about 2% below optimal. You can get comped based on that assumed skill level, while actually playing optimally and losing much less. I doubt that David does that, though, because he's already told us that he knows the proper strategy for video poker but purposefully ignores it.