Originally posted by: David Miller
Whatever the motivation is for the South Point to offer this and/or any other type of promotions does not deter from their value, whatever the value ends up being. The one thing that some overlook is that there are few, if any, other casinos who offer any type of consistant promotions that can add value to those who gamble.I look at these bonus offerings much the same way as I look at free play - they are just more bullets in my arsenal that I have while chasing a jackpot.
If you make a few modifications to David's statement, it's mostly correct: "detract" instead of "deter," "consistent" instead of "consistant," "value FOR those..." instead of "value TO those..." and perhaps "ammunition" rather than "bullets in my arsenal," as an arsenal is a collection of weapons, and a bullet isn't technically a weapon. But excusing all that, the reality is that South Point's promos are indeed better than most of its competitors, but worse than they used to be.
Their hostility to LVA is really kind of stupid, though, as is their somewhat bizarre treatment of non-locals. I know someone who's a regular $1 denom VP player and visits and stays there three times a year, and he gets nothing but "casino rate" offers and the occasional $20 food comp in the mail. Even Boyd and Stations are much more generous to him.