Caesars Entertainment Rolls Out Comp Drink Monitoring System in LV

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From Vital Vegas

https://vitalvegas.com/caesars-entertainment-rolls-comp-drink-monitoring-system-las-vegas-resorts/

I don't think Hard Rock has this yet. I went to the Center Bar and inserted a $20 in the machine. Besides the various VP games, they have a Blackjack game. The bartender said I only needed to play one dollar a hand to get comped drinks, but you must insert a 20. I got a martini with my choice of vodka (I asked for Kettle One), then I played for a while and walked away with a $10 profit (after tipping the bartender).

I think the next thing the bean counters would love to do, but can't, is replace all table games with the video versions that have a dealer facing you on a monitor.

It is a simple yes/no indicator for the bar keeps,but they still have the disgression to comp your drinks if they like you. Right? It happened because of the bean counters.

The pay tables on those VP machines are not that great anyway! You would be
better off to PAY for your chosen cocktail than to spend $20 into a machine that you will eat you alive.

I do play a lot of video poker and never less than the max bet,anyway.
That system doesn't bother me at all.
It's to weed out the low rollers and make it easier on the bar tenders to comp or not to comp.
There may be some friction,in the beginning.

Yes,there should be a way for the barkeep to know what card level you are playing on as well. What happens with the survellance cameras when they see a red light and the barkeep comps them?

Just some more electronic devices in our lives. Normal.

Thanks for the post!

This is an unfortunate reality of life in Vegas. I miss the personality of the pit bosses from my first trips in the early 1980's. Now much of that personality is being replaced by computers and corporate cookie cutter employees. This drink monitoring won't directly effect me, but all this stuff is disappointing....................Vegas business run by accountants instead of being run by the people interacting with the customer.

I ate at Chicago Prime, a great steakhouse in Schaumburg, IL recently. The owner, a Greek guy with a fantastic personality, walked the floor and sincerely asked the customers how things where. He would chat, and laugh, and enjoy the customer's company. That's what I like and what I now miss in Vegas.

if I were a big shot boss calling the shots, I would not support this change. I would understand that if you keep the drinks flowing, the player will be less likely to leave the property, and will continue to stay there and gamble (lose). the goal is to separate the players from their money, in a fun and friendly way of course.

But, but what are the hookers going to do? They just love sitting at the bar and getting a drink comped and lining up a date for the evening.

In Laughlin, a Diamond player can walk up to any bar, flash his card and be given a drink. No play required.
As bad as bar top paytables are, you are still much better off playing than simply paying for your drinks. The worse pay tables take less than 5% of you money overall.

I don't belly up very often, but have never had a problem. As long as whatever system is implemented is not an unfair or unrealistic amount that becomes bean counting I see their position. Which is why I also said a nominal amount for Parking and very easy. At Main Street. You pay and go get a refund with only their second level or a paid dinner. Imo, paying ten dollars and getting a ten dollar free slot play instantly would be fine to me. But playing hundreds and thousands to get a ten dollar company is ridiculous. You aren't always going in for a several hour play session.

I do admit there are people sitting and playing a penny just to get free drinks. I am not really a drinker at all, but I don't want it to become one more game and inconvenience. Again, more issues are mobility. A lot of time you wait a good hour before finding a waitress and another half hour for her to come back. Although this seems to be a bar top discsussion at the moment.

Again, side topic, but I say with the food stamp issue. We live in an electronic age. My card should have stockpiled the info and the light should tell the wait staff, I can have drinks or not. Often a person has to move while wait on a drink. Losing hundreds while waiting on a cocktail does defeat the purpose. I don't want tethered to a machine. I see the need for them to update their purposes, but as a player and them catering to non players more and more, they are running players out the door. Again, waiting in the buffet line as a second or third tier players with everyone trying to get their ten dollar deal. You are losing my play and my patience. They have decided that players aren't worth their time and just want to keep playing get five or ten dollars from non players. Just tell players xyz, quit changing the rules and make the rules convenient and to our advantage and not more nickel and dime for the casinos. We are giving them money and they want more. People are staying home at their home casinos or finding new hobbies. My tv isn't watching now football because football has turned into pathetic 24 hour news channels. I want entertained.....as the pamphlets say...when the fun stops.

And again, I very rarely have a cocktail. Not much of a drinker.

If they don't want to let the bar tops suck a twenty or two,they can buy their own drinks,until they find a companion to do so. Simple. Not in Clark County for me.Nye County is fine and I have been coerced off of the bar a few times at the Ranch. I remembered what she said,but I won't repeat it here.

I probably wouldn't mind it as much if they didn't charge premium prices, without telling the player that they need to play X amount for the next comp, before serving the non-comped drink. I had no idea this practice was in place when I first sat down and started playing max bet 25 cent VP at the lobby bar in the Mirage 5 months ago. My first bottle of Bud was free. The bartender charged me $7.57 for the second bottle.