Comments on: 35 Years of Advantage Play – Part 18 – Q+A https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/35-years-of-advantage-play-part-18-qa/ A Las Vegas Advisor Blog from the "Queen of Comps" Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:01:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: Kevin Lewis https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/35-years-of-advantage-play-part-18-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-74098 Mon, 07 Sep 2020 00:01:47 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=82581#comment-74098 During that period of gradual decline in VP playability–a period that has come to an end IMHO, as 99.9% of VP is completely unplayable now, slot clubs are a shadow of their former selves, and comps and mailers are a thing of the past–one thing you needed to know, on an ongoing basis, was what kind of comps and mailers you could get from casino X for Y amount of play (on playable machines). Unlike on VPFree2, no one ever compiled and collated that information and made it available to the public–possibly because so much of it was anecdotal. If you didn’t have a robust “grapevine,” you were often chasing your tail, as you found out the hard way that the Golden Commode had slashed their comps or that the Slipping Silver had started to no-mail VP players. I had a pretty good information network in those days, and I kept hopping like a demented bunny from one vanishing opportunity to another.

I guess my question is: did you always have such an information network? How important was it during the Great VP Decline?

]]> By: Mark https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/35-years-of-advantage-play-part-18-qa/comment-page-1/#comment-74096 Sun, 06 Sep 2020 16:44:09 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=82581#comment-74096 So glad you added this part to the story. Sometimes I feel a sense of competitiveness in in seeking out the most advantageous gambling opportunities and then taking advantage of them to the max. You remind us even though it can be profitable, it is still a grind. In the end, it is a balance of fun and profit. The best way to have fun is not to have to depend on profit. Life has more to offer than just the inside of a casino. Of course some who are more passionate may disagree.

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