Author Archives: queen of comps

6/1/2001 “I’m mad and I’m not going to take it any more!” I’m hearing an increasingly loud roar on the Internet about the extra charges some hotel-casinos are imposing on the guests whom you’d think they would want to keep … Continue reading →

4/6/2001 I just realized this is Frugal Fridays column # 54. Can it be possible that I’ve been talking to all of you every week for a whole year? Anniversaries seem to bring out the tendency to ruminate, but I … Continue reading →

3/2/2001 A new month — new promotions! Check out “Slot Club Promotions” under Free Stuff on this Web site’s homepage. We’re trying to keep this as accurate and up to date as we can, considering that casinos can and do … Continue reading →

2/2/2001 Alert! By the time you read this, Station Casinos will have taken over the Reserve. I’m going to reserve judgment (I’m not sure whether that’s a pun intended or not!) on whether this will be a positive event for … Continue reading →

1/5/2001 I’ll title this column Bits and Pieces; one of my New Year’s resolutions was to clean out my “Good Ideas for FF” file. Spin Poker and Fifty Play are the only two multi-line machines that I know of that … Continue reading →

12/5/2000 From a writer on the Net: “The slot club host would really not give me a direct answer and I asked at least three times.” Communication is one of my most frustrating problems in dealing with the whole comp … Continue reading →

11/3/2000 I love living in Las Vegas because it’s such an exciting city that it energizes me and makes me feel young. However, this last week I really felt old. First of all, I signed up for Social Security. Yes, … Continue reading →

10/6/2000 From The Dealer’s News: “The Frontier has been using shills on table games recently.” Shills are people hired by the casinos, using the casino’s money, to play games and encourage others to join them. I have seen very bored … Continue reading →

9/1/2000 Attention serious video poker players who have a computer. You can’t do without Tomski’s Video Poker Strategy Master (VPSM). This miracle—that’s what I call it because it saved my math-challenged life—will give you, in mere seconds, the strategy for … Continue reading →

8/1/2000 Last month, I was looking through a little coupon book that came in the local newspaper. I noticed a coupon page for the Gold Spike in downtown Las Vegas. There was one “buy one meal, get one free” coupon. … Continue reading →