Comments on: Back to the Mountains and Video Poker https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/back-to-the-mountains-and-vp/ A Las Vegas Advisor Blog from the "Queen of Comps" Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:02:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.4 By: cliff jones https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/back-to-the-mountains-and-vp/comment-page-1/#comment-74807 Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:02:09 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=85314#comment-74807 I am a diamond plus. I have noticed my free play is going down lately. I will be interested in seeing if Diamond Elite will help make a change or not for you.

We are still getting great offers of rooms in nearly all Caesars locations. I have seven nights available for Las Vegas or Atlantic City.

Plus we have had some flight offers to enjoy different locations.

]]> By: Kevin Lewis https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/back-to-the-mountains-and-vp/comment-page-1/#comment-74803 Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:05:04 +0000 https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/frugal-vegas/?p=85314#comment-74803 During the last 15 months, my players’ club benefits expiring was the least of my worries; what I really worried about was ME expiring. I think it would be an excellent PR move for all the casinos to preserve tier status, or whatever they want to call it, all the way from 2019 through this year. If you were Plutonium in 2019, you’re Plutonium in 2021, even if you haven’t darkened their doorstep at all since.

Embedded within the Legato article is a very interesting concept: the idea of rewarding players with gifts of “high perceived value but low actual value.” This is corporatespeak for “fool them into thinking they’re getting more than they actually are.” However, the example the author gives is slot free play. Now, you might think that free play’s perceived value and actual value are pretty close; even if the player perceives, say, $100 in free play to be actually worth $100, he isn’t that far off: it’s worth $90 even if he stuffs it into a poor-paying slot machine. But then I remember what a Stations manager told me once about free play offers: the casino recovers, he said, about 95% of all free play awarded to players. I guess people just play and play until it runs out, never cashing out…?

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