Category Archives: Frugal Fridays

10/5/2001 My Frugal Fridays file is bulging with useful gambling information. The downturn in casino business may see a flood of promotions and offers that savvy Vegas visitors can use to make their vacation and gambling dollars go further. BRIEFS … Continue reading →

9/7/2001 Alaska was beautiful and the cruise was a relaxing change from the intensity of Las Vegas. But Brad and I are glad to be home – and we were welcomed with a whole month of super promotions. Do casinos … Continue reading →

8/3/2001 This week I’m providing information that will be of interest mainly to local Las Vegas residents. However, it just might prompt some out-of-towners who visit Vegas frequently to rent a Vegas mailbox in order to have the required local … Continue reading →

7/6/2001 I’ve received some e-mails questioning the July Casino Player piece, the one with a picture of the author of The Frugal Gambler and a write-up about the “cookie-making gambling granny.” Yes, I did say we lived in our Vegas … Continue reading →

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 →