Comments on: Stations Change the Boarding Pass Program

By: D

Fri, 18 Apr 2014 07:19:07 +0000

So once again casinos prove why they are a scam. Doesn’t surprise me anymore. Vegas has gone down hill.

And let’s not forget about how the Stations make you sign a tax form for a bonus payout less than $600 when you hit something in their poker rooms or the fact they increased the amount of time needed for the “free roll” tournament. Stations looks to be once again headed for bankruptcy. Good thing the Fertitta’s backed into some luck when they bought the UFC and that the UFC is paying their bills.

By: Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis — Sat, 12 Apr 2014 01:08:03 +0000

Yeah Tom, a casino host told me that. I will inquire once more when I get there, and I’ll make sure to get the final answer from management. But it looks like the $1=3 pts is just a memory. I agree that they ought to cut the points needed for this promo offer to make up for the reduction. Good luck complaining, though. If you play good enough VP that your play would have resulted in a loss to the casino, your pleas will fall on deaf ears.
I now consider it to be the “stay but play elsewhere” promo.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 15:08:53 +0000

The Stay and Play Promo does say “$1=3 points” in a red circle on it, so I will still complain even though management reserves all rights. Promo was worthwhile on Bonus Poker or Dream Card Bonus Poker (including 0.3% pts + 1.5% promo), very disappointing.

By: Kevin Lewis

Kevin Lewis — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 01:03:46 +0000

I’ve just verified that for the Stay and Play promo, only base points earned will count, so that’s three times as many points you’d have to earn than before the switch. The $1000 free play for 200K coin-in was a 1.5% boost to your action, but you wouldn’t have gotten it on the 100%+ games OR the 99.8% games–the best games eligible would have been <99% short pay. So while the promo is now worth nothing (+0.5% on bad games), it wasn't really worth much anyway. You'd do better just playing the 99.8% or the 100%+ games.

It's evident that the point calculation switch has as its objective to make it MUCH harder to qualify for promos that are based on point accumulation. So no matter how you slice it, it's a downgrade, and a deceptive one at that. It doesn't affect the casual or occasional player all that much, though.

The room offer is still good, so I still plan to go. There's nothing wrong with playing .25 FPDW and hanging out by the pool. The rooms at GVR are very very nice, though a bit of a distance from the casino.

By: jack potts

jack potts — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 00:05:04 +0000

The most important thing in a Casino is how much I’m winning. If they have tightened the slots and VP( which they have ) it’s no big deal!

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 16:21:19 +0000

The major difference, is now when you have to play 300 points for a prize, or slot tournament entry, you have to play 3x more than previously. Play 300 points for a swipe? Now you actually have to play $300 coin in to obtain that. So even though the values are the same, when you have to play for prizes (around Christmas) or any other benefit, you have to play 3x as much.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:47:29 +0000

So whats considered a base point now in some of their other promos? If a promo requires 1000 base pts it used to be $333 coin in, is it now $1k coin in?

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 14:35:08 +0000

We are headed to Vegas on a Stations offer which was giving $1k in free play for 200k points. Similar to ones received in the past, this was a 1.5% offer. Did it just go down to 0.5% as the offer uses base points in determining the free play?

By: david

david — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 12:32:43 +0000

Just another way to keep unsuspecting players from earning their points ( preferred and gold card members), for if you forget to pre scan your card these members will only earn 1 point -typical slime ball bean counter trickery.