How Long Does It Take To Earn 25 Tier Credits at Caesars at Blackjack?

With Total Rewards running their Quest for Rewards, I thought this might be a timely question. Most people have no idea what it would take to earn 25 Tier Credits on table games. Can you shed some light on this subject? Say playing blackjack at a $5 table, how long would it take to get those 25 Tier credits needed?

We reached out to the Total Rewards department and found that, unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to answer this question with any accuracy. The information we received is helpful, but still quite fluid, due to so many different variables. Their answer: “For blackjack, if you play $100 minimum for an hour, it’s 150 tier credits.”

This is usable to calculate your average bet and how many tier credits you could earn. But there’s much more to it.

For instance, if it’s a 3-2 blackjack game, you’ll earn credits at a slightly lower rate than if it’s a 6-5 game. There are also tons of different side bets throughout Caesars’ properties. And all of these earn credits at a different rate based on the house edge, if they’re rated correctly at all (which is an entirely different conversation).

Also, different blackjack spinoff games earn credits at a higher rate than the classic version of blackjack. The same average bet and time of play on Free Bet Blackjack, for example, earn more credits than at a regular blackjack table.

The rate at which your credits accumulate is directly related to the house edge on the game. That makes carnival games like Ultimate Texas Hold ’em the fastest way to earn them.

Knowing all this, the player has a decision to make and it’s an important one. Is earning reward credits more quickly worth giving up more house advantage?

Some people tear through the casinos playing the game that earns the most credits, betting as much as they can. That’s great -- if money's no object. A lot of players just want to play blackjack or maybe the pass line on craps, because of the lower house edges. Those players take longer to earn their credits, but probably lose less money along the way.

Time or money? You make the call.

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Marty Mar-09-2018

Depends on the pit supervisor

I am guessing that this question is associated with Total Rewards Quest for rewards where it takes 25 tier to earn a badge. One of the biggest variable is on how long it takes the pit to actually log you in.  They can be very "busy" and not get around to logging you in even at green chip level for 15 minutes.  At red chip they can be very, very busy.  With the logging in on a computer that is used today rather than the pit writing it down as in "days of old" tiers vs comps are different.  At some locations you can take a "bathroom" break and check your tier in a slot machine if you remember where you were before you started playing blackjack.  At some locations you have to be logged out by the pit to see a change on a slot machine.  At one place I had been playing 45 minutes and asked how many tier I had accumulated.  After checking and re-checking I was told 15 and "you will need to play another 45 minutes for 25 tier".  What?  Guess I learned math before computers.

Michael Hetrick Mar-09-2018

Automated Table Games

At our CET property in Bossier City, the automated Blackjack tables from SG have a note on them that indicates the following

1 Tier Credit = $40 on this game.

This is the same ratio they use for "Shoot to Win Craps" and the Roulette game from Interblock.  However, I believe CET counts these as slots, not table games so you wouldn't get credit for these in Quest for Rewards.

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