Flowers
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I'm Seven Stars and had about 350kTC last year, based almost entirely on play in AC.
Years ago, when I was Diamond but before I discovered the wonders of Wynncore (and therefore at that time did most of my LV playing at CET casinos) I had FSP offers as high as 750 a month and I've gotten as much as $2k+ taken off in comps on the back end at Caesars. (That was 3 years ago during my 50th birthday celebration when I stayed and played (hard and actually won a lot and brought most of it home) at Caesars.)
In stark contrast, my most recent CET offers for Vegas for May are $25 in food credit and $100 in FSP. I would not be surprised if they drop further as I've booked a comped room at Flamingo for a week (for my nieces) in April and am redeeming one CET FSP offer of $250. I will give CET some play while in Vegas but I declined my host's offer of multiple comp tickets to Celine Dion and instead just paid for them (I'll get better seats that way anyway). I did this because if I were my host I would have an expectation of major play for a bunch of comped tickets. As I don't plan to do that, I thanked her for the offer but said I'm good. We all know this, of course, but what I paid for some of the best seats in the house is probably thousands less than I would have played (and potentially lost) at CET so that I wouldn't feel "guilty" about getting the comped tickets or feel like the host would get in trouble with her boss for providing the comped tickets.
I won't be playing any less this year but my goal is to play smarter, be more disciplined with the wins (I found a system that worked for me last time in that respect) and to focus my Vegas play almost exclusively at Wynncore so as to maximize my comps there (and because I'm less into moving around now and just love that place. I'd stay there for a vacation even if I didn't gamble at all.).
I do appreciate the transparency of CET's TR program and like that I can get CET comped rooms anywhere in the country pretty much whenever or wherever I want but the greatest value for me at CET at this point is not even the Seven Stars airfare reimbursement (which is such a hassle to book) but the fact that at the height of the summer season on the Jersey shore, I can book comped Caesars rooms for the weekend (and comped summer concerts for family/friends, parties, other promos), when rooms can sometimes be impossible to get, even if you are willing to pay for them. AC has its challenges but, for me, waking up in the morning and walking along the ocean, especially in the summer, never gets old. The gambling odds aren't great for VP but with multipliers and other promos, the Seven Stars lounges, a decent (though small) Qua spa that's comped and being just a $25 bus ride away from NYC, AC still has an appeal and I can get greater value for my play. I also am hopeful that AC comes back. It won't be like it was 15 years ago but hopefully it will be a more new and better (and more diversified economically) AC.
This isn't a rant or a complaint. If I were CET I'd lower my offers significantly in LV too. I just wanted to share my own experiences as a decent level player with CET given the questions that come up regularly on the board about reduced offers, how that can happen, etc. etc. and the significance of ADT (matters a LOT) vs player status (matters LITTLE, except for annual Diamond or Seven Stars benefits once you meet the various 15k, 40k, 80k, 150k TC thresholds).
And regarding my new system for bringing more of my wins back home, for wins at Wynncore over 2k (Wynn won't do it for less than 2k), I ask for a check and immediately sign the back with "for deposit only", which then makes it harder -- though not impossible -- to give back those wins while in Vegas. I'd basically have to trek all the way to my bank in Vegas to deposit and cash the check to use the wins. So I can still access them if I REALLY want to but I have found that's a way for me to bring some moolah back home.
Happy Saturday. Less than 6 weeks to Vegas for me!







Years ago, when I was Diamond but before I discovered the wonders of Wynncore (and therefore at that time did most of my LV playing at CET casinos) I had FSP offers as high as 750 a month and I've gotten as much as $2k+ taken off in comps on the back end at Caesars. (That was 3 years ago during my 50th birthday celebration when I stayed and played (hard and actually won a lot and brought most of it home) at Caesars.)
In stark contrast, my most recent CET offers for Vegas for May are $25 in food credit and $100 in FSP. I would not be surprised if they drop further as I've booked a comped room at Flamingo for a week (for my nieces) in April and am redeeming one CET FSP offer of $250. I will give CET some play while in Vegas but I declined my host's offer of multiple comp tickets to Celine Dion and instead just paid for them (I'll get better seats that way anyway). I did this because if I were my host I would have an expectation of major play for a bunch of comped tickets. As I don't plan to do that, I thanked her for the offer but said I'm good. We all know this, of course, but what I paid for some of the best seats in the house is probably thousands less than I would have played (and potentially lost) at CET so that I wouldn't feel "guilty" about getting the comped tickets or feel like the host would get in trouble with her boss for providing the comped tickets.
I won't be playing any less this year but my goal is to play smarter, be more disciplined with the wins (I found a system that worked for me last time in that respect) and to focus my Vegas play almost exclusively at Wynncore so as to maximize my comps there (and because I'm less into moving around now and just love that place. I'd stay there for a vacation even if I didn't gamble at all.).
I do appreciate the transparency of CET's TR program and like that I can get CET comped rooms anywhere in the country pretty much whenever or wherever I want but the greatest value for me at CET at this point is not even the Seven Stars airfare reimbursement (which is such a hassle to book) but the fact that at the height of the summer season on the Jersey shore, I can book comped Caesars rooms for the weekend (and comped summer concerts for family/friends, parties, other promos), when rooms can sometimes be impossible to get, even if you are willing to pay for them. AC has its challenges but, for me, waking up in the morning and walking along the ocean, especially in the summer, never gets old. The gambling odds aren't great for VP but with multipliers and other promos, the Seven Stars lounges, a decent (though small) Qua spa that's comped and being just a $25 bus ride away from NYC, AC still has an appeal and I can get greater value for my play. I also am hopeful that AC comes back. It won't be like it was 15 years ago but hopefully it will be a more new and better (and more diversified economically) AC.
This isn't a rant or a complaint. If I were CET I'd lower my offers significantly in LV too. I just wanted to share my own experiences as a decent level player with CET given the questions that come up regularly on the board about reduced offers, how that can happen, etc. etc. and the significance of ADT (matters a LOT) vs player status (matters LITTLE, except for annual Diamond or Seven Stars benefits once you meet the various 15k, 40k, 80k, 150k TC thresholds).
And regarding my new system for bringing more of my wins back home, for wins at Wynncore over 2k (Wynn won't do it for less than 2k), I ask for a check and immediately sign the back with "for deposit only", which then makes it harder -- though not impossible -- to give back those wins while in Vegas. I'd basically have to trek all the way to my bank in Vegas to deposit and cash the check to use the wins. So I can still access them if I REALLY want to but I have found that's a way for me to bring some moolah back home.
Happy Saturday. Less than 6 weeks to Vegas for me!








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