Originally Posted by
Rob.Singer
Here's a serious question for those of you that are locked in in a big way to the TR program: When I was playing large at Harrahs Inc., I always stopped playing at their properties as soon as I reached Diamond level. I won 10 out of the 11 years I did that, but the only years it might be considered somewhat significant was when I beat them out of a little over $70,000. That year I hit four Aces w/ the kicker on a Caesars $25 DDBP machine. Readers of GT may remember this because I told of how I zoomed up from Laughlin for a night on River Run weekend in late April, and as soon as I won I got on my Harley and drove home to Phx. In fact, the hacks at videopoker.com were so jealous and hateful that I won that they spent days mocking it, me, and my wife, because she was with me on the way there but she had to fly home..Thus, one of the reasons for writing my "VP.com Hater Eats Dirt" article after one of the sick leaders of the Singer-hating clique over there died an untimely but well-deserved death. And it warms my heart to this day.
Anyway, while I can't today compare the program freebies to when I was in, I was always amazed at the quantity of freebies, giveaways, flights, comps etc. they bestowed on me. My question: although I never counted any of the slot club fluff in whether I won or lost overall, does anyone here actually ever win by the end of the year even if you do count stuff other than results directly from the machines? And, have all those free things been cut into yet?