I will be honest. All problems aside, I really like the Seven Stars benefits.

The free hotel rooms any time is great (though I wish it were easier to get 2 rooms), I enjoy the $500 dinner, I like the cruise benefit, and the annual trip gets me off my ass and forces me to plan a nice vacation that I always end up being happy I took. (I always plan a real trip "around" the casino part, usually taking a mini-road trip.)

Also, I get 30% rakeback on WSOP.com, which really adds up. I don't have to play any minimum number of hands per month, which is great.

Finally, I enjoy being able to use the Seven Stars status to get squeezed into full restaurants, and various other small perks.

However, I found out somewhat painfully in 2013 that it's not easy to maintain Seven Stars cheaply. Even if you play low-expected-loss video poker, the variance is still huge, and I am just never lucky with stuff like that. I still have never hit a royal flush in my life in video poker (not kidding).

I strongly considered giving up on Seven Stars after this year. Indeed, I have like 74 tier credits at the moment.

Then I realized something.

The way Caesar's currently has their Total Rewards program set up, you can maintain any status you want by simply playing every other year.

I will explain.

Say you earned Seven Stars in 2013.

You get all of the benefits of Seven Stars for the remainder of 2013, plus all of 2014. This remains true even if you don't play at all in 2014.

You then retain your Seven Stars until March 31, 2015. If you still haven't played, you will be dropped back to gold on April 1.

But wait! What if you don't play at all in 2014, but rack up 150k tier credits between January 1 and March 31, 2015. You will have re-earned Seven Stars, and will not have lost out on any of the benefits! So you will have zero "gap" in your status, you will have kept all the same yearly benefits, and your Seven Stars will now be good until March 31, 2017! This is because Seven Stars status earned that calendar year is good for the remainder of the year, plus the next 15 months after that.

Therefore, I could simply earn 150k tier credits between January 1st and March 31st every other year, and would have Seven Stars consistently throughout the entire time!

I believe my theory is correct. If indeed this is true, I won't bother worrying about renewing it in 2014, and simply do so early next year, and will repeat this every 2 years -- or until they change the policy.

Thoughts?