Just heard that Rincon changed the rules for its end of the month hourly drawings for $1,000 of free play. I was told the free play must be claimed within 5 minutes of your name being called.

Previously players had until midnight.

Anyone hear about this change before?

EDITED TO ADD: I called and found out that the rule was changed STARTING THIS MONTH, JULY. In effect, you have to be on the casino floor for each hourly drawing from 1pm to 11pm -- and 11pm is the big $50,000 drawing.

Just talked to a player who said this means you can't even be in your hotel room -- because you are likely not to be able to get to the promotions desk in time even if someone on the casino floor called you to say you won. And don't even think about getting there in time if you are in Fiore or the buffet or even the poker room where you can't hear the announcements, and there is no screen with the winners' names.

I am also told that there are no "redraws." This means Rincon will not be awarding all of the fifty-thousand of free play that they've been advertising.