I have a friend who is only an occasional VP player, and he volunteered to try an experiment. I will refer to him as "Rick", though that's not his real name.

The theory: Even if you're overcomped and have milked a casino big time for freeplay and other perks while not playing, it will start giving you nice offers again if you wait some time and start playing regularly again, while not using comps/perks during your return.

Here's how it went:

1) Rick got a new Total Rewards card (he didn't have one yet), ran about $10,000 of coin-in on a fairly good (but not great) VP game in Vegas, and then stopped playing. The theory was that he would get several lucrative offers a few months later, and Rick could milk them for about 6 months before the computer would stop it.

2) This plan worked. Rick got a lot of nice offers and redeemed them. This included several freeplays of as much as $500 (about 2 weeks apart each), an NCL cruise with an inside stateroom, show tickets, a room on New Year's Eve, etc. Rick made several trips in 2014 and early 2015, milking the comps (and staying in comped rooms) before the computer got wise and cut off the offers. At this point, Rick was WAY overcomped.

3) Rick told me that he felt the jig was up, and he would never get comped at CET again. I told him not to conclude that, and just to sit tight. Rick decided to wait out the entire year of 2015 and do nothing. Didn't play, didn't stay, didn't ask for comps, nothing. Just pretended CET didn't exist.

4) In 2016, Rick started playing again. However, I told him NOT to utilize any comps while doing so. In fact, I told him NOT to stay at a CET property under his own name. Rick went with his girlfriend and the rooms were booked under her name, so there was no record that Rick was staying at CET. In a few consecutive stays, Rick ran between 1000 and 2500 tier credits. To the computer, it looked like Rick was just in town and strolled into CET properties and was playing actively again, while using no comps or staying on property.

5) Rick just called me to advise me that his offers had returned. This took about 3 months. Initially he got crap offers, but after 3 moths passed, they improved. He now has offers worth about $200 each, but are fairly close together where in fact he could double-dip if he could find somewhere else to stay in the interim 48 hours (or just book those 2 days in his girlfriend's name).


This is interesting because Rick is STILL overcomped. That is, he has used far more comps than his play has earned (even with his recent 2016 play), but the computer chose to forgive and forget, as it appeared he showed up in 2016 and played a few times without needing any comps to bring him out there. So it decided he was once again a "live one" and started generating offers as if 2014 never happened.

This is something that you guys can try to utilize. If you have a wife or husband with a TR card (or even better, without one) but doesn't play much, and tends to travel with you, then you can mimic the above. They will most likely earn comps far in excess of your expected loss, and will also have a second room you can get when the comps are "on" if you already get one room free on your own card.