I did not play any casino games at any Caesars property between January 2, 2020 and mid-June 2022. Some of this was from COVID, and some was just from not playing. As expected, Caesars did not offer me any comp rooms, though I got a better deal than people off the street. I got Diamond via status matching.

Anyway, in mid-June, a friend was at a Bally's bar and wanted to order a drink which was going to be like $12. I said, "Don't do that. I'll just play quarter video poker here, and I'll get free drinks and give them to you." So that's what we did. I didn't play very fast (though I wasn't super-slowing playing either), and I lost a whopping $17 in about 20 minutes, at $1.25 per hand. The friend drank more than $17 worth, so it was worth it anyway.

I didn't think much of this until I checked the Caesars website a few days later, and suddenly I had tons of comp rooms on the calendar, including Paris during busy times at the WSOP! Wow! This little $17, 20-minute foray at bar video poker was the only action I had given in 2.5 years, aside from playing the WSOP. Since I was at Caesars properties for WSOP and other reasons, clearly the system had been seeing that I was staying and not playing, so I was shocked that this scant VP play got me such comp rooms.

Obviously I wasn't complaining. I canceled my upcoming WSOP reservations (which I booked for $), and rebooked them comp. Great success!

I figured that these comp rooms would die soon enough. No! They kept up, and I stayed a number of times through mid-July without playing anything but WSOP.

Then I didn't come for 4 months, but I was still offered similar comp rooms, but now I wasn't able to get weekends anymore.

Finally I did a short, 3 night trip this past week. This time I decided I would play just to keep the room comps continuing, figuring it would end soon. I actually stayed away from the 99%+ machines because I figured those were not going to give me much credit, if any, for putting in action (plus they were $5/credit, so the variance would be high, too). I decided to play a 9-5 JoB machine in Bally's, triple play for $1/credit. Unfortunately I ran really badly and lost about $1100 after just $8500 in coin-in. I didn't intend to lose that much when I sat down, but whatever. I stood up and quit, figuring at least this would probably keep the room comps rolling in for awhile, and maybe even some decent offers.

I came back home. I looked at my offers. They abruptly changed, indeed, just like they did last time. However, it was reversed! My comp rooms offers were GONE, even on totally dead days at the worst Vegas properties. And the weekends got incredibly expensive, whereas before some were reasonable.

So my hotel offers got WORSE for playing and losing $1100 after $8500 coin-in.

Can anyone explain this?

I know that Caesars used to be very slow to react (sometimes months behind) to reflect your play on your room comps & offers, but now I've seen it almost instantly adjust twice -- one surprisingly generous (tons of comp rooms from tiny coin-in) and one actually regressing from $8500 coin-in.

Any explanations for this? Anyone seen something similar? I'm very annoyed. I kind of think I'd be getting comp room offers for months more if I just didn't play.