Look, if you want to profit from casino gifts there is a (completely legal) way to do so. Re-sell your gifts on Ebay or even some swap meet. Probably would be more work that what it was worth with all the $10 and $15, trinket stuff that casinos give away to draw customers in, but some premium members receive better, more valuable gifts. Didn't Jean Scott write that she had an entire bedroom filled with casino gifts, including small appliances? She could have probably set up at a swap meet location, or even had a yard sale once a years and made a few thousand dollars (or more).

I used to communicate regularly with an AP, that was card counting and used to do this. He played very high stakes, but used a very, very small bet spread. A spread that was probably little more than break even, so it was pretty well tolerated. He could play for hours at one location, without all the hit and run that I play and he could play rated. Casinos just weren't concerned about his little spread. AND he got high end comps and gifts. Gifts worth hundreds of dollars. And shopping sprees (now gift cards) for the different casino gift shops. He would buy jewelry and higher end items and then re-sell them on Ebay. THAT is where all his EV came from. And he made a pretty good living at it for years.

This would be a completely legal way to turn casino gifts into EV. And even gets into entrepreneurial-ism.