Dan I haven't revealed this before: my tier score so far this year is well in excess of 530,000 tier points. Yes, bonus points are involved. When I wrote 41,000 base tier points -- those were base tier points, and excludes the bonus points. When I say most was at Rincon indeed most was at Rincon because each month I tend to make just one trip to Vegas where I played mostly craps which earned few tier points.

Yes, according to my host, some manager is up in arms that I used free play without evidence of playing with cash out of my pocket. And indeed there were times I only used free play -- and that has the manager up in arms. What the manager is overlooking is in that month I had $410,000 of coin in. My host can see that and the decision puzzles my host. It must be too hard for this particular manager to deal with the fact that someone can actually win on free play and not have to open their own wallet.

For the record, I have had sessions when just with $300 or less of free play I have walked out of Rincon with $13,000+ in cash. While that has happened twice over the years I have had several sessions when with a couple hundred of free play I've walked out with several thousand dollars.

What exactly was on this website that got the manager angry? I don't know. I was only relaying what my host told me, and that was that I wrote something here. Frankly, I've written a lot here -- good and bad. I have been very critical of how Rincon has cut its offers including free play.

Was I cheated out of the bounce back? Well, it would never stand up in any court because you're right-- they can always change their rules. But let me say this: there were several times during the year when bounce back did not show up in my monthly mailer and when I called my host to ask about it I was told that I had "no play" during the month -- and I know I did. How do I know? I look at my checkbook register for the dates I played when I hit the ATM at Rincon because I do not have a credit line there.

But here's the bottom line: some manager at Rincon is in a tizzy over a player who puts through hundreds of thousands of dollars in video poker because some daily free play offers of $80 or less were claimed without accompanying cash play.

If I were a manager at Rincon and some player put through hundreds of thousands of dollars in video poker but only was getting $80 of free play -- I would double his free play and hope that he put through even more money. LOL