Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
Careful. Dan uses those hotel comps and meal comps to keep him at the WSOP.

I've used hotel comps and meal comps to be in Vegas to shoot Infomercials (and no gambling, either).
Yeah.....so what?

It's extraordinarily rare to find a play worth playing that doesn't have a monetary incentive (ie: you make money on it) to play. Ellis Island used to be good for playing for food comps (99% game with 1% CB, and small FP mailers).

Everyone does it differently, but I never consider the comps/food/etc. when determining how much something is worth and won't include it if I say it's worth $XXX/hour or $YYY/cycle.


There's nothing wrong (IMO) about playing for comps if it's a pretty good deal. I'm not saying go do $100k coin in so you can get a $500 comp or something stupid. If Dan finds the value of getting free rooms and the other attached benefits (small amount of food, 7* trip, free-play, etc.) worth the value of doing $500k coin in on 9/6 JOB, then go ahead.

Originally Posted by Alan
Since when does Bob Dancer NOT figure comps and promotions into his "edge"? I read his articles all the time.
Much of what Bob Dancer does is simply not the right or best way to do something. I'm sure you've also read the article about him playing $1 10-play UX at Palms...to get something like a 0.2% advantage on like 35k coin in. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to figure out that's pretty f***** stupid. He once wrote giving up 0.01% is way too much to give up in value (which is $10 for every $100,000 coin in)....which is beyond absurd.