We were excited by the success of that gambit, so we decided to sign up Wife for that card as well.
For some reason, she did not want to play the same machine and popped in $300 in a $5 denomination Pin Baller slot game which required $15 per spin (if you wanted to take advantage of the full pin ball feature). She put her card in the machine (BTW, to enjoy the rebate you need to use the card to keep track of any losses so make sure the card is registered in the machine). She had no luck for a time then hit the Pin Ball feature. The result was we now had a total of $480 in the machine. Did we stop with a $180 win? No. Wife was excited to keep playing and I had previously guestimated that given the rebate, I should stop if we had a $250 profit or half the rebate. Unfortunately, there was not another bonus before the all the credits were lost.
Wife then slipped in another $200 in an adjoining machine and soon lost all of that as well. So we were down her full $500.
Wife then went to the Marquee Rewards desk (which doubles as the cashier) and asked her losses. The clerk looked up her "cash in" and her "cash out" (apparently any win on the machine is a "cash out" by his definition even though we did not cash out any tickets ) and the loss was verified.
We had already planned to visit Vegas in another two weeks so we will wait for the email on the free play and try to cash out the free play with the minimum play on video poker. At the very least, we have made a profit because I am sitting on a $660 win and she has lost $500 -- without any free play yet to be used. I will be interested to see if the free play requires wife to personally show up at the desk or whether I can just use her PIN and card to access the free play.
Regards, FAB
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