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[kewlJ]

I'm in a comped room right now. This room goes for $100 a night midweek but all I'm saving is the $60 it would cost me to stay in an off property hotel. I've just recently started to reap the benefits of all the casinos I visited this year. I'm getting room, meal and freeplay offers from a half dozen casinos now. Maybe more in the future.

This is exactly right. The value isn't the inflated, artificial value that the casino places on these comps. The real value is what you are saving by not staying or eating elsewhere. My partner and I eat at a casino everyday, mostly lower end buffets, café type places. For the buffets the casino will value at 10-12 dollars each and the cafe type places maybe $30-$40 for the two of us. But that is not the real value. The real value is less than half that, what it would cost us to eat elsewhere or extra groceries to eat to home. I figure realistically if we were to eat that meal at home every day it would cost an additional $80 bucks a week in groceries, so that is roughly 4 grand (annually) in value to me, not the probably 10-12 grand the casino says is the (inflated) valve of the meal comps.

I am glad you are getting those comped rooms, Mickey. I inquired about that earlier in your casino pictures thread. You SHOULD be getting comped rooms and meals as a sort of hidden or bonus part of your compensation. I am glad you have started to get that extra benefit.