Casino Reviews

We just got invited to a slot tournament at the Wynn Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is an excellent example of using your slot card to make a difference. This can be an inexpensive Vegas vacation versus paying directly for all your rooms, gambling, drinks, etc.

Our offer includes three days free at the Casino Hotel Las Vegas, participation in the  Slot tournament, and an invitation to an awards ceremony at the end of the slot tournament. We’ll tell you more about the award ceremony in a moment, but this is an excellent deal for many different reasons.

Offers Can be Amazing

Can you imagine, I called the Wynn Casino Hotel on Wednesday morning to see what room rates they would offer us. They were busy, and the casino rate was $200 a night, including the room, resort fee, and taxes. We were not prepared to spend. $600 for three nights and so we declined to make the reservation.

The very next morning, I received an email offering participation in the slot tournament, three nights free including resort fee and taxes, participation of the slot tournament, and the party at the end of the slot tournament. This was for the same dates that we’re hoping to make a reservation. We grabbed it in a hurry since it was only a maximum of 250 people invited to the tournament.

Wynn Slot Tournament – Free Rooms

If you have not stayed at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas before, you really should. The rooms are large, very clean, and very modern. They have excellent views of the strip and the eastern part of the city. Everything is automated with controls at your fingertips next to the bed for opening and closing the blinds. Also dimming or shutting off the lights. There is a TV in the bathroom so you will not miss any of the daily news or your favorite show. These rooms go from anywhere from $150 per night to as high as over $600 a night.

Wynn Slot Tournament – Free Play

We played in the tournament, and afterwords attend the slot tournaments awards ceremony. Unfortunately, the writer did not win, but someone won $35,000 in free slot play. There were 20 winners in all of the free slot play. The rest of us and our companions got to enjoy complimentary drinks and munchies, including sliders, cheese, sandwiches can small cupcakes. A pretty good deal if you ask me.

Always use your slot card when playing. You never know when you will be invited to something like this.

There are literally thousands of free play casinos online for people to play. No money is required and all that is needed is that you sign up with an account with no credit card or money provided. A free play casino is played with free credit that is made available when you sign-on. In some cases the free play casino will sell you additional free credit for a small fee if you end up losing all of your free credit. You may want to take advantage of purchasing additional free credit if you happen to lose all of the credit you have been initially given. If you happen to win a large jackpot, there is no method to convert it to cash.

Free play casino – purchase credit

As with all Slot Machines, sometimes you win and sometimes you don’t. In a free play casino situation you are provided with an amount of free credit. If you lose the free credit, you either have to wait another day before more free credit is added or you can purchase additional credit. Remember you cannot turn jackpots back into cash. This is merely a game that you play for fun even if you purchase added credit.

Many free play casinos

Rather than purchase additional credit so that you can keep playing the same machine online. Most consumers will just move to another online site where they can play for free. Each of these sites provides free credit to players in an attempt to get to sell them free credit. Or to get them to click on advertisements. Most will add credit each day or every few hours in an attempt to keep you on their site. The objective is to avoid you moving to some other competitive site.

Why would you purchase added credit when you can just move to another site that provides Free Play Casino credit? Most people will bookmark them so that each site is just a click away and they are back playing for free. The other major issue to remember is that casinos with free credit usually have odds that are much more lucrative so you win more often. If you switch to online casinos where you are playing with real money! The odds of winning appear to be lower and you seem to lose your money more quickly.

The title of this post was chosen since so many people do not know how to spell Cassino, they in turn apparently choose to spell it as follows Casiono.

We decided to write a small post about this apparent misspelling of the word casino. Because people are looking for information about regular casinos in Las Vegas, Laughlin, Tunica, and Atlantic City. As well as online casinos that you play on your smartphone or desktop computer.

Casiono – Live Casinos

Live casinos that you actually go into the building are thriving in this economy. We’ve been to over a dozen casinos over the last two months and found them to be extremely busy on the weekends. Even moderately busy during the week. These are vacation oriented locations. People are going there after work as well as traveling through as tourists.

There are a lot of casinos that are just that with no hotel or anything in the area to attract tourists. Many people prefer to go to those casinos that include a hotel, nice restaurants, and perhaps even a golf course. Some will also have entertainment at night. These casinos deliver the full package. They are very attractive to locals as well as tourists. As a result, they come to spend a great weekend, see a show, have a nice meal, and perhaps do some gambling.

Casiono – Always Use a Slot Card

Whether you spell the word casino properly or as Casiono, it really does not matter. The most important thing is to make sure you’re using a slot card to collect all of your comps and promotions. These are part of your wins at the casino. Free play anytime is something that can be valued. As well as tickets to shows and other comps that may be available.

If you win over $1200, you will pay tax on your winnings. By using your slot card the casino can provide you with a win/loss statement at the end of the year which may help you get some of your tax money back.

Remember the golden rule, always use your Slot card when you’re playing at the casino.

Lately we have found that casinos really want their customers to use their comp’s on their cards before approaching the slot host to find out what additional comp’s they might he entitled to. The writer had  a conversation with a slot host recently about this topic and she confirmed that all of the casinos are moving to this model.

For example, lets assume you have spent the afternoon playing the slots, using your slot card all of the time and racking up points on your slot card that is commensurate with the level of play and the amount of time you have gambled. You then decide to go for dinner at one of the restaurants in the casino. In the past you may have gone to the casino host to request a meal comp.

Casino Restaurant Promotions

This takes time and it can be sometimes frustrating if they have to deny your comp based on your play. Now you simply head to the restaurant of your choice and when it comes time to pay for the meal, they want you to use your comp’s that you have earned on your card to pay for the cost of the meal. You simply present your slot card to the waiter and they will run your card and deduct whatever comp you have on your card. If there is not quite enough, you just need to pay the difference in cash or by credit card.

Depending on how much you have played and the cost of the meal, the entire meal may be covered. If the full meal is not fully covered, You have several choices. You can then either pay cash, pay with a credit card. Charge it to your room for later consideration by the slot host before you check out.  We followed this latter approach at the last casino hotel we stayed at.

At the end of our stay, we met with the slot host who based on our play wrote the remaining food charges off. Even though the direct comps on our slot card were not enough to cover the total charges.  This is the approach that all slot card players should consider when gambling at a casino. Take full advantage of casino restaurant promotions. You only need to meet with a slot host once at the end of your stay prior to checking out of your room.

All casino bonuses are not the same and not all casinos provide the same complimentary gifts and rooms along with meals. You really have to check each casino to confirm what promises they provide in terms of comps for things like food, rooms and shows. These comps can actually end up being part of your win at the casino. Think of it this way. You go to the casino, you have only so much money to spend for gambling, food and whatever you plan to drink along with accommodations if you plan to stay the night. If the casino arranges to provide you with free meals and a free room, this can amount to several hundred dollars in savings.

All Casino Bonuses – Casino Business is Competitive

The casino business is very competitive. Ultimately they are trying to attract customers to the casino from other casinos and trying to make money at the same time. Based on the business and we’ve seen the complementary bonuses of the receipt along with how nice the casinos are, we think they’re making lots of money.

For example at one casino that we go to where we play nickel and Penny slot machines, we never have to pay for a meal. We also get free rooms during the week almost every week of every month of the year. This is a really great service and the bonuses are very attractive. They are what keep us coming back all of the time to this casino and not to others.

In markets where there’s only one casino serving a population of 1 million or more people, the bonuses are usually not that great. A good example of that is a Rideau Carlton racetrack Casino in Ottawa Ontario. They are well-known for not providing very good bonuses, or free meals and they cannot even provide a free room at any hotel. Another casino, the Akwesasne casino in Hogansburg New York provides many free rooms at a very nice hotel, and with a point system on their slot card you can pretty much guarantee that you will have enough money for paying for meals such as the buffet or at Sticks, one of their restaurants.

Casino Bonuses

All of these casino bonuses are part of your package in terms of your win loss ratio and should be considered when you discuss or account for how much money you’ve won or have lost during your time at the casino. Take into account the total package when you consider your net wins and losses at the casino.