I'm in full agreement. As a part-time AP who is still in the process of growing a bankroll, these promotions have been a godsend. I do not use personal results to measure the value of a play, but the impact these programs have had on my game is huge, and it goes beyond the money. I'll be the first to admit I've gotten fairly lucky, but I've doubled my bankroll on loss rebates in the last 9 months.
So what has that afforded me? Obviously, I can play at higher stakes now, which allows me to earn more at a faster clip. But since I am primarily a blackjack player, it bought me something that is irreplaceable: time. It would have taken me hundreds of hours of table play to get to the level I'm now at. Hundreds of hours of exposure to dealers, cocktail servers, floor supervisors, pit bosses, counter catchers, EITS personnel, and others, some of whom want to evaluate me and possibly shut me down. The loss rebate bump has bought me another ~200 hours of play, at a higher earning level. I simply cannot express how significant this is to me.
