There are a number of casinos where you don't earn points when using free play, and although your points at Sam's aren't really free play that's how they treat it. The actual cost of the loss for running $100 through once is pretty minimal, but I can see how it is certainly a rip off even though it's a small one. You are using the right solution by getting your points as cash, I do the same thing. I agree with you about Sam's Town going down hill, my beef is with the drop in the value of the mailers. Luckily there are a lot of other casinos around that will treat you better, and I'd suggest that you dump Sam's Town and find an alternate that might treat you in the manner that you'd like.
If you keep giving them the same amount of play then you reinforce their actions as being correct and proper.
Regards
A.P.
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From: "'nudge51' nudge51@cox.net [vpFREE]" <vpFREE@yahoogroups.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 11:56 AM
Subject: [vpFREE] Sam's Town LV Will Sodomize Your Points
I was tempted to just use a B.B.B.B. as my subject line for this post, which would translate to Bumbling Boyd Bozo Brilliance, but since gaining favorable attention is the first step to selling anything, including you buying into reading the post, I figured I had to be a little more specific. I will get to the explanation for the title that I did choose shortly. Most current gamblers are well aware that whenever you play with your player's card, you accrue points to your account that should have value for things like cashback, comps, food, monthly mailers, etc., etc.. At Sam's Town in LV, the one and only one of the 7 B-DIS-connected casinos in the LV valley, if you direct download your points for play use, this is no longer the case. Let's say that you have accumulated 100,000 points in your account at any of the 7 supposedly associated casinos (which they really are not, except for the fact that they are all owned by the local mega-multi-hundred dollar conglomerate, Boyd Gaming) and you make the horrible error of downloading all of the 100,000 points at Sam's Town to your machine to play. This will give you $100 of play on which you will earn absolutely ZERO points. If you are an Emerald card holder, as I am, instead of earning your normal 3X tier level points, you will receive exactly ZERO times points on this $100. Ruby and Sapphire card holders will also earn NADA,ZIP, times points. I have either personally checked at or have had friends check at ALL 6 of the other local properties, Gold Coast, Suncoast, Orleans, Freemont, Main Street Station, and the California Club, and if you were to do the download of points for play use at any of these casinos, you would earn points at your normal tier level, the same as if you had inserted cash into the machine. At any one of the "normal" 6 non-Sam's Town properties, if they were having a point multiplier day, say 6X points, you would get credit just as if you were using cash. Now, stand up, and bend over, and prepare for your sodomy session. At Sam's, even on a point multiplier day, if you are downloading your points to play there, you will receive exactly 0X points on this play. If you must play at Sam's Town, and trust me, there are fewer and fewer reasons by the day to play there at all, then do yourself a big favor. Go to the players club, tell them that you want to cash in 100,000 of your points, take the $100 and stick it in the machine and you will score points as if you were in a normal, NON greedy bastard casino. Just how stupid does Sam's Town think their customers are? More importantly, why is Boyd Gaming letting them get away with points sodomy and offering up yet another reason for people not to play in this casino? The way things are going over the last couple of years, with the current team of general mangler John Sou and slot director Dennis Martinson in charge, since both have little knowledge of gaming to start with, perhaps Boyd is planning on using Sam's Town as a tax write off. Just to clarify, mangler is not a misspelling, I just use the title of what he does in place of what appears on his business card. He began his career as a food and beverage manager, and may have been under qualified for that position. Martinson was previously a slot tech. and I don't think that knowing how to put a mechanical band aid on a machine creates the cranial talent necessary to determine what games need to go on an entire casino's gaming floor. Whatever you would like to call these two, maybe Trip and Stumble, Mutt and Jeff, or Nit and Wit, I just plain call them bad for my favorite casino. If you have any concerns about my level of gaming knowledge, I had my first association with gambling in a casino back in the mid '70's. Up until recently, I played at Sam's Town for an average of 20 days out of every month for the past several years. Sam's Town was named in honor of the company's founder Sam Boyd. Both he and his bride Mary have ascended to heaven years ago but he was one of the pioneer legends who started an empire with literally nothing. I feel bad that because of the way that this place is being run---basically into the ground, Sam must devote quite an amount of time daily to spinning in his grave.
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Posted by: Albert Pearson <ehpee@rogers.com>
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