You put your card in a machine or hand it to the dealer at your table. We do this because we want to get credit for our gambling and see that play transformed into offers. There’s a term for this in casino lingo, and that’s Rated Play.
Essentially, Rated Play is the gambling that the casino has a record for you playing – they’re rating your wagers based on how much you’re betting, how long you’re betting and what the house edge of the game you’re playing has.
These factors give the casino an idea of how much you’ll earn them over that window of time you played. Of course, they can get more precise measurements off a slot machine, and the amount of money you exchange for chips, and then color up at the end, can give them a good estimate of exact table wins.
But casinos aren’t so much worried about a single winning session, because they know over time they’ll make money on you. They also know some sessions they’ll win way more than they’re expected to as well. This is why the rating comes into play – it’s what they expect to win off you, each visit, based on how you play.
Rated Play is important as it ultimately is the chief determining factor of how you’re going to get comped. Secondary factors like how far away you are from a casino will come into play and tweak the offer itself, but the primary factor is how much money they expect to make off of each of your visits.
When you choose to not use your card, the casino can’t give you credit for that play, nor give you offers for it. So you’re willfully giving up comps in that situation, and that’s why we recommend players nearly always use their card when playing.
