When we get casino offers offering elements like free play, oftentimes they’re broken into multiple windows of time throughout a month. The flier might say $150 in free play this month, but you get $30 a week for five weeks.
Here’s a question from a player with a similar example:
I recently received a promo mailer that says I have $190 in total free play. It is broken down into 5 $38 free plays on the 5 Thursdays in January. Can I let them roll over and play the full $190 on the last day or do I lose what I don’t play?
Brad B.
Generally speaking, when offers are set for a window of time, the previous offer expires when the next window begins, so generally the ability to bank free play for later and build it all up isn’t traditionally an option.
There are some casinos that have you accept the offer when you visit, such as on a kiosk. Their free play expiration rules may allow a situation where you might be able to play more than one at once, as long as the free play doesn’t expire too quickly (in this case, a week or more), but you still have to go into the casino each time to accept it.
Keep in mind the reason a casino divides the offer up into weekly amounts to begin with is to encourage you to come, and play, each Thursday. If you accept the free play but don’t play, they consider that a $0 play day as part of your average daily theoretical calculation, and that free play is going to vanish pretty fast without play against each bucket of it. Some casinos are particularly aggressive at penalizing players that accept offers but don’t play.
Conversely, if you go and play each Thursday, while you aren’t getting the free play all at once, they’re getting what they want, and it will likely continue, or potentially even increase if you’re playing enough.
Ultimately, casinos structure free play offers in most cases that you have to use it on or around when it’s available or accepted, to encourage players to come in and play. Banking free play for a rainy day doesn’t tend to be an option, barring any other program (like MGM’s slot dollars) that purposefully doesn’t expire in a short period of time.
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