In a reel we posted on our Flip The Switch Facebook and Instagram pages (please follow us there!), Brian Christopher noted that it’s not advisable to use your players card if you’re planning to visit the casino and not play to your usual level of play – especially if it’s going to be little to no play at all. A commenter objected to that advice, saying:
Free play is based on the previous 3 months, not the last visit.
David S.
That’s not necessarily true. For one, casinos vary on what they base their offers on. Many will look back over the last 12 months, for instance. Some will look at an even longer history.
Some will look at every session in a window of time. Some will cut it off after X sessions (X being some specific number of visits), believing the most recent sessions are the most informative. For players who go to the casino a lot, this can be a shorter window than others who go less frequently.
Some casinos will give more recent sessions more weight than older sessions from awhile ago. Some weigh them all equally, as long as it’s in the date range they’re rating.
So it’s not a cut and dried answer, and you may or may not get helpful info from a host or the players desk about your local casino’s setup.
But even given the examples above, a no play session or a low play session, which is what we’re advising players about here, is something casinos will look at specifically with concern.
The whole idea of an offer is to entice another round of play based on how you tend to play. If you tend to spend a couple hundred dollars each casino visit, the hope is that the offer brings you in to spend another couple hundred dollars.
If you come in, accept the offers, and leave without playing, that’s a red flag. A giant one. With sparklers and glitter. If a casino extends an offer and you don’t play, there’s a percentage of them that will instantly revoke your offers. Caesars offers sometimes explicitly state this in their fine print, for example:
Redemptions without play may affect future offers.
Caesars offer fine print
At the very least, you’re taking a step that waters down your per-day or per-visit average. If they’re looking at the last three months, or the last six sessions, or weighting the most recent one most heavily, in every single one of those scenarios you’re lowering their expectation. And they in turn will lower their offers.
And that’s the best case scenario, because with so many casinos having explicit no play or low play triggers in their marketing formulas, even one no or low play scenario will have an impact. And if you repeat that step, you might as well be ready to say goodbye to your offers.
So while by default your offer calculations will usually have a window of time being reviewed, and some other layers of decisions in terms of visit frequency, recency of the data and so on, there’s a specific path that also exists around those no play or low play visits, and that’s why we advise against it.
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