One of the unusual things about gambling as a form of entertainment is that sometimes you can actually leave with more money than you arrived with. While this shouldn’t be something you expect, it’s one of those wild cards that can occur. A player wonders if casinos know this:
Does the casino know (by player card) if they make no profit on your play? Example: I put $20 in the machine, play for an hour and cash out $200 and leave. The casino made NO money on me… do they know this?
Judi M.
Presuming you used your players card the entire time, which we encourage players to do, they would know that this happened, and they would know that it was your play that it happened on. Without a card they’d still know it happened, but might not know who.
The good news is the casino doesn’t tend to sweat one profitable session. The games are designed to make money for the casino over the long term, but they do want people to be able to win! Winners are great marketing, and give people a positive experience they share with their friends.
If you do it consistently, they may be curious about how. There are ways some players can do this, and casinos will take actions accordingly when it happens (such as cutting off free play and other offers until they have more reliable wins to provide those against). At a certain point the winning breaks well outside the law of averages, and they’ll consider you a candidate for “self-comping” – you won enough that you can cover the costs.
But ultimately, casino players almost universally lose in the long run, so while casinos may be aware you had a winning day, they don’t tend to sweat it, particularly on slots, where the randomness is assured and the house edge is higher than most other games on the casino floor.
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