Higher tier card holders at casinos tend to benefit from perks such as line cutting privileges and priority reservations. A player wondered if it extended to offers:
Can casinos extend priority, to higher tier level card holders, in slot play?
Harley
Theoretically they could, but in practice they probably won’t.
While tier credits are a scorecard that matters for some parts of the casino business (it shows overall player value over a window of time), it gets trickier when it comes to offer-specific features.
That’s because a player spending $100 a week could grind their way to the same tier as one spending $500 a month but visiting monthly. On the surface both players are spending similar amounts of money, but the per visit value differs greatly, and that’s the core around how casino offers are calculated.
Casinos use offers to encourage another visit. If Player A is going to spend $100 each time they visit, and visits more often, while Player B spends $500 each time they visit, and visit less often, Player B’s offers are going to be nicer because the casino is banking on another shot at $500 from that player.
So when it comes to things like offering slot play, a lot of whether a player will qualify for extra slot play will depend on that per visit value. This is why hosts can’t host all players – there’s a threshold where the offers being given by casinos are going to be about all that can be done.
Higher level players who overperform by 20% may warrant additional coverage from a host whereas getting an extra $20 off that $100 player isn’t going to amount to much more in offers.
At the end, it’s a math problem around how much a player is worth per visit, not necessarily their tier status. Certainly players with high tier cards have put in the overall play, but a player visiting frequently and spending a little looks very different to a casino than one who visits occasionally with a larger bankroll.
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