Free $10 at Mandalay

[sabre]

Mandalay Bay has a deal for new OR existing players club members, where $20 gets you $30 in promotional chips. You keep the chips on a win/push, so the EV is close to $10 when played on blackjack.

I was glad to see that the pit with $15 S17,LS,RSA w/ ASMs hasn't changed. A massive number of similar tables at the MGM Grand have been converted over to H17.

You also get free strategy cards for BJ, craps and roulette with the above promo. The BJ one tells you to only split AA,88 ... only double on 10,11 ... stand on soft 17/soft 18. At least they got the hard hands correct. Would it have killed them to print a strategy card that was at least marginally correct?

[Guynoire]

You can also go next door and get the same deal at the Luxor, and then go next door again and get $15 for $10 in chips at the Excalibur.

[sabre]

Thanks for the heads up. I missed both of those.

I read elsewhere that Binions has a similar $120 in promo chips for $100 deal for new and existing members of their players club, but I can't confirm that.

[ace157]

what are the wage requirements for the above promos?

[shadroch]

Binions has a sheet that contains a $10 MP and a coupon where you get either $25 or $30 in promo chips for $20.
There are numerous casinos that offer the WIN Cards that the original poster is discussing.
For the most part , they are $1 chips and you need bet whatever the minimum table bet is.
These are good for the lowest of the low rollers, but quite often ,obtaining them means waiting on two seperate lines. You get a coupon at the players club and the chips from the cashiers cage. Some casinos limit you to one a month, others one a year,others once a lifetime.

[StudiodeKadent]

Originally Posted by sabre

Mandalay Bay has a deal for new OR existing players club members, where $20 gets you $30 in promotional chips. You keep the chips on a win/push, so the EV is close to $10 when played on blackjack.

I was glad to see that the pit with $15 S17,LS,RSA w/ ASMs hasn't changed. A massive number of similar tables at the MGM Grand have been converted over to H17.

You also get free strategy cards for BJ, craps and roulette with the above promo. The BJ one tells you to only split AA,88 ... only double on 10,11 ... stand on soft 17/soft 18. At least they got the hard hands correct. Would it have killed them to print a strategy card that was at least marginally correct?

Well, telling players the exact way to minimize the house edge is not in their intersts, BUT thank god for $15 S17, RSA, LS, DA2, DAS tables.

I love rules like that.

[ihate17]

Originally Posted by sabre

You also get free strategy cards for BJ, craps and roulette with the above promo. The BJ one tells you to only split AA,88 ... only double on 10,11 ... stand on soft 17/soft 18. At least they got the hard hands correct. Would it have killed them to print a strategy card that was at least marginally correct?

Years ago, at a strip casino with no single deck games, I was in the gift shop and looked at their BS card and saw it was an accurate card for single deck. When I asked the clerk if they had any cards for the game the casino was dealing, I was told that was the only card they had.

Recently after waking up in my room in Vegas and turning on the TV, I was watching that hotel channel where they instruct you on how to play different games. The instructor was Barney (something), a guy we have all seen on those Travel Channel Vegas shows. When it came to his instructions on blackjack there were several glaring "mistakes."

Most casinos do carry the correct cards and I would guess that correct information is sometimes given on their TV instructions, but since the casinos have an investment in your dropping your bankroll, getting advice from them will always be suspect.

ihate17

[Guynoire]

From my understanding the casino doesn't print the win cards themselves but buys them from a company that supplies a lot of casinos and has a one size fits all style card. http://www.wincards.com/casinos.html

I'll forgive them for not having the correct play for every permutation of the rules but they still could greatly improve the card. For example the strategy for splitting 9's is always the same. You're always going to split 2's, 3's, 6's, and 7's vs a dealer 4,5,6, etc.

[johndoe]

Circus-Circus has a really funny strategy card they give out, where you turn a little wheel to line up your hand with the dealer's. It's awful of course, but excellent camo to be dialing in on that thing.

[rpd709]

Wondering what you have to do to get the free $10 and can this be done at all MGM owned casinos?