Most pros who have played a long time advise not using players cards but I think that perhaps another look is needed.
I have played rated now for 4 years, in MS, Las Vegas, PA and the Midwest. At times, I have attempted to play anonymously but found that if there is heat, the easiest way to dissipate it is to hand over your players card. Believe me, the heat is 10 times greater for an anonymous player, especially at Green Chip minimum games.
I think, more and more often, the pit ignores you, puts in the amount you won or lost at the end of your session and leaves the decision-making for higher ups to review. If you are playing anonymously, they call surveillance to evaluate whether to back you off.
Now, whether it's lifetime earnings, or last year's play or what can get you in trouble is unknown. In the meantime, I get my comps, free rooms, table play coupons and meals.
One pit guy logging me in told me today that I was up for the year.
Maybe it's my max bet ($150), maybe it is that I only win 60% of my sessions, maybe it's the short sessions, maybe it's the 1-6 spread, maybe it's that I never leave a session up more than $1500 (usually under $1k) but so far, no major trouble.
In the meantime, the difference in heat is incredible. I play anonymously and the pit is at the table or glancing at my chip stack often, or obviously assessing me. I play with card, they see most likely my last few sessions, when I was last at their casino and that I did not take them for huge amounts and they go away.
I have played rated now for 4 years, in MS, Las Vegas, PA and the Midwest. At times, I have attempted to play anonymously but found that if there is heat, the easiest way to dissipate it is to hand over your players card. Believe me, the heat is 10 times greater for an anonymous player, especially at Green Chip minimum games.
I think, more and more often, the pit ignores you, puts in the amount you won or lost at the end of your session and leaves the decision-making for higher ups to review. If you are playing anonymously, they call surveillance to evaluate whether to back you off.
Now, whether it's lifetime earnings, or last year's play or what can get you in trouble is unknown. In the meantime, I get my comps, free rooms, table play coupons and meals.
One pit guy logging me in told me today that I was up for the year.
Maybe it's my max bet ($150), maybe it is that I only win 60% of my sessions, maybe it's the short sessions, maybe it's the 1-6 spread, maybe it's that I never leave a session up more than $1500 (usually under $1k) but so far, no major trouble.
In the meantime, the difference in heat is incredible. I play anonymously and the pit is at the table or glancing at my chip stack often, or obviously assessing me. I play with card, they see most likely my last few sessions, when I was last at their casino and that I did not take them for huge amounts and they go away.