alwayssplitaces
Well-Known Member
SugarHouse has a good new member bonus. Play the slots for 30 minutes, and get up to $100 of your slot losses back. Play for an hour, lose $100, and get double your losses back up to $200.
Lose $100 in slots and receive $200 in free slot play after 2 weeks. You have to play for 30 minutes if you want $100 in free slot play or 60 minutes if you want $200 in free slot play, so obviously playing an hour and losing $100 will maximize your EV from this promo.
The strategy for this is to find a penny slot machine and try to let $100 last for an hour losing as little as possible. Go slow and bet 1 cent every 10 seconds, it should cost you $3.60 if you don't win anything. Then cash out and find the highest denomination machine. Insert a $100 bill in that and bet the max till you lose it all or accumulate at least $200 in credits. Then wait up to 2 weeks for a postcard in the mail. Go back and use the free slot play on a video poker machine, remembering to only cycle through $200 once. Then never go to SugarHouse again.
You can also combine this with the Delaware Park promo. For the risk averse, go to Delaware Park first to get $100 free slot play, then take the cash to SugarHouse. Then repeat after 2 weeks (the second trip will be more fun since it'll be worth about $290 in EV from both stores). Take as many people as you want, even non-gamblers, and split the winnings equally to minimize variance and keep each other company while you're sitting in front of the slot machine for the required amount of time and when you're sitting in traffic between SugarHouse and Delaware Park! $290 might not seem like much but it's more EV per hour spent working these two promotions for most of us than blackjack or poker. And it's a lot of money to most of our friends who don't gamble. And if you don't yet have a Total Rewards card, stop at Harrah's Chester and add another $20 in free slot play just for signing up.
It's definitely a great way to entertain your friends who, when you tell them you can count cards, ask you this annoying question "If I give you $100 can you turn it into $200". And it's pretty rare for land-based casinos to offer this high of a new member bonus, especially 2 of them in close proximity, so let's milk it! You have a very high edge over SugarHouse and you're freerolling Delaware Park and Harrah's Chester.
Lose $100 in slots and receive $200 in free slot play after 2 weeks. You have to play for 30 minutes if you want $100 in free slot play or 60 minutes if you want $200 in free slot play, so obviously playing an hour and losing $100 will maximize your EV from this promo.
The strategy for this is to find a penny slot machine and try to let $100 last for an hour losing as little as possible. Go slow and bet 1 cent every 10 seconds, it should cost you $3.60 if you don't win anything. Then cash out and find the highest denomination machine. Insert a $100 bill in that and bet the max till you lose it all or accumulate at least $200 in credits. Then wait up to 2 weeks for a postcard in the mail. Go back and use the free slot play on a video poker machine, remembering to only cycle through $200 once. Then never go to SugarHouse again.
You can also combine this with the Delaware Park promo. For the risk averse, go to Delaware Park first to get $100 free slot play, then take the cash to SugarHouse. Then repeat after 2 weeks (the second trip will be more fun since it'll be worth about $290 in EV from both stores). Take as many people as you want, even non-gamblers, and split the winnings equally to minimize variance and keep each other company while you're sitting in front of the slot machine for the required amount of time and when you're sitting in traffic between SugarHouse and Delaware Park! $290 might not seem like much but it's more EV per hour spent working these two promotions for most of us than blackjack or poker. And it's a lot of money to most of our friends who don't gamble. And if you don't yet have a Total Rewards card, stop at Harrah's Chester and add another $20 in free slot play just for signing up.
It's definitely a great way to entertain your friends who, when you tell them you can count cards, ask you this annoying question "If I give you $100 can you turn it into $200". And it's pretty rare for land-based casinos to offer this high of a new member bonus, especially 2 of them in close proximity, so let's milk it! You have a very high edge over SugarHouse and you're freerolling Delaware Park and Harrah's Chester.
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