Free play

Aside from the debate over whether this is legal, how can this promotion be effective? After spinning reels for a half-hour with almost no chance of winning, who is then primed to bet real money on similar-looking machines? I did this once at Royale and was bored to tears.

Quote: nyuhoosier

Aside from the debate over whether this is legal, how can this promotion be effective? After spinning reels for a half-hour with almost no chance of winning, who is then primed to bet real money on similar-looking machines? I did this once at Royale and was bored to tears.

Really boring, I agree.

While I wasted time spinning the reels, I chatted with an older gentleman next to me. We both were disgusted, bored and we complained to each other. But neither one of us would walk away, either. What if you did and someone then spun the jackpot with your coupon?

When I was finished I just said "Glad that's over. Good luck." Then went inside to see the rest of the casino. So I also don't see what Royale gets out of it, but it dind't put me off so as to leave the place and never return. I just know next time to ignore the promo.

Leave the Royale alone! I have done the Hooters promo and ya it sucks..but didn't take very long to go thru it and I got a blackjack matchplay with the signup ..think it was $10...better then nuttin!

"Aside from the debate over whether this is legal, how can this promotion be effective? After spinning reels for a half-hour with almost no chance of winning, who is then primed to bet real money on similar-looking machines? I did this once at Royale and was bored to tears."


This is an EXCELLENT point and I agree completely. And, for what it's worth, in my state this would absolutly constitute an unlawful deceptive trade practice.

So, these casinos are engaged in breaking the law for the sole purpose of boring people away from their properties. Only in Vegas.

The Hooters and Casino Royale free play/promo play are BS, I did both of these last week, now Hooters does $100 in free promo play where you play on a $5 credit machine and bet 2 credits and can only cash out if you hit a jackpot. If you have time to kill on your trip in Vegas this is worth doing but it is nothing like the free play that works on video poker/ lots of different slot machines.

Many transactions are based on misrepresentations or incomplete information.
The courts generally look to material misstatements or omissions.
Vegas could be a nightmare for sticklers for truth: most of the casinos are not even in Las Vegas. It seems every casino has Loose Slots. Free play and bonus play seem to be poorly defined terms. Most people playing slot machines don't know and don't want to know how they work.

Until a few months ago one casino had on its website that the odds were in the player's favor, so truth in advertising does not seem to be a Vegas strong-point.

That Hooter's certificate is worth somewhere around five dollars which to me means its not worth walking more than fifty feet to get there. Yet some people love the "freebie" concept and will actually pay for cabfare to run around town getting what I would term useless knick-knacks just because they are free.

Some fine print disclosures might help: This is a promotional slot machine so the usual rules do not apply or this machine is technically in our lobby, not our casino or maybe some other loopholes exist. I really don't know, I'm just inventing stuff. After all, just about every transaction in Vegas involves the customer getting the short end of the stick.

I really think its annoying that these cheapie ripoffs exist. I'd prefer an honestly presented offer. Let the certificate or advertisement say 200 dollars in free play if the casino wants to say that but make them also state clearly: on a limited machine, economic value is about five dollars.

When walking past the Tropicana last weekend they had the free pull to get you into their casino. Except that if the pull didn't win, they sent you on their way!!! Huh?

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When walking past the Tropicana last weekend they had the free pull to get you into their casino. Except that if the pull didn't win, they sent you on their way!!! Huh?

I thought you at least won a deck of cards, but you have to sign up for a player card to get them.

It was that way last year. This year, nuttin!