Match play dispute

A match play is a conditional contract: "If you play a hand at our casino, betting this much, and if you win, we will pay you twice the amount of your bet." If a player accepts the contract by making the bet and surrendering the coupon, then the casino is legally obligated to fulfill the terms of the contract, if the stated condition (the player wins) occurs.

Of course, the above is the legal interpretation, and the law doesn't exactly apply in Nevada. I wouldn't be surprised to see someone thrown in jail for insisting on getting paid on his matchplay. (What law would he have broken? The Don't Annoy the Casino Law.)

Quote: Nareed

BTW This thread has me thinking of a new Vegas Law: Beware casinos bearing gifts.

My philosophy is welcome casinos bearing gifts. It is not hard to get more in gifts than you give the casinos in expected losses. That pursuit is a large reason behind my sites.

Quote: Wizard

My philosophy is welcome casinos bearing gifts. It is not hard to get more in gifts than you give the casinos in expected losses. That pursuit is a large reason behind my sites.

I wonder how you say "faux pas" in Greek.

Thinking about it, there have been a few posts about bad promotions, two problems with match play coupons I can recall and assorted comp-realted gripes, but also stories of comped this and that, good promos, not to mention very favorable reports on Terrible's loss rebate promo. So taken as a whole I think I was way off.

Too bad, because I want to reach at least 40 Laws... And, really, caveat emptor is too general to apply specifically to Vegas. it does apply, naturally, but also to everyhwere else in the world.

So whatever happened with this? What did Gaming do? I was dating a waitress from BJ's recently and they are the stingiest with promos so this doesn't surprise me. Unless the bartender knows you they enforce a stupid rule of comping a drink for every $20 inserted into the machine regardless of play. I tried to explain that if I put $20 in and played it for a hour that they were getting more action than if I put $20, played 1x for my drink, cashed and repeated. It wasn't til the girl I was seeing intervened that this rule was relaxed for me. Fun bar and the skimpy outfits the girls wear are the best of any local bar I've seen but very stingy.

I am very familiar with how most of the taverns in Nevada handle match play vouchers.

BJ's West uses the ETT Card of the Day/TavernTracker System. On Match Play vouchers the system only validates that the logged in player has a coin in/handle of the amount of the voucher for that day before it will validate it. The system itself offers no other type of validated matchplay. I think the scenario this person ran into was just a misinformed or new bartender.

As Neil Young once said, "There's more to the picture, than meets the eye, hey hey, my my".

It's always the Player's position that the player should prevail.

It's always the Casino's position that the casino should prevail.

A wise man once said, "Judge not, lest ye be judged".

Quote: Wizard
My philosophy is welcome casinos bearing gifts. It is not hard to get more in gifts than you give the casinos in expected losses. That pursuit is a large reason behind my sites.

I say work em like a $20 dollar Hooker works a John.