Comps on $1,000 bet?
March 23rd, 2012 at 12:39:45 PM
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Hi!
As part of my forthcoming Vegas trip I will be making some sports bets way above my normal bankroll. I'm not saying I'm placing bets on behalf of a third party, since that's probably illegal, but it's working out where I'm going to be placing bets of $1,000 (probably in the form on 4x$250) on some NCAA final four games.
It suddenly struck me today that there might be some sort of comp opportunity here. I know if I were betting multiple blacks at a table game I'd be taken care of in lots of places, but obviously sports betting is a different story. So, is a grand in action worth anything? I don't know if cocktail waitresses circle the sports betting area, but that's of minimal value to me since I play table games anyways (just for red chips...). But do they give out drink coupons I could redeem when I'm not playing? Or, even better, buffet comps? I'll have a car, so if it makes a difference I can place the bets at any sports book.
Thanks for any and all help!
As part of my forthcoming Vegas trip I will be making some sports bets way above my normal bankroll. I'm not saying I'm placing bets on behalf of a third party, since that's probably illegal, but it's working out where I'm going to be placing bets of $1,000 (probably in the form on 4x$250) on some NCAA final four games.
It suddenly struck me today that there might be some sort of comp opportunity here. I know if I were betting multiple blacks at a table game I'd be taken care of in lots of places, but obviously sports betting is a different story. So, is a grand in action worth anything? I don't know if cocktail waitresses circle the sports betting area, but that's of minimal value to me since I play table games anyways (just for red chips...). But do they give out drink coupons I could redeem when I'm not playing? Or, even better, buffet comps? I'll have a car, so if it makes a difference I can place the bets at any sports book.
Thanks for any and all help!
March 23rd, 2012 at 1:33:37 PM
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I doubt $1000 worth of sports tickets is worth anything...
Hell, at my haunt, you HAVE to bet a $20 ticket to even get a fucking drink toke!
Hell, at my haunt, you HAVE to bet a $20 ticket to even get a fucking drink toke!
Gambling calls to me...like this ~> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Nap37mNSmQ
March 23rd, 2012 at 2:05:01 PM
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$1000 in action is worth about $45 to the sportsbook. If it was a table game, 20% of that would be $8 in comps. But as the sports book runs on thinner margins (or so I'm led to believe), and your not giving action over time, I reckon you'll get very little more than a free drink like the rest of schmoes.
I know some places will give you preferential seating if your give enough action before big games. But I think it's big action, on multiple occasions that would get you that.
I know some places will give you preferential seating if your give enough action before big games. But I think it's big action, on multiple occasions that would get you that.
"Then you can admire the real gambler, who has neither eaten, slept, thought nor lived, he has so smarted under the scourge of his martingale, so suffered on the rack of his desire for a coup at trente-et-quarante" - Honore de Balzac, 1829
March 23rd, 2012 at 3:29:35 PM
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Interesting link on this topic. If you place a bunch of $250 bets maybe they will give you a buffet, but likely all you will get from them is a couple drinks on the house.
http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=251574
http://www.covers.com/articles/articles.aspx?theArt=251574
