Combining Player's Cards

Hello Everyone,

I am a long time reader of this forum (about 4 years) but just today decided to register and post my first question. I have always enjoyed this site and have received a lot of very useful information. Hopefully, things don't change under the new owner.

I go to Vegas 1-2 times a year and consider myself a low roller. I stick to BJ $25-50/hand and craps $10-15 pass + odds. I am going with my wife in November and will be staying for 5 days. She only plays slots. In the past, I have been the only one to get and use a player's card. I have a card for every casino that I have been to.

Should we get 2 separate cards or try to use 1 card between both of us. I have heard that some casinos will give you 2 cards with the same account number. What is the best for us? I don't expect to have everything comped but we do receive a lot of offers by email/mail.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

I've always used 1 card for myself and my girlfriend/wife. Using 1 card doubles (assuming you play about the same each) the average daily visit amount, which is a huge factor in future offers. If you wager $5,000 in bets on table games and your wife runs $5,000 through machines in a day, your visit for that day will be $10,000 in play.

Just get a 2nd card under your name for each place you go.


ZCore13

Quote: elnoke

Hello Everyone,

I am a long time reader of this forum (about 4 years) but just today decided to register and post my first question. I have always enjoyed this site and have received a lot of very useful information. Hopefully, things don't change under the new owner.

I go to Vegas 1-2 times a year and consider myself a low roller. I stick to BJ $25-50/hand and craps $10-15 pass + odds. I am going with my wife in November and will be staying for 5 days. She only plays slots. In the past, I have been the only one to get and use a player's card. I have a card for every casino that I have been to.

Should we get 2 separate cards or try to use 1 card between both of us. I have heard that some casinos will give you 2 cards with the same account number. What is the best for us? I don't expect to have everything comped but we do receive a lot of offers by email/mail.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Slots players tend to get the best offers, so it pays to have your wife use the card. With the table stakes you play, if you two expose the same amount of money and had 2 cards (one in each name) you would see the difference in subsequent offers very quickly (hers would be 3x or more the value of yours, I estimate).

I always get 2 cards, even on initial sign-up, and they're always happy to provide them. I play both machines and tables, so get one for my wallet and one for an extension chain (so I don't leave it behind).

If you're going to use the card someplace where they're going to check ID, like the gift shop or a restaurant, it should probably be whichever of you gets the card in their name. Or if asking something /redeeming a coupon at the players' club, it should be the person with the account.

I don't know enough about marketing to know if 2 players at the same address, same last name, will get better offers than 1 player account you both feed. Or whether any particular casinos frown on it enough to have programmed their system to notice that one of you is checked in at the tables, while spinning a slot in the far corner. I think the casinos take benign note of it at the moment, but could cause issues down the road if they wanted to.

My personal preference is to not do anything to invalidate a club's TOS, which usually includes multiple people using a single account. So my (ex) husband and I played on separate accounts. (Long time gambler and comps user, not in the casino marketing business.)

Also, the previous poster (Zcore) IS a long-time casino person, currently runs the games at a place in Arizona, so his advice carries extra weight, IMO.

Thank you both for the quick replies. I appreciate the advice.