Can pit boss comp a room?

I once saw a guy get a room comp from the pit boss, and I'm wondering if anyone else has tried this. How difficult is it to get a free room night and what are the play requirements?

Play for four hours at reasonable rate (often $25 / hour). Sometimes casinos will post a specific amount of play to get a room, but they prefer not to do that.

Longer play is more important than making some large bets. You will see some guys throwing thousand dollar bets and expecting rooms, but casinos in general don't want to see that.

Most of the time you will lose several times the price of the room.

I understand that about one third of the rooms in Vegas are comped and that some are charged at The Casino Rate.

Many players seem to ask for comps such as meals or rooms directly from the Floor or Pit Boss rather than through a host or at check-out time.

Casinos, particularly the larger ones, rarely commit themselves since they want to maintain flexibility, especially with table game players. Time at Table is a major factor followed by size of average bet. This helps to determine the player's Theoretical Loss which means his Theoretical Value to the casino. Erratic betting may not help since it really doesn't fool the floorman even if things happen to be hectic in the pit at the time. Some sweeteners to your Theoretical Value might be: courtesy, generous tipping, or occasional large betting. Players often think that if they win or lose has an effect on their comps but usually it does not.

Now whether one should be a squeaky wheel or not, I don't know. Perhaps it depends on whether you are in an upscale casino or not.

I was at a craps table at Taj Mahal, late in the evening. I bought in for $100. About 1.5 hours later I have about $1,500! I said to the pit boss that I was heading home, unless he could get me a free or cheap room.

He said it couldn't be done.

I replied, they don't want to give me the opportunity to lose it back before the wife gets her hands on it?

Yep.

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Then there was a different time also at Taj, with different yet similar results. I don't even know how it came up, but the pit boss gave me a $20 meal voucher. Cool.

On the way to a restaurant, I passed a rewards kiosk, so I checked my balance. Hmmmm.... It was $18 less than it had been a couple hours earler.

The bum simply generated the coupon right out of my own account! AND I TIPPED THE CREW AS A WAY TO THANK HIM! (The $2 difference was what I had earned in the meantime.)

When thinking and talking about comps, one phrase to keep in mind is Heinlen's old maxim: "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch."

Carry on.

I think the general rule is that different properties operate differently.

At the local casino, comps used to be given for meals and other things on the pit, meaning that the player would ask the pit boss for parking, meal, etc, and they went to a computer and figured out if your play warranted the freebie. Because you didn't earn points at the table, that play was tracked separately. Now, they award you a different kind of point for your table play. Points are not deducted when you take a comp but they count toward upper tiers.

At another local, there is no player's card in the table room but they track players by name and give out comps to the regulars.

Can a pit boss who has the authority to comp meals also comp a hotel room? Probably not on his/her own: s/he would have to call a host to see if it was possible. The decision to call the host to even ask would be based on that person's experience to know what the answer may be. At the Wynn, all of their comps are handled by the host.