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Palms $1000 Rebate Played

My wife was eligible and we found ourselves sans children for the night so we played the Palms $1000 slot loss rebate on Monday.

Got her signed up and asked the club booth, "any machine not marked as non-promotional, right?" He didn't say yes but instead said, "the full-pay machines are excluded." I know the Palms VP well enough to know that was a clown answer, and one of our candidate machines was 8/5 Bonus Poker which is technically full-pay, so I thanked him and decided to check again with someone else.

We settled in at a $5 5-line 9/7 Double Bonus machine with no "non-promotional" stickers anywhere in the bank. I called over a slot worker and asked, "is this machine eligible for the $1000 loss rebate promotion?" She started looking at paytables for a couple minutes then took the machine numbers down and excused herself to go check with someone who had some "updated list." About 3 minutes later she returned and said we were good to go.

Fed $1000 in and got to work. Nothing really exciting happened. A couple dealt straights were the biggest single hits. Our high point was about +$750, then it ebbed and flowed in a downward pattern until it was all gone. Things happen pretty fast at $125 a hand. I had set a soft stop at +$2500 and a hard stop at +$4000. Never got anywhere close, unfortunately.

Went to the booth and got the first $300 rebate loaded up without issue and proceeded to the 25c Full-Pay Deuces machines. Played it through exactly once and cashed it out for $330.

We managed to put about $13,500 through. Enough for a few Play-Earn-&-Win gift items but not enough for a $50 gift card so it's pretty much worthless junk. Also racked up $33 in free play that we didn't cash out.

So the end result for phase 1 was +$63, some free stuff, and $700 in bankroll tied up in pending free play for a couple months.

I'm curious to see what they send to a newbie with a Pahrump address after some pretty decent action.