{"id":126,"date":"2008-10-06T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2008-10-06T07:58:58","modified_gmt":"2008-10-06T07:58:58","slug":"take-the-comp-and-get-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/?p=126","title":{"rendered":"Take the comp and get out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><p>I was given a meal comp by one of Las Vegas&#8217; casinos recently. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafestationlasvegas.com\/\">Santa Fe Station<\/a>) Stupidly, I decided to use it for the meal. The thing the casino knows is that most people who have registered for their loyalty\/player cards can&#8217;t come into a casino without gambling.   Case in point is why so many casinos have put cinemas in them so you have to walk past the one-arm bandits on your way to your movie or favorite eatery and then again on the way back to the car.<\/p>\n<p>So most people stop and gamble if just for a bit. Which is what I did. <\/p>\n<p>I went to a movie (<i>How to Lose Friends and Alienate People<\/i>) in Santa Fe Station. Then on my way out very quickly dropped $20 in less than a minute in a slot machine that looked promising. Then later that evening I had dinner at another casino <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasstation.com\/\">Texas Station<\/a> (<i>buffet and 2 beers <b>free<\/b><\/i>) but dropped another $20 in a slot on the way out in what seemed like a record amount of time for 5-cent machines&#8211;a minute or so.<\/p>\n<p>With the way the market and economy are going, casinos are at wits-end trying to get people in the door, because they know once you&#8217;re there you&#8217;ll leave a little cash with them.  But no one is winning &#8211; that&#8217;s at least what I&#8217;m seeing.  The casino owners have re-timed the machines and the deck-shufflers so that the odds are even worse than they used to be (and that&#8217;s <b>really<\/b> awful).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was given a meal comp by one of Las Vegas&#8217; casinos recently. (Santa Fe Station) Stupidly, I decided to use it for the meal. The thing the casino knows is that most people who have registered for their loyalty\/player cards can&#8217;t come into a casino without gambling. Case in point is why so many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}