A Las Vegas Advisor Blog from the "Queen of Comps"

Archives for June, 2010

By the flood of comments on my last entry, I am reminded that staying very watchful in a casino is not only a good idea but a real necessity.  Actually, I’ve known that for a long time.  In 26 years of casino visits, I have been careless or forgetful several times and paid a financial price.  Read more… »

I am going to talk about losing today – but not in the way I had planned to discuss it.  However, yesterday I found an unusual way to lose – not, of course, because I was looking for this!  :)   Here is the sad story: Read more… »

Kids or grandkids in town?  Here are some free and/or frugal activities that might interest them, ones perhaps that are not as well known: Read more… »

Okay, after a period of good VP promos that kept me busy, I’m back with time to discuss, as I promised earlier, that awful gambling subject called Losing!

I hope you have been reading the many good comments written these last couple of weeks Read more… »

Online Chat With Vinny DeCarlo

Vinny DeCarlo, author of  How To Beat Casino Surveillance, will be talking about his new book that reveals insider secrets about casino security in 25 Las Vegas casinos. Read more… »

Response to Comments

Time to answer some of your questions or comment on your comments!

I’m just wondering what you think about casinos that require, or rather want, your SS# when you sign up for their players card? Read more… »

This is the last week for the free pull-tabs that were sent out in the mail to Silverton customers.  And if you have a lot of points accumulated that you don’t need for comps or the Bass Shop, you might want to make a special trip to redeem that last pull-tab.  Read more… »

Cheap Eating in June

SOUTH POINT - 50% off all restaurants when you pay with your points.  (Same discount for using your points to pay for anything else in the hotel/casino EXCEPT travel.) Read more… »

Addition to LV Harrah’s Holiday Gift Program

Just got this info from my Harrah’s Laughlin host about the LV Harrah’s “Total Rewards Great Gift Wrap Up”: Read more… »

Hidden Values

I knew when I wrote my last entry that I would catch some flack in the Comments!! 

I have  problems when I write for the general public.  Read more… »