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September 2007 Bingo Calendar
AGUA CALIENTE CASINO
Bingo daily (except Fridays). Info: 760-321-2000.
FANTASY SPRINGS RESORT
CASINO BINGO PALACE
Open daily. Matinees Mon.–Sat.
2:30 p.m., Sunday 7 p.m. Main
Session Mon.–Sat. 6:30 p.m. and Sun.2p.m.Mainsessionbuy-ins
are $15 pays $600 or $25 pays
$1,199 unless otherwise noted. Bingo Information Line,800-827-2946.
September Specials: Sundays: $15/$25 buy-in; free $5 start-up; Electronic Max Pack double cards. Mondays: Electronic Max Pack Double Cards paying $600/$1,199; $10 paper pays $500, $3 side packs pay $1,000. Tuesdays: $15 Axe the Tax pays $1,199. Wednesdays: WOW 2 for 1 matinee specials; $5 buy-in pays $500 evening sessions. Thursdays: Electronic Max Pack Double Cards paying $600/$1,199; $10 paper pays $500, $3 side packs pay $1,000. Fridays: 5-4-5 Friday, $5 buy-in pays $500 with Electronic Minimum $30. Saturdays: Super “C” Electronic Pack/90 main game cards.
MORONGO CASINO RESORT SPA
Bingo Wed–Sun. Phone: 1-800-252-4499 ext. 3954.
SAN MANUEL INDIAN BINGO & CASINO
Bingo daily (except ursdays). Call 1-800-359-2464.
SOBOBA CASINO
Tues.–Sat. 9 a.m.,
Birds, Regular Sessions Intermission Games: $10 buy-in, $15 games paying up to $250, three specials pay $500 each.
Phone:1-888-772-7626.
September Specials: Tuesdays: 8a.m. Bingo
Birthday Packs for all customers with September birthdays. Wednesdays: 8 a.m. Bermuda Triangle $400/$800 payout. Fridays: 1st game pays $100, last game pays $500. Saturdays: ree specials paying $300, $400 and $500.
SYCUAN CASINO BINGO PALACE
Matinee Bingo Daily 9:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., and 2 p.m., $10 buy-in, 10 regular games pay $300; Saturday & Sunday Matinee I free breakfast; Matinee II and III, $10 buy-in, 10 regular games pay $500, $3 Star Bonus Packs pay $500; Treasure Hunt Bingo (Sat)/Bullseye Bingo (Sun) pay $1,000. Evening Sessions daily at 7 p.m.; Monday– ursday$10packpays$1,000,$3StarBonusPackpays $1,000; Friday–Sunday, $10 pays $1,199, $3 Star packs pay $750, $5 Star packs pay $1,199; Saturday $10 pays
$1,199. Fridays, $5,000 Circle 8 must go; Sundays, $5000 Casino Bingo must go. Phone: 1-800-2-sycuan.
LuckySevensBonusTuesdays: BingoonB7orany number ending in 7 and win an extra $300!
Labor Day Weekend Extravaganza: Saturday, September 1st Matinee III $2,000 Must Go on Treasure Hunt; Evening Session $15,000 Must Go on
Advantage. Sunday September 2nd Matinee III Special Over $18,000 Must Go! Evening Session $10,000 Must GoonCasinoGame.AndonMonday,September3rd
“Dauber’s Chance” all sessions.
VIEJAS CASINO & OUTLET CENTER
Mon. – Fri. Matinees: 11 a.m., 2 p.m., $10 buy-in pays $300; Early Birds and Warm Ups: 6:30 p.m. Evening Session: 7:30 p.m. , $10 buy-in pays $1,000; $18 buy-in pays $1,500. Saturday Matinees: 11 a.m., 2 p.m., $10 buy-in pays $300; Evening Session: 7:30 p.m. , $15 buy-in pays $1,199. Sunday: Matinee I, 11a.m., Matinee II, 2 p.m., $10 buy-in pays $300; Evening Session: 5 p.m., $16 buy-in pays $1,500. No Early Birds or Warm-Ups on Sundays. Phone: 619-445-5400.
16th Anniversary Bingo Celebration: Saturday, September 15, doors open at 9:30 a.m., Main Event 4 p.m., $100 buy-in, regular games pay $5,000 to $10,000; $4,000 Must Go VIPick’em, Jackpot and Bonanza; $5,000 Must Go Double Action; $10,000
Must Go Texas Blackout. Free gift for rst 500 pre- sales. Pre-sales through September 12th.
Early and
Jean Scott, The Frugal GamblerTM
Comps Through the Mail:
ADay Without Casino Mail is Like a Day Without Sunshine
lthough you may get food, show tickets, additional promotion entries, and other freebies through the players club, the number-one way for most low-rollers all over the country—both table and slot players—to get room comps is through a casino’s
direct mail system. It’s also often a rst-rate method to add other comps to the ones you
free nights at each casino, always making sure he plays enough at both to keep the o ers coming.
What are the advantages of this direct marketing comp system, as compared with using the players club or a host?
Like the players club system, you don’t have to deal with a host, so for the shy person it’s an attractive non-threatening alternative.
Taking advantage of mail o ers usually saves you from using players club points, so you can keep them for other comps—or perhaps for cashback if o ered by the players club. Point requirements for rooms are often higher proportionately than for food and other comps, so it’s gravy when a free-room o er shows up in your mailbox.
Casinos may use a less complex formula in making comp o ers by mail, often just basing them on actual coin-in for slot players or money put at risk for table players, rather than on win/loss gures and other complex factors that the host system is more frequently using these days.
accrue through the use of hosts.
Typically, a player joins a players club or asks to be
rated at the tables the rst time he plays at a casino. And the player may pay for
the room he’s staying in at a casino resort the rst time. He’s prepared to pay for all his own meals the rst trip, though he might play long enough to ask for a food comp from the pit boss or to earn enough points on the slots to redeem them at the players club for some meals.
he gambled that rst trip. He makes a reservation using this o er. is next trip he plays at the same casino, getting another free-room o er in the mail. He then stays free at this same casino on every trip, always gambling enough to keep the mail o ers
However, in a month or so,
he will usually get a room
o er in the mail. It could be
free, or at a reduced rate, depending on how much
“Taking advantage of mail offers usually saves you from using players club points, so you can keep them for other comps—or perhaps for cashback if
coming.
en he decides
to start the cycle at another casino, playing enough to get the free room o ers from them coming in the mail.
offered by the players club.”
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Bingo Calendar Jean Scott, The Frugal GamblerTM