DB vs DDB ?

[spxChrome]

To this day I don't get people who play JOB or DB.  I usually assume they don't know the difference or care about pay table.s.  Its DDB or even TDB for me, its the only way to get paid the way I see it.  But to each his own
 
My casino has 10/6 DDB and 9/7 TDB

[shadowman]

The best DDB game in many casinos is 9/6 or worse. In these cases 9/6 JOB makes a lot of sense.
 
I used to play a 9/6 JOB progressive triple play machine. It was great. You could still hit good winners with dealt quads or SFs while reducing the pain when the quad droughts hit. The occasional big RF didn't hurt either.

[BOOPSAHOY]

The last time I had a handpay they asked if it was my name on the card-they said they had to pay that name and SS# and people sometimes look at the W2 and say thats not me. She didnt say it was against any RULES to use someone elses card though.

[BillyJoe]

The last time I had a handpay they asked if it was my name on the card-they said they had to pay that name and SS# and people sometimes look at the W2 and say thats not me. She didnt say it was against any RULES to use someone elses card though. 
 
I'm surprised at that, Boops. You are not required to play with a card in the machine. The casino Players Card folks may have a problem with someone playing on a card different than who they are, since that affects things like Tier Status, Cash Backs and Comps, but that should have no bearing on reporting to the IRS a win over $1200. Suppose you walked up to a machine where someone left their card in after leaving, you didn't notice, and hit a jackpot on the first hand? I would sure be disappointed if the casino folks said that they had to search the floor for the person who left their card in the machine so that they could pay them MY jackpot.

[carl_vegas]

I was sitting next to a guy who was dealt a RF on a .25 5-play machine, so he had to wait for the slot attendant to come.  He mentioned that he was worried that he had his wife's card in the card reader.  I told him to simply remove the card before the slot attendant arrived.  He did so, the slot attendant arrived, took his drivers license, and paid him off.  The question of the slot card never came up.  That seemed to work pretty well.  I'm not saying you should play someone else's card, but if you accidentally have someone else's card in the reader, and hit a big jackpot, this might be a solution.  Just take it out before the slot person comes by and put it in your pocket.

[shadowman]

Most casinos don't care if you are playing with another person's card. In fact, some even encourage it if they think that will get you to play more. The one exception that I'm aware of is Stations Casinos, and then probably only for high rollers.

[rascal]

The situation with "Dancer" was not for a jackpot. It was for a side bonus promotion where every once in a while a machine in the casino would be selected randomly for a huge bonus. A card had to be in use for the bonus to be selected. He was using his wife's card. As I recall the column he wrote, casino honchos spent several hours deciding whether or not to give him the bonus (in this case, $90,000). He wrote in the column that he made it clear to them that whatever they decided to do would be the subject of his column, which may or may not have influenced their decision to award him the bonus even though he was using his wife's card. This is not the first time he has used his column in an attempt to influence casino personnel favorably toward him, as witness his current columns regarding the saga at the Trop. My limited understanding of journalism is that it is unethical to use a news report, column, editorial, etc to influence the personal treatment of the writer. However. Bill may not consider himself to be journalist, even through his column appears in the LV Review-Journal.

[cddenver]

The situation with "Dancer" was not for a jackpot. It was for a side bonus promotion where every once in a while a machine in the casino would be selected randomly for a huge bonus. A card had to be in use for the bonus to be selected. He was using his wife's card.
 
You'd think that with a promotion involving such large dollar amounts the casino would have a clear written policy - i.e., players must have their own card in a machine to collect a winner.  Are you saying that the casino did have such a policy, and that Dancer threatened to write them up anyway?

[faygo]

From what I remember reading the circumstances surounding it were murky at best.  If memory serves me(rascal correct me if I'm wrong on this) the rules required one to play on their own card but weren't posted . Think that there was also some card booth employees thst weren't well informed either. I might be mixing a couple of stories BD wrote about?
Why did I bother to do this since I appear to have been no help at all.

[Lucky Larry]

Most casinos don't care if you are playing with another person's card. In fact, some even encourage it if they think that will get you to play more. The one exception that I'm aware of is Stations Casinos, and then probably only for high rollers.

shadowman,
We were told our player's card accounts were "linked" at Red Rock. MOF we asked marketing one time why the "big free cash rewards" changed from my card to hers even though we play almost exclusively on mine. They told us they rotate offers between linked accounts?

BTW: We almost always play on one person's card to build up tier points/comps unless we both took room offers to provide for family. We have also never had a problem with G's regardless of whose card is in the machine.

LL