Sam's Town LV Will Sodomize Your Points

[Deucemonger]

I was tempted to just use a B.B.B.B. as my subject line for this post, which would translate to Bumbling Boyd Bozo Brilliance, but since gaining favorable attention is the first step to selling anything, including you buying into reading the post, I figured I had to be a little more specific. I will get to the explanation for the title that I did choose shortly. Most current gamblers are well aware that whenever you play with your player’s card, you accrue points to your account that should have value for things like cashback, comps, food, monthly mailers, etc., etc.. At Sam’s Town in LV, the one and only one of the 7 B-DIS-connected casinos in the LV valley, if you direct download your points for play use, this is no longer the case. Let’s say that you have accumulated 100,000 points in your account at any of the 7 supposedly associated casinos (which they really are not, except for the fact that they are all owned by the local mega-multi-hundred dollar conglomerate, Boyd Gaming) and you make the horrible error of downloading all of the 100,000 points at Sam’s Town to your machine to play. This will give you $100 of play on which you will earn absolutely ZERO points. If you are an Emerald card holder, as I am, instead of earning your normal 3X tier level points, you will receive exactly ZERO times points on this $100. Ruby and Sapphire card holders will also earn NADA,ZIP, times points. I have either personally checked at or have had friends check at ALL 6 of the other local properties, Gold Coast, Suncoast, Orleans, Freemont, Main Street Station, and the California Club, and if you were to do the download of points for play use at any of these casinos, you would earn points at your normal tier level, the same as if you had inserted cash into the machine. At any one of the “normal” 6 non-Sam’s Town properties, if they were having a point multiplier day, say 6X points, you would get credit just as if you were using cash. Now, stand up, and bend over, and prepare for your sodomy session. At Sam’s, even on a point multiplier day, if you are downloading your points to play there, you will receive exactly 0X points on this play. If you must play at Sam’s Town, and trust me, there are fewer and fewer reasons by the day to play there at all, then do yourself a big favor. Go to the players club, tell them that you want to cash in 100,000 of your points, take the $100 and stick it in the machine and you will score points as if you were in a normal, NON greedy bastard casino. Just how stupid does Sam’s Town think their customers are? More importantly, why is Boyd Gaming letting them get away with points sodomy and offering up yet another reason for people not to play in this casino? The way things are going over the last couple of years, with the current team of general mangler John Sou and slot director Dennis Martinson in charge, since both have little knowledge of gaming to start with, perhaps Boyd is planning on using Sam’s Town as a tax write off. Just to clarify, mangler is not a misspelling, I just use the title of what he does in place of what appears on his business card. He began his career as a food and beverage manager, and may have been under qualified for that position. Martinson was previously a slot tech. and I don’t think that knowing how to put a mechanical band aid on a machine creates the cranial talent necessary to determine what games need to go on an entire casino’s gaming floor. Whatever you would like to call these two, maybe Trip and Stumble, Mutt and Jeff, or Nit and Wit, I just plain call them bad for my favorite casino. If you have any concerns about my level of gaming knowledge, I had my first association with gambling in a casino back in the mid ’70’s. Up until recently, I played at Sam’s Town for an average of 20 days out of every month for the past several years. Sam’s Town was named in honor of the company’s founder Sam Boyd. Both he and his bride Mary have ascended to heaven years ago but he was one of the pioneer legends who started an empire with literally nothing. I feel bad that because of the way that this place is being run---basically into the ground, Sam must devote quite an amount of time daily to spinning in his grave.   
                                                

[notes1]

wow, you are ticked off! I am guessing the casino just hopes few will notice and they can get away with taking something else away from their customers.

the casino I visit most often, gives me the best free play offers, on nights I can't get a room at the casino.

I just think your story should remind all that casinos and hosts are not your friends, we would be wise to remember that.

[Sea Lion]

Looks like the card readers there are programmed to treat downloaded earned points as freeplay, as freeplay at Boyd properties do not accumulate any points. The card reader at ST is also different than Orleans, GC, and Suncoast. I agree that they should be the same all the way across the board when downloading earned points for play and be eligible for points.I do know that the Mystic Falls there has been using the same theme for many years. Maybe they should change it to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JMak-LdH7w

[DaBurglar]

LOL   I hope this guy (the poster who started the thread)  is NOT just a one hit wonder, and he comes back for more posts in the future!!!      This was a great first post!   Just needs a little work on paragraph spacing and structure, lol. The point I picked up on in this thread was the summary about the two people he described as being the "management" at Sams Town that most directly impact this area of business, the "General Mangler" and "Slot Director", a.k.a.   NIT  & WIT  lolHe is 100% correct in that, until very very recently (circa 2009), it was customary for MOST casinos (not just Vegas but places like AC and RENO too) to primarily promote from within, whereby people are rewarded for simply being with the company for a long time.

[onemoretry]

This was a great first post!   Just needs a little work on paragraph spacing and structure,

One of the lessons I learned many,many years ago, in a course on effective communication, is that, if you want people to read your material, do not present them with a solid wall of black!

This comment on paragraph spacing and structure is right on.

[Sea Lion]

VP at ST is ok at best. Played there for a couple of hours yesterday. Saw one lucky bastid hit a progressive RF holding one card. I managed to hit 2 quads and a dealt SF, and was still down about $50. You can hit quads there but it really feels very reserved. Almost like you might get one within the cycle, never before, and mostly after. VP has got very tight around here, no matter where you play and on all machines it seems like. And the casinos are complaining about gambling revenue being down once again. Wonder why that is?