Thursday, June 21, 2012

TR SNIPPET FOUR QUEENS HAT

The Four Queens is fast becoming my favorite place to gamble and the staff at the Four Queens are always on their best to help, but this conversation really made me chuckle.
I’m at the Player’s Club.
"So, I might like to buy a hat. I see it is 300 points. What is that in cash?"
"I don't know, sir, because we don't handle cash here, just points."
"What is the value in cashback of 300 points?"
I really don't know, sir. All I know is what I see on the computer.
Okay, you saw that my points were 1100 and my cashback was $27. I figure that means I Iwould pay about $7.50 for the hat the way I do the math."
“I really don't know.”
The clerk goes away to post my point doubling coupon.
There are two other clerks, so I just say a bit louder, "Hey, is there anyone here who is good at math. I can do this math, but it just does not seem official."
They all shake their heads and say no. They are terrible at math they say.
The supervisor has not heard my question, but she comes to actually post my point doubling on the computer, and I ask her,
"What does a hat cost?"
"300 points, sir."
And how much money in cashback would I lose if I use those points for a hat rather than for cashback.”
She fiddles with the computer a while.
“$7.50, sir.”
Well, guess I’ll pass on the hat, then. Thanks for posting my coupon doubling.

So the coupon doubling added 500 points to my total and that is worth $12.50 cashback. I think that makes the Four Queens American Casino Guide coupon one of the most valuable in the book. I used the Riviera free comedy coupon for two free tickets, so that topped it in value. Pretty amazing coupons really.

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