Always join the slot club, if one is available at your casino, regardless of whether or not you plan to play slots tournaments. Most casinos will have a slot club, because it helps them keep track of their good players and other customers they otherwise may have missed. Even if you are not planning to play slots at that casino, you may become interested in playing some machines after you look around, and so joining the slot club will only help you. Most casinos will offer some kind of an incentive to join, such as a free buffet, a two-for-one dinner, a show, extra points, or something like that. Many Las Vegas casinos, from time to time, also offer a guaranteed “no loss” policy for new members of their slot club, usually up to $100. This means that if you don’t book a win during your first playing session (24 to 48 hours, mostly), the casino will refund you up to $100 of your total loss. It’s a nice way to enjoy the slots, and that casino, and to know that no matter what happens, you will get at least some money back.
Most of the time, joining the slot clubs will bring you benefits later on. If you play slots for even short amounts of time, your play will accumulate. The casino will then recognize you as one of their preferred customers, and you are likely to begin receiving lots and lots of special perks. Most often, you will receive an immediate invitation to return, and this may include free rooms, food, beverages, or at least discounted rooms and other offers, depending on your level of play. Some casinos also offer cash back for your earned points, and therefore it is always a good idea to join the slot club in every casino you visit. If you are a frequent casino visitor, and come to destinations such as Las Vegas, which has many casinos in a relatively small area, then you can easily join several slot clubs at once. Most of the time you will get at least something from each of them, and so you can easily get perks from several casinos, even if you don’t play there, or don’t play there very much. You may, in fact, find out that this casino is very good, and then be able to come back to it again and again. At the very least, you will be able to visit several different casinos and experience their slot clubs.
You should always compare the clubs, because they are all different, and sometimes very different. While at one casino, you may qualify for a free dinner after, say, 200 earned points, at another casino this may take 2,000 earned points. Always find out how many dollars through the machine - known as “action” - it takes to earn 1 point, and then how many points you must earn to get any of the perks this club offers. Then compare this to other slot clubs, and find the one which gives you the most. However, do not select your casino for slot play based only on the offers they give from the slot club. You may find that this casino has slots which are set tighter then other casinos whose slot club policies may not be as liberal. In the end, always select your casino based on the availability of the good machines, and then consider the slot club secondarily. When you do everything together, correctly, you will find that by adding the perks you get from your slot play from the slot club or playing free blackjack, combined with the wins you get on the machines, combined with the losses you save by playing the good machine correctly, it will all add up to a nice overall profit in the end. And that’s where a large portion of your powerful profits from slots will come from.
