I have a few general questions about poker room rates and how the casinos apply the credits.

When a casino has daily poker play requirements for a special hotel room rate, do you have to meet the average play requirement for each day in order to secure any discount at all, or can you qualify for a discount on a day-by-day basis?

For example, let's say you book a room at The Venetian, which offers a discounted room rate for 6 hours of poker room play. Do I need to play an average of 6 hrs/day in order to get any discount, or can I still obtain the discounted rate for each day that I do meet the minimum play requirements?

Finally, is there a general rule in this regard, or does each property differ?

I've never tried to book a poker room rate when I visit Vegas because I like to try playing in different rooms. However, both Aria and Venetian look like they have some nice discounted rates. I'm thinking of trying to take advantage of them if I can choose to forego the discount on any given day to play somewhere else if I like. If doing so means that I would have to give up any discount for the entire trip, then I would probably not try this option.

Thanks for the help.

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some places make you play 6/hr per day and some allow you to play an average of 6/hrs per day, meaning you could not play there one day and then play 12/hrs the next day. many also allow daily tournament entries to count as the 6 hours. imo, aria has the best poker rate/set up

Since there was a "?", it seems like my post may still be unclear. I apologize for that. Let me try a simple example again...

Let's say I book at the Aria. The standard room rate is $250/day; the poker room rate is $100/day, with a daily play requirement of 5 hours.

Assume that I stay for 4 days, but only play in Aria's poker room on two of those days for a total of 10 hours.

Since I failed to meet the daily play requirements for every day of my stay, will I lose the right to any discount at all (meaning the cost of my stay will be $1000=$250x4)?

Or will I still get the discounted rate for the two days that I met the play requirements (meaning that the cost of my stay will be $700=($100x2) + ($250x2))?

At the Venetian that would be the case, you'd get 2 nights discounted and 2 nights normal (at 12 hrs, since it's 6 hrs/day there). You get 1 night at the poker rate for every 6 hours played - it doesn't matter if you covered your whole stay or not. I can't speak for any other property though.

edit: To add, at Venetian, it doesn't matter how your total hours were broken down - 3 hrs each of 4 days, or 12 hrs all on 1 day - you'd get 2 nights discounted either way.

Pretty sure that's true for Aria too, but I'd recommend asking the Aria rep over in the B&M forum.

Just call up the Aria poker room and ask for Kathleen, she was very informative/helpful for me in that regard

This should answer most questions, it gives the rates and the play requirements

http://www.allvegaspoker.com/poker_rates.php

can't believe this thread lasted more than 6 minutes. If you have questions relevant to specific rooms, then call their reps ffs

I booked through the poker room at Bellagio in March for 4 nights. Allvegas listed a 6 hours a day requirement, but the floor told me I only needed to play 6 hours total. I had probably played 12 hours or so when I checked out and got the discount for all the nights.

The time requirement is per room. If you have a traveling companion and each of you play 3 hours, that satisfies the 6 hour requirement for that day.

Hello Everyone,

Our Room Rate Requirements are 5 hours of cash play a day or a daily or nightly tournament receipt. This is all added up per the room, not the player.

Example: 3 people are staying in a room. 1 person plays 2 hours cash for the day and another person plays 3 hours cash for the day. The room is good for the rate that day. Another example: 1 person in the room plays a daily or nightly tournament. The room is good for the day.

I hope this clears up some of the confusion. If you have any other questions you may call Kat at 702-590-7232.

Thanks,

Adam

^ very cool!

Just call number on back of your players club card. Get the casino rate. This is usally less then poker rate with no play requirements. easy game

The casino rate does depend on play. That's why it's called the casino rate.

anyone who has a card can get it. I dont gamble hardly at all on slots of tables games.(40 bucks last trip in march) I still get it.