Last year it seems I played a lot of cash games and just never bothered to get the comps of whatever it is per hour of play because you don't just sit down and the dealer swipes your card and when you leave they punch you out like many other poker rooms.

I notice this year they will have the King's Lounge (high stakes) and a new Gorilla area (mid stakes).

http://www.wsop.com/news/2019/Apr/10...ONTH-AWAY.html

What is the proper procedure for getting the comps you deserve for your cash game hours and what is the amount you get? $1/hour? You have to see the floor? You have to see the people who put you on the lists?

What about food vouchers? Do those still exist and who do you have to tip to ask about that, etc...

This PSA will help out a lot of people I think. Thanks.

I tried to post this under Live Poker - Cash Games but if it needs to go to Venues please move it.

Really interested about the answer too.

From what I read the previous years, you can get food vouchers by asking to the floor manager. Better befriend/tip him at the beginning of the WSOP and always go to see the same guy. I am not aware about the possibility to get actual $ comps.

I did play a bunch of hours of cash last year and never bothered doing it but I surely missed on a bunch of $$ (in food vouchers...).

At a circuit event they had a sign up sheet at the podium. You give your rewards card number and check in/check out and they manually enter the info at the end of each day. I feel like the ME will be way too busy for that crap, but who knows. Maybe they are required to offer it.

I think they tend to gyp you on the rake/comps pretty badly at the Rio*. If you are playing big enough, obviously it doesn't really matter. If you are a 1/2 2/5 player, I'd probably just play elsewhere. Many places will just stick $2/hr in comps on your player card, without all the complications.

When I've played at the Rio during WSOP, I've found the games to be agonizingly slow, the dealers to be terrible and for things to just not run very smoothly in general. The action doesn't seem to be any better as the entire city is flooded with tourney donks on tilt.

Some of the other rooms will screw you a bit too, as they will be loading up the promotional pools at your expense, but it won't be as bad and at least you won't be playing 8 hands an hour with someone fresh out of dealer school hand shuffling.

*Are the vouchers only good at the little pavilion of crappy, overpriced eateries near the poker action? I seem to recall that.

Just spoke with a few guys who were there last year.

Sign in at a small tiny table next to the people running the lists when you start playing and then check out with them when you leave playing for cash games and you'll some minimal $1-$2/hour in comps added to your card. This is on the very far left as you enter the Pavilion room by the main WSOP gift shop area.

They don't remember seeing anything about food vouchers this past year 2018 but it was definitely done in the past. You can use them in the convention center food setup area they call the Poker Kitchen or at other places in the casino like Hash House, the Sports Bar, Chinese Place, Burger place, etc... and I believe it is $10 a voucher which is barely enough to get anything since most things are pretty over priced and not even that good.

You also get a few dollars in comps added to your card automatically for any tourney you enter. A $1500 event might give you $5-$10 of comps.

Again, this is all 2nd/3rd hand info because I seriously don't know and I think I prob screwed myself out of $3-400 in comps playing last year. Your comps also expire after 6 months. I played the Main Event and I went home after I busted and my few dollars of comps from playing the Main expired sometime in January.

It'd be great if someone from Caesars Rewards/Rio/WSOP could clarify this. I'd even reach out to them if I knew who to call/e-mail/etc...

Wrong place for this thread. I'd post it in the Las Vegas Lifestyle forum.

Google is also your friend. You get points on your Total Rewards card. No food vouchers.

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