My January room offers never were listed on-line. I called yesterday when they sent me an email offering free rooms this week (including Friday and Saturday) and they were again not visible on my on-line account. The free offer for this week finally showed up on-line, but the January offers still are nowhere to be seen.

How many pts do you need to get offered free rooms?

1 Zillion if your a person that plays ONLY Poker.

Perhaps 10 if you dump the cash equivalent of more than the cost of a hotel room into slots.

{insert the, "I only play poker, and get 15 free rooms a month comments here"} - don't believe the hype

Your only chance of free rooms as a "poker only" person, is if they don't know you, and you just got your card.

While they try to establish your play, they will offer some rooms, but if they establish you are poker only...........forget about any future offers.

To get free rooms, you MUST lose money at Slots or Table Games.

It's simply not true. I have never touched a slot or table game unless I was using BSP or Match-play coupons.
Foxwoods has some type of algorithm or something, and nobody knows the formula. One person may get free room who only plays 1/2 for one 6 hour session a month, the next game with same play may not. One person puts in 40 hrs a week and get's nothing, another get everything. Don't bother trying to figure it out, just try and earn as many points as you can per day.

Well....my wife and I both lose at slots. She plays a lot more. I never play poker when we come together. She always gets the better deals with free slot play and free rooms. This week I got an offer for a free room on Saturday night! Albeit it was Two Trees but we've never got a free room on the weekend! I grabbed it!
The point I'm getting at is the room offers are a head scratcher! My wife dumps twice as much as I do and didn't get the offer for Saturday night.

Lots of people got the freebie this weekend. The weekend before Xmas is one of their slowest weekends. Happens every year.

In this case though it was a promotion as opposed to a reward. It was only given to certain ranks. Many people (including myself) didn't get it because our ranks are too high.

This is all false.

I'm a wild and in almost 10 years I've never gotten one free room offer

All false. Don't listen to this guy.

Their exact formula is not known, but you can definitely get free rooms from poker only. Here is my advice:

Average 10+ points earned per gaming day (6am - 5:59am) and you should start seeing offers for free rooms Sunday - Thursday, within a couple months. You can achieve this easily. 10 points only takes about 7 hours at a 1/2 or 2/5 NLH cash game.

Don't use your points or swipe your card anywhere if you don't plan on putting in the full 7 hours that day. For example, if I just checked out and want to play only a couple hours in the afternoon before I head back home, I will decline to swipe my card when I sit at the table so I don't hurt my daily average. Also note that your daily average will reset after 6 months of inactivity. So if you've already messed up by playing a bunch of 4 hour sessions across a number of different days, just stay away from here for a full 6 months, then come back and make sure to put in 7+ hour sessions moving forward.

Other factors I believe are at play:

- Your zip code (if you live in a wealthy part of Boston or NYC especially it seems they will be more likely to give you free rooms)
- Your age (it seems that they are less likely to give good comps to Seniors vs. middle aged or younger poker players)
- How often you show up to resort despite not having any comps (if you come a lot and they aren't comping you, then they will continue to not comp you)
- How often you use the comps (if you use every single free night they give you, then they will be less likely to give you more free nights vs. if you are just using them sparingly)

Your rank has nothing to do with your card, and offers are based on rank (other than the guaranteed perks that come with higher cards). There are Wilds who get Sun-Sat and Kings who only get Mon-Thur.

Most of this is true. I'll clarify what's wrong.

"Also note that your daily average will reset after 6 months of inactivity. So if you've already messed up by playing a bunch of 4 hour sessions across a number of different days, just stay away from here for a full 6 months, then come back and make sure to put in 7+ hour sessions moving forward."

False. Only the past 3 months or so matter when it comes to your rank. There would be no reason to just stop showing up, just start playing more. Eventually the lesser days will get phased out.

"- Your zip code (if you live in a wealthy part of Boston or NYC especially it seems they will be more likely to give you free rooms)
- Your age (it seems that they are less likely to give good comps to Seniors vs. middle aged or younger poker players)"

I really don't think these are true but I'm not completely sure.

"- How often you show up to resort despite not having any comps (if you come a lot and they aren't comping you, then they will continue to not comp you)"

False. Offers are based solely on your rank, which is *mostly* based on your daily average.

"- How often you use the comps (if you use every single free night they give you, then they will be less likely to give you more free nights vs. if you are just using them sparingly)"

This is true, because when you utilize a comp it has a negative effect on your rank.

Does the $200 bounty tournament tomorrow (Friday) usually draw a decent amount of players? Thanks for the feedback.

Are you completely certain of this? I have not seen this to be true, at least in my own experience. (In the last 6 years, I have several times used every free night and comp offered, for several consecutive months, without any apparent negative effect.)
Regarding age, I don't think this matters much at all.
Regarding zip code, there seems (anecdotally) to be a positive correlation between distance from FW and rooms offered (ie, you're more likely to get room offers in a more distant zipcode).
But overall, I agree, points/day is definitely the primary thing. So I guess that, if you have a high enough daily average, it outweighs heavy comp utilization.

I'm positive. It just may not have been enough to knock you down a rung. Or, there were only marginal differences between the offers at each of those 2 levels. It could've been as subtle as say going from 15/15/25 for the 3 bsps/wk to 15/15/15.

does anyone have a reason to why I have my feb room rates out and not january?

also did anyone clear up the points expiring at the end of the year question? doesn't say anything on the page about expiring points anymore

Online is being super glitchy. I know a lot of people that happened to them too. If you wanna book just call up.

Why does Bravo seemingly not have tournament clock info for either Foxwoods or Mohegan?

Does it for other casinos? Don't recall ever seeing it for any place.

I've seen it for Mohegan.

MS just starting using it recently for their Showdown last month, but looks like they don't turn it on for every tourney they run. I've seen it on during the week for their dailies, but it wasn't turn on yesterday for their monthly $330.

FW has never used this feature. I made a point to tell them in person and through e-mail that MS was using it now and would be good for them to use as well.

Does anybody know if their is a FW rep here that we can tell or to contact someone else at FW? I'm guessing it cost more $ which probably is their main decision to not use it but who knows.

There is no FW rep here.

for what its worth
i asked at the dream rewards counter near the fountain/atrium bar and was told points no longer expire ( i asked last thursday)
to be doubly sure i am going to the host next time im there

I was there last week also and asked at the dream rewards counter and the explanation that I got was that they will not expire any longer as long as there is activity on the card within a 12 month period.

Nice to see the BBJ hit on Xmas eve!

Bah, humbug....

(Merry Christmas to all, especially the Poker Room staff who have to work today.)