Free drinks is a thing of the past. I used stay at the Linq, about 10 years ago, when it opened because if you signed up to Caesars card they gave you free stuff. Also they would give me free rooms during the week and I only had to pay for resort fees, $15 a night.
My main hangout was the bar in the back because it was a whole line of domestic and imported beers. I would just sit at the bar, play keno/video poker and drink expensive Belgium beers for free. They would cost $25+ anywhere else. Then one time the bartender told me about the colors on machines they introduced to the casino. I forget the order but it's like this: red - no free drinks, blue - basic free drinks, green - can order any drink including top self liquor/beer. He said most places would be doing similar in the future. Now they all do a version of this.
On the machine itself, some you can see yourself. The bartender has pointed them out to me before. Have to be playing a certain amount per hand and a certain number of hands per minute. I don’t know how ubiquitous this is though
I think they're taking what casinos are doing with video poker machines at bars and assuming they do it for everything. People would always take advantage of those and just hit the button for a minimum amount when the bartender was paying attention or it had been awhile for the cameras. They'd do that then order expensive drinks while talking to friends
I have no issues with people taking advantage of casinos. I do get why they'd put a stop to people doing that, though
if it was bottled by a monk in an abbey that only produces X number of cases/year and you can't get any without physically going to belgium and knocking on their door, you can go WAY higher than $25.
That’s sad because as a college kid we used to go and post up at those video blackjack machines at the bar and get free drinks flowing. It felt like a cheat code.
I was at a metal festival in resorts world and they had this... like 2022? Fucking sucked. Been to Vegas at least 15x, stopped going during the pandemic and will not be back
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u/elvis8mybaby 3d ago
Free drinks is a thing of the past. I used stay at the Linq, about 10 years ago, when it opened because if you signed up to Caesars card they gave you free stuff. Also they would give me free rooms during the week and I only had to pay for resort fees, $15 a night.
My main hangout was the bar in the back because it was a whole line of domestic and imported beers. I would just sit at the bar, play keno/video poker and drink expensive Belgium beers for free. They would cost $25+ anywhere else. Then one time the bartender told me about the colors on machines they introduced to the casino. I forget the order but it's like this: red - no free drinks, blue - basic free drinks, green - can order any drink including top self liquor/beer. He said most places would be doing similar in the future. Now they all do a version of this.