So, I might have gambled at a certain mid-western city's casino that might be affiliated with Total Rewards at the beginning of March and lost about $2,000 over the course of 3 hours. That's a huge loss for me -- usually I'll walk away if I lose that much that quickly. So, fuck this casino for taking my money with their super-tight machines.

Whatever I did, though, I hit the comp and freeplay triggers pretty hard:

I got two separate offer packages -- one was a "welcome" package with $440 freeplay May 1-15 and another $440 freeplay May 16-31, plus swipe for 20,000 reward credits.

I then got on the regular mailer at $385 each week for all of May, plus swipe for 15,000 reward credits plus free hotel. One of these weekly offers ends on May 15th and the next one starts on May 16th.

My experience with these one-off casino trips is that you'll get offers for a couple of months but if you don't go, they dry up and you're lucky if you can get a free hotel room if you go back later in the year.

I can get a flight to this certain mid-western city for dirt cheap -- round trip is less than $100 but it's on Allegiant. Shitty airline but as long as I get there ... Rental car I can get on points.

Total Freeplay (May 15-16): $1,650.00 ($385x2 + $440x2)
Total RC's (May 2016): 35,000 (=$350)
Total Benefit: $2000.00

Costs:
Airfare: $97 (no bag, so no additional fees)
Meals: $35
Gas: $5
Overnight Parking: $22
Airport Parking: $15
Total Investment: $174.00


I hardly ever got to this city and could not give two shits if I ever set foot in this casino again, much less about my freeplay offers from it, so I say this is worth a smash and grab trip.

I can fly in and be at the casino by 9:30 p.m. on Sunday May 15th, drain the freeplay that expires on May 15th and then cozy down in the comp'd hotel for the night. Then back at the casino by 8:30 am the next day May 16th) for an hour before leaving for the airport for an 10:30 a.m. flight.

Fuck this casino. Vengeance is mine. I just booked the flight.

Taking suggestions for which machines to use the freeplay on.