Hard Rock's slot rebate for first-timers: Boomerang Bucks
The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino is introducing Boomerang Bucks Friday, a promotion that helps ease the pain for new slots players who happen to lose.
The promotion is available only to new Player’s Club members. As is the case at most casinos, Player’s Club membership is free for those 21 and older who present a valid driver’s license.
The Hard Rock promotion gives gamblers a rebate of 50 percent on losses in their first 24 hours, up to $100. The casino will mail coupons, rounded to the nearest $5 increment, to players within a week after their initial visit. Patrons then bring the coupons back to the casino for a free-play voucher.
The casino previously offered $25 in free play to new members, and sometimes a free lunch. The other Seminole casinos in Broward County offer similar incentives for first-time slot and video poker players.
Most casinos continually have new-player incentives going. Gulfstream Casino and Racing in Hallandale Beach is offering $20 in free play for new players. Mardi Gras Gaming in Hallandale Beach offers $10 in free play and $5 off a meal. And beginning Monday, the Isle Casino Pompano Park will rebate the first $25 a new player loses.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
