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So I’m in the middle of a trip to Seattle and we’ve decided to stop at Las Vegas along the way. We’re staying in the Treasure Island hotel, which apparently gives out these nifty little cards with some amount of stored value for signing up with their club. I had to wait in line to get a card, but it was mostly worth it, since I effectively got paid something to read Slashdot on my phone.

So about 20 minutes of waiting later, I got $5 of “free play” points. That essentially means that you can bet up to $5 for free, all while keeping any earnings from the bet. (The $5 of free play cannot be directly cashed out, it must be betted to get at it.) With my freeplay points in hand, I walked around the casino until I found a one cent machine and played out all the points on it. I ended up having to put a dollar in the machine to activate the card’s points as well, so I decided that I would pull out if I ever got too close to that dollar.

About 15 minutes later, I had 854 credits and no free play points left. I figured that this was a decent stopping point, so I cashed out. The casino just gave me $7.54 for free. I’m more or less happy here, though I am considering dropping in another dollar and fiddling around with the machine some more later. $12.93 an hour for screwing around isn’t too bad.