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How Bonus Rewards Credits are earned

There has been a lot of mystery to how one earns Bonus Rewards Credits. Based on the older Harrah’s ADT Patent, and a year of trial and error, I am fairly confident that this is how you can earn BRCs:

1. Each day that you play, you are given a daily-ADT. At the end of a play day, this number is averaged into your Prop Scores.

2. Your daily-ADT is composed of the daily theo based on each machine you played, and how much you coined-in. Each machine has a different “theo hold” as programmed by Harrah’s based on previous players’ win/loss. Even 8 machines in one bank can have 8 different “theo hold” settings that affect daily-ADT, and if a game is multigame, each game on that machine may have a different “theo hold.”

3. Bonus Rewards Credits are credits earned beyond the regular Rewards Credits. You earn regular Rewards Credits at a ratio of 1 RC to every 1 Tier Credit you earn. Tier Credits are earned at a rate of 1 TC per $10 at VP, 1 TC per $5 at slots, and variable TCs at table games based on how the supervisor rates you. Bonus Rewards Credits are earned in additional to regular Rewards Credits.

4. Bonus Rewards Credits accelerate as your daily-theo goes up. If you have an average daily theo for that day under 100, you will earn zero Bonus RCs. Once you pass 100 daily-theo, you’ll get 1:1 Bonus RCs to RCs. After 200 daily-theo, you’ll get 2:1 Bonus RCs for the new RCs you earned. After 300 daily-theo, you’ll get 3:1 Bonus RCs for each RC you earn, which should be the maximum.

5. Playing low house edge machines (or games) will lower your daily-theo to the point that you won’t earn any Bonus RCs while playing. If you play a low house edge machine (or game) long enough, you may not be able to get your daily-theo above 100 to start earning Bonus RCs.

6. One thing I’m not sure about is if machines with almost no house edge (say 9/6 JoB) will pay Bonus RCs if you had a long day of playing a machine with a high house edge (say, slots). I would think that if your daily-theo was over 300 up to the point of sitting at a low house edge machine, you SHOULD earn additional Bonus RCs until your daily-theo drops back below 100 (which could happen quickly!)

7. Most people complain about machines that don’t pay Bonus RCs, but it is only because the house edge is already small. Harrahs has no desire to give comps on machines that already earn them very little in the long run. This is to be expected, and will likely be followed by other Hotel management groups.

Please comment below with additional information.

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Comment from Randy
Time: October 25, 2007, 7:41 am

You mention possibly getting bonus reward credits on low theo games if your adt was already high when you started these machines. But it would only last until your adt went back below 100. How can your adt go down? harrahs does not program their machines to be a negative theo as far as I know.

Comment from admin
Time: October 25, 2007, 8:12 am

Randy:

There are conflicting reports on whether or not low-theo machines will pay any Bonus RCs at all, even if your daily theo is high before you start playing on a low-theo machine.

Basically, your daily theo won’t “drop” because of negative theo, but if HET has a machine set to 0% hold or 0.5% hold, your daily theo will fall because your average will fall. If you’re playing a 2% hold machine and end up with a 300 theo, and then play a 0.5% hold, your theo would fall because the new theo averaged in would be lower.

Let’s say you’re playing $6000 coin-in per hour at 2%, your theo for the first hour would be 300. Then you switch for an hour to a 0.5% theo machine, playing $6000 coin-in per hour. This means your average theo for that hour is 30, so your daily theo would be (300+30)/2 or 165. Stay on it another hour (30 averaged in again) and your daily-theo would be (300+30+30)/3 = 120, or low enough to dump your Bonus Rewards from that point on.

I’ll be doing more research in my late October and mid November trips! Thanks for the question.

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