First, Yes i took $900 in coins and circulated them in tunica...It was money I was planning on spending anyway not a special trip to get 900 miles, would you have just withdrawn cash from your bank and wasted a milage bonus? second I didnt actually say "suck it, or bite me" when told to unwrap them and run them through a coinstar machine, i actually said "fine, i will take my $400 of coins to the casino next door and see if they want them" I anticipated some level of YMMV on getting coins cashed at the cashier. the first place took $500 without unrolling them, the second wanted me to unroll and use coinstar, the third unrolled them and used their counter and gave me my money after a very short wait. At least I circulated 900 during my trip.

Second: I do not have a opinion that card churners are greedy, since any viable regular churning has been over for a while, I dont care. I also do not care if people use the loopholes to get as many miles as they can WITHOUT drawing undue attention to the fact. I realize that the mint program has been advertised in other places and have read about 250 pages of the FT thread. If you start from the beginning the basics are plainly told but the exploitive tricks are only hinted at and were passed by PM and not made public for fear of ruining the angle. The program has not survived untouched by the publicity and the $1k every 10 days rule that they have implemented is proof of that. The sour opinion I have is of the people who have no restraint in bragging publicly about abusing the system and posting step by step instructions on how its done. Like the current frugalguy blog post, which if read by the mint will no doubt lead to further restrictions. We all know how the deal works, why do some people brag about how many coins they bought and which card they used, do they want that card company to notice? Lately many posters dont want to do any work to figure out a deal, they want it laid out on a silver platter (steps 1,2,3 repeat until deal dies) and then when it works they brag and repost it everywhere they can, they dont understand lack of discretion kills the deal. This is the SD attitude and why when coins were mentioned on SD some FT people quickly posted that it was hard to do and might get cards cancelled, which discouraged the thread from becoming popular, and thankfully it was mostly ignored. It is my opinion a deal should be quietly milked for as long as possible by people with discretion, not beat to death by people who just want a quick deal.
It's like the old story: An old bull and a young one were sitting on a hill looking at a herd of cows, the young one says "i'm goin to run down there, kick up a cloud of dust, scatter that herd, and get me one of those cows!!"
The old bull says "Im going to walk quietly down there, without raising a ruckus, take my time and have all those cows"

Anyhow, if you havent got my point by now, I won't bother trying to explain it further.....I guess I'm back to lurking and reading the archives for more stuff. Y'all have fun