Interesting analogy. I often feel like I am playing roulette when trying to pick a travel date on which to redeem my award.

In reading this thread I was interested in Harrah's program and came upon this link. It's pretty interesting reading, especially the part that explains that their guess of your financial worth comes up on the phone agent's screen when someone with one of their loyalty cards calls.

http://www.idg.net/crd_harrah_419146_102.html

As a Las Vegas gossip columnist, I was very entertained reading the "praises of Harrah's" from this guy.

Harrah's may be the next casino to do Chapter 11, after they lost their casino airline "NATIONAL" which they created to transport their gamblers but learned that folks flew but didn't come to them. Then they buy the Rio & are losing their shirts over that.........now they even stooped to do an outdoor mall that makes you walk through it to get down LV blvd on their side of the street, soo I clue folks in on crossing at Barbary Coast & again from TI to Venetian to escape the scam. Next worse thing to Xrate passouts on the sidewalks that are outlawed then re-admitted.

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