Playing games at the casino

CeciliaM · 2016-01-27T23:27:29+00:00

One of my goals with mystery shopping is doing hospitality shops. I'm a relative newbie (started shopping in November). I've done a bunch of restaurant shops and have my first hotel shop scheduled for later this month, a relatively simple one-night stay with a bar interaction and a breakfast buffet. After I get some more experience with hotel shops under my belt, I was thinking of trying a casino shop. Casino shops, to me, look like a combination of hotel, restaurant, gift shop, parking, etc. and I am getting experience with all of those. My once concern though is that I don't really know how to play table games and most of the shops I see have some interactions with table games. I do know the rules of several table games, but I don't have experience with the interactions because I usually play them on my phone. Would casino games be a no-go for me then? Can one use a scenario of being a newbie at table games? Or can I learn enough to be believable? I wouldn't be adverse to going to a casino as a customer and trying out some table games, but I am not going to spend a ton of time or my own money on it. I don't mind gambling a little for entertainment but I don't like to spend a lot on it. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/27/2016 11:27PM by CeciliaM.

Playing games at the casino

February 01, 2016 05:46AM

It sounds like your reimbursement was a lot bigger than mine, with 7 meals in 2 days! Yours must have included a hotel stay? I just looked back that you had to shell out 1k on your cc, so it must have been pretty intensive.

Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/01/2016 05:46AM by JASFLALMT.

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February 01, 2016 06:18AM

I just don't enjoy it. Too much work. Too much $$ out of pocket. Takes the fun out of mystery shopping.

@CeciliaM wrote:

@LindaM wrote:

I did two casino shops in my career and decided against doing them, even though the pay is good.

Why is that? They do seem pretty complicated. I am sort of intimidated by them, so I am going to try doing a bunch of other shops first that are kind of components of the casino shop and then think about whether I think I can, or want to, do them all in one shop.

February 01, 2016 07:48AM

Yeah. I've seen them from as little as $80 for a cheap meal/small amount of gambling up to a few thousand in reimbursements for a resort-style casino with a 3-night stay.

February 01, 2016 02:02PM

I do casino shops with table games. I just tell them that I don't know how to play and could they please explain. It makes for good interaction with the dealer.

February 01, 2016 07:09PM

Yes, Jas, it was two nights at the hotel. For a big job, one night is not worth it for me because I like to fill out the report between interactions.

February 12, 2016 11:10PM

I miss the ones where they wanted you to play the high dollar tables. The 4 figure gaming allowance that you got to keep after an hour of play was so lucrative if you could manage to stay in the games.

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