Wendover is a hard place to get to. There is no commercial air service to Wendover. If you go the commercial route you have to fly into SLC and then rent a car and drive the 120 miles to Wendover. I did this on my first trip there over 10 years ago. The best way to get there is thru their charter flight program, but only if you live near a charter flight city. If you go the charter flight route they will fly you directly into Wendover. This is the way to go and it appears the original poster lives close to a charter flight city. Free or reduced fare flights are fairly easy to get especially if you throw in some video poker. Although they have tightened up on comps lately.
I use to qualify for free flights to Wendover all the time. Now I only qualify for a half fare flight even though my level of play was mostly at the green chip level on my last trip. Comp multiplier days don't occur as often. You might find a comp multiplier day of 3x compared to many 5x and 7x several years ago. Remember comp multiplier days begin at midnight so don't forget to swipe your card at midnight to activate the comp multiplier. I swiped my card at two minutes after midnight and still ended up with less comps than a year ago.
A good time for the original poster to go would be to fly out of Colorado Springs on Sept 16th. They are having comp multiplier days that weekend and at 5x comps they add up quickly. It is a weekend and since I assume he has a full time job would only require two vacation days. Remember if you only qualify for half fare rate you can use your comps to pay for the other half. Just eat buffets and stay away from the steak house and you will build up a lot of comps.
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I just cant see how it would be a good idea to take a chartered flight to Wendover for the purpose of counting cards at single deck. What happens if they catch you and give you the boot from the property. Better have a back up plan. I've been through there once and it was great conditions that is until you plop out a handful of chips and the dealer shuffles up on you. Preferential shuffling was the norm when I was there. Count would skyrocket early in the deck and as soon as I would go to raise the bet...shuffle. I didn't have a good enough act to survive there so left town and continued west on I80.
To answer some of the OPs questions about comps in Vegas you find yourself a new identity at say Caesars. You pick out the lowest edge VP machine and hammer away at it for hours. You will be set up with free rooms. Either that or you go find a $100 single line slot machine in the high limit room insert your new players card in and make a few pulls on it. Remove card. Exit the property and wait for the offers to roll in. The computer will think you were a whale and were just passing through and entice you with offers to come back and see what you are really made of. Caesars is one of the most generous with room offers for low limit players. They will let you stay several nights comped and you just pay the resort fee. Vegas sucks for blackjack unless you play for real stakes. Keep that in mind. Good luck.
If you take a charter flight to Wendover you have to get a player's card. I should correct this and say you don't get a player's card you get a package that includes a player's card along with your room keys and some match play coupons and other discounts. The players card is already made out for you and it is part of your arrival package. Also included in your arrival package are departure instructions.
If you want to play without using your player's card that is up to you. The pit probably doesn't know how you arrived in Wendover and whether you have a card or not. Most folks play with a card as the comps are pretty good. Playing without a card is probably a flag and you will be more likely to be watched.
Now Wendover has 5 casinos. The best 3 are owned by the Peppermill company. They are the ones who offer the good games and as a rule will not shuffle up on you. The other two will shuffle up if you triple you bet. The dealers will actually tell you if you triple your bet they are going to shuffle. Now remember this is a single deck game with good rules. You don't just plop out a handful of chips. You use a small spread 1 to 4 or 5. You can get away with a larger spread playing red.
I have heard of many folks getting a back off there. Some on their first trip. Others have played for years without getting the boot, but I have yet to hear of someone who came on a charter flight getting booted out of their room or not allowed to go home on the chartered flight. You sign a flight contract that spells out what is going to be provided. I think Peppermill would get sued if they violated the contact. See contract at Wendover web site.
Why don't you tell us some more of the details of your back off. More than ten years ago I wrote a detailed trip report on my first visit to Wendover. I still have that report, little has changed. I could post it if anyone wanted to see it.
Last edited by Midwest Player; 07-24-2017 at 08:19 PM.
Here is a free tip. When you get on charter flight to Wendover, they will put a sticker on your player card to indicate that fact. Keep that sticker on the card for future visits even not on a charter. If you get backed off, they will not kick you of the room.
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