Can a Players Club Card help you Win Casino Games?

Have you ever noticed that, each time you enter a casino, there’s always a Player Management desk located right by the entrance? If you happen to look lost or new to the casino, these people will beckon you to come over, making sure you have a Players Club Card. If you don’t, they’ll highly encourage you to sign up for one before you hit the casino games.

The sheer determination involved in getting new members to sign up for a card is enough information to tell us that it’s benefiting the casino in some way. The real question is: What’s the benefit for the player?

All casinos (except where prohibited by law) boast little promos for first-time club members. A few free spins on the pokies are nice, but then what? Does using a player’s club card actually give you a higher chance to win casino games?

As I found out recently, there’s a very common misconception in which people feel that yes, they are more likely to win casino games when using a card.. That’s actually not true. If players won more often, I doubt the casinos would be so eager to hand these cards out.

The fact is, sliding a player’s club card into the pokies, electronic tables or video poker machines has absolutely no effect on the machine’s internal organs. There is no communication between the card and the machine’s random number generator (RNG), which ultimately determines the outcome of each play.

The card does have some power in the machine, though. It collects data on everything you do in the casino, and transmits that information to the big wigs up in management. They are then able to connect the dots in a massive puzzle that tells them every game you’ve played, how long you played it, and how much you wagered, won and lost while doing it.

I know, that sounds like a bad thing – no one wants their every move to be so closely tracked. But it’s actually good for players, too. Let me explain.

Marketing To Target Audiences

This presents a huge benefit to the casino, as they are able to get to know their players better and specifically target promotions and mail outs to those who are more inclined to accept those offers.

If a player spends most of their time on electronic blackjack, never once inserting their card into the pokies, they probably won’t get invited to an exclusive VIP pokies tournament, but they may get some free chips to play blackjack with, or maybe a comped meal the next time a big blackjack tourney rolls around.

Or, sometimes casinos will use reverse psychology in their marketing, encouraging players to try out new casino games that they don’t normally play. Someone who spends the majority of their wagering dollars on video poker might be offered a free seat in a pokies tournament.

This benefits the casino, because they may be able to create a pokies fan who will spend more money on those games in the future. And it works in the player’s favor, because they get a free shot at winning real money.

On the whole, no, having a player’s club card won’t give you better odds to win casino games just because you inserted it. But yes, there are distinct advantages to using them.