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It always makes sense to carry the casino loyalty club card for the casino closest to you. However, if you travel and love gambling, there are also three casino rewards club cards you should never leave home without.

The biggest and best casino loyalty clubs in the country all operate nationally, can be accessed through various locations all over the US, and make it easy to earn and redeem rewards.

Caesars Entertainment’s Caesars Rewards card, MGM’s M life Rewards card, and Penn National Gaming’s MyChoicecard have become wallet essentials for even the most casual gamblers who travel.

These three cards can be used at literally hundreds of casino resort locations from coast to coast. Plus, the player-friendly nature of each of these casino loyalty programs makes it easy to start earning substantial rewards right away.

Caesars Rewards, M life Rewards, and MyChoice are the best casino loyalty clubs in the country by a country mile. Here are three reasons why for each one.

Caesars Rewards player card

1. Locations, locations, locations

Caesars Rewards used to be Total Rewards before a rebranding in early 2019. Even then it was the largest casino loyalty program in the country. That’s because the program has been available at nearly 40 Caesars Rewards destinations across the US for years.

Now, it’s getting even bigger. When the Eldorado Resorts-Caesars Entertainment merger closes in the first half of 2020, Caesars Rewards will expand out a total of more than 60 casino properties in 16 different states.

2. It pays to stay and spend

Caesars Rewards members don’t just earn Tier Credits and Rewards Credits for gambling. They earn these credits for every dollar they spend at Caesars properties.

That means spending at retail outlets, restaurants, and hotels really pays off, to the tune of one Tier Credit and Rewards Credit for every $1 spent dining and shopping and 5 Tier Credits and 1 Rewards Credit for every $1 spent on rooms and resort fees.

Stay loyal to Caesars for every aspect of any vacation and both will add up fast.

3. Discounts off the bat

Before they’ve even earned a point, Caesars Rewards members are eligible for discounted hotel stays. Plus, even the first 5,000 Tier Credits they earn can be turned into one free night in Las Vegas or Atlantic City.

Add in the fact those 5,000 Tier Credits will garner them Platinum status, earning them a complimentary stay at Atlantis, Paradise Island in The Bahamas as well, and it’s easy to see why just signing up for the Caesars Rewards card is worth it.

M life Rewards player card

1. King of the Strip

M Life Rewards properties are all over the country now, from New York and New Jersey to Michigan, Massachusetts, Maryland, and Mississippi.

However, MGM and M Life Rewards is still the King of the most popular gambling destination in the country. In fact, the M life Rewards card is accepted at more Las Vegas Strip casinos than any other player loyalty program in the country.

This includes everywhere from Bellagio to Circus Circus and the MGM Grand to the newly renovated and rebranded Park MGM. There are actually 11 M life Rewards properties on the Las Vegas Strip, meaning you can’t go far without hitting one.

2. The more you earn, the more you earn

In addition to the usual tier credits and base points M life Rewards members earn, MGM also gives players $0.01 in free play and express comps for every base point collected.

Earn 1,000 base points and you’ll get $10 in free play you can use to play slots and $10 in express comps you can use to pay for hotel stays, food, beverage, entertainment, shopping, and spa services.

It’s like earning comps and free play on top of the usual comps and free play.

3. Cruise for less

M life Rewards members earn a whopping 25 tier credits for every dollar spent on hotel, dining, entertainment and spa services. Plus, 10 tier credits for every $3 on slots and $10 on video poker. That means the 200,000 credits needed to reach Platinum status are actually attainable for most.

Do that and you’ll get all kinds of things, like a 30% bonus on base points and express comps and complimentary cruise tickets on Royal Caribbean or Celebrity Cruises. Bon voyage!

MyChoice player card

1. Your local club

Penn National Gaming’s MyChoice isn’t the biggest casino loyalty club in the country. Nor does it have the most properties on the Strip.

Instead, it’s the one you’ll find at local casinos from the Northeast to the Southwest, the Midwest to the Gulf Coast and even fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada, off and on the Strip.

The Hollywood, Boomtown, and Ameristar casino brands are all MyChoice properties and it’s a good bet there’s at least one of those somewhere close to where you live.

2. The MyChoice Mall

That’s right, you can use your MyChoice Comps to shop online at The MyChoice Mall website.

In fact, $1 in MyChoice Comps will get you 2 MyChoice Mall credits and there’s some great value there. You can get a $10 gift card for AMC Theaters or Dunkin Donuts for just 30 MyChoice Mall credits and there are tons of other great rewards available for 150 credits or less.

3. Extraordinary rewards

MyChoice members who earn the 200,000 tier credits to gain Owners Club status are in for something really special.

The Owners Credits they earned can be redeemed for all kinds of special gifts including a one-year Mercedes-Benz lease.

Plus, even those that reach Preferred and Elite status get something great, including offers to visit either the Tropicana Las Vegas or the M Resort Spa Casino.

Pinnacle Entertainment, Inc. was an American gambling and hospitality company. It was acquired by Penn National Gaming in 2018. At the time of acquisition, it operated sixteen casino properties, located in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, and a horse track in Texas.

• 2Resorts and casinos
  • 2.1Previous operations

History[edit]

Pinnacle Entertainment traced its roots to June 10, 1938, when movie mogul Jack L. Warner opened the Hollywood Park Turf Club racetrack in Inglewood, California. The original shareholders included Hollywood figures such as Walt Disney, Mervyn LeRoy and Bing Crosby.

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The company was incorporated and renamed in 1981 as Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises. It was renamed as Hollywood Park, Inc. in 1992.

After many years in the horse racing business, the company began a transformation into a casino operator. In 1997, the company acquired Boomtown, Inc. and its three casinos in Nevada, Louisiana and Mississippi for $188 million.^[3] In 1998, it acquired Casino Magic Corp. for $340 million, including two casinos in Mississippi, one in Louisiana and a controlling stake in two casinos in Argentina.^[4][5]

The company sold the Hollywood Park racetrack in 1999 to Churchill Downs, Inc. and in 2000 changed its name to Pinnacle Entertainment. Belterra Casino Resort & Spa made its debut in 2000 as Pinnacle's first company-designed and developed gaming resort. Then in 2005, Pinnacle opened L'Auberge du Lac in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

In September 2006, Pinnacle agreed to purchase the Sands Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey and announced plans to replace it with a $1.5-billion resort.^[6] The property closed on November 11, 2006 and was demolished on October 18, 2007. Harsh economic times later caused Pinnacle to delay construction of the new resort.^[7] In February 2010, the company announced that it had canceled its construction plans and would instead seek to sell the land.^[8] Eventually it was sold in 2013 for $29.5 million to a group of local developers who planned to build a casino or family entertainment attraction.

In December 2006, Pinnacle purchased the President Casino in St. Louis, Missouri.

Lumière Place opened in downtown St. Louis in December 2007, anchoring an entertainment district including the Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis and HoteLumière. In March 2010, Pinnacle opened River City Casino, in Lemay, Missouri. Pinnacle announced the expansion of its L’Auberge Baton Rouge project in September 2010 and held a grand opening on September 1, 2012.

On November 9, 2009, chief executive officer Dan Lee was forced out by the company's board of directors after reportedly physically confronting and threatening a St. Louis County official.^[9][10]

In July 2010, the company sold its Argentina casinos for $40 million.^[11]

In January 2011, Pinnacle purchased River Downs Racetrack in southeast Cincinnati.

The company agreed in April 2012 to buy a 75.5% stake in Retama Park, a money-losing horse track in Selma, Texas, for $22.8 million. The purchase was seen as a 'defensive move' to help soften the blow if gaming in Texas were expanded and drew visitors away from Pinnacle's Lake Charles properties.^[12]

In May 2011, Pinnacle expanded into the Asian gaming market with a $95-million investment for 26 percent ownership of Asian Coast Development Ltd., the owner and developer of the Ho Tram Strip, 80 miles away from Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam, which will be the country’s first large-scale integrated destination resort. Upon the closing of the transaction, Pinnacle would enter into a management agreement through 2058 for the second integrated resort on the Ho Tram Strip.

On June 26, 2012, Pinnacle sold Boomtown Reno for $12.9 million to M1 Gaming, the company of former Station Casinos executive Dean DiLullo.^[13]

On August 14, 2013, Pinnacle bought Ameristar Casinos for $869 million plus $1.9 billion in assumed debt,^[14][15] adding nine properties in Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Mississippi and Northern Nevada. To gain FTC approval for the merger, Pinnacle agreed to sell its Lumiere Place property and Ameristar's under-construction casino in Lake Charles.

In November 2014, Pinnacle announced a plan to spin-off a real estate investment trust with the real estate assets of its 15 casinos.^[16]Gaming and Leisure Properties (GLPI) then approached Pinnacle with an offer to buy those assets, which it said would be simpler and faster than Pinnacle's plan.^[17] Pinnacle did not respond to the offer, so GLPI went public with its offer in March 2015.^[17] In July, the companies reached a deal for GLPI to buy 14 of Pinnacle's 15 properties for $4.75 billion in stock, and lease them back to Pinnacle, with rent starting at $377 million per year.^[18] The sale would be executed by Pinnacle spinning off a new company, also named Pinnacle Entertainment, with the casinos' operating businesses, along with ownership of Belterra Park (formerly River Downs) and the company's interest in Retama Park; GLPI would then acquire the original Pinnacle Entertainment.^[19] The sale was completed in April 2016.^[19] Pinnacle also purchased the operations of The Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Pennsylvania from GLPI for $138 million in September 2016.^[20][21]

In December 2017, Pinnacle agreed to be acquired by Penn National Gaming for $2.8 billion in cash and stock.^[22] To ensure regulatory approval for the deal, Pinnacle would sell the operations of four properties to Boyd Gaming for $575 million prior to the merger: Ameristar Kansas City, Ameristar St. Charles, Belterra Casino, and Belterra Park.^[23] The real estate of Belterra Park was originally to be sold to GLPI, but was ultimately sold to Boyd for $58 million.^[24][25] The transactions were completed on October 15, 2018.^[26]

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Resorts and casinos[edit]

At the time of its acquisition, the company operated the following properties:

• Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs — Council Bluffs, Iowa
• Ameristar Casino Hotel East Chicago — East Chicago, Indiana
• Ameristar Casino Vicksburg — Vicksburg, Mississippi
• Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City — Kansas City, Missouri
• Ameristar Casino Resort Spa Black Hawk — Black Hawk, Colorado
• Ameristar Casino Resort Spa St. Charles — St. Charles, Missouri
• Belterra Casino Resort & Spa — Florence, Indiana
• Belterra Park Gaming & Entertainment Center — Cincinnati, Ohio
• Boomtown Bossier City — Bossier City, Louisiana
• Boomtown New Orleans — Harvey, Louisiana
• Cactus Petes Resort Casino — Jackpot, Nevada
• Horseshu Hotel and Casino — Jackpot, Nevada
• L'Auberge Casino & Hotel Baton Rouge — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
• L'Auberge Casino Resort Lake Charles — Lake Charles, Louisiana
• The Meadows Racetrack and Casino — North Strabane Township, Pennsylvania
• Retama Park — Selma, Texas (75% stake)
• River City Casino — St. Louis, Missouri

Previous operations[edit]

Argentina[edit]

• Casino Magic Neuquén (sold)
• Casino Magic San Martin de los Andes (sold)

United States[edit]

• Boomtown Biloxi — Biloxi, Mississippi (sold)
• Boomtown Las Vegas — Enterprise, Nevada (sold; now Silverton Las Vegas)
• Boomtown Reno — Verdi, Nevada (sold)
• Casino Magic Bay St. Louis — Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (sold)
• Casino Magic Biloxi — Biloxi, Mississippi (closed and sold; now Margaritaville Resort Biloxi)
• Hollywood Park Racetrack — Inglewood, California (sold)
• Lumière Place — St. Louis, Missouri (sold)
• President Casino Laclede's Landing — St. Louis, Missouri (closed)

Ameristar Las Vegas Locations

References[edit]

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