Lord, I Was Born A Gamblin' Man.

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It's MGM, Jim.

No drama or stress about where I need to spend all my hard earned wages on this upcoming trip. It's 3 courses of MGM with a bottle of MGM and MGM for dessert. Gotta plug away hard at the MGM rewards points on this trip. With likely just two trips left in the year, I need to max out on gambling at MGM resorts pretty much exclusively.

I'm currently at 44K rewards points for the year, needing to get to 75K to maintain Gold status. I'll get some help from the trickle of points that come in through the MGM Rewards CC monthly; with 6 months left in the year that might get me another 9K points. That helps, but still leaves me 30K+ points short so I will have to get after it on the last two trips. Staying at two MGM resorts for the last two trips and trying to eat and drink there and flash my card for sweet, sweet 3X points will help too. But I'll still have to gamble.

I've had decent luck at Aria in the past so that'll be the logical drop point for most dough, especially since I'll be starting and ending my days there. May roam a bit in the MGM pantheon but might try to stay away from the MB complex, at least gambling-wise, as they properly raped me on the January/April trips, to the tune of -$2600. I do have over $14K coin-in for the year already which helps on offers but I'm down in every resort I've played in this year. Law of averages says that should Royal Flush out, right?

I should be OK. 15K points gambling per trip should be a no-issue but I definitely don't want to be having to push to get there on the December trip. Literally may not even take a players card for any other resort. Can't see putting any effort into any of them anymore, it would be such a from scratch anywhere else I went. For better or worse I'm pretty well embedded in MGM Rewards again now, after wandering in the wilderness for a few years. Don't see ever getting past Gold but the perks are pretty solid there now and as long as I have the MGM CC I see no reason to fly afield.

Time to bet like a Low Rolling Lion.

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