Final Pre-Trip Points Sitch.

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The final pre-Vegas MGM Rewards points from the CC dropped in today.

After a good earning month I'm sitting at a little over 52K pre-trip. So assuming I'll earn something like 3K points in December (conservative, being I'll be earning 3X points in town), that gets me to 55K w/o gambling a penny the rest of the year, so I'll just need to earn 20K points in town to keep Gold. Better than I thought it would be, and very doable.

With the tier accelerator in play on the trip, if I earn 10K in a calendar day that will bump up to 15K. I may need only two decent earning days of the week to get there. I may just try to take like the Saturday and really start to pump at 12:01am, keep it going through the day and I might be nearly there. I can keep track on the app during the trip so I'll know in real time where I am.

It'd be a relief to get it done early, like by Monday latest, so I can just be free to roam and gamble at will at other resort groups later in the trip. Wouldn't mind getting up in Fontainebleau's business a bit while I'm there and see if I can get a good rate for the birthday trip next year. I'll still have to MGM-max all next year again if I want to stay at Gold but it would be nice to have some other options to stay at too.

Identity points at Cosmo will roll over to MGM in February but who knows what that's going to look like. Rumblings are it won't be at a point for point rate. I've never gotten deep into Wynn or V/P and my shit's all fucked at RW, so FB might be the other logical option.

All in all, Gold should be close to a done deal, then we'll see what else might be out there.

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