Every Vegas casino wants you to carry its card. Only some of them tell you what it earns. Here are the five programs that cover most of the Strip and the locals market, with their published earn rates turned into the one number that matters: cents back per $100 you put through the machine.
On this page: the comparison table · how the rebate is computed · your trip, by card · tiers and what they cost · status without gambling · Boyd points worth · program by program · the smaller clubs that pay more · Binion's tiers · which card to carry · sources
Base rates, before tier multipliers, point-multiplier days, and mailers. Verified against each program's own pages on 2026-09-04 and re-checked 2026-09-22; footnotes mark anything the program does not publish itself.
| Program | Slots earn | Video poker earn | Point value | Slots rebate | VP rebate | Live tables | Tier period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caesars Rewards | 1 RC per $5 | 1 RC per $10 | 100 RC = $1 (dining, hotel)1 | 0.20% | 0.10% | Rated: game, avg bet, time | Calendar year |
| MGM Rewards | Not published2 | Not published2 | 1 point = $0.01 | n/a | n/a | Rated: game, avg bet, time | Calendar year |
| Boyd Rewards | 1 pt per $13 | 1 pt per $23 | 1,000 pts = $1 | 0.10% | 0.05% | Rated | Calendar year |
| Station Casinos (Boarding Pass) | 1 pt per $1 | 1 pt per $2 | 1,000 pts = $1 (cash back or slot play) | 0.10% | 0.05% | No points since Apr 2020 | 6 months |
| Wynn Rewards | 1 pt per $5 | 1 pt per $10 or $20 | 500 pts = $5 free credit | 0.20% | 0.10% or 0.05% | Rated: game, avg bet, time | Calendar year |
1 Caesars publishes the earn side but not a redemption rate on its rules pages; the 100-to-$1 figure is the long-standing rate for dining and hotel folio redemptions and is the rate quoted in Caesars Sportsbook's own Reward Credit exchange. Caesars does publish the free-play rate on the same page, and it is half that value: $1 of free play per 200 Reward Credits, verified 2026-09-22. So the 0.20% slot rebate is 0.20% only if you spend the credits on food or a room, and 0.10% if you take free play. 2 MGM states that gaming points and Tier Credits "vary based on your wager, game type, and game denomination"; no per-dollar rate is published anywhere on mgmresorts.com. 3 Boyd only pays Boyd Points at Sapphire and above (750 Tier Credits); a brand-new Ruby card earns Tier Credits but zero spendable points.
Two things fall out of that arithmetic. First, the whole spread across these five programs is 0.05% to 0.2%. Fifteen basis points is the entire difference between the "best" and "worst" base card. Second, that number is dwarfed by the house edge you are paying to earn it: a 0.46% video poker game costs you five to nine times what the card gives back on video poker (0.05% to 0.1%), and an 8% penny slot costs forty to eighty times the slot rebate (0.1% to 0.2%). The comps guide walks through why: the card is a rebate on your expected loss, and no rebate turns that loss positive.
The published rate is also the floor, not the ceiling. Tier multipliers (MGM's Slot Dollars bonus is 10% at Pearl, 20% Gold, 30% Platinum, 40% NOIR; Wynn adds 20% at Platinum and 30% at Black), point-multiplier days, and above all the offers in the mail add up to more than the base rate. The base rate is still the right way to compare, because it is the only part that is published, guaranteed, and the same for everybody.
Enter the coin-in for a trip (average bet × decisions × hours) and see what each published program pays back at its base rate. MGM is left blank because it publishes no rate.
Tier Credits are a separate currency from points. They buy status, not comps, and they reset. Four Vegas programs publish a per-dollar Tier Credit rate for machine play — Caesars, Station, Venetian and Resorts World — so those four can be priced, and the tier price calculator below does it. MGM publishes a rate only for non-gaming spend. Boyd and Wynn are left as their programs leave them.
| Program | Tiers (Tier Credits) | TC earn, slots (video poker) | Slot coin-in for the first two paid tiers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caesars | Gold 0 · Platinum 5,000 · Diamond 15,000 · Diamond Plus 25,000 · Diamond Elite 75,000 · Seven Stars 150,000 (invite) · Olympus 300,000 by 2026-12-31 (invite) | 1 per $5 (1 per $10) | Platinum: $25,000, or $12,500 in one day5 · Diamond: $75,000, or $25,000 in one day5 |
| MGM | Sapphire 0 · Pearl 20,000 · Gold 75,000 · Platinum 200,000 · NOIR (invite) | Gaming not published; 4 per $1 on eligible hotel, dining and resort spend | Pearl via non-gaming spend: $5,000; Gold in two days with the accelerator7 |
| Boyd | Ruby 0 · Sapphire 750 · Emerald 15,000 · Onyx 50,000 · Titanium 200,000 | Not published6 | Not derivable6 |
| Station | Preferred 0 · Gold 1,000 · Platinum 40,000 · President 100,000 · Chairman 300,000, per 6 months4 | 3 per $1 (1 per $1)4 | Gold: $333 · Platinum: $13,333 |
| Venetian | Jade 0 · Sapphire 3,000 · Ruby 20,000 · Diamond 50,000 · invite-only above8 | 1 per $4 (1 per $10)8 | Sapphire: $12,000 · Ruby: $80,000, or $10,000 of resort spend |
| Resorts World | Royal 0 · Elite 3,000 · Prime 75,000 · Monarch 250,000 · Imperial 1,000,000 · Crockfords Club (invite)8 | 3 per $1 (3 per $3.50)8 | Elite: $1,000 · Prime: $25,000, or $15,000 of dining, retail and spa |
| Wynn | Red 0–6,999 · Platinum 7,000–69,999 · Black 70,000+ | Not published6 | Not derivable6 |
4 Station’s rules page still sends you to the Rewards Center for the status structure, but its Boarding Pass page and 2026 brochure (dated 2026-07-09) publish it: 3 status credits per $1 on slots, 1 per $1 on video poker and multi-game, and the thresholds shown, earned January–June or July–December and kept for the next six months. Point days and multipliers do not count toward status. This page carried those numbers as player reports until 2026-09-24; they are now Station’s own. (One FAQ on the same page still says credits are earned annually; the brochure and the earning chart say six months.) 5 Caesars pays a daily Tier Credit bonus: 500 credits in one promotional day earns +125, 1,000 earns +1,000, 2,500 earns +5,000 (Platinum in a day), 5,000 earns +10,000 (Diamond in a day). Only one level is awarded per promotional day, the bonus does not count toward Reward Credits, and it varies by location — Horseshoe Tunica, Horseshoe Bossier City and Harrah's Gulf Coast dropped it on 2026-08-01. 6 Boyd and Wynn publish a per-dollar rate for points (1 per $1 and 1 per $5 on reel slots) but not for Tier Credits, which both base on game, denomination or average bet, and time played. Points and Tier Credits are separate currencies, so the points rate cannot be used to price a tier. 7 MGM's Daily Tier Status Accelerator, now through 2026-12-31 at Las Vegas destinations only, pays a bonus on eligible Tier Credits earned in one promotional day: 5,000→+1,250, 10,000→+5,000, 20,000→+20,000, 40,000→+60,000. One level per day. At 4 Tier Credits per non-gaming dollar, two days of 20,000 is 80,000 credits, which clears Gold's 75,000. 8 Venetian Rewards Terms and Conditions: 1 Tier Point per $4 of slot coin-in, 1 per $10 on video poker, 2 per $1 of table theo; the tier year runs March 1 to the end of February. Resorts World sets tiers by “Genting Base Points, also known as Tier Credits”, reset each January 5; reel slots earn 3 Genting Points per $1 and video poker 3 per $3.50. Those are the base points: Resorts World's terms say points from boosts, promotions and awards do not count toward tier, so the Prime-and-up slot point boost sits on top. Dining, retail and spa earn 5 per $1. Both programs note that some machines earn at lower, marked rates.
Caesars Diamond is the tier most people chase because it waives resort fees and comes with a yearly celebration dinner. Spread across a year it is the tier most people over-pay for: 15,000 Tier Credits at 1 per $5 is $75,000 of reel-slot coin-in, and at the 8% slot hold the comps guide uses that is $6,000 of expected loss. Caesars' own daily Tier Credit bonus cuts the price to a third of that. Earn 5,000 Tier Credits in a single promotional day — $25,000 of coin-in — and the bonus adds 10,000, which is Diamond that day, for about $2,000 of expected loss. Same status, $4,000 cheaper, and the difference is nothing but scheduling. That is the comps guide's concentrate-your-play lever showing up as a published rule rather than a rule of thumb. It is still $2,000 for a status worth a few hundred in waived fees, so the advice does not change: earn it with play you were going to make anyway, or not at all.
Pick a program, a tier and a game. It returns the coin-in the program asks for, which is what they publish, and the expected loss the house edge takes out of that coin-in, which is what the tier actually costs. For Caesars it also works out the cheapest way to time your play around the daily Tier Credit bonus, which pays every promotional day, not just once.
Edges: 8% is the reel-slot hold the comps guide uses; 0.46% is 9/6 Jacks or Better with perfect strategy (Shackleford, wizardofodds.com), and only if you find that pay table and play it right — the trainer drills it. Time assumes 600 spins or hands an hour, a common estimate, not a published figure. Earn rates and thresholds are the programs’ own, cited in the footnotes above; machines marked with lower rates earn less.
Five Vegas programs publish a Tier Credit rate for money you spend on rooms, meals or the spa, not just on machines. Divide each tier by that rate and you get its price in spending. The rates are far apart: Station pays 50 credits per hotel dollar and Caesars pays 1, so the same $800 room bill is Platinum at one and a long way from anything at the other. Rates re-read from each program’s own pages on 2026-10-15.
| Program | Tier Credits per $1 of non-gaming spend | Each tier, in that spend alone |
|---|---|---|
| Station | 50 on hotel stays; 30 bars and bowling, 20 steakhouses, 10 restaurants and amenities | Gold $20 · Platinum $800 · President $2,000 · Chairman $6,000 of hotel, per six-month period — priced |
| Resorts World | 5 on food and beverage, retail and spa; room nights earn nothing | Elite $600 · Prime $15,000 · Monarch $50,000 · Imperial $200,000 — priced |
| Venetian | 2 on rooms, dining, shows, retail and spa charged to a suite booked direct | Sapphire $1,500 · Ruby $10,000 · Diamond $25,000 — priced |
| MGM | 4 on eligible hotel-folio charges, and on dining and bars at participating outlets when you show the card | Pearl $5,000 · Gold $18,750 · Platinum $50,000; with the daily accelerator7, Pearl $3,750 and Gold $10,000 in one day, Platinum $20,000 over two — priced |
| Caesars | 1 on room rate and resort fees booked direct, participating restaurants, spa and retail | Platinum $5,000 · Diamond $15,000 · Diamond Plus $25,000 · Diamond Elite $75,000 |
| Boyd, Wynn | Not published6 | Not derivable |
Spending is not the same thing as cost. Money spent on a room or a dinner buys the room or the dinner; money put through a slot machine buys nothing, and what it costs you is the expected loss. So this table only matters for spending you were going to do anyway. Read that way, the cheapest real status in Vegas is Resorts World Elite for $600 of meals or Station Platinum for one $800 hotel bill. Venetian Ruby, which waives the resort fee on direct bookings, is $10,000 of resort spend. Caesars Diamond is $15,000 of room and dining at 1 per $1, against about $2,000 of expected slot loss when the play is timed to the daily bonus. That makes Caesars the one program where the spend route is the expensive one, unless you already spend that much there.
Credits from spend and from play add together in all five programs, so a trip’s room and meals cut the gaming a tier still needs. The fine print decides whether the spend counts at all. Caesars, Venetian and MGM credit hotel spend only on bookings made with them directly, with the account number on the reservation. Caesars, MGM and Resorts World exclude taxes and tips. Caesars says its daily Tier Credit bonus is based on play, so the Caesars spend prices above do not use it. Sources: Station’s Boarding Pass earning chart; Resorts World’s Earn & Redeem page and Terms §17; Venetian Rewards Terms §6; MGM’s Earn FAQ; Caesars’ 2026 Rewards benefits guide and its help-center answer on earning Tier Credits.
Caesars Palace, Flamingo, Harrah's, Horseshoe, Paris, Planet Hollywood, The LINQ, The Cromwell, plus 50-odd properties nationally. Publishes the most: 1 Reward Credit and 1 Tier Credit per $5 on reel slots, per $10 on video poker, per $1 on hotel, dining, and retail. Live tables are rated. Reward Credits expire if the account earns nothing for six months. The national footprint is the real asset: a Diamond earned in Vegas works in Atlantic City and Reno.
Bellagio, ARIA, MGM Grand, Mandalay Bay, Park MGM, New York-New York, Luxor, Excalibur, and the regional MGM properties. Points are worth one cent and Tier Credits are 4 per $1 on non-gaming spend, but MGM does not publish a gaming earn rate at all: "varies based on your wager, game type, and game denomination." That is a deliberate choice, and it means you cannot compare MGM on the base rate. Judge it on the mail after a trip, not the point balance. What MGM does publish is the Daily Tier Status Accelerator, running through 2026-12-31 at the Las Vegas properties: a bonus on Tier Credits earned in one promotional day, up to 40,000 earned paying a 60,000 bonus. Like the Caesars bonus, it rewards concentrating a trip rather than spreading it: Gold and Platinum priced at MGM's published 4 per $1, $10,000 and $20,000 instead of $18,750 and $50,000.
Orleans, Gold Coast, Suncoast, Sam's Town, Fremont, California, Main Street Station, Aliante, Cannery, and Boyd's regional casinos. One point per $1 on slots, per $2 on video poker, 1,000 points to the dollar. The catch nobody puts on the sign-up flyer: the entry Ruby tier earns no points. You need 750 Tier Credits before the card pays anything spendable, and Boyd does not publish how fast play earns Tier Credits — it varies by game, denomination, and time played, so there is no way to price that from outside.
Points and Tier Credits are two different balances. Boyd Points are worth $1 per 1,000 as FastPlay or at retail, so 47,000 points is $47. At the base rate that balance took $47,000 through slots or $94,000 through video poker; multiplier days mean less, and Boyd notes that some properties earn differently. Points expire after six months with no activity. Tier Credits have no cash value: they only set your tier, reset every January 1, and the tier you reach lasts the rest of the year and all of the next. 41,000 Tier Credits is Emerald, 9,000 short of Onyx. At year end Boyd carries over whatever you are above your tier’s floor, up to a cap (500 at Sapphire, 5,000 at Emerald, 10,000 at Onyx, 40,000 at Titanium), so a 41,000 balance starts next year at 5,000.
Red Rock, Green Valley Ranch, Durango, Palace, Boulder, Sunset, Santa Fe, and the Wildfire locations. Same 1-per-$1 slots, 1-per-$2 video poker, 1,000-to-the-dollar structure as Boyd, with one difference that matters to locals: points can be taken as cash back, not only free play. Live table games have earned no points since April 2020. Tier status is judged every six months, so it is easier to hold than a calendar-year program if you play year-round and harder if you visit once. Status credits also come from hotel stays at 50 per $1, so Station's tiers are priced here in rooms and dining as well as play.
Wynn and Encore Las Vegas only. 1 point per $5 on slots; video poker is 1 per $10 or 1 per $20 depending on the machine, so the same $100 earns half as much on a full-pay game. 500 points buys $5 of FREE CREDIT, which is one cent a point, the same base slot rebate as Caesars, and Platinum adds 20% to points earned while Black adds 30%. Three tiers: Red 0–6,999, Platinum 7,000–69,999, Black 70,000+. Tier Credits are a different currency from those slot points and Wynn publishes no earn rate for them — "based on average bet, type of game you play, and length of play" — so the climb to Black cannot be priced from the outside.
The five big programs cluster at 0.05% to 0.2%. Downtown and locals independents publish rates several times higher, because they are competing for exactly the player who reads this page. Vegas Advantage's 2025 survey lists South Point at 0.3% on slots and video poker, Rio Rewards at 0.8% on slots, and Binion's and Four Queens (All Access) at 0.5% cash plus 1% in comps on slots. If your trip is about squeezing the card rather than the property, that is where the arithmetic points. If your trip is about the pool at Bellagio, no rebate changes that math.
Binion's and the Four Queens share one card, the All Access Players Club, and it has no published tiers. There's no ladder, no Tier Credits and no status to chase, just a flat rate in the posted rules. Slots earn 1 point per $5 and video poker 1 per $8, and every 40 points pays $1 Cash Back plus $2 Comp Dollars. That works out to 0.5% cash plus 1% comps on slots, and 0.31% cash plus 0.63% comps on video poker. Table play earns Comp Dollars only, from a floor rating. Comp Dollars have no cash value but spend at both properties' restaurants, bars, hotel rooms and gift shops. The minimum redemption is $5, a voucher has to be used within 24 hours, and points expire after 13 months with no activity. Members 55 and older also get Club 55: 10% off standard room rates, regular-priced menus and the gift shops. Room offers, free play and tournament invites are “based on rated play”, and Binion's doesn't publish how much play earns them.
In place of tiers there's a recurring monthly bonus, and the last run of it ended at 11:59 pm on October 31, 2026. It is worth knowing anyway, because the flyer was headed “Free Slot Play Bonus is back” — this offer has run before and the number it paid is the one to measure the next version against. The terms, from the posted rules: earning 500 points in a calendar month at one property paid $50 in free slot play, once per property per month, and reaching 500 at both added 25 Comp Dollars. At the base rate, 500 points is $2,500 through slots or $4,000 through video poker, though the rules warn that the points needed can vary by machine. A 500-point slot month therefore returned $12.50 cash, $25 in comps and $50 of free play: $87.50, or 3.5% of $2,500, more than double the 1.5% base rebate. Doing it at both properties returned $200 on $5,000 (4%), and on video poker the same $87.50 took $4,000 (2.2%). Table players qualified instead with 15 rated hours at a $10 average bet — machines or tables, not both. The free play expired 29 days after it loaded. As of October 31, 2026 no replacement has been posted: both properties still link the September–October flyer from their All Access pages and the file has not changed since September 1. So the thing to do at the club desk is ask whether the free-slot-play bonus is running this month, and compare whatever they say against 3.5%.
Programs change rates and thresholds without notice and vary them by machine. Everything above is the published base; check the rewards desk before you plan a trip around it. Nothing here makes a casino game profitable.