East Coast Gambler

This summer will be spotty for ECG as I’ll be traveling pretty often for the next couple of months.  You can always keep up with me on twitter for regular updates and posterous for pictures.

I uploaded a bunch of pictures of my Bally’s main Tower room in Atlantic City to flickr last week.  These were supposed to be high res so I didn’t send via twitter/posterous.  I only have a few days at ECG HQ so I’m not sure I’ll get to a full report, but I had an excellent time in Atlantic City and was able to enjoy the boardwalk for the first time in a while.

Before I took off for the week, I was able to get a few items up.  Enjoy.

• Harrah’s Adds Starwood To Total Rewards Alliance
• Get 25% Discounts at Legasse Stadium
• New MGM Players Club – M Life
• Atlantic City Video Poker Research

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Legasse Stadium announced on their twitter feed that you can get 25% off your bill after you “check in” three times on Foursquare.

Many visitors can do this on one trip to get discounts of your own.  You can check in from just about anywhere in the Palazzo, so it should be easy to grab this discount.

It’s cool to see casinos use technology as a marketing tool.  It’s also nice to see the offer of a large discount like this.  I’ve easily spent a couple hundred dollars at Legasse Stadium with friends – and that’s with each of us getting drink tickets for our bets.  Hopefully this will bring more business to Legasse Stadium so more places do this.

Foursquare and Gowalla are apps available on smartphones that, in short, let people know where you are.  Foursquare is offers different kinds of rewards and “mayorships” while Gowalla offers badges that you keep on your phone.

Both are competitors and I’ve tested each of them for a while, but will be making the switch to Foursquare on my next trip to Atlantic City.  It seems as if more major corporations are using FourSquare.  I figure if I’m going to use my time on *another* social network I might as well receive something for it.

Connect with me on twitter and foursquare if you’re mobile and inclined.

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