VIP points are comp points. They have a cash value, and the casino is offering to MATCH at a rate of 50 percent those points earned. This will be a cash donation from the casino's coffers to aid Haitian relief, costing the player nothing from their end. They are also allowing players to donate their points to the fund instead of cashing them out.
I'm not familiar totally with EH's VIP scheme as to how many points are earned for play, but I know that even as a low roller at other casinos I might earn as much as $10 or more in a week of online play, depending on how my luck is running.
Sure, the casino will undoubtedly receive some benefit from this in terms of tax breaks, good publicity, and possibly even increased play from players. But the bottom line is that they are still donating money they do not have to to a country and people that desperately need aid.
Not a great deal different than the hairdresser offering $1 donation for every haircut. Perhaps I will choose that hairdresser over another because of it, but I was going to get a haircut anyway, and if it is my regular salon, I was going there anyway.
Hope that clarifies why I applaud English Harbour's initiative.
OK - so let's say this:
English Harbor has 50 games - right?
So - they set each of those 50 games a percentage lower on payouts... Not that YOU the Player will notice --- will just seem a WEEE bt lower...
So you're not earning points at the rate you would earn them...
CASINO HAS TO PAY THOSE POINTS OUT ANYWAY...
So uhmmm ...
The analogy is that the Hairdresser is now:
****Offering to PAY HALF YOUR TIP
and
***Half of your soda purchases to the fund because you're going to HAVE to buy a soda.
*****Oh and the hairdresser is UPPING the PRICE of your HAIRCUT a few bucks to make sure they don't miss out on the tips...
and
****The cost of sodas just went up 2 bucks instead of 50 cents.
I mean ---- ok - check this out.... The Casino is going to give some money away --- YAY...
HAITI is gonna get some money --- YAY!!!
In fact - let me start my OWN promotion - EVERYONE PLEASE STEP RIGHT UP!!!!
WagerWitch is Sending Relief Money to Haiti!
Send me a Million Bucks and I promise 20 bucks will go to Haiti!!!!
So laud me for my effort to send some money to a severe catastrophe - ok?
*grin*
Actually - I'm glad money is going to Haiti - no matter how much... But I think that Casino Coins is jacking a situation and making a profit from it.
Sorry guys - I just have odd opinions some times... and sorry - again - I AM GLAD money is going to what I believe is a country that needs help.