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Why casinos give high rollers free rooms

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Nothing is ever truly complimentary in the desert. Comping extravagant penthouse suites and expensive dinners is merely a tiny calculated loss leader designed exclusively to keep massive spenders trapped within the building until the house inevitably wins back ten times the value of the free champagne.

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