VegasNow loyalty levels and the Sin City VIP Lounge

Every VegasNow account is part of the loyalty programme from the first real-money bet. There is nothing to opt into and no code to enter. As you play, two kinds of points build up. Status points measure your activity over time and decide which level you are on. Redeemable points are the ones you spend, exchanging them in the Loyalty Store for bonus funds.

The programme has seven levels, each named after a Las Vegas venue, starting at Golden Glimmer. Moving up a level improves the exchange rate you get in the store, so the same number of redeemable points buys more bonus funds the higher you climb. Above the levels sits the VIP Lounge, which we call Sin City. That tier is by selection rather than a points threshold.

Points come from real-money wagers, so free-play demos do not earn them. The details of your own level and point balances are visible once you sign in to your account.

The rates differ a lot by game, so it helps to put the same amount through each one. Take A$1,000 of real-money wagering, which is total stakes, not losses:

• Pokies: A$1,000 ÷ A$25 = 40 redeemable points and 40 status points.
• Roulette: A$1,000 ÷ A$100 = 10 points.
• Blackjack or baccarat: A$1,000 ÷ A$250 = 4 points.

Pokies earn points ten times faster than table games for the same stake. That mirrors the bonus terms, where pokies count in full towards wagering and tables count partly or not at all. If you mainly play live blackjack or baccarat, points will build slowly, and that is worth knowing before you plan around a store reward.

The early steps are close together. On pokies, where A$25 wagered earns one status point, Golden Glimmer II at 600 status points corresponds to A$15,000 of total stakes, and Golden Glimmer III at 2,000 points to A$50,000. These are stakes over time, not money deposited; a player who keeps recycling the same balance through many spins reaches them without depositing anything like those amounts.

After that the gaps widen sharply. Gondola Grand I sits at 500,000 status points, Julius Palace III at 3,000,000 and Bella Vista, the top published row, at 5,000,000. Parisian Palace Las Vegas is another level, named in the Loyalty Store table; its threshold is not published. The upper levels are built for very high-volume players, and for most people they are not a realistic target.

Levels come with rewards, and those are shown in your account rather than published here. We prefer not to quote level prize values on this page, because the store rates below are the part of the programme we can set out precisely.

The thresholds above read most kindly in pokies terms. If most of your play happens at the tables, each point costs four times as much turnover on roulette (A$100 a point) and ten times as much on blackjack or baccarat (A$250 a point). Counting those table points towards status the same way, the first two steps look like this:

Mixed play lands between the columns. A week of A$300 on pokies plus A$300 on roulette adds 12 points from the reels and 3 from the wheel, 15 in total, which puts Golden Glimmer II 40 weeks away.

For most players, the loyalty programme is a modest extra rather than a reason to choose a game. A casual pokies player earns roughly one A$5 store bonus a year, and that bonus then needs A$200 of wagering. A regular pokies player reaches Golden Glimmer II within the year and gets slightly better treatment from then on. A roulette player on the same budget earns a quarter of the points, because roulette earns one point per A$100 rather than per A$25.

None of this makes table games a poor choice. It simply means points should not drive the decision. Pick games for enjoyment and for how they fit your budget, and let the points accumulate on their own.

Seven days passes quickly, so turn each store row into a daily figure before you exchange. The last column is the smallest number of bets that could clear it, since no single bet may top A$8 while the bonus runs.

These figures assume pokies at 100%. Move the A$5 bonus to roulette, counted at 25%, and the target becomes A$800 of bets; at blackjack or game shows, counted at 10%, it is A$2,000.

The loyalty programme runs in the background of everything else. While you work through the four-stage welcome package (up to A$8,000 plus 500 free spins at 40×), your real-money pokies stakes are earning points at the same time. The same is true of the recurring offers on our weekly promotions page, such as the Tuesday Lucky 7s Load Up at 77% up to A$77.

What you cannot do is stack bonuses. Only one bonus can be active at a time, so plan exchanges for a point when no other bonus is running. If you are mid-way through a welcome stage, leave the points in your balance until it is done.

For game choice, the earning table points one way: pokies earn fastest. Popular titles in our lobby include Gates of Olympus and Book of Ra. Play what you enjoy, though, rather than steering towards whatever earns the most points.

• Planning to clear a store bonus at baccarat. Baccarat earns points at the blackjack rate but counts 0% towards wagering, so a bonus played there never moves.
• Saving a lot bigger than your week. The 2,000-point exchange beats ten small ones by A$10, yet its A$2,400 target needs roughly A$343 a day. If that pace is beyond your normal play, take A$5 lots instead.
• Expecting VIP status to soften the rules. A bonus given to a Sin City member still carries 40× wagering, the A$8 bet ceiling and the seven-day window unless that offer states otherwise.

Our pokies lobby is where store bonuses clear fastest.