“If they are regulars, they can get free dinners, free show tickets, little gifts, trinkets, complimentary rooms,” Spatz said. They come in on charter flights as small as the ill-fated Jetstream 31 and as large as a Boeing 737, he said.Ĭompensation to customers is based on the amount of money they bet and the frequency of their casino visits.
You could very easily have sent a bus to get those people, which leads me to believe they had to be premium players.”Ĭasinos hire junket representatives to target groups of gamblers around the world, said David Spatz, executive editor of Atlantic City Insider’s Guide, a monthly publication. “Wilkes-Barre is not the other side of the world. If they’re going to send an airplane for you, they have to believe it’s worth their while,” Langford said.
“Most of the junkets that come in by plane have some decent players.
