One thing I should note before continuing is that I’m not a casino expert. You can cash out your winnings though, something I’ll cover in just a moment. In case you’re not familiar with Free Play, it’s not as good as cash as you can’t just withdraw that money – it has to be used for actual gambling. The great thing was that I ended up with $65 of Free Play rather than $50 as an additional $15 was added, seemingly due to being a brand new Wild Card member.

Matching to Rock Royalty status was a fairly easy process, so read this post to find out more about that and the other perks I received as this post is specifically about how I used my Free Play. Still, $50 was better than $0, so after picking up my M life Gold card from Borgata (which I have by matching from my Hyatt Globalist status), I made my way to Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. I’d been a little disappointed as Hard Rock had offered $100 in Free Play in the past, but they halved that amount in the weeks leading up to my visit. The next best perk was $50 in Free Play, or at least that’s what I thought I’d be getting. The main one I was after was two free nights at their hotel, but those plans fell through as the hotel was fully booked during my visit as it was a holiday weekend. Status matching to Rock Royalty comes with a number of perks.

I’d added this in to my plans as I wanted to status match from M life Gold status to Rock Royalty status in Hard Rock Casino’s Wild Card program. During our recent 40k To Far Away challenge, I spent a couple of nights in Atlantic City.

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