Station's Boarding Pass Explained: Points Cash Out at 1,000 to the Dollar, Blackjack Earns Nothing, and Gold Takes One Session
Station Casinos publishes the one number Strip programs never do: what a point is worth in cash. It also publishes the one rule locals complain about most, in the same brochure.
Published 2026-11-09.
The 2026 brochure for Station Casinos' card prints a line no Strip program will: "1,000 POINTS = $1 FOR COMPS, CASH BACK & FREE SLOT PLAY." A dollar of slot coin-in earns one point, so a locals player at Red Rock gets a tenth of a cent back on every dollar through the machine, in cash if they want it, with a voucher from the cage. The same brochure, a column over, carries the rule that has annoyed Las Vegas for six years: live table games "have not been eligible for points since April 1, 2020."
The card is called my|Rewards Boarding Pass, which is the first thing to clear up. Boarding Pass was not retired and replaced by My Rewards. The two names have sat together since at least January 2020, the rules page is headed "my|Rewards Boarding-Pass Official Rules," and Red Rock Resorts' 2025 annual report uses the combined name. Call it Boarding Pass at the desk and nobody blinks.
Five tiers: Preferred (up to 999 Status Credits), Gold (1,000), Platinum (40,000), President (100,000) and Chairman (300,000), earned in six-month periods, January to June and July to December, and kept for the following six months. Slots earn 3 Status Credits and 1 Reward Point per $1 of coin-in; video poker earns 1 and 1 per $2; live tables earn Status Credits but no points. A thousand points is $1 of comps, cash back or free slot play, with a $5 minimum and a $1,000 daily cap on cash. Points last at least 179 days for local Preferred and Gold accounts and at least 395 days for everyone else. Seventeen locations, all in the Las Vegas valley.
Status Credits and Reward Points are different clocks
Station keeps two balances and gives them different jobs. Reward Points are the spending currency. Status Credits decide your tier, and the rules are explicit that "point days, multipliers, and other point adjustments don't count toward status credits," so a 10X point day at Sunset Station fattens one balance and not the other.
The earn tables are the most detailed of any program we track, and they reward spending in a way the Strip does not.
| Activity | Status Credits | Reward Points |
|---|---|---|
| Slots and video keno | $1 coin-in = 3 | $1 coin-in = 1 |
| Video poker and multi-game | $1 coin-in = 1 | $2 coin-in = 1 |
| Live table games | Based on type, duration and wager | None since April 1, 2020 |
| Live poker | 100 per hour | 1,000 per hour |
| Bingo | $1 = 1 | $1 = 5 |
| Live keno | $1 = 15 | $1 = 15 |
| Sports, pregame only, counter or app | $1 = 1 | $1 = 1 |
| Pari-mutuel race | $1 = 10 | $1 = 20 (show bets 1) |
| Station restaurants / steakhouses / bars | $1 = 10 / 20 / 30 | Not stated |
| Hotel stays | $1 = 50 | Not stated |
| Bowling | $1 = 30 | Not stated |
Read the right-hand column first. A dollar of slot play earns a point; a thousand points is a dollar; so slots pay back 0.1% of coin-in in a currency you can take to the cage. Video poker pays half that. Live blackjack, craps and roulette pay nothing, and have not since the pandemic reopening, though they still rate toward status. Sports bets earn only when they are placed before the game starts, "with no points for in-play or live," and points on heavy moneyline favorites are "based on win amount, not wager amount."
Now the left-hand column. Three Status Credits per slot dollar means Gold, at 1,000 credits, is $334 of coin-in, which is one modest session. Platinum at 40,000 is $13,334 of slot play in a half-year, President at 100,000 is $33,334, and Chairman at 300,000 is $100,000. Then there is the hotel line: $1 spent on a room earns 50 Status Credits, so, read literally, a $2,000 hotel bill at Red Rock is President, the tier with VIP parking and concert tickets. We suspect the desk has a view on that reading. It is what Station printed.
Six months, kept for six more
The brochure sets the calendar in two lines: "Status Credit Periods are: JANUARY 1 – JUNE 30 & JULY 1 – DECEMBER 31," and "Earn status during the current period, and keep it for the next 6 months." Hit Platinum in February and you hold it through December; hit it in June and you hold it through December too, which makes the end of each period the time to push. Station's web FAQ, confusingly, says Tier Credits are earned "January 1 to December 31"; the brochure and the official rules agree on six months, and the rules are the version Station enforces. The thresholds themselves are not printed in the rules, which say they are "available at the Rewards Center or Player Services," so the brochure dated July 9, 2026 is the only public source for the numbers above.
Point expiry depends on who you are. For "local" accounts, meaning an address in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas, Henderson, Boulder City or Pahrump, Preferred and Gold members can redeem points "for at least 179 days from earning." Local Platinum, President and Chairman members, and every out-of-town account regardless of tier, get "at least 395 days." Points are forfeitable when the account shows no gaming activity. Free slot play converted from points expires 90 days after it is issued; cash back comes as a voucher redeemed at the main cage within 48 hours.
What the tiers hand you, in Station's own grid
Station's benefit table is small, and that is the honest thing about it.
| Benefit | Preferred | Gold | Platinum | President | Chairman |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gift shop discount | 10% | 15% | 20% | 25% | 30% |
| Points for cash back and free slot play | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Princess Cruises | No | Based on play | Based on play | Based on play | Yes |
| Select complimentary concert tickets | No | No | No | When available | When available |
| Kids Quest and Cyber Quest discounts | No | No | No | 5% | 10% |
| VIP parking | No | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| Hotel VIP check-in, early check-in or late checkout | No | No | No | Where available | Where available |
| Valet next car up | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Ground transportation | No | No | No | No | Where available |
| Catering cash discount | No | No | No | No | 20% |
Every tier gets "best available room rates" and the invited locals' multipliers, and President and Chairman members pick up gift-day items at 9 a.m., ahead of the line. What is missing from the grid is as telling as what is in it: no dining discount by tier, no lounge, no birthday free play, no stated resort-fee or valet policy. Station's casinos are locals' casinos, where self-parking is not a product, and the card's value is in the mailer and the point rate rather than in the tier. Our piece on what a locals casino is explains why that is the right design for a company whose customers live ten minutes away.
The one partner is Princess Cruises, with taxes, fees and port charges on the guest. A my|Rewards Mastercard from First Bankcard, with automatic Platinum on approval and 10,000 Status Credits at $10,000 of annual spending, appears on a Station blog post from January 2020 whose footer is dated 2025; we could not find it on a 2026 page and do not know whether it is still issued.
Seventeen locations, all within the valley
The official rules list the participating properties: Palace Station, Boulder Station, Sunset Station, Santa Fe Station, Green Valley Ranch, Red Rock, Durango, Barley's, The Greens, and eight Wildfire casinos including the half-owned Wildfire Casino & Lanes. That is the "17 convenient locations" of the brochure, and it is the entire footprint. There is no Strip property, no out-of-state property, and no partner casino.
Two things people assume are in the network are not. The Palms belongs to the San Manuel tribe and runs its own card. Graton Resort in California, which Station used to manage, has been out since the tribe ended the management contract on February 5, 2021. Station's newest management deal, North Fork Mono Casino near Madera, California, opened on October 27, 2026, and nothing in its announcement says Boarding Pass travels there. The Seventy Six taverns Station has been opening since 2024 run a separate VIP club whose points move to Boarding Pass only "at management discretion."
Durango's next phase, with a bigger casino floor, a 36-lane bowling center and movie theaters, began construction in January 2026 with no opening date in the filings; the company holds land at Inspirada, Skye Canyon, Losee Road and Cactus Avenue for casinos it has not yet built.
Where the usual advice is wrong
The usual advice to a visitor is that Boarding Pass is a locals' card and there is nothing in it for a tourist. That is half right. The tiers do nothing for you on the Strip and the status clock is built for people who come weekly. But the earn rate is published and the redemption is cash, which means a tourist who plays slots at Red Rock for a weekend knows precisely what the card returned, which is more than a Pearl can say about MGM Rewards. Out-of-town accounts also get the long 395-day clock on points regardless of tier, which is the one place the rules are kinder to visitors than to locals.
The usual advice to a local is to chase President for the parking and the tickets. Look at the math first. President is $33,334 of slot coin-in in six months, at a published return of 0.1% in points, for a tier whose listed benefits are a reserved parking space, a check-in line and concerts "when available." The mailer offers, which Station does not publish and we cannot quantify, are where the real return lives, and those follow play, not tier. If you are deciding between Station and Boyd for your weekly session, our Boyd Rewards explainer describes a card with lower published rates and better published travel perks; Station's is the one that pays cash and says so.
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