With regard to benefits at the Genting group, there's really not that much difference between a gold card and a silver card.
If you really want a gold card without the hassle of maintaining points, the easiest and cheapest way would be go up to Genting and speak to a casino host. Tell the host you want to make a RM 75k deposit and open a rolling account. This automatically gives you a gold card. There is no expiry date on the deposit and you earn commission on the rolling credit. As long as you maintain the RM75k in your account, you get to keep your gold card. With this gold card, you can apply to RWS, Star Cruises etc for the respective Gold cards.
If going to Genting is too much of a hassle, you can also do the same at RWS. In Singapore, the deposit is S$100k. The advantage is that is you get access to your funds without having to go up. Which might not be a good thing as you would be tempted to gamble more.
Earlier this year, I was very tempted to make the RM75k deposit to get the gold card as it is only about S$30k. Assuming a current FD rate of 1%, this translates to only about $300 in lost interest per year. Viewed another way, you pay $300 to have the privilege of walking around with a gold card without having to bother about gameplay to maintain points. As is, I already keep about RM10k credit in my card to avoid the hassle of carrying stacks of RM50/RM100 every time I go and play.
In the end, I decided against it as there are not that many benefits of a gold card over a silver card. Also flashing a gold card would make the staff take more notice of you, which make running exploits to earn points inconvenient. As I mentioned before, my points keep piling up because the packages already give me free room, free buffet and free meals. It is therefore hard to find good stuff to redeem the points for.
Don't know why some of you can Misread/Misinterprete things to say that I want to continue playing just so as to earn points to keep card status
Tho' it's a fact that I PREFER to have things Status Quo rather than being downgraded (bc probably will hv less benefits etc)