Are these torneys worth getting in?

[iwantblackjack]

Ceasarsac, Showboatac, and Tropicana have tournaments in September!?! Is it worth playing at Ceasars under their conditons for the chance to win a game piece to play in their torney's "The $100,000 Table Games Sweepstakes", now thru 9/24/2009 thursday? You have to play at participating table games and hit the designated winning combination to receive an instant winning game piece. If you hit it, you get an instant winning game piece where you could win cash, a free hotel stay, or upto $500 matchplay, and more (like what?). Plus, instant winners are also entered into a $50,000 Blackjack Tournament held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at Ceasarsac. Of course, if you dont hit it, that suck.

Showboat has the $10,000 Blackjack tornament in Saturdays in September 2009 between 1pm-6pm in House of Blues table game area. All you do is swipe your Total Rewards card at promotional kiosk and print your score card. At 7pm the top 30 scores will play in a semi-final round. Immediately following, 1 winner from each table along with 1 wildcard will play for $2,500--winner takes all!? How does this add up to $10,000? Are there conditions worth it?

Tropicana has $5,000 blackjack tornament every Friday in the North Tower casino; where you have to be Diamond Club member and may participate in torney only after you meet the qualification of at least 30 minutes of play time with min $25 average bet on the day of event. Register begins 7pm; tourney starts 8pm-11:45pm, finals at midnight. 1st place=$2,500, 2nd=$1,000, 3rd-6th=$375 each. Conditions somewhat better than Caesars $25+min tables!?

[FLASH1296]

All you need is the "short answer"

That answer is:

NO

[Pro21]

What am I missing? They look like freerolls so why not?

[kewljason]

The only one that sounds remotely interesting to me is tropicana. How many people are entered in the tourament?

[kewljason]

Originally Posted by Pro21

What am I missing? They look like freerolls so why not?

Well the down side would be giving up your time. If I am going to spend 5 hours at tropicana thats worth about $150-$200 in EV to me, depending on how crowded the tables are. Is it worth it to give that up for a slim, no rsik chance to win $2500?? If its like 200 or 300 people or more entered, no way. Odds too slim...not worth my time. If it was 50, might be worth a shot for me.

[FLASH1296]

The down side is that so many people get involved ion these come-ons that your net equity is very very little.

View this is as follows:

If I give you a FREE lottery ticket for a future lottery, obviously you have some free equity - but the actual equity on a $1 ticket is < 50 cents.

Are you going to waste an hour of your time on that ?
Are you going to walk a mile for that ?

[Pat]

Originally Posted by iwantblackjack

Ceasarsac, Showboatac, and Tropicana have tournaments in September!?! Is it worth playing at Ceasars under their conditons for the chance to win a game piece to play in their torney's "The $100,000 Table Games Sweepstakes", now thru 9/24/2009 thursday? You have to play at participating table games and hit the designated winning combination to receive an instant winning game piece. If you hit it, you get an instant winning game piece where you could win cash, a free hotel stay, or upto $500 matchplay, and more (like what?). Plus, instant winners are also entered into a $50,000 Blackjack Tournament held on Friday, September 25, 2009 at Ceasarsac. Of course, if you dont hit it, that suck.

Showboat has the $10,000 Blackjack tornament in Saturdays in September 2009 between 1pm-6pm in House of Blues table game area. All you do is swipe your Total Rewards card at promotional kiosk and print your score card. At 7pm the top 30 scores will play in a semi-final round. Immediately following, 1 winner from each table along with 1 wildcard will play for $2,500--winner takes all!? How does this add up to $10,000? Are there conditions worth it?

T ropicana has $5,000 blackjack tornament every Friday in the North Tower casino; where you have to be Diamond Club member and may participate in torney only after you meet the qualification of at least 30 minutes of play time with min $25 average bet on the day of event. Register begins 7pm; tourney starts 8pm-11:45pm, finals at midnight. 1st place=$2,500, 2nd=$1,000, 3rd-6th=$375 each. Conditions somewhat better than Caesars $25+min tables!?

Iwantblackjack, skip all casinos except T. You'll play against the dealer 1 on1, and bet the max on all 5 spots when TC>=1.5 Good luck. By the way, Don't waste your time in showboat and Caesars unless you're one of the 2 "APs" who had found a new powerful advantage technique to beat Showboat and Caesars---It's called crowbarring. Richard Newman and Gustavo Acuna had "crowbarred" chip trays open and walked away $19,000 & $54,000 from Showboat & Caesars respectively.

[Thunder]

The one at Trop is stupid too. You get 10 hands and that's it.