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4 Queens promotion: $25k Summer Sweeps Plus-- is it worthwhile?

#1

<<<I'd like to get a handle on whether it's worth participating in this.
I will be in LV that weekend anyway, but I'd like to get an idea if
it's worth the downtime to register and claim the tickets on Saturday
and then go back on Sunday for the drawings. Has anyone here
participated in this? Can you give me some idea of how many tickets
end up in the drum (a few thousand? tens of thousands?) and how long
the drawings take (do they stretch them out for hours)?>>>>

I'm not great at estimating numbers of tickets but it is a huge drum so I
would estimate there are tens of thousands. Some local $1 Double Bonus
players will have several hundred tickets each and some always get called
multiple times and get jeered. The second drawing drum described in the
letter where each participant can deposit only one of their tickets was
started due to complaining by low rollers. There will probably be around
200 tickets in this drum. The actual drawing on Sunday morning only
takes about 15 minutes.

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On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 03:44:01 -0000 "steveww48" <steveww48@yahoo.com> writes:

#2

<<<I'd like to get a handle on whether it's worth participating in

this.

I will be in LV that weekend anyway, but I'd like to get an idea if
it's worth the downtime to register and claim the tickets on

Saturday

and then go back on Sunday for the drawings. Has anyone here
participated in this? Can you give me some idea of how many tickets
end up in the drum (a few thousand? tens of thousands?) and how long
the drawings take (do they stretch them out for hours)?>>>>

The second drawing drum described in the letter where each
participant can deposit only one of their tickets was
started due to complaining by low rollers. There will probably be
around 200 tickets in this drum. The actual drawing on Sunday
morning only takes about 15 minutes.

There are approximately 40-50,000 tickets in the drum...so each
ticket has an equity value of $.50 or maybe slightly higher. It takes
about half an hour on Saturday to pick up the tickets and another
half hour on Sunday for the actual drawing.

I have 750 tickets for the July event...

Don the Dentist

#3

Thanks, John and Don-- this is exactly the sort of information I was
looking for.

--Steve

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--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "dds2124" <dds6@c...> wrote:

> <<<I'd like to get a handle on whether it's worth participating in
this.
> I will be in LV that weekend anyway, but I'd like to get an idea if
> it's worth the downtime to register and claim the tickets on
Saturday
> and then go back on Sunday for the drawings. Has anyone here
> participated in this? Can you give me some idea of how many tickets
> end up in the drum (a few thousand? tens of thousands?) and how long
> the drawings take (do they stretch them out for hours)?>>>>

> The second drawing drum described in the letter where each
>participant can deposit only one of their tickets was
>started due to complaining by low rollers. There will probably be
>around 200 tickets in this drum. The actual drawing on Sunday
>morning only takes about 15 minutes.

There are approximately 40-50,000 tickets in the drum...so each
ticket has an equity value of $.50 or maybe slightly higher. It takes
about half an hour on Saturday to pick up the tickets and another
half hour on Sunday for the actual drawing.

I have 750 tickets for the July event...

Don the Dentist