I wrote:
A surprise entry for the AQ showed-up today on-line. It looks like a free-roll
BJ tourney for this Saturday:
Check out the listing for the one day free-roll...a one per table advance...then
a winner-take all format.
Post-Mortem:
The AQ seemed to have their act together on Saturday. The rules were posted and plenty of worker-bees to help out with an MC talking it up. All it took was a slot card to generate an entry slip from the promo kiosks.
They had a bunch of tables/dealers ready to go. They just sat the next six players at the next available table. At 11am they had 3 empty tables, no waiting.
Format was 9 hands starting with $2,100 in chips, $25 minimum/no maximum one advances per table. You sat where you wanted, so seat #2 is the projected best seat for the last hand. They gave you 1-$500, 10-$100 and 24-$25 in chips in hard to see pastel colors (not red, green, black, purple) so it was hard to count the other stacks.
It appeared that there were a couple of BJ rookies who couldn't even count to 21 or know how to sweep for another card. The dealer was fairly cold, but knocked out seat #1 on hand five. My move to take the lead happened on hand 8 since I could bet last, shoving all but two $25 chips out. My 7/4 totals a fine 11, but the dealer pulled a BJ, ouch! But I still had two chips, one to bet and one to hold back for the last hand. But the two big stacks did not go all-in.
The semi-finals were at 6pm where the tourney was now an accumulation format. You had to finish in the top 5 of everyone to make the Final table at 10pm. A real crapshoot. I did not see the semis or make it to the 10 pm wildcard drawing for seat #6. Anyone see what it took in chips to make the Finals?
This one was fun and painless for a free-roll for $12k.
BS