Played in the Sun tourney. Contrary to what I had reported earlier
(and what my host had told me beforehand), they officially had 6 rounds
of 40 people (though due to over-subcsribing some rounds may have had
up to 42). That's somewhere between 240 and 252 people. Prizes were
the same as noted already ($50K total cash, $100 gift card, + bag of
candy, + large screen TV). TV giveaway took 2 or 3 draws (I'd estimate
less than 200 people were present at time of drawing and less than half
had entries). I'd value the gift card at say $50 to $75 and the candy
at 0, which puts the EV (not inlcuding TV) at $248 (low end) to $283
(high end). TV added some more, say another $30(tv value is maybe $3K,
100 players still there?). Hence, best case EV is maybe $300, not-
including food, etc.