I received a free Entry in the Reno Oct 24/25 "Stay, Play & Win" Million Dollar Slot
Tournament.
I do NOT plan on making a special trip to Reno to participate ($170 R/T fare, but
room & food is comped). Deadline to register is Oct 8. Non-transferrable!
My main reason is that this would be at least 6 weeks before my next scheduled visit.
Bankroll is set for early December visit. I buy into the philosophy to make trips on MY
schedule, not theirs. But this one is mor ethan the usual teaser.
I tried to do some math about the "EV" of the tournament. There are, I BELIEVE, 500
entrants from each of 4 Reno casinos. Top three scores from the combined three ten-
minute (mindless button pushing)sessions go to final round with 9 players from the
other casinos. Prizes are $1Million, $25K, 18,15,12,10K, $7500, $5, 4,3 and $2K
that's only 11 prizes, but you get the drift.
Anyhow, odds seem low: 0.6% of entrants advance for 1/12 of a combined prize pool
of $1,100,000 - comes out to $550 per person. Certainly chicken feed for my
valuable time to take the trip.
I'm sure I would skip all the socials and free food handouts (my food is comped
anyways), so I could play VP most of my waking hours per usual.
I guess I'm looking for comments anywhere between: "You're crazy -this is an
opportunity of a lifetime!" -to- "Sound rationale - stick to your plan!".
How would YOU decide if you had this chance?
~Mrk