Grand Slam of Slots

**Ad7777** · 28th September 2009, 04:55 PM

are the special positions for all mg casinos or just 32red ?

**sashasmom** · 29th September 2009, 03:36 AM

I had an account at all jackpots long before they stopped taking us players so I have won a couple of tournaments for free tickets and also cashed out with no problem

**sashasmom** · 29th September 2009, 03:39 AM

jasminbed thanks for the good luck

**chayton** · 2nd October 2009, 12:59 PM

yay, I won an entry! It only cost me about $32 - which was wasted anyhow since I only got a *really* good hit the first round and after that I couldn't buy a win.

So I was in first place after round 1 and got knocked down to 6th by the time it was done, but I did get my entry! Plus 25 euros which they still haven't credited me....

**chayton** · 2nd October 2009, 01:38 PM

I just got a mail from All Jackpots:

Tickets to the Grand Slam of Slots are now 50% off! You can now buy your guaranteed seat in the �1,000,000 tournament for just �75.

**De Beuker** · 2nd October 2009, 03:30 PM

Originally Posted by chayton

I just got a mail from All Jackpots:

Tickets to the Grand Slam of Slots are now 50% off! You can now buy your guaranteed seat in the �1,000,000 tournament for just �75.

Yes, got that one too, very surprised, thought they could only be won in tourneys.
Just played 5 Avalon tourneys in a row (4 rebuys) at Royal Vegas, 50 minutes Avalon without a single free spin!!

Should have saved the cash and buy an entry..

**vinylweatherman** · 2nd October 2009, 11:06 PM

This is heading for a PR "train wreck".

Firstly, we were LIED to by MGS, who claimed it was IMPOSSIBLE to buy your way into the Grand Slam, and you had to WIN a seat. Although some feeder tournaments were free, some COST MONEY. I expect many players went "chasing", and spent a considerable amount of money trying to win a seat.

THEN, there was the curiosity of Jackpot Factory announcing that you COULD, after all, simply BUY a seat for �150 - yet at the SAME TIME Red Flush were using promotional material containing "you cannot buy these....etc..." when announcing new events whereby seats could be won.

Players who could not seem to win a seat, or didn't want to chase a win at unknown cost, then paid �150 for one, so that they could relax, and know they had a chance.

Now, they are 50% off, but what about any players who paid �150, especially if this was mere DAYS before the cut to �75.

Can we still trust MGS?

Will they cut the price again, or even just "dump" the remaining tickets for a pittance?

NEXT time MGS put on a "grand slam" style tournament, DON'T bother chasing tickets through the feeders (except FREE ones of course), just wait long enough, and tickets that "money can't buy" will eventually come up for sale, and hold out long enough, may even be sold off cheap.

There are STILL 20 days left, so why the big hurry & 50% sale?

**DiamondGeezer** · 3rd October 2009, 12:31 AM

But isn't this just freemarket economics at work?

Think I'll wait until they get listed on Ebay

**De Beuker** · 3rd October 2009, 05:34 AM

Originally Posted by vinylweatherman

This is heading for a PR "train wreck".

Firstly, we were LIED to by MGS, who claimed it was IMPOSSIBLE to buy your way into the Grand Slam, and you had to WIN a seat. Although some feeder tournaments were free, some COST MONEY. I expect many players went "chasing", and spent a considerable amount of money trying to win a seat.

THEN, there was the curiosity of Jackpot Factory announcing that you COULD, after all, simply BUY a seat for �150 - yet at the SAME TIME Red Flush were using promotional material containing "you cannot buy these....etc..." when announcing new events whereby seats could be won.

Players who could not seem to win a seat, or didn't want to chase a win at unknown cost, then paid �150 for one, so that they could relax, and know they had a chance.

Now, they are 50% off, but what about any players who paid �150, especially if this was mere DAYS before the cut to �75.

Can we still trust MGS?

Will they cut the price again, or even just "dump" the remaining tickets for a pittance?

NEXT time MGS put on a "grand slam" style tournament, DON'T bother chasing tickets through the feeders (except FREE ones of course), just wait long enough, and tickets that "money can't buy" will eventually come up for sale, and hold out long enough, may even be sold off cheap.

There are STILL 20 days left, so why the big hurry & 50% sale?

Exactly my thoughts, why are they dumping them 3 weeks before the start?
Palace Group is selling them too now, but for 150 still.

Maybe they did not make enough money from the feedertourneys?
I find that hard to believe, I've seen feeders with unlimited continueplay options, people went nuts to win, the top 20 from a TR tourney (at Villento) all had millions of coins in their winboxes (no.1 had over 6 million

), must have cost a fortune and now everyone can just buy one?!

**vinylweatherman** · 3rd October 2009, 07:22 PM

Originally Posted by De Beuker

Exactly my thoughts, why are they dumping them 3 weeks before the start?
Palace Group is selling them too now, but for 150 still.

Maybe they did not make enough money from the feedertourneys?
I find that hard to believe, I've seen feeders with unlimited continueplay options, people went nuts to win, the top 20 from a TR tourney (at Villento) all had millions of coins in their winboxes (no.1 had over 6 million), must have cost a fortune and now everyone can just buy one?!

THESE are the players who have been thoroughly screwed. This is NOT the same as the market economy. I'll bet this doesn't happen in POKER, or any other kind of fixed buy in event.

These players went "nuts" because the MGS publicity machine said these tickets were most definitely NOT FOR SALE, and there was NOTHING in the small print that would even permit this.
The �150 was a nominal price, so we were told, but clearly this price was set with the intent all along to open up places for sale should they be unable to allocate all 9000 seats by the published means.

Now we have a FIRST, a tournament who's buy in has been HALVED whilst the process is in progress, with some players having gone "nuts" to secure a seat through winning a feeder, some having bought one for �150, and now they are going for �75.

This is a HUGE blunder for MGS, but they don't know it yet. They will find out NEXT time they try to put on a big event such as this, and I'm sure they fully intended that "Grand Slam" would be the first in a line of big prize "super tournaments" run on the Multi-Player tournament network.

Next time, they may find players VERY reluctant to chase down a ticket by paying for continues and rebuys, or even buying in to feeders. They may just hold out, remembering that in the remaining few weeks before the start the tickets may well be sold off, and even be cut price.

Selling these tickets off cheap hurts players already qualified in another way. It PREVENTS them from getting value for money, which WOULD have been the case had MGS stuck to the initial rules, with those players that won seats having fewer than 9000 rivals to play against, thus increasing their odds of winning a prize.

Surely, it is only in the Grand Slam itself that there can be any justification for "going nuts", with a prize of �1M if it pays off, rather than merely one of 9000 tickets in another tournament.