My mistake, 1/20 at 100 euros or better. And the specials come in a weird positions:
Special Positions- win 1,000 each: 76th, 128th, 178th, 227th, 277th, 332nd, 376th, 474th, 568th, 753rd,947th, 1,177th, 1,627th, 2,013rd, 2,458th, 2,944th, 3,232nd, 3,506th, 3,827th, 4,020th, 4,242nd, 4,588th,5,000th, 5,655th, 5,927th, 6,363rd, 6,941st, 7,126th, 7,411st, 7,813rd, 8,007th and 8,328th
Each player will receive 9,000 coins with one hour Play Time in which to play them.
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.
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?!
While it's true this would not have happened in poker your analagy is not very meaningful. In poker very good players will just but a seat at face value knowing they have a big EV advantage over players of lesser ability. But this can't be the case with slots. The true value of these tickets can never be much more than 111 so any player who spent vast amounts in feeder tournaments was miscalculating anyway.
This sort of thing happens all the time in real life. It's just demand and supply at work. Yes it is harsh on some players but for others it will be an opportunity. And if it's 9000 players or 8000 does not affect the ticket value much.
It must be hard to gauge something like this when you run it for the first time. But if it means they will run it again it must be in the interests of most players. This is still a very new industry and there are bound to be mistakes.
How does this tournament work? Are there rebuys involved? If there are then you would have to have very deep pockets to even stand a chance. If there are rebuys then it is hardly worth doing IMO. You could get a footballer etc who would think nothing of punting 20K at it. It could well attract professional syndicates and the like.
Yes as you say there doesn't really seem to be any excuse when you put it like that. The poker guys always seem to be able to work out these feeders expertly and it would have been a far better approach than just selling them.
Somehow MG have not been good at getting the message accross about this Grand Slam. I have personally been put off by the rebuy element. Especially if they are unlimited. It pretty well excludes the social player as you will get professionals who will do hundreds of rebuys if they think it is the correct play. Are the rebuys unlimited?
Another classic from the mighty Ladbrokes.
Rearrange these two words Mr. Ladbrokes sir thingymebob -
REBUYS UNLIMITED
So what's with the highlighted entry in red?
FFS. Either you are missing the point completely (which is more than likely considering the fact that you are still employing electronically tagged teenage delinquents) or you are treating your customers like idiots.
Yuk, yuk, yukkety yuk.
Winylweatherman said:A ticket for a player WITHOUT an entry may be worth paying 75 for, or even competing for, but because of the "unlimited" rebuys at 20, it makes no sense for a player who ALREADY has a seat to compete/pay for another, as it would merely be another "free rebuy", worth 20.