Nice of MG to let us into their ongoing beta testing of their software.
Also have never even made the 3rd round in this stupid tournament, the guys that made prizes you using many addons and rebuys? Is it profitable?
OK here's my stats for the Sure Win Cup since July 2014, which is when I started to take this tournament "seriously".
July 2014:
Number of participating accounts (Round 1): 37 (tournament not available at Lucky Emperor and Virtual City, Luxury Casino account closed)
Round 2: 27
Round 3: 26
Round 4: 24
Total number of continues used (costing 1 euro each): 45 (3, 0 , 8 and 34 in Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively).
Total rebuys (costing 3 euros each): NONE
Prizes: ONE - 175 euro (23rd place)
Total profit: 130 euro (Prizes: 175 euro, Spend: 45 euro)
October 2014: This is when I decided to really go all out on this.
Number of participating accounts (Round 1): 40 (tournament now available to play at Lucky Emperor and Virtual City, Luxury Casino account re-opened)
Round 2: 40
Round 3: 40
Round 4: 40 (but only got to play 32 of them due to the rather unfortunate timing of Fortune Lounge and Digimedia pulling out of the UK market).
Thankfully, only 2 of my continue plays were "wasted" as a result of this.
Total number of continues used (costing 1 euro each): 161 (15, 4 , 13 and 129 in Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively).
Total rebuys (costing 3 euros each): 21 (all in Round 4)
Prizes: THREE - 250 euro (8th place), 200 euro (16th place) and 50 euro (64th place)
Total profit: 276 euro (Prizes: 500 euro, Spend: 224 euro)
January 2015: NB. Number of continue plays increased from 3 to 4, starting coins increased from 15,000 to 17,500 and continue coins increased
from 7,500 to 10,000.
Number of participating accounts (Round 1): 33 (My 8 Fortune Lounge and Digimedia accounts all migrated to Spin Casino)
Round 2: 24
Round 3: 24
Round 4: 24
Total number of continues used (costing 1 euro each): 152 (7, 1 , 11 and 133 in Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively).
Total rebuys (costing 3 euros each): 14 (all in Round 4)
Prizes: THREE - 300 euro (3rd place), 225 euro (15th place) and 100 euro (36th place)
Total profit: 431 euro (Prizes: 625 euro, Spend: 194 euro)
NB. Unlike October, when I chose to get all of my runners to Round 4, I chose not to save my other 9 runners in Round 1. If I had
done though, my total spend would have increased from 194 euro to 293 euro.
April 2015: NB. Number of continue plays increased from 4 to 5.
Number of participating accounts (Round 1): 33
Round 2: 33
Round 3: 33
Round 4: 33 (four of my entries were not completed as the tournament ended before I could play them - but they were four entries where I had zero spend as they qualified for Round 4 without the aid of continues)
Total number of continues used (costing 1 euro each): 245 (18, 2 , 7 and 218 in Rounds 1, 2, 3 and 4 respectively).
Total rebuys (costing 3 euros each): 20 (all in Round 4)
Prizes: FOUR - 90 euro (43rd place), 70 euro x 3 (53rd, 54th and 55th place)
Total loss: 5 euro (Prizes: 300 euro, Spend: 305 euro)
NB. I could have stood pat after clinching my fourth prize (after 19 entries played) with what would have been a profit of 66 euro.
And left my remaining 14 entries alone. But I chose to plough on, knowing that in a worst case scenario, my losses would have been
no greater than 25 euro. Given my successes in previous tournaments, I felt it was worth the risk.
Total profit from those four tournaments in total: 832 euro (roughly £625) (Prizes: 1600 euro, Spend: 768 euro)