MG Tournaments exposed?
This indicates how "hardcore" these "fun tournaments" have become since they were introduced. Playing these alone is enough to jokingly use the word" addictive" and get it taken deadly serious by the casino to the extent of taking "problem gambler" action.
The cause is pretty obvious, but it has crept up on us quietly.
REBUYS - last year we would have said "Rebuys
what are they
". Now we ROUTINELY see "99 Rebuys" and "999 Rebuys" on a tournament. Yet how much of this extra renenue feeds into the prize pool shared by the participants?
0%
That's right, this is no typo. Even tournaments with NO REBUYS seemed to offer well below 95% of staked monies back as prizes, and with rebuys the situation is worse.
Do the casinos have something to hide?
Maybe, monthly payout reports are issued and audited for the overall RTP of slot games, and the expectation is around 95%, and is generally met.
What about the tournaments, why no published RTP, would the figures be embarrassing?
Then we have the fact that they have been "rigged", with so called "internet lag". BOLLOX to that, "internet lag" is random, and is not directly caused by the action of the player at their end. What happens with 99% of the "internet lag" on the tournaments is CAUSED as a result of the action at the client PC, no matter how fast their broadband is, and can be 99% FIXED by a small CHANGE in the way the player acts for a short while. No "internet lag" behaves like this, but SOFTWARE most certainly does - a set input leads to a set reaction. The most appropriate term for what happens in these tournaments is "RATIONING". Clearly, it has only made things worse, as the weekend this "rationing" was included into the software lead to the total failure of the tournament software over the weekend, leading to the extension of the then weekender into the first part of the working week while MG fixed the unexpected knock-on problems associated with the introduction of this "rationing". MG have never admitted they made this change, and pretend the problems were not of their making, except that I caught the tournament slots all being deleted and re-downloaded that weekend, followed by the complete failure of many of the tournaments.
There is a mind-blowingly simple solution though, but MG techies simply cannot grasp it.
Give everybody a set number of coins, and forget about the shorter time periods altogether. Slow PCs and Fast PCs, internet connections fast, slow, and even intermittent, would not be a disadvantage. Play would be possible at ANY TIME up until the overall closing time of the tournament, and there would be far more opportunities for strategy, rather than simply banging out spins at max coin as quickly as possible. For example, one could bet less during what seems a "dry spell", take a break even, and come back betting big later. It would be a heck of a lot more fun, and even those players who still wanted to bang out max bets as quickly as possible could do so.
Another gripe is the misnamed "FREE" tournament, these have continues, and even rebuys, so are not FREE in any real sense, as it is paying players that will take the prizes barring a VERY lucky hit by a player in the first round.
In a nutshell - it IS possible to have a "gambling problem" of sufficient severity to warrant exclusion simply by playing the TOURNAMENTS ALONE - it just happened!!! NOW is the time for MG to come clean about the RTP of these events in their current form, and PROVE that they offer a fair return on a par with the casino slots.
.................. my bad...........apologies. 
The fairest thing would be to get rid of the times altogether, and simply allow coins to be purchased as continues, with play being allowed at any time, and for however long, and with breaks as required, up until the overall closing time of the tournament.
