Another FreeRoll! Las Vegas Advisor $3,575 tournament

Great news! Las Vegas Advisor is offering a FreeRoll Blackjack Tournament at Global Player, in addition to the one sponsored by BlackjackTournaments.com. By special arrangement, Las Vegas Advisor has kindly agreed to allow all BlackjackTournaments.com visitors to participate, even if they already have an account at Global Player. Of course, if you don't have an account, you can sign up for one. If you were too late to get a seat in the BJT Tourn Dec 5th, here's your second chance to get in on a free roll.

The LVA event features $3575 in prize money, with no entry fee to participate. There are 5 different days to participate, and you choose whichever date you prefer. The dates offered are:

Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Vegas time)
Dec. 9 at 6 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Vegas time)
Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Vegas time)
Dec. 11 at 3 p.m. Eastern (12 p.m. Vegas time)
Dec. 12 at 3 p.m. Eastern (12 p.m. Vegas time)

Each round will be for 125 players, and should take no more than two hours to complete. (Each household is eligible to participate in only one of the qualifying rounds.) On Sunday Dec 12, at 6 p.m. Eastern (3 p.m. Vegas) the final table will match up the first-place finishers from the 5 days for a winner-take-all $1,000 top prize!

Prize Structure:

Each of the 5 daily freeroll events will have a $515 prize pool. The prize money will be divided as follows:

Final table:

1st: $100 cash and a seat at the final table on Sunday at 6 p.m. Eastern time. 2nd: $50 cash
3rd: $40 cash
4th: $30 cash
5th: $20 cash

Semi-final tables:

1st: $20 x 5 tables $100 cash
2nd: $15 x 5 tables = $75 cash
3rd: $10 x 5 tables = $50 cash
4th: $10 x 5 tables = $50 cash

Signup Instructions:

1. If you don't yet have a Global Player account, download the software and open an account. Start here.

2. Login to the casino software using your account data and click on the GROUPS button in the top right of the main game selection.

3. Click 'Add' to add a group. Enter "lasvegasadvisor" as the group name and "winner" as the password.

4. After entering the group information, a popup window will come up with the following text: "To register to the LVA tournament, please select Blackjack, Multi Player and LasVegasAdvisor Blackjack Tournament for the day you wish to participate." When clicking on one of the tournaments, another popup will open with a link. A click on the link will open the tournament page in the browser where you have to click on "Participate".

Tournament Details:

Standard tournament structure with a rotating button so that each person gets a turn at acting in late position.

Qualifying tournaments:

• Will start with 125 at 25 tables (5 people per table).
• Top 2 finishers from each table advance to round 2.
• 2nd round is 50 players at 10 tables (5 per table), top 2 advance to round 3.
• 3rd round is 20 players at 5 tables (4 people per table).
• 1st place from each table on Round 3 goes to final table.
• Final table has 5 players. 1st place gets to play winner-take-all event on Sunday.
• Each round will consist of 15 hands of blackjack.
• Top 1 or 2 bankrolls after the 15 hands advance.
• Players start with $5,000 in chips.
• Minimum bet is $100 and maximum bet is $2,500.
• Blackjack rules will be 6 decks, hit soft 17, splitting up to 3 hands, aces split only once, doubling is allowed after splitting, and late surrender is available.
• Penetration is 80%.

So, get registered, and enjoy the tournament.

 

The LVA tournament was originally to be available only to brand-new accounts signed up at Global Player through LVA. That changed during a phone call I had with them last night. They deserve our thanks for opening this up.

 

This time of year, GMT = Eastern time + 5 hrs

Here's the schedule for Greenwich Mean Time:
Dec. 8 at 11 p.m. GMT
Dec. 9 at 11 p.m. GMT
Dec. 10 at 11 p.m. GMT
Dec. 11 at 8 p.m. GMT
Dec. 12 at 8 p.m. GMT

Getting home in time won't be a problem for you Colin. Now, getting up for work on Monday the 13th may be another thing altogether!

And, just a reminder. You'll play only one of the times mentioned above. Players who advance will play again on Dec 12, at 11 p.m. GMT.

 

Email about LVA event

Just to make sure everyone saw this email, about the upcoming LVA event, here's a message from Global Player.

Dear LVA-Tournament participants,

we are happy to announce that the big event you all are waiting for is
coming up shortly! There are some things you might want to know in
advance:

1. new software release
In order to participate in the tournament you have to download the latest
release of our software. You can check if you have the latest version by
starting our casino software. At the top of the window you can see the
version which should be 2.0.14.255. If you have not already installed the
new version, a popup window will inform you that a new version of the
software is available. Choose "yes" to install the update. While the
download is in progress you can use the software as usual. Why not
familiarize yourself with how our blackjack is played using our guest
games? After the download finished you must close the software and restart
it to run the updated version. One of the new main features is the
improved chat function. This way you can talk to other players and the
Global-Player Casino support team while gaming.

2. show up early
The tournament will start sharp at 6:00 pm EST (for Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday) or 3:00 pm EST (for Saturday and Sunday). Participants who do not
show up in time will lose their seat! So please show up at least 20
minutes prior to the event and join the chat. The tables will open 10
minutes prior to the game.

3. watch the leaderboard
To be informed about the ongoing games, you can watch the leaderboard for
the event. It can be found - besides other important information - on
http://www.global-player.com/pages/04_lva.html. Click on your day to see
information about the ongoing game. We update it every minute, so hit
reload if you want to get the most up-to-date data.

4. join the chat
Again, we want to remind you that the easiest and fastest way to get in
touch with us is the chat function. To join the chat, please log into the
software using username, password and PIN. Then choose PLAYER INFO at the
left. A new window will show up. Here, you will find the CHAT button that
starts the chat. You will join the Lobby chatroom automatically. The
Global-Player Casino staff is available from 9 am EST until the tournament
finished. Ask if you have any questions, we are here to help you!

Thank you for participating in the tournament and good luck!

Your Global-Player tournament team

 

A few comments

I haven't dropped by the LVA tournaments yet, as I don't play until Sunday. But it sounds like things are improved.

I do know that GP determined what caused the main failure during the BJT event. There was a time limit somewhere in the server software that caused all the players to disconnect. Had the start not been delayed, we never would have encountered the trouble. I'm glad they discovered the root cause, and I'm sure they've made adjustments for it on their side.

On the bet-changing-to-minimum issue, I heard a few people mention this during the BJT event, and I figured it was what gflan has described. However, there was so much other stuff going on, I never got a chance to respond to that in chat. Here's an idea: I'll ask GP if we can have the bet default to whatever's in the box when time runs out. That way, if a player forgets to click 'Deal', it won't be a surprise.