TXtourplayer
Executive Member
Okay, by now most all of us have heard about the Las Vegas Hiltons $100 mulligan they offered at their last blackjack tournament.
How the way it was handled I do feel it was poorly done (no advance notice), but it was offered as an option and not mandatory to purchase. Now as far as where the money went that was raised from the mulligan seem to be the bigger issue here.
Let's take a look at what is going on here.
The LVH offered "Free" entry and rooms for three nights for any player that caught a suited blackjack while playing on any of their blackjack tables. The total prize money the LVH was paying out was $100,000 and the event was open to everybody (that are normally allowed to play there anyway).
So other than not giving advance notice to the players what did the LVH do wrong?
Remember I am just playing "The Devils Advocate" here.
From all reports I have heard only 40% of the 1,000 players bought the mulligan. So the LVH made $40,000 off this offer. Okay but they were giving away at least 600 rooms (out of the 1,000 players) and $100,000 in cash prizes so what’s the problem with them recouping $40,000 of that back?
Yes I understand that they will get action at the tables and machines, but their out $100,000 cash and all the hotel rooms so recouping $40,000 doesn't seem like a bad business plan to me.
Now the more I heard about this the more I would be inclined to not only play, but buy the mulligan (if offered). As a season tournament player I feel I have a good chance to advance in most events, with the mulligan I can even increase my odds of advancing and last with 60% of my opponents not taking advantage of the mulligan it even increases my odds more.
So to get this straight the LVH offers a tournament and rooms at no charge and a $100 offer for a mulligan that you may or may not want to purchase (you don't have to buy one) that will only increase your chances of advancement and less then half the players in the tournament purchase them.
Does that sounds about right? So what is the problem here other than no advance notice, (which I too had a problem with)?
All I hear are how we have no open tournaments we can play in. Only the high rollers get invites to the good tournaments, I'm not in the "BJ Click" so I don't get to play on TV.
Well Boo F---ing Hoo! Stop all this damn whining. Have ya'll ever stopped and thought this might be why we are losing so many tournaments and why they are going to VIP events only?
What I keep hearing is the casinos owe us, WHY DO THEY? If we don't go play they will just get new players, were only hurting ourselves with all this bickering.
If you don’t agree, that’s fine it you option. But think about this, you’re the owner of any business, aren’t you going to try and make the highest profits possible?
Now just stop and think about that next time before getting on the casinos for giving us a free shot to win $50,000 for first place and three free nights of rooms and an option to buy a $100 mulligan (which we don’t have to buy if we don’t want to).
Now if 1,000 players played in the LVH tournament and only about 10 people have posted about it how bad could it have been?
1,000 players people, A 1,000 PLAYERS IN THIS TOURNAMENT PEOPLE! Now I like that kind of interest in a BJ tournament and if the LVH can drum up that interest we shouldn’t be slamming them. This is what we want, more interest in tournament blackjack to help increase the number of events we can play in.
This is why the WSOB and UBT are so exciting, they offer a chance to expose tournament blackjack to more players through TV and get them excited about playing. It is very simple, the more players interested in playing tournaments the more tournaments the casinos will offer us.
Just look at poker, most casinos didn’t even have poker rooms just a few years back, but after TV and the card cam now they are scrambling to build or add on poker rooms and the TV networks are always looking for any new poker show to put on TV during this poker craze.
Why don’t we promote blackjack tournaments instead of always finding fault in them and maybe blackjack tournaments will start their own craze with the help of WSOB and UBT leading the way.
How the way it was handled I do feel it was poorly done (no advance notice), but it was offered as an option and not mandatory to purchase. Now as far as where the money went that was raised from the mulligan seem to be the bigger issue here.
Let's take a look at what is going on here.
The LVH offered "Free" entry and rooms for three nights for any player that caught a suited blackjack while playing on any of their blackjack tables. The total prize money the LVH was paying out was $100,000 and the event was open to everybody (that are normally allowed to play there anyway).
So other than not giving advance notice to the players what did the LVH do wrong?
Remember I am just playing "The Devils Advocate" here.
From all reports I have heard only 40% of the 1,000 players bought the mulligan. So the LVH made $40,000 off this offer. Okay but they were giving away at least 600 rooms (out of the 1,000 players) and $100,000 in cash prizes so what’s the problem with them recouping $40,000 of that back?
Yes I understand that they will get action at the tables and machines, but their out $100,000 cash and all the hotel rooms so recouping $40,000 doesn't seem like a bad business plan to me.
Now the more I heard about this the more I would be inclined to not only play, but buy the mulligan (if offered). As a season tournament player I feel I have a good chance to advance in most events, with the mulligan I can even increase my odds of advancing and last with 60% of my opponents not taking advantage of the mulligan it even increases my odds more.
So to get this straight the LVH offers a tournament and rooms at no charge and a $100 offer for a mulligan that you may or may not want to purchase (you don't have to buy one) that will only increase your chances of advancement and less then half the players in the tournament purchase them.
Does that sounds about right? So what is the problem here other than no advance notice, (which I too had a problem with)?
All I hear are how we have no open tournaments we can play in. Only the high rollers get invites to the good tournaments, I'm not in the "BJ Click" so I don't get to play on TV.
Well Boo F---ing Hoo! Stop all this damn whining. Have ya'll ever stopped and thought this might be why we are losing so many tournaments and why they are going to VIP events only?
What I keep hearing is the casinos owe us, WHY DO THEY? If we don't go play they will just get new players, were only hurting ourselves with all this bickering.
If you don’t agree, that’s fine it you option. But think about this, you’re the owner of any business, aren’t you going to try and make the highest profits possible?
Now just stop and think about that next time before getting on the casinos for giving us a free shot to win $50,000 for first place and three free nights of rooms and an option to buy a $100 mulligan (which we don’t have to buy if we don’t want to).
Now if 1,000 players played in the LVH tournament and only about 10 people have posted about it how bad could it have been?
1,000 players people, A 1,000 PLAYERS IN THIS TOURNAMENT PEOPLE! Now I like that kind of interest in a BJ tournament and if the LVH can drum up that interest we shouldn’t be slamming them. This is what we want, more interest in tournament blackjack to help increase the number of events we can play in.
This is why the WSOB and UBT are so exciting, they offer a chance to expose tournament blackjack to more players through TV and get them excited about playing. It is very simple, the more players interested in playing tournaments the more tournaments the casinos will offer us.
Just look at poker, most casinos didn’t even have poker rooms just a few years back, but after TV and the card cam now they are scrambling to build or add on poker rooms and the TV networks are always looking for any new poker show to put on TV during this poker craze.
Why don’t we promote blackjack tournaments instead of always finding fault in them and maybe blackjack tournaments will start their own craze with the help of WSOB and UBT leading the way.
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