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But that's the Venetian's job to figure out, not yours. If they want him in then he should be in. End of story.

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I disagree. Technically and legally I'm sure the Venetian can do what they please with this, since they're paying for it. But it's NOT a nice thing to do to the poker players that you're trying to lure in. They created a promotion and publicized the requirements for entry. Given that, folks made their decisions to put in the required hours or not. If Venetian suddenly decides to invite 500 of their best slot and table games players and a couple hundred celebs, and to lower the qualifications for the 40/80 players, and give away seats on radio promotions, the value of the seat the players earned with their 150 hours of play has plummeted. Not nice.

But this topic came up on another thread a while back when the radio promotions happened. At that time, I thought Lee stated flatly there would be no other such giveaways. That every seat other than those 3 they gave away on the radio would have to be earned by putting in the 150 hours. Particularly after that, Venetian should not give away poker table seats to non poker players.

I have no problems at all with Venetian giving away freeroll poker tourney seats to anyone they please, long as they tell the players up front what they are doing. They haven't done that.

(And for the record, this doesn't impact me... I haven't put in but about 12 hours at V since this promo started, so I don't think I'll get to 200 this month.)