Bike Tournament ...Very disappointing

[Banks2334]

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And this is how the Bike rewards its regular top section players? What a joke.

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If you truly were a regular, you wouldn't be paying $540.

[Rottersod]

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Lets pretend the BMW was a 3-series (I'll use a new 335 nicely equipped for this) and is worth $50000.

That makes the player equity $427.8 which isnt all bad.

Nick

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It's only awarded to the winner while the rest of the money is split.

[Army Eye]

What an ill-conceived tournament. Unbelievable

[cardcounter0]

yeah but I am trying to figure this out:

Bike: want to buy a raffle ticket for a BMW for $500
me: No, you probably sell million tickets, I got no chance.
Bike: No, we only sell 187
me: well, that's about right ... no EV
Bike: We also throw in $30,000 of other prizes.
me: Hmmmm.....
Bike: Oh, and you can use your skills to increase your chances of getting a winning ticket.
Me: ????

[Rottersod]

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yeah but I am trying to figure this out:

Bike: want to buy a raffle ticket for a BMW for $500
me: No, you probably sell million tickets, I got no chance.
Bike: No, we only sell 187
me: well, that's about right ... no EV
Bike: We also throw in $30,000 of other prizes.
me: Hmmmm.....
Bike: Oh, and you can use your skills to increase your chances of getting a winning ticket.
Me: ????

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Meh

[TonyLA]

The Bike certainly has some things worth complaining about, but this?

The BMW in question was a $70k 750Li.

If you paid the full buy-in to play a tournament that was a freeroll (or close to it) to the majority of entrants - you're an idiot searching for your village. This tournament was to reward people who play at the Bike a lot - not people that play an hour or two a month there.

If you play at the Bike regularly, you likely got in free (300+ hours over 5+ months got you in completely free - didn't even have to pay the tournament fee). 250 hours was $50 to enter, and so on - the less you played, the more you had to pay. 50 hours minimum.

Essentially a 1 in 187 shot at winning an $80k car + 10k in cash playing NL = not a bad way to spend an evening.

- T

[bav]

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Essentially a 1 in 187 shot at winning an $80k car + 10k in cash playing NL = not a bad way to spend an evening.

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I happen to go along with the idea that this is a gawdawful tourney. Winning a car is one of those "kissing your sister" sorta things. By the time you're done with taxes, you'll almost be sorry you won. Cars are special...when you win, you have to pay income tax on the retail value of the car, and you have to pay sales tax, and you have to register it and pay THAT tax, and insure it. And then you're stuck with a car you didn't pick out.

So that wunnerful $70K car just cost you $35K to $40K outta yer pocket. Figure this all out 3mo later and realize you need to sell it and you get $55K for it if you're lucky. Congrats...you pocketed $15K.

90% of players just want a flippin' freeroll, and 90% don't want a huge payout to first and dribs to anyone else. Why not just take that $70K they spent on the car and have a $70K freeroll tournament? $20K to the winner, and spread the rest of that $50K deeply. If they want to encourage players to put in hours, give 'em more starting chips for each additional hour above 60. 2000 chips for putting in 60 hours, 8000 for putting in 300 hours (or whatever).

Making people pay to enter a player appreciation tourney isn't showing much appreciation.

[QUADS4444]

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Got to disagree.If you played an hour or two a month you wouldn't qualify. You needed a minimum 50 hours for the priviledge of paying $540.

Secondly many players that I spoke too (some weren't even idiots)assumed the whole $500 would be added to the pool. The promotional flyers for the tournament did not clarify this at all.

Finally, why offer your top section customers a freeroll which makes them the village idiot if they participate?

Better to not offer anything than to make idiots out of your customers. JMHO

[SEAN.R.R]

they should go back to giving us $3 an hr.

[Banks2334]

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Making people pay to enter a player appreciation tourney isn't showing much appreciation.

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I felt very appreciated. I got in for free while people like the OP paid $540.