The Adventures of MDawg II

Pretty heavy action:

-$50K

+$121K

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+$53K

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+$55K

It’s a beautiful thing. And it’s my thing.

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+$38K

This leg of streak continues.

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What is your average session length (time)?

Is the time mostly pre planned or more a function of how you are doing?

It’s mostly a function of how much I’m trying to win and how well it’s going.

Lately average session length is about 2 hours.

+$29K

And I like it!

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+$36K

Was actually pretty volatile was up some then down some then up some then down a fair amount but ended pretty much near the top.

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+$33K

Low average bet just kept winning is all.

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Been in tournaments every weekend lately. Placed in two so far won a good amount of free play chips.

Two sessions:

-$125K

+$53K

Very high average bets.

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Very volatile day.

-$50K

-$50K

+$66K

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+$61K

All DD Blackjack.

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Haven't you been banned before?

I've been in a lot of tournaments lately. I am referring to casino promo free entry tournaments.

A lot of tournaments offer players the option to pay to "re-buy" back in at lower levels (usually first or second level, not much higher than that). I always laugh when I hear the smooth talking announcer declaring that re-buys are available for "only" $___. (And whatever that sum might be, whether it be $500. or $2500. or anything in between it is always "only" 😅.)

Poker tournaments universally allow players to buy more chips up until a certain round.

MGM and and one or two other casino chain tournaments also offer the ability in at least blackjack tournaments to buy more chips up until a certain round.

MGM, RW Vegas and TI blackjack tournaments have these things called "mulligans" where you may pay to replace an unwanted card (up to one per hand, up to quite a few during the tournament itself valid up until a certain level). This leads to one strategy of going all in with your chips on a hand and using the Mulligan if needed to try to maximize the chance of winning. If you win that hand, the other players tend to fall on their swords trying to catch up to you.

My general philosophy is to not pay anything during the course of a tournament and to never rebuy. However, there are certain levels at which paying to beat out others at the table may be mathematically advantageous, such as in a quarter-final round where the winner is guaranteed a large sum of promo chips just for advancing from that table, or perhaps from the semi-final table where the next step is a guaranteed win.

But in general I resent all these intrusions into the established odds of the free tournament. Of course it is great for the casino to have people paying right and left to improve their chances but it makes it harder to win for a purist who wants to keep it all free entry.

MGM poker tournaments have one player at each table who is an employee. He starts with twice as many chips as the rest of us. If you take him out on an all-in hand, you get a certain amount of promo (play 'til you lose) chips that might be up to something like $50000. (randomly determined based on what mystery card has been assigned to that employee). That in itself gets people to want to buy more chips to try to take him out.

Some of the poker tournaments though have a rule that you may not buy more chips until you're tapped out, which is at least something that helps the players who are playing with only free entry chips.