Slot "Tournament" Advice

So this coming tuesday Hollywood St. Louis has a slot "tournament" coming up. Basically what this entails is that you earn 400 reward points and then you get entered in the "tournament" and they have drawings every hour with a top prize of $2,500 in free slot play. I'm pretty sure this is only for people who qualify for mail offers for the month of may, which I did. How hollywood does points is you get 1 point for every dollar spent on slots and one for every 2 dollars on video poker and keno. I feel like giving this tournament a shot and I'm pretty close to moving up to the next point tier anyway. My question is, if I feel like actually playing other stuff than slots/video poker (nothing pisses me off more than getting cleaned out on one single game, I like to bounce around and play 3 or 4 different things), what course should I take assuming my bankroll is about $100, and my goal is to earn 400 points and then being able to take a good portion of my bankroll for the day to a few table games? Video poker awards them at a slower rate but 100 bucks in a video poker machine will usually take you a lot further than 100 in a slot machine. Are there any slots known not to pay out a whole lot but not to take a whole lot either or does the actual casino set these parameters? I just want to earn my 400 points, sit at the Pai Gow Poker table, bet the minimum, watch the Cardinals game, and listen to the names get drawn. Anybody got a good course of action in mind?

Personally I think $100 is a pretty tight bankroll for earning 400 points. I would bring $200 for it and either play 9/6 JoB or 99.66% bonus poker for quarters ($1.25/hand). I usually play 500 points with 99.66% bonus. I have incurred three digit losses occasionally, but rarely over $200. Both of these games are on slant tops near an atm in the middle of the vp section.

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Alternate hands, don't waste energy when reels are spinning and drink some coca cola 10-15 minutes before you play so you're high on caffeine and sugar when spinning.

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Personally I think $100 is a pretty tight bankroll for earning 400 points. I would bring $200 for it and either play 9/6 JoB or 99.66% bonus poker for quarters ($1.25/hand). I usually play 500 points with 99.66% bonus. I have incurred three digit losses occasionally, but rarely over $200. Both of these games are on slant tops near an atm in the middle of the vp section.

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I agree with this 100%