Big win!!
As I told you previously, Monte Carlo had a deal in June where you play 50 hours and qualify for their big freeroll in July. I qualified and they had 160 entries, way down from the 400 last time. I think that they did a poor job of promoting it this time. They had 4 tournaments of 40 each, 2 on Friday and 2 on Saturday. The top 15 of each of those got to play on Sunday in the finals. I played Friday and qualified to play on Sunday. Since the payouts started at 60th place, everybody who made it to Sunday was guaranteed $250. To make a long story short, I came in 4th and took home $10,000!!! 1st got $25,000. No special hands that were remarkable. Some good suckouts though, I went all in with A J and got called by A Q. A jack on the flop and I won. Seems as though I hit a lot of those today. Monte Carlo is my favorite room too play in. Nice and clubby feel to it. Mike
Congrats! I never stay long enough to hit those freerolls. From previous play, I would think that MC would benefit from heavier local play. The freeroll is something that just doesn't appeal to tourists.
Oddly enough I went in all in with A Q got called by A J and that was my last hand as I went out in 6th place for a $6K payout. Of course this wasn't the same hand since I got knocked out by the guy on your left.
The Monte Carlo is far from my favorite room and I have quite a few issues with it. I only played there for the freeroll and while i may go back once in a while I certainly won't be a regular.
The dealers are among the worst I have encountered anywhere and they shouldn't be. they aren't breakins. They are capable of doing a good job but they just don't seem to care. During the tournament I actually timed a dealer change as taking 3 minutes. Thats is from the time the first dealer finished the hand and boxed up the deck till the tim,e the next dealer began to shuffle. I came close to being eliminated from the tournament because as I picked my chip stack up off of my cards the dealer thought there was forward motion and said she was close to calling me as having bet all-in.
On dealer who I hate to see come in the box was to busy chatting with e players to bother to run the game. The player in the 1 seat couldn't see what the action on the other side of the table was and so when the action got to her we would get hung up everytime and the dealer didn't once indicate to her that it was her action.
The floor made a horrendous ruling at the final table that may have cost someobody a chunk of money. Player with a short stack is the large blind. folds around to the button who just calls. For some reason large blind thinks there was a raise and tosses in his cards. The he then realizes his mistake and grabs them back before the dealer even touched them, but the dealer calls the floor for a decision and the floor rules the hand dead. That just sickened me (even though it probably benefited me)
How can a card room with 6?8? tables afford to do a $75-$100K freeroll? That has got to be almost all of their profit for the period. Crazy +EV to play in the room for 50 hours a month.
It wouldn't surprise me if they're on life support. They may want to just get customers in the door.
FWIW, at $5 per hand rake, our local river boat was supposedly dropping $10K/day with 9 nine tables. The money's probably there to be made.
The problem is that my experience at MC is the same as psand's. It's just not a great room to play in IMO. The freeroll should be a best foot forward time to impress people and earn customer loyalty.
Compare TI with MC. Both are about the same size, same quality facilities. I'd much rather play TI (and did) than MC. I checked the MC out, but it looked like the same old, same old so I passed.
I liked the MC each time I've been there. My only gripe is that the dealers seem to be selectively friendly. I found that many of them would chat with one player at the table that they knew. They were never rude to me or anyone else but still it was a little annoying. Overall I like the MC room as much TI's.
@wlgolfpro
Well actually it doesn't come from the cardd room profits. You see that little slot that they keep dropping the jackpot drop down . . thats where the freeroll money comes from.
Nice hit for a freeroll....