I won an online poker tournament a few years ago. (It was a free tournament). 3000 people were in the tournament; first place was a trip to Vegas for the WSOP. Second place got "thanks for playing". They gave me round-trip airfare, 14 nights hotel (at the Orleans), a $10,000 tournament entry to the main event, and $1000 spending money (plus a lot of logo clothes, hats, backpacks, etc). It was awesome, even though I only lasted a couple of hours at the tournament. I spent a lot of time at the pool and learned the bus and shuttle systems well, plus played plenty of smaller tournaments and live poker.