LVH SuperContest Drawing Friday nght they held their seminar and had a big day of sign-ups. At last check
total entrants was in the low 400s and today should be another big day. My entries
are in, including the LVASports entry. The LVASports entry should be going head to
head in a side bet with old friend Fezzik for 5k just to make things a little more interesting.
Tonights drawing for four free entries takes place at 7pm in the ballroom just past
restaurant row. I'll be there to see if maybe a rebate of 1500 can be won. Anyone
with drawing tickets that might be there as well is welcome to combine on the drawing
with us and pro-rate any winnings based on pct of tickets contributed. There are a
couple other players already in on the ticket pool so our chance of getting something
back is reasonable. My early estimate of a 2000 ticket drum may be a bit low. If the
drum has 2000 in it then each ticket is worth $3. Maxing out your ticket allowance through
bets and entries can get you approx $200 in EV if my barrel estimate is close.
There is a pretty easy way to get 50 drawing tickets and with moderate effort get another
20 for 70 total. That's what I did, buying two entries (gets you 10 tix per entry) and betting
60 $20 football future bets gets you the first 50 and that's pretty easy. The football futures
can be on season wins so best way to go about it is to pick five or six bets from the
season wins and make a $20 bet on each one per trip to the window. Six bets at $20 each
on a trip to the window wil take you five window visits to get your 60 bets. You then take
those tickets to the contest-only window and they'll give you your 30 (max allowable) tickets
for football futures. You can get another twenty by turning in twenty losing two-team baseball
parlay tickets. That requires a little more work as you have to bet then keep the losers and
redeem in same manner. All bet tickets must have your players card number on them so
no funny stuff with someone elses bets is possible.
Will recap the eventual approximate drawing EV our group ends up with along with the
actual result. Not doing any of the golf stuff but many are. No EV there as you have to
pay for golf to start with and there is only one entry given to the golfers. I suck at golf
so only shot I'd have at closest to the pin is if they let me use a baseball bat to tee off.
