Join Date: Jul 2010
Posts: 4,453
I have played in a bunch of the CET freerolls over the years. If you are basing your trip on the probability of cashing only, then I would say stay home. When I played these, I was planning on a trip anyway, and this was just something else to do for fun and take advantage of the free rooms.
Slots is pure luck. How fast can you hit the spin button may have some bearing on the outcome, but is 99% luck. Bingo 100% luck. VP even if you have perfect tourney play down, the time is so short that whoever gets lucky and hits big hands win. Your skill can't overcome short term variance. BJ is more about how much you bet vs the other players, but still there isn't much room for skill here either.
Most of these will also have a rebuy. Usually it is ~$100. Bust out level 1, just rebuy and move on to level 2. I wouldn't recommend it, but see a lot of people do it.
It is impossible to figure what chance you have of cashing until the event starts and find out how many showed up for it. For example, the last one I played was a poker tourney. 1400 players and 100 got paid. And this is a game of skill right? Not so much. They had 2 flights on day 1 of 700 players in each flight and played down to 140 players in 2 hours. So 280 players made it to day 2 + rebuys. I didn't go back on day 2, but can imagine the structure was just as bad.
So if you like going to Vegas, they are fun to play. Who knows, maybe you'll get lucky. But if if you are going solely to play these expecting to use some sort of skill advantage to make some money, not so much.
Hope that helps.
