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Originally Posted by whaler55
I'm not sure how many total entries they collected, so I'm not sure how much Royal raped the players there..
I've been on Royal Caribbean cruises the last three years.
Year one (on the Serenade of the Seas) I won the poker tournament, but there weren't enough entries. I didn't like a couple ways that things were handled. I played the tournament on the first day of the cruise when we had a full table. There were six rebuys, so there was $1500 contributed towards the pot and I ended up coming in first. Day two, they couldn't field a table. Day three, they couldn't field a table. Finally, day four, had five people. No one re-bought=$500. Day five, in the morning, same thing. Another $500. Day five was also the day of the final table. $2500 in the pot, RC took 25% So there was $1875 available to us. I figured that because there were only three of us, the logical thing to do would be to just give each person the amount that they earned by winning their table, and not bother with a three person "final", but that didn't happen. We ended up each taking $500 with $375 going to the winner (which I won), but felt that it was a bit ridiculous that RC made just about as much money as I did by winning the entire tournament, and didn't like that I wasn't rewarded for winning the most difficult day of the tournament. But oh well...
Year two (on the Liberty of the Seas), I won the entire thing again. This time, the tables were full each day, so I won the free cruise and $100,000 tournament entry on the Allure. Second place won $1000. I think third place won something around $500.
Year three (on the Allure of the Seas) the tournament was really well run, and the cocktail party for participants in it was really well received by everyone I met. Ended up losing on day two :/ The one and only problem I had, and many people who were in the tournament had, was that the day before the tournament started, they had a single table tournament to get into the big one. We all were under the impression that the only way to get into it was to win prior to it.
Everything you said about cash games was exactly what I experienced on all three ships. There is absolutely no reason anyone who can actually play can't make a good amount of money, though the electronic tables are a bit of a pain to play on.
Last edited by WstevenM; 10-31-2012 at 02:12 AM.
Reason: Added a couple things.