Party blackjack is attracting some sick gamblers

[adanthar]

As the welcome screen at Party tells you this month, the top 21 BJ players in a 2 week period get to go on the PPM boat and play some BJ tournament (how do those even work?)

The promo started on the 9'th. Here's the leaderboard:

http://www.partypoker.com/news/events/pp_wtleaders.html

A 'home run' is just a $100 wager, so the top player has so far wagered 2.5 million dollars...in 5 days.

Yeah.

[GrannyMae]

(how do those even work?)

25 hands per round. has a moving button. person with button places wager last.

[popniklas]

Omgwtf. 2.5 MILLION. A daily average of slightly more than five thousand $100 bets. Jesus Christ.

Assuming the HA is 0.45% or so, he has taken around 12K in -EV.

It would be interesting to know:

1. Whether he is up or down and how much.
2. Whether he is rich/not-so-rich/indepted.
3. Whether he plays poker and what games.

Im only 25,630 "home runs" behind this guy. I better get started.

[lighterjobs]

so is a homerun given for every $100 wagered or every $100 bet? ie are four $25 bets in four different hands construed as a homerun?

[MexKrax]

The way I read it 4 $25 bets gets you nothing.

Actually looks like this promotion has some reasonable EV. If you wager 900 000 your expected loss is ~4K. The value of the cruise and tournament entry is $5800. Making this worth ~1800 if 9000 home runs will be enough to win. If you can play 400 hands an hour then your hourly rate would be ~$80/h.

[lighterjobs]

i just read that page and it said for every $100 you wager you get a homerun. so that means if you wager $1k and double down, that's 20 homeruns right there.

25k homeruns is sick.

[Shoe]

What's the max bet?

[bobbyi]

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What's the max bet?

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$200

[lighterjobs]

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What's the max bet?

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$200

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oh. is there a limit to how many tables?