Welcome to this week’s installment of the Weekly Contest, where you can win real Las Vegas casino chips for free! This week’s prize is our usual pair of red and white casino chips.
This week, it’s war! Actually, it’s Casino War!
Casino War is probably the easiest table game in the entire casino, and house edge isn’t all that bad.
If you really want to know how to play this simplest of games, read my quick write up: easy casino games.
THE WEEKLY CONTEST
The above video will be playable on July 3, at approximately 12 noon eastern. It contains nine (9) real hands of Casino War that I played at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas.
Let’s Get to The Contest!
Imagine that you are at the table, in RoadGambler’s shoes, and you are about to play nine hands of Casino War.
You have a hypothetical $1000 to play those nine hands.
You must play a minimum of 5 hands, but up to a maximum of 9 hands. If you go over 9 hands, I will just ignore the bets over 9.
In the event that War breaks out on a particular hand, you will take the same course of action that RoadGambler takes (either Surender or go to War).
For purposes of this contest, there is no minimum and no maximum. You may bet $1 (actually, by making fewer than 9 bets, you are making a $0 bet on the n0-action hands).
Just don’t go over $1000 in total action or else your entry will be disqualified.
Remember you need 5 hands minimum or else your entry is disqualified.
Your Entry
So that we don’t have too many ties, you cannot enter the same amount across the board. There must be at least three bets that comprise a unique amount. $0 does NOT count as a unique amount.
For example, you cannot enter $100, $100, $100, $100, $100, $100, $100.
Per the rule, a legal entry would be $101, $102, $103, $100, $100,$100.
In the legal entry above, the first bet correlates with the first hand, the second bet with the second hand, etc.
It will help you to think that I am trying to prevent too many ties. We don’t want this decided via coin flip.
Your bet does not need to total $1000. Any amount that you do not bet will be counted towards your final total. Remember that you must play a minimum of 5 hands and a maximum of 9 hands (because there are 9 hands in the video).
For example, this is a legal entry of 8 bets, as if you played 8 hands at the table:
$200, 100, 10, 1, 300, 50, 50, 60.
Penalty Warning: Do not go over $1000 for the total amount of your bets. Your entry will be disqualified. If in doubt and your calculator is broken, stay under for your aggregate.
Scoring
The above entry, as an example, bet a total of $771, leaving $229 that had no action. Let’s assume the player won the first seven hands and lost the 8th hand. I will score the entries as if the entry started with a $1000 bankroll and paid wins and losses like they were at the casino.
In that case, that person’s score would be 1651+229=1880.
Whoever has the highest score at the end will win.
Tie Breaker and Similar Entries
In the event that two entries are exact copies, the later entry will have +$1 added to each amount bet until it is a unique entry. For example, if there are two entries of $10, $20,$30,$40,$50, then the later entry shall become $11, $21, $31, $41, $51, until it is not a copy of another entry. This modification will be made at the time the contest closes to new entries, and prior to scoring.
So if you don’t want to have your entry involuntarily changed, then look at the other entries to make sure yours is not taken.
In the event that there is a tie, the tie breaker shall be the following:
Tie Breaker
- All the hands in the video will reverse from hand 1 to hand 9, with hand #9 doubling as hand #10, hand #8 will double as hand#11, hand # 7 will double as hand #12, etc, until hand #1 doubles as hand #18.
- For the entry, your bets will now carry over, starting with entry bet #1 doubling as the bet for hand #10, entry bet #2 will double as the bet for hand #11, entry bet for hand #3 will double as the bet for hand #12, etc.
- After hand #18 the entries will will be scored using the same $1000 bankroll scoring system described above in the ‘scoring’ subsection above.
- If there is still a tie, I will conduct a coin flip to determine the winner. If there are multiple ties, the coin flip will be tournament style via elimination.
RoadGambler.com reserves the right to make all final judgments.
MAKE YOUR ENTRY
Entries will close prior to the video going live.
Good luck!
Posted in: Weekly Contest
Kevin says:
300, 55, 60, 90, 45, 75, 65, 200, 110
Ross says:
$104
$59
$13
$663
$161
John M says:
75, 50, 250, 100, 125, 150, 75, 75, 50
Sorry, but I can’t resist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XNr-BQgpd0
RoadGambler says:
Lol, I love it. Looney Tunes was, and still is, the best cartoon series ever.
Mike C says:
275
25
125
75
150
50
25
275
Mark K says:
20, 20,75,75,150,20,100,40,250
Tracey says:
25
50
75
100
150
200
150
100
75
50
25
RoadGambler says:
Tracey, was that you who sent me an email to claim last week’s prize?
The email is xxxx212@xxxxx.com.
The prize claiming email is different from the email I have here.
Thanks.
Tracey says:
Yes it was. I don’t know what is on here. It autofilled.
RoadGambler says:
Great!
joe says:
30,45,65,95,180,35,60,120,240
Mark says:
80
74
96
31
33
62
39
104
100
535
Michael says:
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
745
RoadGambler says:
Welcome, Michael.
Your comments and future entries will now appear immediately. You are good to go!
Tony M. says:
65, 123, 77, 37, 282, 175, 44, 27, 170
Charlie says:
110, 121, 132, 143, 100, 163, 80
Matt Breitbarth says:
250, 25, 0, 100, 75, 0, 125, 100, 325
William says:
$500
$10
$50
$250
$100
Eric says:
10, 200, 50, 100, 100, 50, 200, 50, 1
John Koryto says:
600
102
30
22
246
Averell says:
30
300
30
40
50
75
18
Jeff Roberts says:
$50
$75
$100
$100
$125
$100
$80
Sam says:
5
5
5
5
5
970
Craps fanatic says:
600
25
25
55
55
60
75
65
Lord Noah says:
$1
$200
$9
$290
$500
Thanks RG
RoadGambler says:
Closed to new entries.