Way back when on the famed (or doomed) treasure hunt drawing that Harrahs did, I literally only had 17 (which was 325 points worth.. whoopie) entries and was drawn for a chance to go on the treasure hunt.. luckily i didn't pick that sqaure, but won $1500... not bad for only putting in a 100 bucks.. Unfortunatly, I have given waaaaaaaaaay more than back over the past years.. The best story was a drawing in Pahrump for a whole outdoor grill island set.. they were collecting entries for a whole month, there had to be over 10,000 tickets in the drum... I popped in 20 minutes before the drawing, earned enough points for 2 tickets, and had my named pulled... I literally ticked off the entire establishment..
So yes, it is possible to win with hardly anything in the drum..virtual drum or not..
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From: "misscraps@aol.com" <misscraps@aol.com>
To: vpFREE@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2012 8:55 PM
Subject: [vpFREE] drawings
Seems like we are just not too lucky at drawings so in the past we have
pretty much ignored them unless we just happened to be at a casino with
drawings.
Recently tried really hard to win a ipad at the Gold Coast. Had 30,000
entries and attended all 3 drawings for ipads/electronics, but no luck.
(Thursday special drawing). Then went to Friday and Sat. "take or trade it"
since I had so many entries, and actually won $1000 in one of the drawings
(traded $700 and got $1000) (Fortunately while I was playing all that week
I won a bunch of $ - yippie! But actually lost $4000 on the day I won the
$1000 drawing...argh....)
Happened to go to the Palms on that Friday and didn't realize they were
having a drawing there. Met someone I knew who came in 2nd ($2000 and an
AirMac prize) who had 12,000 entries - apparently was playing for maybe 24 hrs
during the week at 100 play quarters to get so many entries. Wow. I had
400 entries, so stayed for that drawing and won an Ipod shuffle and $75.
Since I still wanted iPad, I tried really hard this week to win one at the
Palms, and finally did on Friday night at the Palms. yippie. I racked up
over 4000 entries playing 50 play quarter DDB, which I don't normally play
(5 play is more my speed). I managed to break even on play during the
week, fortunately. The 1st place winner in the drawing had 69 entries! 2nd
place had 200. Some of the other people who came in higher places than I
did had 200 entries and 700 entries.
Tonight was Sat. drawing, so back I went, and squeaked in at 7th place
(shuffle and $200). Meanwhile I ran into the same two women who had about 200
entries, and they both came in with higher places than I did (first called,
bigger prizes). Even my husband played a little at the Palms (325
entries) but he wasn't called in either drawing.
Just goes to show you that maybe it doesn't matter if you had a lot of play
or not...maybe having high number of entries makes it a bit more likely
you will win something, but not necessarily a great prize with 10 names
called.
Someone told me one person had won a car at the Palms with 12 entries.
Another friend told me she was at a Southpoint drawing and a woman won $1000
with 1 entry!
But at least I actually won the iPad after 2 weeks with a LOT of play.
Probably a lot easier on the nerves and back and fingers to just buy one
though! Now I need a rest.
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