October Anniversary Tournament: $3,000 and the Price of Every Place
Until October 16 Coins.Game runs a free $3,000 tournament: 50 prize places and one point for every dollar wagered. We work out what a prize place really costs.
Coins.Game is running a short tournament with simple rules: October Anniversary. One week, a $3,000 prize pool, 50 prize places and not a dollar to enter. We looked at how points work, how many players are already on the board, and what a prize place costs if you play smart.
The tournament in numbers
- Dates: October 10, 03:00, to October 16, 02:59, site time.
- Prize pool: $3,000, cash with no wagering, credited automatically after the finish.
- Entry: free. No separate sign-up is needed; you join the leaderboard with your first real-money bet in a participating game.
- Minimum bet: $0.10, no maximum.
- Points: the amount wagered. Bet $1 and you get 1 point, whether the spin wins or not.
- Players: 286 on the board as of October 12.
Prizes
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $1,000 |
| 2 | $425 |
| 3 | $300 |
| 4 | $150 |
| 5 | $100 |
| 6–10 | $80 down to $40 |
| 11–15 | $30 each |
| 16–20 | $25 each |
| 21–30 | $20 each |
| 31–40 | $15 each |
| 41–50 | $10 each |
If two players finish level on points, the bigger prize goes to whoever joined the tournament first.
Where to earn points
More than a hundred games take part. The core of the list is Endorphina slots (Hell Hot 1000, Burning Coins, Book of Vlad, The Vampires 2, 100 Zombies) and BGaming (Aztec Clusters, Pop Zen and others). Coins.Game's own games are in too: Dice, Plinko, Limbo, Crash, Mines, Blackjack. The full list is on the Games tab of the tournament page.
A handy overlap: until the end of October, BGaming slots also take part in Haunted Wins with random cash drops. More on that in Halloween at Coins.Game: $100,000 in Drops and xBet Multipliers. The same spin can earn tournament points and a shot at a drop.
What a prize place costs
Since points equal turnover, a leaderboard place is measured in dollars wagered. Here is the board as of October 12:
- 1st place: about 149,000 points. That is a high-stakes game, and not one worth chasing on a small budget.
- 10th place: about 1,800 points.
- 50th place: about 210 points.
There are still a few days to go and the bar will rise. But the scale is clear: to hold one of the last prize places you need a few hundred dollars of turnover.
Simple maths
Turnover is not the same as losses: you bet, win, and bet again. Your average "spend" on turnover is set by the game's RTP. On a 96% RTP slot, $300 of turnover costs about $12 on average. If that $300 lands you in places 31 to 50, the prize is $10–15, so the tournament roughly pays for your play. The higher the game's RTP, the cheaper each tournament point.
Chasing the top ten with a couple of thousand dollars of turnover is a different story: the average spend would exceed the prize. So the tournament is best treated as a nice bonus on top of your usual play.
Three tips for the final days
- Play what you enjoy. Points come from bets in any game on the list, so choose by taste, not by the tournament.
- Watch the board. It updates every 5 seconds. Near the finish you can see how far you are from the next prize place.
- Do not raise your stakes for position. A bigger bet speeds up your points, but your average spend grows in the same proportion.
Where to start
For a Halloween mood, start with The Vampires 2 or the fiery Hell Hot 1000; both count for the tournament. And for the site's other regular contests, read $10,000 Weekly Raffle on Coins.Game.
The leaderboard, games and rules are on the October Anniversary tournament page.
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