UPDATED 9.7.11: Now, we’re ready!
LIKE MANY OF the pro football teams during preseason, we don’t quite yet have all the details worked out for this blog post. But like any team with a serious title shot, we do have most key components in place to tell you about now.
Continuing an awkward analogy, our quarterback – the Great Giveaway Las Vegas football contest – is all set. GG has been voted the Best Football Contest in Las Vegas 17 years in a row by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. That’s even more impressive than Indianapolis’ current streak of playoff appearances (which stands at how many years in a row? anyone?). Well, we will continue to add to this post and before the season kicks off we will have all our Xs and Os covered, but for now let’s go, and feel free to ask any questions below.
$2 M. GREAT GIVEAWAY FOOTBALL CONTEST
- Sign-ups (you need a player’s card) start today and end (to be eligible for end-of-season prizes) on Sept. 11 – which is the Sunday of Week 1 but please, please don’t wait that long – at 17 Sports Book locations including all Station Casinos, Fiestas and Wildfire properties as well as (new this year!) the El Cortez downtown. That was a long sentence. Here’s our Sports Book hours for GG registration before and during the season.
- Still $25 for one entry, buy two get third free.
- Big weekly winners get a Camaro or Silverado or cash. Big, big winners get houses at the end of season.
- There’s a Fiddle-in-the-Middle cash payout for the 500 Club and a “no lose” guarantee if you don’t win any prize all year and made your picks every week.
- What else? You can still check your picks and records at www.mygreatgiveaway.com.
Let the trash-talking begin!
We started a Great Giveaway page on facebook
$1 BUDS/$1 DOGS
Yes, worry not, there will be $1 Budweiser beers and $1 hot dogs during all live televised football games inside any Station Casinos Sports Book and at the El Cortez on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Yum!
LAST MAN STANDING
The winner-takes-all contests for college and pro are on again. Let’s bullet point it:
- $25 per entry. Buy four, get one free.
- Pro winner gets a guaranteed $75,000. College $25,000. Win both (yer good!) and double it to $200K. Last year the cash prizes came out to be significantly more than the guarantee (keep reading).
- The sign-up deadline for college is Sept. 10 at 7 pm. For pro, Sept. 11 at 9am.
- Last year the winner for LMS College was decided after Week 9, she, yes she, won $38,375. Last year’s LMS Pro winner lasted until Week 12, beat nearly 4,000 entries and won $80,350!
SPORTS CONNECTION
If you live in the area, you can bet sports online in Las Vegas with Sports Connection. Pretty sweet.
PARLAY CARDS
OK, the $1 Million Parlays cards, for $5, on Wednesday and Friday are back.
We know, we know, 20-for-20 not easy, but it shouldn’t be for $1 Million! Also got 15-for-15 for $100,000.
Also, also, all our other Parlay and Teaser cards on this poster to the right here.
Any questions, let us know below!
MONDAY FOOTBALL PARTIES
We made a separate post for these here.
FOOTBALL FUN IN OUR POKER ROOMS
We asked our Poker Managers what’s happening in their rooms during football. Here’s what they had to say:
Steve from Boulder Station: For our 17th Annual Football Squares we’re giving out 100 squares on Sunday and 100 squares on Monday. Each Quarter on Sunday, and the final score, gets $50 in cash. On Monday, we give $100 each quarter and $100 for the final score. Must be present to win and if no winner the money rolls over to the next week, Sunday to Sunday and Monday to Monday (same quarter). How to earn Squares:
- A designated hand posted in the Poker Room earns one Square.
- Players must have at least Aces full or better in Omaha and at lease Jacks full or better in Hold’em. They will get one Square for each high hand.
We will have one board for the Championship Game.
Frank from GVR: Our football promo is simply this: We currently pay out for four-of-a-kind high hands (the amount the hand is worth progresses daily). We plan on picking three specific pro games on Sunday (10am, 1pm and 5:30pm) and the Monday night game, and during those games if a player receives a qualifying Four-of-a-Kind high hand we will pay the player double the amount on the board.
Theresa at Texas Station: For football, we have Splash the Pot! Sunday’s following our tournament, we splash the 1pm game and Monday the night game. Poker room is the home team. When the home team scores a touchdown we splash $50 … field goal $25 … safety $100.
Janet from Palace Station: For Sunday and Monday games, first three quarters start at $50, final quarter $100 (must be playing Poker to win). If no winner, the money rolls over to the following week with $50/$100 added. Aces full or better earns a square.
Mike from Red Rock: We will have a separate Football Pool Board for Sunday morning, Sunday night and Monday morning. Each week there will be 100 squares offered for each board. Hold’em player get squares for any Royal Flush, any Straight Flush and any Four-of-a-Kind. For Omaha players, any Royal Flush and any Straight Flush. Random numbers will be put on the Football Pool Board with the first three-quarter winners getting $50 each and Final Score winner getting $50.
David from Santa Fe Station: Typical football squares with 100 squares total. Players earn squares Tuesday-Saturday of each week by hitting high hands. Each column (home team) and row (away team) on the Squares Board will be randomly numbered 0-9. Each quarter the last number of the home team’s score and the last number of the away team’s score correspond with a square on the board. If the player is here, they win the amount shown. If no one claims, the square amount goes up by $50. This happens three games per week for the regular pro season.
Elaine from Sunset Station: We have Football Squares for the Sunday games (1:15pm and 5:20pm), and the Monday night game at 5:30pm. Earn squares during the week with Aces full or better. Players will pick the game for squares they earn. Players earn 2 squares for squares earned between 2am-10am. Each quarter, in each game, is worth at least $50 to the player whose square has the score at the end of the quarter. Player must be present and playing to win. If the money for the quarter is not paid out it is added to payout for the same quarter in the next week’s game. (For example, if the $50 for the 1st Quarter in the 1:15 game on Sunday is not paid, the 1st Quarter of next Sunday’s 1:15 game will be worth $100.)
The 16 Station Casinos’ properties offering all of these great football contests include: Aliante Station, Boulder Station, Fiesta Henderson, Fiesta Rancho, Green Valley Ranch, Palace Station, Red Rock Resort, Santa Fe Station, Sunset Station, Texas Station, Wild Wild West, Gold Rush, Barley’s, Wildfire Casino Boulder, Wildfire Casino Rancho and Wildfire Casino & Lanes. Additionally, the El Cortez Hotel & Casino’s sport book is now managed by Station Casinos and will be included in all Station Casinos’ football contests.
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This is my first year in LV and I am curious in playing the contest. Couple of questions I have. 1.) Is it all NFL or is it mixed with NCAA games? 2.) Is it every game played or is it a selected grouping of games? Please set me straight here, thanks!!!!
welcome to Las Vegas, and we’ll set you straight
, 1) the Great Giveaway football contest is just pro, no college, just pick winning side, no ATS (against the spread), 2) it’s every game for the entire year! (excluding Thursday night games), so by the end you have to pick over 200 games … and earn that house! … like us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/mygreatgiveaway as we’re having fun all year and giving stuff away, thanks, and good luck!
thnks alot, great to know.
Hello, elcortez has kiosk for great giveaway but the machines are the old type that do not take your pick cards, whatsup with that. Can we please get machines like boulder texas etc. that take the station casino pick cards so you do not have to sit and wait for people to manually enter their picks. Their must be a couple of extra machines/kiosks out their somewhere ?
We understand but, actually, none of our kiosk machines automatically take the pick cards. If you don’t want to use the kiosk to make your picks (using your fingers), and do want to use the pick cards, you have to hand the card over the counter to the writer at the manned station. Sorry, thanks…
Thankyou but I have been entering my cards at boulder kiosks and texas for as long as this contest has been running so you are 100% wrong in your first statement but I will try over the counter at elcortez and i bet they will say you have to use the kiosk and manually do it but Thanks any way.
OK, but it’s new for this year, so you might not have known: you can use the touchscreen at kiosk but you have to turn in your picks on a card at the manned station, thanks
Last year we could sign on and view our picks and it would update our wins. Is this available this year? If so, how do I sign on?
Thanks
still can, starting tomorrow go to http://www.mygreatgiveaway.com with your Boarding Pass # and PIN, thanks
I filled out the pick cards at home, but had to enter each selection on the kiosk’s touch screen. That is a problem. Station Casinos need to install back card readers on all the kiosks.
not a big problem, just take your pick cards to the manned window and hand them over, or just make at the kiosk, which no longer take the cards, sorry, thanks
That was a problem for me at elcortez. the machines froze up at the desk after my first card was completed then the very polite girl asked me to wait as she was trying to get everyone else in by 9 on saturday morning. Then I just said give me my cards back and I will do it manually. Only 2 machines and both were being used so waited AGAIN and the machine/kiosk froze up and I was about to get really mad and went to the other machine and completed my picks and this little tiny receipt comes out, cmon man get the good machines, probably spent over a half hour their for something that should have taken 3 minutes if that.No problem with elcortez employees it just the garbage equipment that they have to work with, maybe week 2 will be bettert THANKS.
was it better?
No elcortez will not take cards at the sportsbook, they want you to go to the promotions desk now and what is up with the mggiveaway website it does not post winners results until late in the week thursday or friday when last year and other years it was done by tuesday at 12 noon. You guys are going backwards in your running of this contest this year. Maybe its time to find a new director of this contest ?
Did that change? We know that at Stations and Fiestas you have to take “handpicked” card to the desk, or use the kiosk, of course. The website shows the winners on Tuesday, Week 6 has been up there since yesterday, but the last two weeks the running yearly records haven’t appeared until Thursday, sorry about that, we’ll send someone a note, and good luck the rest of the year.
You still do not have a clue, there are no winners contest numbers posted on the website as of this posting and I can bet it will not be until the boss gets back to work before the week ever gets completed and that will be thursday.
As it states currently on the website under YOUR STATS, for Week 6: 66 folks went 13-0 for Most Wins and 16 players went 0-13 for Most Losses. We are aware the other tab, “WEEKLY WINNERS/OVERALL STATS,” which displays the records for the year and the breakdown of winners is not current, thank you.
I much prefer ionrfmative articles like this to that high brow literature.
agreed, no high brow, it’s football!
well get r done every other of the last 10 years plus it was done by tuesday at noon
will do
Hello. I was looking for great deals at station casinos online and im not sure if I should be asking in this section. But… here it goes. I was hoping there was a way to register my email to get specials and deals at just two locations (red rock & gvr). Mainly for eating out, bowling, & movies. I came across the dollar dogs & all you can eat tacos, I will be looking forward to trying those out with my buddies for sure. Please let me know at your earliest convenience and thank you!
hey Captain Saver, on each one of our casinos’ websites you can sign up for email promotions specific to that property, so for Red Rock: http://www.redrocklasvegas.com/hotel/pampered_privileged.php and gvr: https://www.greenvalleyranchresort.com/hotel/pampered-privileged.php … might get some corporate-centric promotions, too, but that’s a good spot … also might want to check us out on facebook and twitter, thanks
where do I find the results so far for the football contest.4757507 is my boarding pass number
http://www.mygreatgiveaway.com … need your PIN, too?