Baccarat Tournament

Friday, 23 August 2024

 to 

Saturday, 12 October 2024

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Win over R2,4 Million and R120,000 in Cash and prizes!

 

Are you ready to seize the ultimate glory in the electrifying TsogoSun Baccarat Tournament?

Get set for the showdown of a lifetime across five premier casinos in Gauteng, where over R2,4 Million in cash and R120,000 in playTSOGO bonuses await the champions! Dive into the heart-pounding action at Monte Casino, Silverstar Casino, Gold Reef City, or Emerald Casino & Resorts. Will your strategic brilliance propel you to victory as one of the Top 10 Baccarat players, ready to conquer all and claim the grand prize that eclipses them all? Each week is a new battleground, each heat a thrilling challenge – will you rise above the rest and secure your spot at the prestigious Grand Finale on Saturday, 12 October 2024, at Gold Reef City? This is your chance to shine, to make every play count, and to write your name in the annals of Baccarat history! Good luck and may the cards be ever in your favour!

 

The Tournament is broken down as follows:

 

Weekly Unit Heats ( Friday, 23 August – Friday, 27 September) the Top 10 weekly Baccarat Points earners will

participate in the Weekly Unit Heats and the top 2 points winners in weeks 1 to 4 will get a guaranteed spot in the

Unit Semi-Finals and the winner of week 5 will also get a spot in the Unit Semi-Finals & all the weeks 1 to 5 Weekly

Heat finalists will be allocated draw tickets and 1 lucky winner will win the 10th and final spot in the Unit Semi-Finals. The Weekly Unit Heats will consist of 1 heat of 10 players each.

 

Wild Card Draw (Friday, 27 September) – The 41 runners-up will each receive 1 ticket into this draw for every 1

Runner’s-up spot achieved. The winner of this draw will receive a Unit Semi-Finalist spot.

 

Unit Semi-Finals (Saturday 12 October) – the 9 weekly top scorers and 1 draw winner will participate in the Silverstar Unit Semi-Finals.

 

Grand Finale Tournament (Saturday 12 October) the top 2 highest points earners from each of the 4 properties (8

Players) will participate in the Grand Finale Tournament on 12 October 2024 which will take place at Gold Reef City

 

The Top 10 weekly Baccarat points earners at Silverstar will participate in Weekly Unit Heats to determine the Unit Semi-finalists, the weekly Points earning period will take place as follows:

Week 1 – 08:00:00 on 23 August until 07:59:59 on 29 August 2024

Week 2 – 08:00:00 on 30 August until07:59:59 on 05 September 2024

Week 3 – 08:00:00 on 06 September until 07:59:59 n 12 September 2024

Week 4 – 08:00:00 on 13 September until 07:59:59 on 19 September 2024

Week 5 – 08:00:00 on 20 September until 07:59:59 on 26 September 2024

 

Weekly Prizes Week 1 to 4:

 

Position Prize
1 R20,000 Cash
2 R10,000 Cash
Total x 4 weeks R120,000 Cash

 

Week 5:

Position Prize
1 R20,000 Cash
Total R20,000 Cash

 

Semi-final cash prizes per position:

 

Position Prize
1 Final Seat + R3k voucher
2 Final Seat + R3k voucher
3 R10,000 Cash + Final Seat + R3k voucher
4  R10,000 Cash + Final Seat + R3k voucher
5  R10,000 Cash + Final Seat + R3k voucher
6 R10,000 Cash + Final Seat + R3k voucher
7 R10,000 Cash + Final Seat + R3k voucher
8  R10,000 Cash + Final Seat + R3k voucher
9 Total R80,000 Cash + R30k vouchers
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The WILD CARD LUCKY DRAW will include 41 participants in total who will each be allocated 1 (one) entry ticket in the lucky draw. In the case where patrons have had more than 1 (one) runner-up position in the 5 week period, those patrons will be allocated 1 (one) draw ticket for each runner-up position they had.

Date: 27 September 2024

 Time: 23h00

Venue: Silverstar  Privé

Grand Final Prize money: The top 2 winners from week 1 to 4 of the Silverstar Weekly Heats + the winner from week 5 + the wild card draw winner will participate in the Silverstar Unit Semi-finals. Date: 04 October 2024 and Time: 22:h00

 

Position Prize
1 R1,000,000
2 R200,000
3 R100,000
4 R90,000
5  R80,000
6 R70,000
7 R60,000
8  R50,000
9 Total R80,000 Cash + R30k vouchers
Total R1,650,000 Cash

1. No person under 18 is allowed to gamble or participate in this promotion.
2. Any person who has been issued with a Refusal of Entry order, or who is self-excluded, or who fall into category of excluded persons, is expressly prohibited from participating in this promotion.
3. This promotion is closed to any persons who are directors, members, partners, employees, agents or
consultants of or any other person who directly or indirectly controls or is controlled by the company or marketing service providers, or spouses, life partners, business partners or immediate family members.
4. During the promotional period, on a weekly basis, the top 20 Baccarat point’s earners will qualify for a seat to
participate in the Baccarat Tournament weekly qualifying heats at Silverstar. The weekly point earning period will
be as per below:
o Week 1 – 08:00:00 on 23 August until 07:59:59 on 29 August 2024
o Week 2 – 08:00:00 on 30 August until 07:59:59 on 05 September 2024
o Week 3 – 08:00:00 on 06 September until 07:59:59 on 12 September 2024
o Week 4 – 08:00:00 on 13 September until 07:59:59 on 19 September 2024
o Week 5 – 08:00:00 on 20 September until 07:59:59 on 26 September 2024
5. Rewards cardholders are not authorised to give their card to another individual to earn points on their behalf. In
the event of this happening, the offender will be disqualified from this tournament and all promotions taking
place within the same period in all Tsogo Sun properties.
6. No coaching of players or alliances will be permitted and failure to comply may lead to disqualification.
7. Tournament chips must be returned to the casino after each tournament game and cannot be transferred to other players.
8. A designated and demarcated operational Gaming Table will be utilised for the Gauteng Baccarat Tournament at Silverstar.
9. Live games will not be offered at the affected operational table during the Gauteng Baccarat Unit qualifying heats,
10. Unit Semi Finals and Grand Finals at Gold Reef City. However, live games shall resume at these table when the promotional session is over.
Entries to the Gauteng Baccarat Tournament cannot be purchased for cash or through any other form of Consideration.
11. Proxies will be permitted only for the Unit Semi-Finals and Grand Finale and the Participant and Nominee will have
to complete a written Proxy form. The nominee who will represent the participant cannot be a co-participant in
the respective stage of representation.
12. All qualifying players and or proxies must be present at least 15 min before the start of any qualifying heat, semifinal or the tournament final. Should the player or proxy not present themselves within this time they will forfeit
their seats and the respective tournament game will continue without these players.
13. Prizes are not transferrable and winners must sign an acknowledge letter for receipt of Cash prizes.
14. The prize winner must claim the prize at the casino cash desk within 15 days.
15. All decisions are final and binding and no correspondence or appeals will be entered into.
16. Any person transgressing the rules of this promotion will be disqualified.
17. In the event of technical failure or damage to the device used for the promotional draw, irrespective of the
cause, another suitable device or method will be used, at the sole discretion of Management.
Every participant in the promotion shall be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the rules by virtue of
their participation.
19. The above clauses are severable from each other. Should any clause or part thereof be found to be
20. unenforceable by operation of the law, such clause or part thereof will be severed, and the remaining clauses
21. shall remain in force.
22. Copies of these rules are available at Silverstar’s Customer Service Desk upon request and at tsogosun.com

QUALIFYING WEEKLY TOURNAMENT
21. The top 10 weekly Baccarat Points earners at Silverstar will be invited to participate in the property’s weekly
qualifying Baccarat tournament. Dates and times of each individual property’s will be communicated to customers
via various marketing channels.
22. The top 10 weekly qualifying participants i.e. the top 10 weekly Baccarat points earners at Silverstar will need to
register for the Qualifying weekly tournaments.
23. The weekly unit heats will consist of 1 heats of 10 players each.
24. Participants will be allocated a seat numbers during the registration period, by means of a random draw of
Lanyards.
25. Participants will be called to participate based on their seat number.
26. Once participants are seated for their respective heat, they will be issued with 20 x R1, 000 tournament chips.
27. Participants will have to play a minimum of R1, 000 per hand and there will not be a maximum limit.
28. Every participant must play every hand (if chip count allows).
29. If the participant has less than R1, 000 chips remaining, the count will be allocated to their respective score.
30. Each heat will consist of 20 hands/coups in total.
31. A marker will move from the lowest numbered box, in ascending order, to the highest until all 20 hands are
complete.
32. At start of the tournament, a marker will be placed at the lowest numbered box.
33. The marker indicates which player should bet first. When the game commences, this player will have 10 seconds
to place a bet, after which the dealer moves clockwise to the next player.
34. Once a bet is placed, and the dealer moves to the next box, the previous bet cannot be altered or changed.
35. At the end of each coup/hand, the marker will move clockwise to the next box. Once the marker has been moved
to the last box (highest number), it will return to the lowest number and start the rotation again.
36. Should a player be eliminated, and the respective box empty, the marker will move to the next occupied box.
37. A new pre-shuffled shoe will be introduced during the initial start of the qualifying Semi Finals. The board will be
cleared prior to the start of every heat.
38. 5 dummy hands/coups will be dealt during the start of every heat and no bets to be placed during this period and
bets to resume on the 6th hand/coup.
39. Once all bets are placed the dealer will draw with a “no squeeze game”, opening both player and bank cards.
40. No handling of cards permitted.
41. A chip count will be done prior to the start of every hand/coup by the Tournament Director or Representative
from the Tables Department.
42. Participant’s chips are to remain visible at all times.
43. No voiding of hands will be permitted.
44. No betting on ‘’Banker and Player” and no side bets (unit specific) on offer will be accepted
45. “Tie bet” will be permitted.
46. No scores will be displayed with the final score to be revealed after the completion of the Semi-Finals
47. Participants will not be allowed to share chips or make additional buy-ins.
48. No Side bets will be permitted.
49. Non-Commission rules will apply to the tournament.
50. All disputes must be raised within the hand in play. No disputes will be considered after the hand in question.
51. Management decision is final.
52. Week 1 to Week 4, the top two winners of the weekly tournament will earn a seat into the Unit Semi Final,
including weekly cash prizes.
53. Week 5, the winner of the weekly tournament will earn a seat into the Unit Semi-Final, including a weekly cash
prize. All participants that played in the weekly tournament but failed to obtain a seat into the Unit Semi-Final,
will be allocated a ticket and a lucky draw will take place, with the winner being allocated a seat into the Unit
Semi-Final. These participants will be the 18 runners up from week 1 to 4 and the 19 runners up from week 5
per property.
54. At the end of every heat, participants and Tournament Director or representative from the Tables Management
team will have to sign a score sheet acknowledging their scores.
55. In the event of a tie for positions to qualify for the final table, the tied players will play 3 hands individually and
the participant with the highest chip count will then qualify to play at the UNIT SEMI-FINAL tournament.
56. In the event that scores are still tied after the Tie Round, a card count out will be introduced to determine a
winner. Each guest will receive one card each with the highest card to determine the winner. Baccarat face value
for cards will apply.
WILD CARD LUCKY DRAWS
57. All participants that played in the weekly tournament qualifying heats but failed to obtain a seat into the Unit
Semi-Final, will be allocated a ticket and a lucky draw will take place, with the winner being allocated a seat into
the Unit Semi-Final. These participants will be the 8 runners up from week 1 to 4 and the 9 runners up from week 5.
58. This draw will include 41 participants in total who will each be allocated 1 (one) entry ticket in the lucky draw. In
the case where patrons have had more than 1 (one) runner up position in the 5 week period, those patrons will be allocated 1 (one) draw ticket for each runner up position they had.
59. The draw dates and times will be as below;
o Date: 27 September 2024
o Time: 23:00:00
o Venue: Star Privé
60. Participants must register their entry/ies into the draw at the eHost to be eligible to win.
61. The winners at each unit will be selected by way of a traditional draw and tickets must be printed from 20h00
and entered into the draw bin provided.
62. The draws will be attendance draws.
63. The winner will be allocated a seat into the respective unit’s Semi-Final.
64. Draw times and dates; will be advertised through advertising mediums used for this promotion.
65. All Participants are required to be present at the draw on the respective date/time to be eligible for their Prize:
Provided that if a participant elects not to be present in person when the winner/s are announced, the
participant may nominate another person who has been duly authorized in writing to attend the draw on behalf
of a participant in the form and manner determined by management, the details of which will be available at
the Customer Service Desk. Prescribed proxy forms will be available for this purpose from 08h00 on the draw
day until 15 minutes prior to the start of each draw.
66. Participants or duly authorized representatives shall be required to present themselves within 90 seconds from
the time of announcement, and must produce the valid ticket entry and positive and acceptable form of
identification e.g. a South African I.D./South African Driver’s License/Passport or other official form of
identification as approved by the casino and any other details as required.
67. Authorized representatives shall not be entitled to the prize and shall not take receipt of prize accruing to the
Participants they represent.
68. Should the prize winner or authorized representative for the prize winner not present themselves within 90
seconds, a re-draw will take place.
69. The casino shall take all reasonable steps to contact the prize winner that does not attend the draws, via the
contact details available on the database.
70. All decisions are final and binding and no correspondence or appeals will be entered into.
71. Prizes are not transferrable and cannot be exchanged for cash unless otherwise advertised. Prize winners must
sign for receipt of prizes.
UNIT SEMI-FINALS
72. Week 1 to Week 4, the top two winners from week 1 to 4 of the respective units qualifying weekly tournament
will earn a guaranteed seat into the Unit Semi Final, including weekly cash prizes.
73. The winner of Week 5 of the qualifying unit weekly tournament and the wild card draw winner will earn a seat
into the Unit Semi Final, including a weekly cash prize.
74. At the Unit Semi Finals – Finalist’s names will be drawn randomly which will determine their seat selection for
the Finals.
75. Proxies will be permitted in the Unit Semi-Final tournament.
76. The number of heats will be decided on the day of the Unit Semi-finals and the participants will be informed on
the day.
77. Once participants are seated for their respective heat, they will be issued with 20 x R1, 000 tournament chips.
78. Participants will have to play a minimum of R1, 000 per hand and there will not be a maximum limit.
79. Every participant must play every hand (if chip count allows).
80. If the participant has less than R1, 000 chips remaining, the count will be allocated to their respective score.
81. Each heat will consist of 20 hands/coups in total.
82. A marker will move from the lowest numbered box, in ascending order, to the highest until all 20 hands are
complete.
83. At start of the tournament, a marker will be placed at the lowest numbered box.
84. The marker indicates which player should bet first. When the game commences, this player will have 10 seconds
to place a bet, after which the dealer moves clockwise to the next player.
85. Once a bet is placed, and the dealer moves to the next box, the previous bet cannot be altered or changed.
86. At the end of each coup/hand, the marker will move clockwise to the next box. Once the marker has been
moved to the last box (highest number), it will return to the lowest number and start the rotation again.
87. Should a player be eliminated, and the respective box empty, the marker will move to the next occupied box.
88. Per heat participants will be given 10 seconds to place the respective bet.
89. A new pre-shuffled shoe will be introduced during the initial start of the Semi-Finals.
90. 5 dummy hands/coups will be dealt during the initial start of the final and no bets to be placed during this
period and bets to resume on the 6th hand/coup.
91. Once all bets are placed the dealer will draw commence with a “no squeeze game”, opening both player and
bank cards
92. No handling of cards permitted.
93. A chip count will be done prior to the start of every hand/coup by the Tournament Director or Representative
from the Tables Department.
94. In the event of a participant falling out of the final table, prior to end of the final hand dealt. Hand position and
chip count will be taken in consideration to determine positioning
95. The tournament can be stopped once there are a one participant left on the table.
96. Participant’s chips are to remain visible at all times.
97. No voiding of hands will be permitted.
98. No betting on ‘’Banker and Player” and no side bets (unit specific) on offer will be accepted
99. “Tie bet” will be permitted.
100. No scores will be displayed with the final score to be revealed after the completion of the Semi-Finals.
101. Participants will not be allowed to share chips or make additional buy-ins.
102. No Side bets will be permitted.
103.Non Commission rules will apply to the tournament
104. All disputes must be raised within the hand in play. No disputes will be considered after the hand in question.
105. Management decision is final.
106.At the end of the Semi Finals, guests and Tournament Director or representative from the Tables Management
team will have to sign a score sheet acknowledging their scores.
107.In the event of a tie for positions on the Unit Semi-Final table, the tied players will play 3 hands individually and
the player with the highest chip count will then earn positioning for prizes, with the top two positions earning a
spot into the Grand Final Table.
108.In the event that scores are still tied after the Tie Round, a card count out will be introduced to determine a
winner. Each guest will receive one card each with the highest card to determine the winner. Baccarat face
value for cards will apply.

GRAND FINALE
109. After the completion of the Unit Semi-Final Tournaments, the top 2 positions from the respective units will
qualify to participate in the Grand Finale.
110. A total of 8 participants will qualify for the Grand Final table.
111. Proxies will be permitted for the Grand Finale.
112. Finalist’s names will be drawn randomly which will determine their seat selection for the Grand Final.
113. Once participants are seated for their respective heat, they will be issued with 40 x R1, 000 tournament chips.
114. Participants will have to play a minimum of R1, 000 per hand and there will not be a maximum limit.
115. Every participant must play every hand (if chip count allows).
116. If the participant has less than R1, 000 chips remaining, the count will be allocated to their respective score.
117. Each heat will consist of 16 hands/coups in total.
118.A marker will move from the lowest numbered box, in ascending order, to the highest until all 16 hands are
Complete.
119. At start of the tournament, a marker will be placed at the lowest numbered box.
120. The marker indicates which player should bet first. When the game commences, this player will have 10 seconds
to place a bet, after which the dealer moves clockwise to the next player.
121. Once a bet is placed, and the dealer moves to the next box, the previous bet cannot be altered or changed.
122. At the end of each coup/hand, the marker will move clockwise to the next box. Once the marker has been
moved to the last box (highest number), it will return to the lowest number and start the rotation again.
123. Should a player be eliminated, and the respective box empty, the marker will move to the next occupied box.
124.Per heat participants will be given 10 seconds to place the respective bet
125.A new pre-shuffled shoe will be introduced during the initial start of the grand finale table
126.5 dummy hands/coups will be dealt during the initial start of the final and no bets to be placed during this
period and bets to resume om the 6th hand/coup
127.Once all bets are placed the dealer will draw commence with a “no squeeze game”, opening both player and
bank cards
128. No handling of cards permitted.
129.A chip count will be done prior to the start of every hand/coup by the Tournament Director or Representative
from the Tables Department.
130. In the event of a participant falling out of the final table, prior to end of the final hand dealt. Hand position and
chip count will be taken in consideration to determine positioning
131.The tournament can be stopped once there are a one participant left on the table
132. Participant’s chips are to remain visible at all times.
133. No voiding of hands will be permitted.
134. No betting on ‘’Banker and Player” and no side bets (unit specific) on offer will be accepted
135. “Tie bet” will be permitted.
136.Per heat, only participants playing in the heat will be allowed into the playing area and no records of scores will
be permitted.
137.No scores will be displayed with the final score to be revealed after the completion of the qualifying heats
138. Participants will not be allowed to share chips or make additional buy-ins.
139. No Side bets will be permitted.
140. Non Commission rules will apply to the tournament
141. All disputes must be raised within the hand in play. No disputes will be considered after the hand in question.
142. Management decision is final.
143.At the end of every heat, participants and the Tournament Director or representative from the Tables Management
team will have to sign a score sheet acknowledging their scores.
144.In the event of a tie for positions on the final table, the tied participants will play 3 hands individually and the
participant with the highest chip count will then earn positioning for prizes.
145. In the event that scores are still tied after the Tie Round, a card count out will be introduced to determine a winner. Each guest will receive one card each with the highest card to determine the winner. Baccarat face Value for cards will apply.

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