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Hole in one challenge

• Rodma 5 Posts

  Sun, Mar 17 2013 10:25 AM

  The Hole in one Challenge was designed to suck credits from your account....period.

• TWOMINUSONE 2,580 Posts

  Sun, Mar 17 2013 10:44 AM

  Rodma:

  The Hole in one Challenge was designed to suck credits from your account....period.

  Yeah, i tried it a few times. And the only time i got a dead straight tailwind and i dinged it, it landed 6 yards right of the hole. Once bitten and all that.

   

• borntobesting 9,774 Posts

  Sun, Mar 17 2013 10:58 AM

  WGTicon:

  hi

  the big payout is for hole in one. when you get inside the circles, you will get part of the original bet back.

  -wgticon

  Icon if it were set up so that if you got within 5 feet you got both the credits you won and your stake back I feel there would be many more people willing to try it. As it is now unless you actually get the hole in one you lose credits and that makes many people unwilling to try it. Just something to think about.

• 1,417 Posts

  Sat, Apr 6 2013 7:25 PM

  Wow, what a scam this is!  It's like playing Powerball... The hole-in-one is a decent payout, but everything else is a joke.  Most of the par-3's at TL level are over 200 yards, but I have to get inside a FOOT to make more than I invest?  LOL... yeah, sign me up for that!  I'm proud to say I have not and NEVER WILL invest a nickel on this.   WGT must need the money!

  
  CM

• andwhy67 2,816 Posts

  Sun, Apr 14 2013 1:22 PM

  Where does it say you get part back Dick, i missed that!!

  WGTicon:

  Morgies:

  I've tried a few of those Hole in one challenges that com up when playing a CTTH, Blitz etc.

  I staked 50 credits, got it in the our circle and won 7 creits

  ThereforeI LOST 43 credits.

  Is that right?

  I'm not follwing how I can meet the challenge JUST but, lose credits.

  If that's it ... I will never ever play these challenges again.

  Thanks

   

   

   

  hi

  the big payout is for hole in one. when you get inside the circles, you will get part of the original bet back.

  -wgticon

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Sun, Apr 14 2013 10:49 PM

  As I remember, correct me if I’m wrong, but I put 10c once and landed in the outer circle. The game said "congratulations, you have won 1 credit". It should really have said "Congratulations, you only lost 9 credits"? I mean, I did not win anything.

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Mon, Apr 15 2013 4:56 AM

  I live in NSW Australia.  Every pub (there are many) allows high  stakes pokies (slots I think in the USA).  You can also back horses and dogs all with an ATM on the premises..morally reprehensible and in the news from time to time...................I choose to go in, have a few beers and not lose money gambling.

  Same with WGT - choices!.............What WGT should do is allow a self exclusionary policy for those that don't trust themselves same as pubs have to have here for what good it does, but something................... but Rockin Horse S&^T finding chance of more.........................................................

• 1,417 Posts

  Mon, Apr 15 2013 9:16 AM

  One of the things that bothers me most about this is that we invest real money  to play this 'challenge', but if by some chance someone makes a hole-in-one,  WGT just needs to give them credits to their game.  Unlike the hole-in-one in real life, where you have to insure the free car someone might win, there is zero risk/investment on WGT's side, and it is a sucker's bet for the player.  

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Mon, Apr 15 2013 10:01 AM

  CMcCartney727:

  Unlike the hole-in-one in real life, where you have to insure the free car someone might win, there is zero risk/investment on WGT's side, and it is a sucker's bet for the player.  

  Car manufacturers invariably choose to insure the risk. In turn Insurers insure their own risk.........All good every one a winner! Personally I strongly feel their should be an option to self exclude yourself as you could potentially max your credit cards quickly with so called HIO challenges..................and for problem gamblers ..................I think it's morally reprehensible......... BUT I am sure legal advice taken and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$'s to be made for nothing V potential lawsuits time again.  I am old enough to have seen more than one good grown man eaten alive through gambling...so a little personal here OK......................From a human point of view felt I had to add! I am also not suggesting that WGT is worse than many sites for this............................Gambling is an expenditure that's all.......... So endeth my spiel!

• b0geybuster 2,574 Posts

  Tue, Apr 16 2013 4:43 AM

  The rate of return has been changed.

  See here

  Cheers,

  b0gey