tomngerri

How are the bj tournaments done on Carnival that is how many hands per round, how many rounds, how many advance in each round and are there any "elimination" hands prior to the final hand in each round?

On our Dec. cruise there were 2 rounds...qualifying and final. The top six players qualified for the finals, plus they drew 1 wildcard. There were 7 hands in each round, and no elimination hands. Top qualifier got a nice polo shirt and everybody else got a T-shirt.

Back in the day my son won $1500 for the bj tournament but that was on rccl.. Times have changed.

We've only cruised Carnival for the past 5 years or so, but I seem to remember rccl used a split pot formula where the winner got a big chunk and second place also got some $$$. This was nice as the more people that played, the more money got paid out. Carnival has been capped at $500 for as long as I remember, regardless of whether 30, 50 or 100+ people pay $20 bucks to enter. They could do a little better IMO.