Just wanna share my experiences with this free tournament as I participated several times and I think I'm lucky enough as I've once won the 1st place last month.
A tip for me: Since this is a wager tournament, the best strategy is to build up the free balance first by taking a high risk bet.
If we win the high risk bet then we will have more free candy coins to wager with low risk betting to maximize the chance to wager more.
What game you use most of the time to farm the wager efficiently? I overlooked the requirements before and I thought it’s the highest earnings that’s why I lost interest on pursuing to compete since table games has max bet limit of 10 candy(correct me if wrong) while most of the top players is already on 10K above.
I once manage to turn my candy to 10K using crash game but bust it all later on since I’m chasing for huge win to catch up with top players without knowing that it’s a wagering contest and not highest balance in the end.