Honestly, I lost $350 on the first 2 days of the popiplay tournament but I hit a nice win as what shared before ($665) on the 3rd day so it recovered my loss and gave me $315 profit. Till now, (luckily) I'm still playing with the remaining profit so I can say that I do not lose even a single cent while chasing for points on the tournament. It means that no matter in which position I'll get at the end of the tournament, the reward will be additional profit for me unless I'll lose my current remaining balance and I need to make more deposit in this last day of the tournament.
You're lucky, meanwhile I tried yesterday but did not get something big I tried with 500 spins and only hit the bonus once with a return under x100
I didn't continue because it looked boring for me I mean this provider is not friendly for me, it is very difficult to hit the scatter and low return
This week the tournament turned to Relax Gaming provider well this provider is not much different with the same difficulty, maybe I'll miss it too.
There is PGSoft too (not only relax gaming), but I have to agree with you that the new 20k tournament is harder now due to the selected provider. Popiplay is better, but of course it will always depending on our luck. This new one, I have lost $100 already and made 1500+ spins only without nice wins from relax. I know it is because Relax is high-extreme volatility game, just a matter of time when we get our luck to hit huge multiplier
I will not push much now anyway because I feel that my luck on relax gaming is bad, I will just play normally because I do not want to lose what I've won from the previous tournament.