The update time, ironically, needs to be updated. "Leaderboard updated: 14-08-2020 08:00 GMT" is what it currently reads.
A little under three weeks, and the participant pool is 32.7% of its initial value, 370. This means that so far, on average, 15.5 participants were eliminated each day, resulting in a 4.2% average daily reduction of players (fixed to base).
It will be interesting to see how many people stick through, now that we're at ~$100 per winner. If we're going off very basic calculations, playing Blackjack at the <1% edge mark makes the entire promotion have an associated statistical cost of 2.50 mBTC.
The prize is currently hovering around 8.26 mBTC and each participant dropping out exponentially increases the prize value.
Yeah, the daily average has been quite high, but definitely slowing down. I was calculating in the 4 days since Saturday, it seems to have dropped by just over 2 a day. Obviously the rate of dropping out should be slowing down but I'm hoping at least it keeps to the 2/day so we have at least 60 leaving us by the end of it haha.
I'm playing mostly Evolution provided Blackjack on live, some pretty cool dealers keep it exciting for an hour or so. Expected edge is <1% but my performance has not been good (I play very low risk, almost exactly as I should) but this is so far turning out to be very Positive Expected Value. Add the clubhouse bonuses in from the plays and we're quite good there.
GL;)