The Argyle Open, the multiplayer golf slot that Crazy Vegas launched with a tournament in September 2014
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Crazy Vegas, a Vegas Partner Lounge brand under which no casino trades any more, invited its players in September 2014 to tee off on The Argyle Open, a "brand spanking new" multiplayer video slot of Microgaming built around a golf tournament, and hosted on it a "100K Tournament" (K for a thousand, in a currency the text never named). We keep the release, in the past tense, since it sold a game and a contest in one breath.
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A 100K tournament on a brand new fairway
The tournament was "another great 100K Tournament", a sum that came without a first prize, and the new game was to help the entrants "gain an advantage over their opponents". That is the vocabulary of the multiplayer slot, in which several players spun in the same room and climbed one leaderboard. Harry von Schlussel, the manager and spokesperson of the casino, was "truly excited" about "a great first prize" that he did not name; the odds of winning it went unlisted.
The text in our archive then went on to a "guaranteed €25,000 prize pool", with registration "on 8th January at 17:00 GMT" and play from 10 to 20 January (23:59 GMT), which are the dates and the pool of the freeroll on Gold Factory that Crazy Vegas ran in January 2015. Two announcements were stitched into one, probably when this archive was first put together, and nobody can say today which of the two pools, the 100K or the €25,000, The Argyle Open really carried.
The arithmetic of the muddle deserves a line. A golfer who signed up on the strength of the "100K" and found a pool of €25,000 had lost three quarters of the headline before the first spin, and neither version said how many players shared the pool or how the places were paid!
Drive, Fairway and Putt: a bonus round in three strokes
The Argyle Open played on five reels and forty "paylines" (the fixed lines across the reels on which a winning combination was read), with scatters, wilds, free spins and multipliers, and its bonus round was staged as a golf tournament in three parts, the Drive, the Fairway and the Putt. Each part, as far as the release let one understand, was a small game in which you made a choice and were paid for it.
The screenshots on this page show the base game and the screen where the golfer picked his bonus. The release called the blend "slot excitement and golf action" and credited Microgaming with "the smoothest gameplay imaginable", the standard praise of those texts. It added that the casino carried over 650 games beside its latest multiplayer slots, a count left as the casino gave it (we never tried Crazy Vegas).
eCOGRA, 128 bits and a $500 package that cost $700
Banking, the release said, followed "strict guidelines and protocols" under the "128-bit encryption" that every text of the group mentioned, "certified by eCOGRA" (an auditor of games and operators, not of encryption, a point the copywriter did not weigh). A contact centre answered in several languages at any hour, by e-mail, by a toll-free number and by live chat. We verified none of it, then or since.
The welcome package, which the release quoted in euro and pounds too, was $500 over three deposits: the first deposit was matched at 100 per cent with a ceiling of $150, the second at 200 per cent with a ceiling of $100 and the third at 50 per cent with a ceiling of $250.
To collect every dollar of it a golfer deposited $150, then only $50 (200 per cent of which is the $100) and then $500 (half of which is the $250), that is $700 of his own money to receive $500 of credits. The "wagering" (how many times the credits had to be turned over before a withdrawal) was nowhere in the text.
Below the figures sat the group's standard paragraph, with the other Vegas Partner Lounge houses (Casino-Mate, Golden Riviera and Maple Casino, each with a mobile version), reproduced as the casino wrote it, unchecked by us.
What the golf slot and the casino became after 2014
No house of that group trades under its old name in 2026, and we list none of them, so the tournament, the pool and the $500 package belong to the autumn of 2014 and to nobody today. The Argyle Open itself went with the Microgaming catalogue to Games Global (which absorbed Microgaming's games in 2021-2022); whether the game, or the multiplayer rooms of that period, still exist somewhere, we have not looked.
The three pictures of The Argyle Open carry a sponsored link (declared in the box higher up) to Platinum Play, another Microgaming lobby of 2014 that belonged to a different group and is still on our pages; the $500 of Crazy Vegas was never offered there. The conditions that count today are those of our review of Platinum Play, written after free play in "demo" mode, and they outrank every line printed here.
If you want the offers of this year beside the $500 of 2014, the world list of casinos that give a bonus without deposit has them. The slot hub holds the games tried in free play. The archive of news keeps the other texts of that season, among them the Golden Riviera release on Red Hot Devil and the freeroll that Crazy Vegas ran on Break Away in June 2014, in the patter of the time, which you will recognise from the lines above.
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